Warner the favorite for NFL MVP

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Bodog Sportsbook has released it's updated odds for several NFL issues, including who will win the 2008 NFL MVP. Quarterback Kurt Warner of the Arizona Cardinals is currently atop the list of candidates, and is an 8 to 5 favorite to win his 3rd MVP. Warner currently leads the NFL with a quarterback rating of 105.5 for the Cardinals, who are 7-3 and in first place [...]

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How do I hate the Lakers? Let me count the ways…

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Photo: Vince Bucci/Getty Images In preparation of tonight's Suns-Lakers' matchup, I present to to you the Top Ten Reasons Why I Hate the Lakers... 10. Dyan Cannon. How does this washed up hag get such great seats? And further, why does she get so much camera time? So, she was married to Cary Grant. For three years, and that was 40 years ago! 9. [...]

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Condors soar past RoadRunners, 5-3

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PHOENIX, Ariz. – Dave Bonk scored two goals including the game-winner as he lifted the Bakersfield Condors past the Phoenix RoadRunners 5-3 Wednesday night in front of 2,636 fans at US Airways Center. The RoadRunners (7-6-2) got on the board first at 5:13 of the first period when Ashton Rome centered a pass to Matt Fornataro who scored from the slot on the power play. [...]

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Jason Donald of Phillies Wins Stenson Award

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The Arizona Fall League’s 2008 Stenson Award was awarded to Jason Donald of the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday evening. The Stenson Award is given to the Arizona Fall League player who most exhibits unselfishness, hard work and leadership. The award is named after the Cincinnati Reds’ prospect that was killed in a carjacking incident on November [...]

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Former Sun Devil Wakamatsu named Mariners manager

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Photo: Eric Risberg/AP The day after former Arizona State Sun Devil Dustin Pedroia was named American League MVP, another former Devil will get his first big league managerial job. Don Wakamatsu, a catcher in Tempe from 1982 to 1985, will be named the new skipper of the Seattle Mariners at a press conference today. Wakamatsu has a huge rebuilding process in the Emerald City. The M's had [...]

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RoadRunners win wild 7-6 shootout over Wranglers

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PHOENIX, Ariz. – Ashton Rome scored a hat trick and added another goal in the shootout to lead the Phoenix RoadRunners past the Las Vegas Wranglers 7-6 Tuesday night in front of 2,085 fans at US Airways Center. The RoadRunners (7-5-2) opened up the scoring right away when Rome scored 10 seconds into the game off a pass from Matt Fornataro. Dane Crowley had the other [...]

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Phoenix Desert Dogs Clinch Playoff Berth

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For the sixth season in a row, the Phoenix Desert Dogs secure a spot in the Arizona Fall League championship game. Although the Dogs were hammered by the visiting Peoria Saguaros, they remain far enough ahead of their division to clinch a spot in the 2008 AFL Championship Game, to be played Saturday, November 22nd [...]

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Tucson becoming a baseball wasteland

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I remember going to the Arizona Diamondbacks' first ever Cactus League game. It was Friday, February 27, 1998, and they were playing the Chicago White Sox, the team with whom they shared brand new Tucson Electric Park. Despite it being a cold night, and having to resort to standing-room-only accomodations, the ballpark was beautiful. That was only ten years ago. Now, Tucson Electric [...]

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Pedroia becomes third Sun Devil to win MVP

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Considering the recent landscape of major league baseball, you'd think a player's only chance to win an MVP Award would be to be a ripped-up muscled specimen--half ballplayer, half bodybuilder. Red Sox second baseman, and former ASU Sun Devil Dustin Pedroia, all 5 foot 9 of him, dispelled that myth. Pedroia easily won his first American League MVP Award on Tuesday, beating out Minnesota first baseman Justin Morneau [...]

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Analyzing the Shaq-Marion deal nine months later

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"The Suns did what?" "Are they out of their minds?" "There goes the championship!" That is just a sampling of the reactions from last February when the Phoenix Suns traded All-Star forward Shawn Marion and backup point guard Marcus Banks to the Miami Heat, for center Shaquille O'Neal. At the time, those responses were warranted. The Suns were in first place in the Western Conference, and Marion [...]

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