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(02/08/13 2:46pm)
Last week, former ASU professor Carlos Balsas was arrested and charged with making a fake bomb threat against the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. Thankfully the ASU Victory Bell does not include any bomb threats in its history. However, as one of ASU’s most time honored traditions, it does include dinner, a U.S. senator, and possible thievery.
(02/04/13 5:00am)
A deep-rooted hatred exists between ASU and the University of Arizona. After I attended the Territorial Cup basketball game I had an idea. What if I was a U of A fan for a day? What if I just walked around the ASU campus and experienced what it feels like to be a Wildcat instead of a Sun Devil for one day? I didn’t look at it as putting myself in someone else’s shoes as much as I saw it as a social experiment. How much do ASU fans really care about the rivalry? How many people would be chivalrous and how many vulgarities would be thrown my way?
(01/31/13 5:00am)
Jerseys identify teams. They help referees recognize who is who and are a point of pride for fans who wear their favorite team’s jersey whenever they play. Home field or home court benefits teams and fans alike as they try and make it as tough as possible of a place to play for the opposing team. In recent years, teams have been taking their jerseys and courts to another level.
(01/28/13 5:00am)
Unlike movies, books have no time limit. Books can be however long or short they want to be. For this reason, books can dive deeper into an issue or a person. Authors often spend years in research to try and paint the entire portrait of their topic. Many sports stories and the athletes involved in them are intricate with multiple layers, which lends themselves to books.
(01/25/13 5:00am)
Movies take us back to another time. For a brief second we may be transported back in time, we can become someone other than ourselves. Nothing does this better than sports movies. Mostly biographical in nature, they still leave us on the edge of our seats despite usually knowing the ending. I choose to rank the top ten sports movies of the new millennium. It is tough to rank the best of all time, but also I think as time moves on, these are the movies that this generation will sit their kids down to watch. These are the new “Hoosiers,” “Rudy” and “Rocky” of the world.
(01/18/13 5:01am)
In a brick building with low ceilings where the temperature sits perhaps just below freezing, fans sit in the stands bundled in winter gear, while others gather standing around the boards with their favorite brew of choice. They are all at different levels of inebriation, but nonetheless are all banging hard on the glass each time a player gets chucked hard into boards. Music blares so loudly during the timeouts that it can be tough to hear yourself think. You may think I just described a scene somewhere from the frozen tundra of Minnesota or from our friendly Canadian neighbors to the north. This however, is an Arizona State hockey game.
(01/14/13 5:00am)
According to Stevie Wonder, “Superstition ain’t the way,” but for many sports fans and athletes superstition is the only way. From rally caps and sitting in the same spot for every game to Phiten necklaces and line jumping, superstition and sports have always gone hand in hand.
(01/11/13 5:00am)
Who are those guys behind the bench at ASU basketball games? They’re always there hanging in the shadows. They set up chairs in timeouts, keep the team hydrated, rebound under the basket in shoot around, go to practice everyday, do laundry and are always seen on the court in Wells Fargo Arena in their maroon polo shirts and khaki pants on game days. These are the ASU basketball student-managers, and I have done them an injustice in only listing a small amount of jobs this group is responsible for.
(01/07/13 5:00am)
How does this happen? How can a symbol of pride for ASU be painted over on three separate occasions by opposing team’s fans? This was exactly the case this past football season when the yellow “A” that sits on A Mountain was painted in the opposing team’s colors prior to a game on three separate occasions. The “A” was painted green prior to the Oregon game, red prior to the U of A game, and finally gold and blue with, “Go Navy” written across the A crossbar prior to the Sun Devils matchup with the Midshipmen in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.