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    Baseball Blackouts & Pat's Run -- Sun Devil Links for Tuesday

    By Doug Tammaro on April 24, 2012 4:54 PM | No TrackBacks
    As ASU Athletics is making a final push towards the end of the season, media members from across the Valley have been taking a closer look on what goes on behind the scenes.


    Former SID student intern Joe Healey and son of Tim Healey writes this feature on Jamal Miles for Fox Sports Arizona

    A State Press story on baseball's blackout merchandise by @CodyUlm

    Women's golf looking to finish strong by @jjanssen11

    Current Media Relations student Carrie Adams reports on Sparky's Tour

    A photo gallery of the State Farm Good Neighbor Team

    Another photo gallery from Pat's Run, by campus photographer Tom Story

    The State Press reports on men's golf from     @jjanssen11

    @tyleremerick looks back at his State Press career through the avenue of Sun Devil Athletics

    ASU gymnastics to host summer camps

    New Twitter Avatar This Week...Paul Casey

    By Doug Tammaro on April 24, 2012 12:01 PM | No TrackBacks
    Going with a Paul Casey avatar on my twitter page this week. Why? It is Pac-12 Golf Championship week, an event that at one time could have been called the PAulCasey-10 Championship.

    No one golfer can match Paul's three straight Pac-10 titles from 1998-2000, and at the time ASU was finishing off a streak of six straight league titles, unheard of in college golf. How good was ASU at that time? No one can come close to six straight league titles. And in the 2000 championships, ASU shot 56-under. The second-place team was Oregon State...at 19-under.


    Casey ended his career with six championships, tied for third on the ASU wins list as he passed 1993 NCAA Champion Todd Demsey, who had five. Casey ends his career tied with Charlie Gibson, who won six titles from 1972-75, while four-time All-American Billy Mayfair won eight titles from 1985-88. Phil Mickelson leads the list with an amazing 16 wins from 1989-92.

    He was inducted into the Sun Devil Hall of Fame in 2010, but has not been able to be on campus to be properly honored because of commitments. So when the time comes, we can't wait to see Paul back on campus.

    Final note on Paul? His recruiting trip to Tempe was a special one. He was one of the people who stormed the field after the Sun Devils beat Nebraska in 1996.

    By the way, the second-place finisher in the 2000 Pac-10 Championships held in Tempe might be a familiar name to Sun Devils. Tim Mickelson.


    Good to see Paul Casey back at work!

    By Doug Tammaro on April 4, 2012 11:40 AM | No TrackBacks
    Check out what Paul Casey has to say as he gets ready for this weekend! Best of luck Paul!

    Whistling while he works (from March 16, 2012 Golfweek)...

    Sidelined since late December with a dislocated right shoulder - just ask to see the gruesome X-ray photo on his iPhone - Paul Casey made his 2012 debut last week at Doral and pronounced himself "kind of beat up." A five-hour tussle with the TPC Blue Monster, in windy conditions, exhausts even the most physically fit golfer, let alone a rehabbing one. But Casey wasn't complaining, mind you.

    "It's the best injury I've ever had, considering the perspective it's given me," he said. "When you're forced to sit there, doing nothing, it kind of fueled the fire for me, stoked my love for the game. We travel all over the world, all these weeks on the road, and I started to realize that I really do miss it." 

    As for the shoulder? That posed no concerns at the WGC-Cadillac Championship, where Casey, 34 , tied for 51st and even had a final-round ace at No. 15. (Drinks for 25,000 close friends, anyone?) There's no pain shooting down his arm and very few, if any, limitations with his range of motion.

    "It's more an issue of trying to find my golf swing again," he said. "I feel like the club is somewhere out there and I'm not sure what it's doing." 

    How long until he finds it? "Hopefully three weeks," the Englishman quipped, grinning, alluding to that little spring get-together in Georgia. He's most thankful that he is hungry once again, something he admits, understandably, he has not always been in an 11-year pro career. And that desire could prove quite valuable, considering it's a Ryder Cup year.

    "I've got a lot of work to do, but that's kind of nice, " he said. "Sometimes, you're just beating balls and going through the motions. I genuinely have work to do."

    As Pac-10 men's golf championships get underway...

    By Doug Tammaro on April 27, 2011 12:18 PM | No TrackBacks

    The Pac-10 men's golf championships gets underway this weekend at Stanford. From the Pac-10 release, here are the most current players on PGA Tour in the loop by school, as ASU tries to win its 12th Pac-10 title.

    ARIZONA STATE (8): Paul Casey, Matt Jones, Billy Mayfair, Phil Mickelson, Pat Perez, Jeff Quinney, Chez Reavie, Joey Snyder III

    UCLA (7): Kevin Chappell, Jay Delsing, Brandt Jobe, Scott McCarron, Parker McLachlin, John Merrick, Duffy Waldorf

    ARIZONA (6): Ricky Barnes, David Berganio, Jr., Jim Furyk, Robert Gamez, Ted Purdy, Rory Sabbatini

    STANFORD (4): Notah Begay III, Joseph Bramlett, Zack Miller, Tiger Woods

    CALIFORNIA (2): Peter Tomasulo, Charlie Wi

    **USC (2): **Jamie Lovemark, Kevin Stadler

    OREGON (1): Ben Crane

    WASHINGTON (1): Alex Prugh

    Is men's golf the most competitive sport in the NCAA right now?

    By Doug Tammaro on June 7, 2010 5:43 PM | No TrackBacks
    A lot of folks say that there is "so much competition" to be the best right now, and that there is so much once a NCAA championship begins. But let's be honest, several of them you can count on Sparky's pitchfork the teams that have a true chance to win the national title.

    That is not the case in men's golf.

    Arizona State head coach Randy Lein just finished his 18th season. His 1996 squad won the NCAA title. It was his fourth year on the job. In his 18 years, guess how many different teams have won the NCAA title?

    Incredibly, 14.

    Only Stanford, Oklahoma State and Georgia have won multiple titles. The last time a team repeated was in 1984-85, when Houston did the trick.

    Augusta State took the title this year. Before that it was Texas A&M (2009), UCLA (2008), Stanford (2007 and 1994), Oklahoma State (2006, 2000 and 1995), Georgia (2005 and 1999), California (2004), Clemson (2003), Minnesota (2002), Florida (2001), UNLV (1998), Pepperdine (1997), Arizona State (1996) and Florida (1993).

    And when you talk about the individual title, Coach Lein is the answer to this manufactured trivia question...who is the only coach to have two NCAA individual champions in the 1993-2010 timeframe?

    Lein coached Todd Demsey in 1993 and Alejandro Canizares in 2003. Oklahoma State also has had a pair in 2006 and 2000, but under two coaches.

    Individual medalists also have come from Illinois (2010), NC State (2009), UCLA (2008), USC (2007), Washington (2005), UNLV (2004), Georgia Tech (2002), Florida (2001), Northwestern (1999), Minnesota (1998), Clemson (1997), Stanford (1996), Auburn (1995) and Texas (1994).

    ASU NCAA Championship Note

    By Jen Jaeckels on May 25, 2010 6:28 PM | No TrackBacks
    As we head down the home stretch of the 2009-10 athletic year at Arizona
    State University we still have five teams competing for national
    championships (baseball, softball, men's and women's track and field and
    men's golf).  I thought this note might be some of interest to you.

    During the modern era of NCAA-recognized National Championships, ASU has won
    22 national titles in eight sports.  They are:

    Baseball -- 5
    Men's Gymnastics -- 1
    Women's Track & Field -- 3
    Men's Track & Field -- 2
    Wrestling -- 1
    Men's Golf -- 2
    Women's Golf -- 7
    Softball -- 1

    This is the fifth-most total in the Pacific-10 Conference:  UCLA (105);
    Stanford (99); USC (90); Cal (28); ASU (22); Arizona (17); Oregon (16);
    Washington (6); Oregon State (3) and Washington State (2).

    During Lisa Love's tenure as Vice President for Athletics at ASU, the Sun
    Devils have won six NCAA National Championships (three in women's track &
    field and one each in men's track & field, women's golf and softball).  So
    27.2 percent (six of 22) of ASU's NCAA-recognized National Championships
    have come under the leadership of Lisa as VP for Athletics.

    This list does not include the AIAW national titles that many of ASU's
    sports teams won in the 1960's and 1970's, nor does it include the badminton
    and archery titles that the NCAA never did recognize.

    All Decade Devils

    By Jen Jaeckels on January 5, 2010 2:35 PM | No TrackBacks
    Three Sun Devil golfers have been recognized as being amongst the decade's best. Spanish NCAA Champions Alejandro Canizares and Azahara Munoz along with former men's standout Niklas Lemke were listed as members of an All Decade Team.

    Recent ASU grad Munoz was named one of the decade's top 10 women's collegiate golfers by Golf World's Ryan Herrington. Munoz became ASU's ninth women's golf NCAA Champion after knocking in a 25-foot putt to win a playoff hole over Tiffany Joh in 2008. A four-time All-American, she closed out her career leading the Sun Devils to their seventh, and first in 11 years, NCAA Championship. Munoz was also a stellar student in the classroom and became the first double-winner of the Edith Cummings Munson award, which is given to the All-American with the highest GPA.

    Golfweek writer Ron Balicki listed Canizares as one of his top 25 players of the 2000s. Canizares, who won the 2003 NCAA Championship his freshman year, went on to earn four All-American honors and finish with a career average of 71.46. He was twice named Pac-10 Player of the Year and graduated with a 3.87 in interdisciplinary studies.

    Balicki additionally listed Niklas Lemke as an honorable mention. A three-time All-American, Lemke finished his senior year with a stroke average of 70.03, which is the third-best in ASU history behind Paul Casey (69.87) and Phil Mickelson (69.95). He was named Pac-10 co-Player of the Year his senior season.


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