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No limits to a mother’s love, a wrestler’s determination
Judy Robles was 16 when she found out she was pregnant with her first child, who would later be born with only one leg. As Anthony Robles grew, his mom realized that he defied limitations — "he was going to figure things out." Anthony went on to become an NCAA champion wrestler at ASU, and his life story is now the focus of a new Amazon Prime movie, “Unstoppable."
This month marks the 10th anniversary of ASU announcing that its club hockey team would be moving to the NCAA Division I level.
When Natasha Adair drove to the basket for a layup one October night in 1990, her future was right in front of her. She was a high school senior being recruited by more than 200 college coaches. But as she landed on the court and heard the pop in her knee, everything changed. Adair couldn’t have known then, but that injury headed her down a path that would eventually lead her to become the women’s basketball coach at ASU. “People often ask me if I would change what happened,” she said. “No. It made me who I am.”
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NFL marks Black History Month with events at Poitier Film School
The NFL marked Black History Month at ASU on Wednesday with a screening of a new documentary about the journey of pioneering quarterback Jimmy Raye, who went from the segregated South to become one of the first Black quarterbacks in college football history. The event, which was held at the MIX Center in downtown Mesa, was also part of the NFL's Super Bowl week festivities.
Super Bowl is super lucrative
The Super Bowl is back in Phoenix for the first time since 2015. Anthony Evans, a senior research fellow for the L. William Seidman Institute, the consultancy arm of the W. P. Carey School of Business, spoke to ASU News about the relationship between high-profile sporting events and the financial windfalls they can bring to state and local governments.
A look at the history of the Super Bowl
ASU sports historian Victoria Jackson answers our burning questions about the Super Bowl’s past, present and future.
Super Bowl host committee has maroon and gold tint
If the 2023 Super Bowl, to be played Feb. 12 at State Farm Stadium, had official colors they would be maroon and gold. That’s because 10 of the 20 full-time committee employees are ASU graduates. Find out how their experiences at ASU prepared them for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Toward equality in sports
Scott Brooks, an associate professor of sociology in ASU's T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics and director of the Global Sport Institute, has authored dozens of research publications, including "Black Men Can’t Shoot," which tells the importance of exposure, networks and opportunities toward earning an athletic scholarship. In time for Black History Month, ASU News reached out to Brooks to share some of his findings.
Cronkite graduate student makes history as hockey broadcaster
Trey Matthews, a 23-year-old graduate student at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, just became the second African American man to serve as a play-by-play announcer in the more-than-40-year history of the Canadian Hockey League.
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