Final Fours like this one don’t come around often. Hyperbolic statements are the norm now but with every program heading to New Orleans with at least three national championships in their resumé, it’s hard to imagine two national semifinal games packed with more intriguing storylines. The payoff of a historically…

The college basketball community has quite literally never seen a day as wild as what occurred Saturday. According to ESPN Stats & Info, there had never in the history of the sport been a day in which each of the top 5 teams in the AP Poll lost, but when…

Leadership matters. Few environments bear that out to be the case more than the arena of competitive youth sports — and while Division 1 basketball (and a Big Ten game nonetheless) rises to a level far surpassing that of Pop Warner football or Little League baseball, it remains worth repeating. …

Welcome to the newly unveiled Heat Check Herald. Each week I will do my best to recap the previous week of basketball with observations, news and notes. Without laboring on, let’s get into this past week. Race for National Player of the Year is heating up Has there been a…

Odds are, if a television is on and sports are being shown, a commercial advertising for one of the various gambling companies will be shown. Everyone is in on sports betting. It’s the hip new thing. Since the state of Arizona opened the (legal) floodgates on Sept. 9, a stream…

Mornings at the Bill Austin Radio Studio are often dull and quiet. Especially Friday mornings. On this one, the “On Air” sign hanging atop the entryway to the studio of Arizona State’s student radio station — Blaze Radio — can be seen unlit and unchanged. Blaze Radio just celebrated its…

(The following was written as part of a project for JMC 460 Advanced Online Media.) When I think of soup, sometimes I think about whether cereal is one. Detractors would say cereal doesn’t have meat in it to which I would respond, neither does tomato soup. The debate of whether…

Varying story methods and types are utilized by journalists in order to tell the story they’re attempting to share with their readers. Each decision by the group of writers and editors tasked with telling a story is made consciously with different goals and intentions of influencing or informing the reader…

Herm Edwards is worn out, and Arizona State is, too. “I need a rest,” the Sun Devil head coach admitted following the last chapter of Arizona State’s 2020 season. “I’m tired. I’m bone tired.” Despite the NCAA’s football advisory panel waiving the minimum wins threshold before the Pac-12 even began…