ASU retooling in wake of Diogu's departure

If you take away last year's game, where Salim Stoudamire's jumper killed ASU's chance at a rare upset, the constantly struggling Sun Devils haven't come within eight points of the Arizona men's basketball team since January 2002.

After losing Pacific 10 Conference player of the year Ike Diogu, the team that has made the NCAA tournament only five times in the last 27 years is in the rebuilding stages yet again. But, according to the Arizona coaching staff, the Sun Devils (7-10, 1-7) may be right on the verge of turning things around. [Read article]

The Arizona men's basketball team will travel up Interstate 10 tonight to face in-state rival ASU in another hostile meeting at 7:30 on FSN Arizona.

If ASU is going to break its eight-game losing streak against the Wildcats dating back to 2002, the Sun Devils are going to have to improve on an abysmal conference start.

Arizona (12-6, 5-3 Pacific-10 Conference) has been in and out of the Top 25 throughout the season and knows that another loss might jeopardize its chances of winning the Pac-10 crown, while Arizona State (7-10, 1-7) finds itself the conference's resident cellar-dweller. [Read article]

Onobun's talent, moxie a needed spark for inconsistent Cats
By Shane Bacon

To anyone and everyone who has (painfully) watched the (up-and-down) Arizona men's basketball team play its first 18 games, it was apparent that any possible Boy Scout spark might help this team start winning consistently.

First, people believed that the fire would ignite with the improvement of both freshmen forward Marcus Williams and guard J.P. Prince, who continually put up solid minutes and racked up important stats to keep the team afloat for the first portion of the season. [Read article]

Even in virtual reality, baseball is still a fickle game.

"The other day, someone said I was 3-for-3 with a home run," senior second baseman Brad Boyer said. "The next day, I was 0-for-2 with two strikeouts."

Boyer isn't referring to his real life statistics but rather the performance of his virtual self in the new EA Sports MVP 06 NCAA Baseball game, released last week for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox game consoles. [Read article]