(Photo: ASU Athletics) The No. 17 Arizona State Sun Devils end every practice by breaking a final huddle with a “national champs” chant from everyone on the team. With signs throughout the team’s facilities and consistent post-practice comments from head coach Todd Graham about the subject, it’s been made clear to
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ASU Football: All eyes on Taylor Kelly in practice
(Photo: ASU Athletics) Tuesday marked the first day of practice for the Arizona State football team in its week of preparation for a fourth conference game. Though not much differed in terms of the attire, participation and explosiveness of Taylor Kelly, his every movement, let alone his status for the Sun Devils
ASU Football: Reestablishing the running game
(Photo: Scotty Bara/WCSN) The statistics from the Mike Bercovici-led aerial attack for the Arizona State football team are extremely impressive: Through two games, 998 passing yards and eight touchdowns have culminated in nearly 500 passing yards per game and 30-plus points per game. Bercovici has performed better than anyone could have possibly
ASU Football: Jordan Simone just keeps making plays
ASU Football: Life after the Jael Mary
(Photo: Tyler Strachan/WCSN) Three days removed from their stunning Hail Mary win against USC, the Sun Devil football team took to the practice field Tuesday for another day of work. As much as head coach Todd Graham attempted to emphasize that the practice was simply an everyday desire to get fundamentally and
ASU Football: There’s no QB controversy, it’s Taylor Kelly’s team
(Photo: Lindsey Nelson/WCSN) Mike Bercovici racked up 998 yards passing and eight touchdown passes in his two starts against UCLA and USC, but it was a 46-yard lob hauled in by Jaelen Strong that will forever cement the quarterback in Sun Devil lore. Needless to say, Bercovici was impressive in relief of
ASU Football: After Bercovici’s masterpiece, is there any reason to call this a quarterback competition?
(Photo: ASU Athletics) Elation. Jubilation. Triumph: sure-fire words to describe the state of mind of Arizona State players, coaches and fans after a 38-34 win over No. 16 USC on Saturday night. Mike Bercovici, the backup quarterback who had opted to remain a Sun Devil despite the certainty that he would be
ASU Football: Loyalty pays off for Mike Bercovici
(Photo: Adam Stites/WCSN) LOS ANGELES - Mike Bercovici could have been just about anywhere else in the nation on Saturday night. With every opportunity to transfer from Arizona State in the past, the junior quarterback likely could have been starting for the majority of the schools in the nation, but instead he
ASU Football: The anatomy of a miracle
(Photo: Lindsey Nelson/WCSN) Mike Bercovici had never before thrown a desperation toss in a game like he did on Saturday night. Not in his high school career, and certainly not in his collegiate one, which has featured the quarterback spending most of his time on the sideline watching Taylor Kelly run the Arizona State offense. "I liked
ASU football roundtable: What did we learn?
(Photo: Scotty Bara/WCSN) Last week Sun Devil fans saw an Arizona State football team that they’d never seen before, and not just because there was a new face under center. It was the Devils’ first serious test against real competition, and the team many fans saw was disheveled, unprepared, inexperienced, raw