Thom Ortiz, the head coach of the Arizona State University wrestling program, announced Thursday his coaching staff for the 2008-09 campaign with Al Fuentes, Brian Stith and Zach Roberson set to work with the Sun Devils as they prepare for their 47th varsity season. Both Fuentes and Stith will serve as assistant coaches while Roberson will continue on as a volunteer assistant coach.

Doug Sulliman, who has been out of the NHL since 1996, was hired Thursday as an assistant coach for the Coyotes.

The Suns filled out their coaching staff Monday by naming Jay Humphries as an assistant.

A day after associate coach Barry Smith revealed he is leaving the Coyotes for a job in Russia, coach Wayne Gretzky said there will be no other turnover on his staff.

Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt is close to filling out his coaching staff after the team officially hired five more assistants Tuesday.

The Cardinals hired three more assistant coaches Friday, including Billy Davis to coach linebackers after Davis served as the 49ers’ defensive coordinator the past two seasons.

The Suns hired longtime NBA coach Alvin Gentry as an assistant Tuesday. Gentry joins Marc Iavaroni and Phil Weber on a staff that had not added a coach since Mike D'Antoni was promoted to head coach following the firing of Frank Johnson.

The Utah Grizzlies, Phoenix's new American Hockey League affiliate, will name Coyotes assistant coach Pat Conacher as their head coach at a news conference Tuesday in Salt Lake City.

Cardinals coach Dennis Green added four more assistant coaches Tuesday and now is just a quarterbacks coach short of a full staff.

The Cardinals and new coach Dennis Green had been granted permission to talk to Baltimore offensive line coach and former Arizona State offensive coordinator Jim Colletto about Arizona’s offensive coordinator job, but Colletto said Green cancelled the interview late last week because Green “wanted to go in a different direction.”

Rick Barnes hadn't even seen Kevin Durant play when Texas offered the high school sophomore a scholarship. The offer actually came from an excited assistant coach.

Former NFL and Arizona Cardinal running back Charles Levy has been terminated from his post as a volunteer assistant football coach at Chandler's Basha High School following two arrests earlier this month, a Chandler school official confirmed Friday.

Carl Hargrave, an assistant football coach at Phoenix South Mountain High School, has been named the new head football coach at Mesa Community College.

The Tempe High football program is in mourning as it prepares to open the season this week.

Negotiations are ongoing to make San Jose SaberCats defensive coordinator Kevin Guy the next coach of the Arizona Rattlers, according to a source within the organization.

Georgia Tech baseball aide Josh Holliday will join Pat Murphy's staff at Arizona State as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator, Rivals.com reported on Tuesday.

The question wasn’t whether Marc Iavaroni would get an NBA head coaching job this summer, it was where. And it turned out to be the job he wanted most.

The Cardinals considered Russ Grimm when looking for a head coach, but passed him over in favor of his friend and fellow assistant in Pittsburgh, Ken Whisenhunt. The Cards ended up with Grimm anyway.

If Dirk Koetter believes that coaching in the NFL is a “career change,” as he suggested last month, it is evidently one that he is comfortable with. The former Arizona State coach on Monday was named offensive coordinator of the Jacksonville Jaguars, his first position at the professional level in a 25-year career.

Tony Fuller wanted a lifestyle change. The Stanford assistant basketball coach spent years traveling, recruiting and coaching in the Pac-10 Conference, and though he's coached teams that went to five NCAA tournaments, he felt he was missing out on his children's upbringing.

Tony Fuller wanted a lifestyle change. The Stanford assistant basketball coach spent years traveling, recruiting and coaching in the Pac-10 Conference, and though he's coached teams that went to five NCAA tournaments, he felt he was missing out on his children's upbringing.

Scottsdale Community College defensive coordinator Doug Madoski has been named the replacement for outgoing football coach Ken Giovando.