BOYS BASKETBALL Tyree McNeal
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Here’s what kind of night it was for Canyon Springs’ Gerad Davis on Wednesday. The 6-foot-4-inch senior scored 25 points in the first half for the Pioneers. Then at halftime, a female classmate ran onto the court and asked him to the upcoming school dance.
Arbor View girls basketball coach Donna Gentry stopped short of calling her team’s defensive effort on Tuesday fantastic. For the final 22 minutes of their game against Durango, though, the eighth-ranked Aggies couldn’t have been much better.
Liberty girls basketball coach Rich Santigate subscribes to a straightforward coaching philosophy. “I was taught you come with everything in the ball bag,” Santigate said, “and you use what you have to use.” On Monday, that turned out to be a change in defense.
Deshaun Hilliard walked toward the bench midway through the first quarter and asked Legacy boys basketball coach Jack Tarango why he was being substituted.
During pregame introductions, the public-address announcer at Clark’s boys basketball games calls senior forward Diontae Jones “Does It All.”
Tennessee. Nebraska. Arkansas. Clemson. West Virginia. Arizona State twice. Home and away. If I had to guess, UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers isn’t all that worried about becoming bowl eligible.
Horace Spencer isn’t the highest-profile recruit on the Findlay Prep basketball team, and he was far from the leading scorer for the Pilots on Saturday.
Alex Rodriguez has sued Major League Baseball and its players’ union, seeking to overturn a season-long suspension imposed by an arbitrator who ruled there was “clear and convincing evidence” he used three banned substances and twice tried to obstruct the sport’s drug investigation.
Ryan Fretz is in his first season as the boys basketball coach at Desert Oasis. But he still had the date memorized: February 8, 2012.
Alex Rodriguez’s drug suspension was cut to 162 games from 211 by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz, a decision that sidelines the New York Yankees third baseman the entire 2014 season.
Sierra Vista’s boys basketball team walked off the court with a 75-68 win over Palo Verde on Thursday to move to 2-0 in the Northwest League.
Ken Gurnick and 15 other baseball writers blew it by not voting for Greg Maddux for the Baseball Hall of Fame as some form of protest despite his 355 wins and laundry list of other accomplishments.
Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig begs a trooper who clocked him going 110 mph in Florida to let him go and later chides himself in the back seat of a police car, video shows.