The last time Arizona State saw their softball team advance to the Super Regionals, Trisha Ford was their head coach. After losing to Northwestern, Ford left the Sun Devils for a massive offer at Texas A&M. Now, the Sun Devils are back in the Super Regionals, and it came at the expense of Ford's new team. After Arizona State blanked McNeese 8-0 on Friday in their first game of the NCAA Regionals, they drew Ford's Aggies, who came in as the top seed in the regional. A seventh

Landon Hairston etched a new chapter in the Sun Devil Baseball record books. Photo: Andrew Hayslett With a lot at stake and little time left on the schedule, the Sun Devils made their way to Texas for a final regular season series before conference tournament play at Houston. A spot in the postseason tournament already secured, Arizona State was still on the edge of securing a bye to next Thursday’s quarterfinal round in Surprise. Thursday An unusual name got the call at star

Earlier this month, when Randy Bennett held his introductory press conference as the Sun Devils' new head coach, he alluded to having 12 players on the roster. Simple math determined Arizona State had only 11 announced players, hinting there was a silent commitment out there somewhere. On Thursday, that silence went public. The Sun Devils secured a commitment from Serbian center Filip Malesevic. Associate head coach David Patrick, whom Bennett called "one of the best recruite

Kole Klecker delivers the opening pitch of Sunday's finale against Oklahoma State. Photo: Tom Hardon While Arizona State pulled out a gritty 11-7 win in the home finale on Sunday, this past weekend saw the Sun Devils (34-17, 17-10 Big 12) lose their first conference series since March 27-29 at home against West Virginia. With that came a drop in the major polls with three games left on the schedule. Sliding from No. 16 last week, the Sun Devils stay in the rankings this week

Dominic Smaldino is greeted at home plate by Dean Toigo and Ky McGary after his third inning home run. Photo: Tom Hardon The name may be Smaldino, but the bat played enormous for the Sun Devils on Sunday afternoon. After losing the first two games of the weekend, Arizona State was looking for a win on Mother's Day to end the home side of the season on a high note. It wasn't without some trepidation, but the Sun Devils held on to the 11-7 win over Oklahoma State. The win was o

Arizona State second baseman Nu'u Contrades rounds the bases during an Austen Roellig home run in Phoenix, Sunday, Apr. 26, 2026. (Echo From The Buttes/Andrew Hayslett) PHOENIX – The Sun Devils have been on a quest to find a Saturday starter this season, and that quest has not yielded a name with sustained success this season. Reshirt junior right-hander Colin Linder started the year in the Saturday slot. He threw three games in the role with a 3.55 ERA, but allowing four ru

For the ninth time since joining the Big 12, the Sun Devils are conference champions. Arizona State completed a two-hit shutout win over Texas Tech on Saturday to claim the Big 12 softball championship. The win capped off an impressive and, frankly, surprising run through the Big 12 tournament. Arizona State came into the tourney ranked 25th in the nation, but they were still only seeded sixth in the conference due to a stacked Big 12. After an upset win over 3-seed rival Ari

What was billed as a battle of potent offenses turned into a wild back-and-forth game in the late innings, seeing Oklahoma State hang on to claim a 9-6 win in the opening game of the final home series of the season. Cole Carlon took the ball in his usual Friday night spot and looked like he could be in for a short outing. Allowing single runs in each of the first three innings, Carlon stood at 67 pitches with four walks in that span. The next four innings however, he was ligh

TEMPE- What’s delayed is not denied. Randy Bennett was officially introduced as the next head coach of the Arizona State men’s basketball program, nearly seven weeks after his original introductory press conference was postponed due to health issues. "Thank God for Mayo Clinic... for two weeks I wasn't in the office,” Bennett said Thursday. “It through me off a little bit. The last thing I needed to be doing at that time was stressing about the portal or the job, thanks to

Landon Hairston waits for his pitch against Baylor. Photo Credit: Andrew Hayslett Just two weeks remain in the regular season, and time is running short for significant movement in the national rankings. Thankfully on this May the 4th, the polls are strong with the Sun Devils. Another weekend series win over a tough unranked opponent in Central Florida has jumped Arizona State up three spots in the latest D1Baseball.com poll, sitting at No. 16 in Monday's rankings. Baseball A

Dean Toigo stands in the batter's box against Baylor in Phoenix Municipal Stadium, Sunday, Apr. 26, 2026. (Andrew Hayslett/Echo From The Buttes) The Sun Devils had not had back-to-back weekend series from Friday through Sunday since the end of March when they faced Kansas State and West Virginia in consecutive weekends. The Arizona and BYU series both were Thursday through Saturday to avoid Easter and BYU not playing sports on Sundays. This weekend’s series at UCF was slated

On Friday night, Sun Devil football got the best kind of news dump. Arizona State announced a $10 million endowment gift from Brian and Kelly Swette. The endowment will go to Kenny Dillingham's head coaching position, making it the largest endowed leadership position of any kind at Arizona State. Brian Swette, who graduated from Arizona State University in 1976, is a decorated businessman whose resume includes stops as the Chief Operating Officer at eBay and a senior executiv

Molly Miller's first year in Tempe exceeded even the most optimistic Sun Devil's expectations. Taking over a program that had won just 29 games in their past three seasons, Miller led Arizona State to a 24-11 record and an appearance in the First Four of the NCAA Tournament. With four players graduating from that roster, as well as four others entering the transfer portal, Miller and her staff took to the portal again to reshape the roster going into her second season. The qu

Sun Devils and Tigers open their first series of the season on November 7, 2025 Sun Devil hockey sure likes their trophies. The first traveling rivalry trophy has come into the fold for Arizona State in the form of the Ed Robson Cup. The trophy will be shared with Colorado College and awarded to the winner of the season series between the two teams. Ed is an alumnus of Colorado College ('55) and the namesake of Ed Robson Arena, opened in 2021. After entering real estate devel

Kole Klecker fires a pitch during Sunday's finale against Baylor The week started off questionably for the Sun Devils with a home loss to New Mexico State, but a key conference sweep of Baylor has Arizona State still moving in the right direction, and the voters agreed in Monday's weekly rankings update. Checking in at No. 19, the Sun Devils jumped six spots from last week's rankings according to D1Baseball.com voters, swayed by huge offensive outbursts on Friday and Sunday.

When the Frozen Four ended on Saturday night with Denver hoisting their record 11th national championship trophy, all attention in the college hockey world turned to the transfer portal that opened on April 13th. Even before the portal officially opened, rumors were swirling. By the time the dust settled on Day 1, nine Sun Devils had entered the portal. The most significant entrant was Cullen Potter, moving to his original commitment destination of Michigan State. The sophomo

Let me be the first to offer you a warm welcome to your new home for all things Sun Devil athletics: Echo From the Buttes. My name is David Howman, and I'm the editor-in-chief of this new venture. Typically, I don't like to be self-referential in this medium, but seeing as we're starting this site up now, it feels appropriate as a one-time thing. You may recognize my name, or the names of some of our other writers here, from recent articles with Devils in Detail of the FanSid

After opening the week with a tough home loss to New Mexico State, the season started to feel like a revival of last season's fade down the stretch. For the time being, the Sun Devils have put a pause to those concerns after a key weekend conference sweep of Baylor, wrapped up by an 11-4 win Sunday afternoon at Phoenix Municipal Stadium to move to 31-14 (14-7 Big 12) on the season. Kole Klecker and Jaden Alba combined for their second shutdown home Sunday in as many games, ca

History is made! The New Orleans Saints select Arizona State wide receiver Jordyn Tyson at eighth overall in the 2026 NFL Draft. Tyson becomes the highest wide receiver pick from the Sun Devils football program since J.D. Hill, who was selected at fourth overall by the Buffalo Bills in the 1971 NFL Draft. Additionally, he becomes the highest overall pick from Arizona State since cornerback Mike Haynes, who was drafted at fifth overall by the New England Patriots in 1976 and w

PHOENIX – Arizona State has thrown four pitchers in the middle game of a three-game series this season, with none of them getting more than four starts in that role. That steadiness is seen on the bookends of the series this season with junior lefty Cole Carlon and senior right-hander Kole Klecker. The pitching staff dominated and allowed only three hits in the game. That performance allowed No. 25 Arizona State baseball (30-14, 13-7 Big 12) to beat Baylor (22-20, 9-11) 4-2