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.

Welcome to week eight of the high school football season, where playoff hopes lie in the balance of each contest. 

The duality of agony and ecstasy was on full display on the gridiron of Canyon del Oro High School in Oro Valley on Friday night. 

Welcome to week seven of the high school football season, better known as the first real week of sectional play. 

Welcome to the first real week of sectional play in Southern Arizona, with several noteworthy matchups in these parts.

The Ironwood Ridge High School volleyball team is on a tear, collecting wins with relative ease. 

The Arizona Interscholastic Association released its first set of football and volleyball rankings Tuesday, Sept. 25, with the six programs in northwest Tucson (Canyon del Oro, Catalina Foothills, Ironwood Ridge, Marana and Mountain View) slotted in at different positions by sport. 

Welcome to week seven of the high school football season, with a litany of sectional contests to keep an eye on. 

Nathan Grijalva delivered a message on a dazzling touchdown run midway through the second quarter of Ironwood Ridge’s road game at Desert View High School.

It’s week six of the high school football season, better known as the unofficial start of sectional play. 

Greetings from Week Five of the high school football season, better known as the unofficial start of regional play around the state. 

Welcome to the relative midway point of the high school football season, with team’s entering their final week of freedom games before sectional play begins. 

Louie Ramirez’s voice was a mixture of pride and fatigue in the late evening hours on Friday. 

The Mountain View Lions stared down a two-sets-to-none deficit against crosstown rival Marana on Thursday night, in front of a raucous crowd of Tiger faithful.

It’s week five of the high school sports season, which contains some of the best contests we’ll see this fall. 

Longtime NFL cornerback Marcus Coleman will man the sidelines next spring for the inaugural Indoor Football League season in Tucson.

Welcome to the fifth week of the high school football season, roughly the mid-point of the schedule.  It’s been a whirlwind season so far, with a cavalcade of highs and lows among the six schools in Northwest Tucson 

The Canyon del Oro Dorados’ impressive start raced forward unimpeded Thursday, sweeping the Nogales Apaches to improve to 4-0 this season. 

Welcome to another week of the high school football season, with sectional play looming large on the horizon. 

Canyon del Oro High School and Pusch Ridge Christian Academy are separated by 3,696 feet, give or take a few inches. Yet the two programs, for their proximity, never met on the gridiron prior to last Friday’s clash, which the visiting Dorados won 33-7. 

Two schools separated by .7 miles of asphalt and an occasional saguaro met under the bright lights for the first time on Friday. 

Mountain View High School’s season opening volleyball match did not go as expected last Tuesday, with the Lions falling to Salpointe Catholic at home in straight sets. The Lions, under first-year coach Jose Robles, fell to the Lancers, 25-11, 25-14, 25-12, struggling to crack their opponent’…

Sprinting past defenders, Stevie Rocker burst onto the high school football scene with a highlight reel play during Canyon del Oro’s opening game.

The high school golf and cross country seasons are in full-swing, with Mountain View’s boys golf team defeating Sabino, while defeating CDO and falling to Cienega in other matches.  

Jordan Morgan casts an imposing figure along the Marana Tigers’ offensive and defensive lines, striking fear in the hearts of opposing players each week. 

Welcome to the heart of the high school football season, better known as week four here in Arizona. 

The Ironwood Ridge Nighthawks traded barbs, and points, with the Millennium Tigers on a sweltering late August evening.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the then-Pac-8 adding two vagabond programs, Arizona and Arizona State, to its conference.

A night of lightning, torrential rain and gale-force winds couldn’t keep the Marana High School Tigers off the scoreboard on Friday night. 

We’re a fifth of the way through the high school football season, after a wild (and wet) week two on Friday night. 

We've officially survived two weeks of the high school football season (except for CDO, whose game against Prescott was rained out). 

An assortment of University of Arizona athletic and academic leaders took turns at a lectern to build bonds with the local business community last Tuesday afternoon, including university president Dr. Robert C. Robbins, vice president of athletics Dave Heeke and first-year football coach Kev…

The first two weeks of the school year weren’t all focused on the first few games of the football season. Out on the green, young men and women are perfecting their shots, as the golf season is underway.

Engage, a local nonprofit, hosted a free BBQ social on Saturday, Aug. 18 at Reid Park introducing the organization’s use of non-tackle rugby to build communities. Engage will run a free co-ed touch rugby league this fall for children ages 6-18.

The first week of the high school football regular season is officially over, which means the fall sports season is in full swing. 

The tide of last Friday’s season opening football game hinged on the special teams units of Canyon del Oro and Flowing Wells high schools.  Unfortunately for the Dorados, their kicking unit could not come through, missing two extra points and as many two-point conversion attempts. 

Week one (or Week Zero, as it’s called by the AIA) is in the books, with Ironwood Ridge, Marana, Pusch Ridge and Catalina Foothills surviving their opening matchups against Mountain View, Horizon, Rio Rico and Buena, while CDO fell to Flowing Wells. 

The Ironwood Ridge High School Nighthawks fired off a warning shot to the rest of Southern Arizona in front of a raucous crowd last Thursday night. 

A lone cumulus cloud billowed over the horizon as the Arizona Wildcats football team scurried its way through a late summer practice on Saturday, Aug. 4.  

Before Tucson Country Club’s Director of Pickleball Joey Farias had ever heard of pickleball, he was on his way to becoming a professional tennis player. From age 13 to 18, he was a top-10 tennis player in the country every year. He competed against Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin del Potro a…