Three East Valley youth football leagues have withdrawn from the state’s Pop Warner organization to form a rival group that will be part of a national program.

Three East Valley youth football leagues have withdrawn from the state’s Pop Warner organization to form a rival group that will be part of a national program.

The Chandler Youth Football League did quite well this season and the fruits of its efforts were evident at the Central Arizona Youth Football League championships last weekend at Paradise Valley High School.

After going 6-1-1 during the regular season of the National Youth Sports Southeast Valley tackle football league, the Tempe Titans got a No. 3 seed for the playoffs and a second chance at the "1-1" part of their record.

In the Grand Canyon State, big-time football has been one big mess.

Success seems to be running rampant this year in Ahwatukee football teams.

Two teams from Chandler Youth Football will be spending the first week of December in Orlando, Fla., trying to take care of a little business.

Arizona Rattlers receiver/defensive back Randy Gatewood was named the Arena Football League’s Ironman of the Week, the third time in four weeks Gatewood has earned the honor.

The National Golf League is coming to a city near you. In fact, the NGL recently sold franchises in Scottsdale and Phoenix for $75,000 each to an East Valley couple.

Upper Deck has signed an exclusive, multi-year deal to become the official trading card of Little League Baseball.

Spring training preview

In its inaugural season, Coast to Coast Football has come a long way. “Kids are loving it, parents are loving it and what we’re doing is what it should be all about,” said Bryan May, president of Coast to Coast.

School has started, but summer lives on at least another week for the Chandler National Little League All-Stars.

Move over, Chandler National Little League, there’s another East Valley youth team vying for a national championship.

Move over, Chandler National Little League, there’s another East Valley youth team vying for a national championship.

Hundreds of Little League players in Gilbert have nowhere to play baseball for the 2007 season.

Hundreds of Little League players in Gilbert have nowhere to play baseball for the 2007 season.

Parents of youth sports leagues are calling Gilbert’s preferential treatment of older leagues unfair, but town officials say the complaints are just more of the years-old practice of warring over limited fields that may never be fully resolved.

Parents of youth sports leagues are calling Gilbert’s preferential treatment of older leagues unfair, but town officials say the complaints are just more of the years-old practice of warring over limited fields that may never be fully resolved.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.,— They will grow up and grow apart, but on a warm summer California night, 12 kids from Chandler painted a memory they will share forever.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.,— They will grow up and grow apart, but on a warm summer California night, 12 kids from Chandler painted a memory they will share forever.

October 22, 2004

With my prediction winning percentage safely on the plus side this football season (I skipped those last two Cardinals games because, really, picking them to win a game that doesn’t count is like picking Oklahoma to land face-first in a Fiesta Bowl) I was ready to call it a year.

Pima College at Scottsdale CC