The James family books its vacations with two amenities in mind, warm beds and adjacent basketball courts. 

The course of Arizona’s home contest with Utah Valley last Thursday night turned on the right hand of sophomore guard Brandon Randolph. 

Welcome to the heart of the pre-holiday break campaign in boys basketball, with teams hitting their collective strides on the hardwood. 

Welcome to the heart of the girls basketball season in Southern Arizona, where teams’ playoff chances are already on the line. 

The course of Arizona's home contest with Utah Valley turned on the right hand of sophomore guard Brandon Randolph.

Erik Wolf’s message to his players in his postgame speech Tuesday evening was short and sweet.  

Welcome to the unofficial start of the boys basketball season in Southern Arizona, with games dotting the schedule leading up to the holiday break. 

The football season just ended in Tucson, but the specifics of next year's schedule are already known, with the Pac-12 releasing the full schedules for each member on Tuesday. 

The fourth annual NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl lineup was announced Sunday, with Arkansas State University and the University of Nevada-Reno squaring off in the Old Pueblo.

A boisterous crowd of students in blue and silver on one side and green and gold on the other bellowed through the night inside the cozy confines of the gym at Ironwood Ridge High School.

A handful of green-clad teenagers sprint through a series of conditioning drills inside the white-painted walls of Canyon del Oro’s gymnasium on an unseasonably warm November afternoon. The young women are preparing themselves for the three-month basketball season, doing what’s necessary to …

The tide of Tuesday’s boys basketball clash between the Catalina Foothills Falcons and Mountain View Lions was dictated by Falcons shooting of guards Carson James and Hayden Moser. The pair teamed up to thwart the Lions on their home court, with James scoring 24 points, while Moser led all s…

A line of fresh-faced boys in matching white jerseys impatiently sit on the courtside bleachers on a Friday afternoon. These young men make up this year’s Canyon del Oro boys basketball team, and they’re ready to get their pictures taken and get the day’s practice underway. 

Welcome to the official start of the girls basketball regular season, with the first set of non-exhibition games kicking off soon. 

Josh Pollack lined up a 45-yard field goal in the waning seconds of last Saturday’s Territorial Cup rivalry game against Arizona State with a shot at immorality. The fifth-year senior kicker, who made each of his first four attempts against the Sun Devils, needed to hit the long field goal t…

Welcome to the unofficial start of the high school basketball season, with the year’s Thanksgiving week preseason tournaments kicking things off. 

Stationed in the middle of a fray of teenagers in alternating white and blue tank tops racing up and down the floor of the auxiliary gym at Ironwood Ridge High School is first-year Nighthawks coach Le’Sean Marks, who has a stopwatch in one hand and a whistle in the other. 

Ken Leikem watched as two teams of players race up and down the main gym at Ironwood Ridge High School in an intra-squad scrimmage. 

A litany of local high school athletes from around the region officially signed their names to play collegiate sports Wednesday morning.

Chad Riester felt a whirlwind of emotion during the final day of the AIA Swimming Championships. 

Fans of the annual El Tour de Tucson bike race have a new opportunity to explore the town of Marana this year. 

Welcome to the offseason of the high school football calendar, where players, coaches and fans can all take a deep breath and fondly remember the highs and lows of the season that was. 

The once-packed austere stadium tucked inside the tilt-up subdivisions of Vail whittled down to a pack of stray players and coaches last Friday night. 

The high school football season has come and gone in a flash on the northwestern periphery of Tucson. 

The fate of the Marana Tigers’ football season was set in the early minutes of their first-round playoff clash in Vail against the Cienega Bobcats last Friday night. 

The calendar has officially hit the month of November, which means we’re about to embark on the best month of the high school sports calendar. 

The boys and girls golf tournament took place last week at the OMNI Tucson National Golf Course. 

A group of Mountain View High School Lions had a surprise for coach Clarence ‘Bam’ McRae in the waning seconds of last Friday’s season finale against Flowing Wells. 

Welcome to the start of the high school football playoffs, where 16 teams in each division put 10 weeks of hard work on the line. 

One of the winningest football coaches in Southern Arizona history announced he’d hang up his whistle, at least temporarily, last Monday afternoon.

Welcome to the final week of the high school football regular season, with much work to be done to clinch a spot in the big dance. Each of the six teams in northwest Tucson have a shot at keeping their playoff dreams afloat Friday night, depending on the outcome of their games.

The Ironwood Ridge Nighthawks and Cienega Bobcats volleyball teams engaged in one of the most competitive straight set sweeps you’ll ever see on Tuesday night. 

The University of Arizona Wildcats weathered the proverbial storm this offseason, facing a myriad of issues, both on and off the court. 

Welcome to the final week of the high school football season, which came at us about as fast as a roadrunner zipping its way across the desert. 

Nathan Grijalva had a feeling something special was bound to happen when he laced up his high-top cleats before the final home game of his Ironwood Ridge football career. 

Diego Munguia and Sebastian Peña made a pact during the spring that took them some 779 miles and a world away. 

Welcome to the second-to-last week of the high school football regular season, the precipice of the state playoffs. 

Bijan Robinson ripped the momentum from the hometown Canyon del Oro Dorados in the first minute of last Friday’s Canyon del Oro-Salpointe Catholic clash. 

The changing of the seasons in Southern Arizona, from blistering hot to merely somewhat hot, corresponds with the denouement of the high school football season. 

Welcome to the penultimate week of the high school football season, where teams throw everything they have at their opponents in a last-ditch playoff push. 

Welcome to week nine of the high school football season, better known as the third-to-last week of the regular season. 

Welcome to the third-to-last week of the high school football regular season, where teams will make a valiant push toward the postseason. 

The Canyon del Oro Dorados volleyball squad cruised past two Casa Grande high schools last week to improve their yearlong record to 12-3. 

The high school football season is racing through the weeks of fall, leaving us in slack jawed bewilderment. 

The tide of Arizona's contest with the Cal Bears turned on a wayward pass, an interception and a dash of luck that broke the Wildcats way.

The competitive course of Friday night’s much-anticipated ballgame between Ironwood Ridge and Marana high schools was set on the game’s first play from scrimmage.

Welcome to week eight of the high school football season, with a quintet of much-anticipated contests on the northwestern fringe of Tucson. 

The Tucson Roadrunners were the darlings of the American Hockey League’s Pacific Division a year ago, taking the division and Tucson by storm.

Welcome to week eight of the high school football season, with each team cementing their place in the playoff picture.