Former Arizona State running back and recreational bulldozer Cam Skattebo, drafted by the New York Giants in the fourth round of the 2025 NFL Draft, is making waves in the Big Apple, a media market that is well known as as hot of a spotlight as it gets in sports. His success is reverberating all the way back to Tempe, … Read More
Exciting Accessibility: A Recent Scottsdale Event Demonstrates the Possibilities
The USA Wheelchair Football League recently brought six teams from across the country to WestWorld of Scottsdale for what has become an annual showcase of athletic excellence. For those unfamiliar with the sport, this isn’t your typical feel-good story about overcoming obstacles – it’s about elite athletes competing at the highest level of their game. The USA Wheelchair Football League … Read More
Following Excellence: Previewing Arizona State’s 2025 Football Season
The desert air in Tempe crackles with anticipation as Arizona State enters the 2025 season riding the momentum of one of the most remarkable turnarounds in college football history. Just two seasons removed from a dismal 3-9 campaign, Kenny Dillingham transformed the Sun Devils into Big 12 champions and College Football Playoff participants in 2024, proving that his vision for … Read More
Cam Skattebo’s Next Phase: the Talented Arizona State Star Enters the NFL
Last weekend the NFL Draft was held; it’s like Christmas morning for NFL general managers and football fans, but for college players it’s a truly transformative moment. It’s when their lifelong dreams are fulfilled and their lives are changed. One of the players for whom this is true is Cam Skattebo, the star Arizona State running back who tore up … Read More
Where Sports Intersects with Politics: Will a Former Arizona Cardinal Be Heading to Washington?
Most of the time we all hate it when politics insert themselves into sports; sports are usually our safe space away from the bickering and fights of politics. Talking crap about Dodgers fans or Seahawks fans is much more satisfying than fighting with someone from the other political party for most people. But every once in a while sports intersects … Read More
Skattebo Prepares for NFL Draft (and Prepares to Pay Up)
Arizona State football had an absolutely magical season this past year, defying everyone’s expectations and energizing the entire region by winning the Pac 12 division and taking #3 Texas to double overtime in the playoffs in perhaps the best game of the year in college football. Phenom running back Cam Skattebo was a big reason for this, and as he … Read More
Where Disappointment Intersects with the Drive for Redemption: Mark Andrews
Our analytics tools don’t give us this level of granularity of information, but we’re going to guess that you’re a football fan to some degree. You are an American (or at least 99+% of you, but Ni Hao to our 50 or so Chinese readers per year), and football is the de facto national pastime after all. And if you … Read More
The Slipper Fits: Arizona State’s Cinderella Season Becomes Even More Magical
The Valley of the Sun has been a success desert for football recently, best typified by the performance of the Arizona State Sun Devils. Two straight seasons of 3-9 records and sanctions left extremely little reason for hope, and the preseason expectations demonstrated that. Preseason polling had Coach Kenny Dillingham’s Sun Devils at the very bottom of the Big 12 … Read More
The Slipper Fits: Arizona State’s Cinderella Season Becomes Even More Magical
The Valley of the Sun has been a success desert for football recently, best typified by the performance of the Arizona State Sun Devils. Two straight seasons of 3-9 records and sanctions left extremely little reason for hope, and the preseason expectations demonstrated that. Preseason polling had Coach Kenny Dillingham’s Sun Devils at the very bottom of the Big 12 … Read More
Does the Slipper Fit? Cinderella Scottsdale Christian Fighting for the State Championship Tomorrow Night
Who doesn’t love an underdog story? We all watch March Madness in the hopes that a low seed will pull off a litany of improbable wins and shock the sports world with a long run in the tournament. But we don’t even have to wait until March to get a great surprise tournament run, and we don’t have to go … Read More
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