DENVER — Jorge De La Rosa begged for the ball in the ninth inning, wanting desperately to get a chance at his first career complete game.

Point-counterpoint: Shaq is gone. Assuming Amaré Stoudemire is also dealt, should the Suns trade Steve Nash as well before his contract runs out at the end of next season?

NEW YORK — The NFL suspended Jets linebacker Calvin Pace for four games without pay Thursday for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances.

The Cardinals will open training camp July 31 at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and break camp on Aug. 20.

DENVER — Jorge De La Rosa begged for the ball in the ninth inning, wanting desperately to get a chance at his first career complete game.

Glendale officials are fighting in court to keep documents about negotiations over the Phoenix Coyotes confidential until they finish talks with a potential new owner of the NHL team over use of city-owned Jobing.com Arena.

The Phoenix Coyotes have signed free agent defenseman Adrian Aucoin to a one-year contract. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

LUBBOCK, Texas - Former San Diego State right-hander Stephen Strasburg, the No. 1 overall draft pick by the Washington Nationals last month, has been selected as the winner of the Dick Howser Trophy as college baseball's player of the year.

Arizona State placed 12th overall in the final standings of the Learfield Sports Director's Cup, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics announced Monday.

Small but intense thunderstorms were popping up across Arizona on Friday evening and could return on Independence Day.

Kathy Willis has lived in her east Mesa neighborhood long enough to be able to easily rattle off names of pretty much each family living on her street. Over the last couple of years, she's also witnessed some of them become foreclosure victims, their empty homes a reminder of the sign of the times.

Just a year ago, David Vega's north Chandler neighborhood was a friendly place where the longtime residents knew one another and held block parties.

Ken Soucy is not happy his home overlooks a deteriorating construction site. The Gilbert resident said his 11-year-old son and his peers routinely ride their bicycles through the neighborhood, and Soucy is concerned that the defunct Tierra Office Park poses a danger.

Queen Creek's annual Fourth of July fireworks event will be held at Schnepf Farms beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday.

Q.C. fireworks pop for another year

Fireworks to light up East Valley skies

Udder Delights is an up-and-coming Gilbert ice cream shop looking to expand its dessert menu. Tracy Dempsey is perhaps the Valley’s best-known pastry chef and has a few months of free time on her hands. A perfect match?

Udder Delights is an up-and-coming Gilbert ice cream shop looking to expand its dessert menu. Tracy Dempsey is perhaps the Valley’s best-known pastry chef and has a few months of free time on her hands. A perfect match?

I first heard of upside-down tomatoes from the late Tom Robinson of Russelton, Pa., back in 2000. I still use the techniques he taught me to plant one or two tomato plants each season.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A public-private effort to research cleaner ways of using Wyoming coal could be key in addressing the growing energy needs of the West, a coal gasification industry official said.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave Arizona and other states permission Tuesday to enact their own regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.

Carol McGinnis: Recently my interest was stirred concerning the story behind the birth of our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”