The Phoenix Suns recently began their marketing campaign for 2007-08 with the announcement of Planet Orange, a strange orange glow that can be seen over U.S. Airways Arena and said to contain an NBA team that can run faster, jump higher and score more than their competition.  That team is the Phoenix Suns, of course.
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The Diamondbacks got off to a shaky start for their final home-stand this season, and if they don’t find their bats soon, they won’t be playing in Chase Field again in 2007.
The Barry-less Giants, the lowly bottom-dwellers of the NL West, came into Chase Field last night and did everything they could to gift-wrap a victory [...]

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So Seahawk fans are calling the Cardinals lucky. That if some inexplicable, totally outrageous and hardly fathomable event hadn’t taken place, we’d never have won that game. That is the only possible explanation for what happened.
To that I say: Welcome to our world!
That kind of thing is commonplace around here. And if it goes in [...]

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The key play of the game: With less than two minutes left in a 20-20 game, Seattle was driving for what appeared to be a game winning field goal. The Cardinal fans were making it difficult for the Seattle offense to hear QB Matt Hasselbeck. RB Shaun Alexender thought Hasselbeck called an audible…Hasselbeck hadn’t and [...]

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I know we don’t talk about the Phoenix Mercury much on ASFN, mainly because the number of fans who support them here are few, but they deserve a mention today.
A professional sports team in Arizona has just won their first ever WNBA Championship in five games against the Detroit Shock. The final score was 108-92. [...]

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The Seahawks’ defense, despite starting slowly last week, gave up 284 total yards to the Tampa Bay Bucs (194 passing/90 rushing). They surrendered no offensive touchdowns. The strength of their defense is the linebacking trio of Leroy Hill, Lofa Tatupu and Julian Peterson who combined last week for 22 tackles and 2 sacks (both by [...]

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The Seahawks are 1-0 following a convincing 20-6 home win over Tampa Bay. The Cardinals are 0-1, having squandered a late lead in a heartbreaking 20-17 loss at San Francisco. This home opener for the Cardinals is a critical game against their division arch-rivals. A loss plummets the Cardinals into an 0-2 hole in the [...]

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I just wanted to pass on this amazing, simply amazing news…ESPN reports that the doctor who performed the surgery on Buffalo Bill’s player Kevin Everett says that not only did he have voluntary movement in his arms and legs after the operation, but he’s also optimistic that he will indeed walk again.
What a welcome sigh [...]

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The regular season is upon us.  We are all disappointed at the outcome of the first game, but let’s find out if the offensive line was part of the problem, or part of the solution.  Let’s take a look at the offensive line, one play at a time.
 

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When I wrote my preview of the Cards/49ers game two days ago, it looked to me that on paper the 49ers had an edge or slight edge in all personnel units, save the QB position, where I rated the Matt Leinart/Alex Smith matchup a tie, and the WR position to AZ, where the Cardinals clearly [...]

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