Volleyball was Kyle Pitman’s secondary sport, but it was hard to tell with his effort and influence on the court.

Most first-year club sports teams often struggle to find an identity. But that hasn’t been the case for Club SPAWN, a local baseball team that is ranked nationally. In its inaugural season Club SPAWN’s record is 69-22. 

Melissa Kahn has the regular season down.

Mohammed Saleem bet one brother instead of chasing another.

St. Mary’s has ruled the Division I girls basketball scene as local teams can attest.

The scores junior golfers post make most weekend hackers shake their heads.

It’s more than 75 days before the first kickoff, but there’s plenty of preparation going on already.

The rookie class at Mountain Pointe next year is a rather large one.


Tyler Viza’s inclusion at No. 427 in Baseball America’s top 500 draft prospects shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who saw Desert Vista’s comeback against Brophy in the first round of the Division I state baseball tournament.

Arizona Christian University will hosts the 2013 Baseball Recruit Identification Camp June 3-6 at Firestorm Field. Players ages 14-18 are invited to attend the camp, which focuses on baseball skills development.

Humanity's home planet hardly merits the name-check in "After Earth," M. Night Shyamalan's sci-fi survival tale whose shipwreck action could (with the exception of a scene where our hero scrawls a crude map over Lascaux-like cave paintings) take place on any old life-supporting globe in the cosmos. The disappointingly generic film, which strands a father and son (Will and Jaden Smith) on Earth a thousand years after a planet-wide evacuation, will leave genre audiences pining for the more Terra-centric conceits of "Oblivion," not to mention countless other future-set films that find novelty in making familiar surroundings threatening. Will Smith's presence, not just as co-star but as originator of the story, seems likely to carry box office receipts beyond the benchmark of Shyamalan's previous picture, the wretched "The Last Airbender," but those hoping for a franchise should navigate elsewhere.

With a unique style of commencement ceremony, Horizon Community Learning Center in Ahwatukee graduated 92 seniors on Tuesday night.

Jordan Kipper’s continual rise in the eyes of professional scouts should continue when the MLB first-player draft is held June 6-8.

At 14, Tyler Cohen had never been out of the country or traveled without his Long Island family when he found himself in Costa Rica on a monthlong service trip for teens.

There have been highs and lows from the 2012-2013 athletic year.

The resignation of Dave DiDomenico as Red Mountain wrestling coach was one of those that just didn’t sit right.

Longtime Mountain Pointe Athletic Director Ian Moses announced recently that he was no longer going to be the athletic director at the Ahwatukee high school.

Jeff Rutledge, a former player and coach in the NFL and NCAA Champion quarterback at the University of Alabama, has been hired as the head football coach at Valley Christian High School.

Sydney and Eryn Schmisseur found the sport of synchronized swimming somewhat serendipitously.

A lacrosse stick is a simple piece of equipment: a metal pole, a plastic head and some coarse netting.

Lisa Spini has always had an eye for talent and 12 years ago, Stefani Catour caught her eye.