(Photo: Connor Gleason/WCSN) PHOENIX – A familiarity heuristic is a psychological term for a rule-of-thumb saying that people search for familiarity when faced with unknown and testing circumstances, though such familiarity is typically a distraction from a larger issue. When Arizona State baseball saw redshirt sophomore catcher Brody Briggs and head coach
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‘Things like that happen for a reason:’ How Landen Miree’s impromptu first visit to Tempe led to the prospect joining the Sun Devils
Bobby Hurley made a drastic decision after 89 seconds that led to domination
(Photo: Maya Diaz/WCSN) PHOENIX – Just 89 Seconds into the game, Arizona State men’s basketball trailed by three points, an easily surmountable deficit, as the ball was just tipped four possessions prior However, head coach Bobby Hurley wasn’t going to sit and wait to make changes at Mortgage Matchup Center in Downtown
Long Ball Powers Sun Devils Past BYU
(Photo: Joshua Eaton/WCSN) PHOENIX — In baseball, they say you live by the long ball and you die by the long ball. Friday night, the Sun Devils electrified Phoenix Municipal Stadium with a half-dozen homers en route to a comfortable victory over BYU. The offensive outburst saw the Arizona State Sun Devils
Arizona State sends three wrestlers to NCAA Tournament
(Photo By: Sun Devil Athletics) PHOENIX – After a severely disappointing 2024-2025 regular season in which Arizona State went 4-11 and 1-7 in the Big 12, three wrestlers head to the NCAA national championships in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Removed from a third-place finish in the Big 12 tournament, junior 125-pounder Richard Figueroa heads
Sun Devils shoot well and play physical in 87-76 win over GCU
(Photo: Marina Williams/WCSN) Amongst a sea of clashing maroon and purple that represented two different factions of the same city, only one could come out claiming ownership of Phoenix. It was nothing short of a spectacle within the Phoenix Suns' Footprint Center Thursday as Phoenix’s top two universities Arizona State Basektball
Bloomquist confident in hot bats after mercy rule win over Texas Tech
(Photo: Sammi Maxwell/WCSN) PHOENIX— With Arizona State baseball done with its Pac-12 regular season games, the Sun Devils will finish the regular season with a few non-conference matchups to get itself ready for the Pac-12 tournament next week, and the team looks about as ready as it can be. ASU hosts Texas
Sun Devils waste midweek opportunity, fall 5-3 to No. 17 Arizona
(Photo: Sammy Nute/WCSN) PHOENIX — A little over one year ago, then-No. 18 Arizona State baseball visited unranked Arizona Wildcats in a midweek game towards the latter half of the year. The Sun Devils were in prime position to make their first NCAA Tournament under head coach Willie Bloomquist, and the
‘You have to love the game’: Inner workings of Division I men’s basketball Managers Games
(Photo courtesy: Manager Games/X) NCAA Basketball team managers, like the jobs they do, are versatile. No two managers look the same, possess the same desires, or have the same skills. In fact, there’s likely only one amalgamating characteristic amongst all college basketball managers who willingly allocate more than 50 hours a
Freshman Thomas Burns headlines strong pitching debuts for Sun Devils in Win
(Photo: Sammy Nute/WCSN) PHOENIX — While Feb. 16 marked the beginning of a new college baseball season, Arizona State Baseball was already faced with one major question that carried over from last year. Following the conclusion of the 2023 campaign, ASU lost a large portion of its staff. Starters Ross Dunn, Timmy