Happy Opening Day! Like Presidents Day, today is not considered a public holiday. That’s okay though because our baseball coverage team here at cronkitesports.com has a gift to lift your spirits. Seven free-response questions, 10 end-of-season awards and four contributors to culminate in our 2016 Arizona State baseball roundtable. Let’s have some
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ASU Softball: Previewing the Littlewood Classic
(Photo: Gabrielle Mercer/WCSN) The No. 17 Arizona State Sun Devils are looking forward to the Littlewood Classic this weekend to build upon an already stellar start to the season. With last weekend out of the way the Sun Devils made a big statement by knocking off then-No. 8 Tennessee 5-4 in extra innings.
ASU Lacrosse: With 20 new freshmen the Sun Devils are set for years to come
ASU Women’s Basketball: Walk-on Qiana Levy finds her spot at ASU
(Photo: Brooke Faber/WCSN) A year ago, Qiana Levy was just another one of your everyday students. As a criminal justice and criminology major, Levy lives on the Downtown Phoenix campus at Arizona State University, attending the majority of her classes there as well. There was nothing particularly abnormal about her routine. She woke
ASU Baseball: Hever Bueno’s growth from the bullpen to a Friday night starter
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) Last season, Hever Bueno failed to build upon an encouraging freshman season. While the infamous "sophomore slump" has seldom made an impact on Arizona State’s roster, Bueno would be considered an outlier after appearing in 14 games, throwing 16 innings and yielding one starting nod. In that limited sample, Bueno
ASU Baseball: Canning turning heads despite inexperience at collegiate level
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) College baseball coaches rarely want to rely too much on inexperienced freshmen to fill key roles in their lineup, but Tracy Smith does not have much of a choice heading into the 2016 season. Most notably, the open outfield spots, with perhaps the exception of left field, appear
ASU Gymnastics: Gym Devils post individual highs but fall to California
(Photo: Gabrielle Mercer/WCSN) Arizona State lost to No. 15 California on Monday night before a crowd dressed in pink for its annual Pink Meet in support of breast cancer awareness. The Gym Devils began the night on the vault, getting off to a slow start. Taylor Allex had the best vault of the night,
ASU Softball: Sun Devils drop final matchup of Kajikawa Classic
(Photo: Gabrielle Mercer/WCSN) The No. 22/20 Arizona State Sun Devils fell to the Kentucky Wildcats 5-3 in the final game of the Kajikawa Classic. The game matched up UK junior Meagan Prince and ASU sophomore Breanna Macha, and the two were locked in a scoreless pitchers duel through three innings, with Macha
ASU Women’s Basketball: Brunner’s heroics lift No. 9 ASU to last-second win over No. 13 Stanford
ASU Softball: Sun Devils sweep two games on Sunday, improve to 6-0
(Photo: Gabrielle Mercer/WCSN) On day four of the Kajikawa Classic, the No. 22/20 Arizona State Sun Devils swept their two games beating Portland State and the University of San Diego 7-1 and 9-1, respectively. Portland State The Sun Devils switched up the lineup against Portland State. Freshmen Skylar McCarty and Melissa Eisen each