SCOTTSDALE, AZ (October 31, 2024) – For 10 years, Jay Ajayi's 2014 season has sat at the top of Boise State's record books, but with the way Ashton Jeanty is playing, Ajayi's records are in danger of being supplanted.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (October 10, 2024) – A study released in early 2024 shared that 70% of children quit youth sports by the age of 13 years old. While the research showed that the professionalization of youth sports was a significant factor in this finding, the "professionalization of youth sports" can be dissected in a number of ways.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (September 18, 2024) – Although he was twice named his league's Offensive Player of the Year at Helix High School, Alex Smith may have been best known as Reggie Bush's quarterback prior to his days at the University of Utah.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (June 14, 2024) – For his contributions as Fiesta Bowl Parade Committee Chair in 2019, Joe Hourigan was selected as the Fiesta Bowl Chair of the Year.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (February 27, 2024) – When Gene Smith earned his first athletic director job in 1986, he was one of just two Black Division I-A athletic directors, with Charles Harris at Arizona State being the other. With that came a series of challenges.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (February 6, 2024) – Following his MVP performance in his final game in a Colorado Buffaloes uniform, Kordell Stewart knew he was a quarterback.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (January 2, 2024) – Making his NCAA record 61st – and final – career start, Oregon quarterback Bo Nix was masterful at the 53rd Annual Vrbo Fiesta Bowl. With Nix's experience and record-setting season on full display, No. 8 Oregon posted the largest margin of victory in Fiesta Bowl history with a 45-6 win over No. 23 Liberty at State Farm Stadium.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (September 28, 2023) – The UCF Knights won 25 consecutive games between the 2017 and 2018 seasons, marking the fourth-longest win streak since the turn of the century. The foundation for that historic run was laid when the Knights introduced themselves to the college football world on January 1, 2014, in the 43rd annual Fiesta Bowl.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (August 31, 2023) – Ask any of the players on the 1993-94 University of Arizona football team, and they will tell you that the build-up to the 1994 Fiesta Bowl actually started a full 15 months prior. Before the Wildcats and the Miami Hurricanes met at Sun Devil Stadium on January 1, 1994, the two teams squared off across the country in Miami in September 1992.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (April 18, 2023) – Born and raised in Ohio – or as he likes to say it, Buckeye born and raised – Chip Pray hoped to see his Ohio State Buckeyes play Clemson in the 2019 Fiesta Bowl, which also served as a College Football Playoff Semifinal. Looking to find tickets, he made a call to a friend.

PHOENIX, AZ (December 29, 2022) - With a new head coach on the sidelines and a new starting quarterback at the helm of the offense, Wisconsin ended its season in a customary Badgers football way – with a bowl game victory. After racing out to a 17-7 halftime lead and withstanding an Oklahoma State fourth quarter comeback, the Badgers held on for a 24-17 victory in the 2022 Guaranteed Rate Bowl in Downtown Phoenix.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (December 4, 2022) – The 2022 College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl will feature the first-ever meeting between No. 2 Michigan and No. 3 TCU on Saturday, December 31, 2022 at State Farm Stadium. Kickoff for the semifinal in Glendale will be at 2 pm MST and will be broadcast live on ESPN.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (April 20, 2022) – It was a banner Wednesday at Talking Stick Golf Club as the Northern Arizona golf team put the bow tie on their first Big Sky Championship in seven years. The Lumberjacks captured their conference-leading ninth all-time Big Sky title after a three-day total of 8-over par 872 (288-287-297), knocking off Sacramento State by six strokes.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (November 9, 2021) – Inactive and on the bench last season, there were no guarantees that Lauren Orndoff would ever don the Lumberjack uniform again. Then she remembered six key words of advice.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (August 26, 2021) – There wasn't a single fan in the Walkup Skydome seats, but that was the furthest thing on Morgan Vest's mind. The Northern Arizona safety was healthy and back to doing what he's always loved – playing football.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (November 6, 2020) – It took just six seconds for Jay Green to display the type of impact he can have on a game.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (July 31, 2020) – If Taylor Jacobsen replicates the success her older sister, Lauren, enjoyed at NAU, the Big Sky Conference is in for double the trouble.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (June 26, 2020) – Sara Padilla can't recall how it happened, nor can she remember any symptoms. But nearly four years ago, her life, as she knew it, changed.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (March 24, 2020) – Two weeks ago, locked in a close first set with Pacific's Klara Kosan, Chiara Tomasetti was unfazed. Tomasetti finished out the set and then dominated her opponent in the second set to close out her ninth straight victory.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (November 22, 2019) – With his team coming off the greatest season in program history in 2015, head coach Ken Murphy knew the following years, and corresponding recruiting classes, would be the key to sustainable success. Enter the Northern Arizona volleyball team's 2019 senior class, whose imprint on the program will reach far beyond the all-time marks they have all achieved.

PHOENIX, Ariz. (April 27, 2019) – The Northern Arizona women's tennis team had been in this position before – three consecutive years to be exact – standing across the net from Idaho in the Big Sky Championship match. Three straight years, Idaho ended NAU's season. After Saturday's statement-proclaiming 4-0 victory, the 'Jacks can officially consider the Vandals vanquished.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (September 7, 2018) – For one night, the center of the volleyball world could very well be Flagstaff. Having not defeated a nationally-ranked team since 1989, the Northern Arizona volleyball team ensured they would not come up empty on their most recent opportunity as soon as redshirt senior Kaylie Jorgenson's resounding kill split No. 8 Florida's defense on match point Friday night.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (May 8, 2017) – "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." Those were the words of revered Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi.

­FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (February 17, 2016) – "I wasn't tall enough to go there, I wasn't good enough to go there." It seems unthinkable now, but that was the message senior Janae Vander Ploeg got from the University of Colorado in Boulder during the recruiting process.