Last week, Gilbert boys basketball coach Jay Caserio was lamenting all the late leads his team had given up this year by missing free throws, and hoped the trend would change in the second half of the season.

As Trey Ingram grew comfortable being the third scoring option for the Pinnacle boys basketball team this year, the Pioneers took off.

It took a while for Gilbert’s boys soccer team to score, but in the end the result was more of the same.

Gilbert continued its late-season success with another boys basketball win on Thursday night, a 64-49 win at Mesquite.

“The Democrats don’t seem to understand that people aren’t successful because they’re wealthy. They’re wealthy because they are successful.”

All Gilbert needed was to take a deep breath and relax.

Mountain Pointe forced 25 turnovers and held Gilbert to three points in the third quarter as the Pride won, 56-44, and snapped Gilbert's 10-game winning streak.

The Arizona State men’s golf team finished in third place Friday in the Hawaii-Hilo Invitational at Kona, Hawaii. The Sun Devils shot a 24-under 816 (272-267-277).

There wasn’t much question about the best boys basketball team in Division I last year, as Corona del Sol finished the season on a 30-game winning streak and cruised past Laveen Cesar Chavez for the state championship.

ONALASKA, Wis. - President Bush and Sen. John Kerry accused each other of lacking the hard-nosed resolve of Cold War presidents - from Democrat Truman to Republican Reagan - reaching across party lines a week before Election Day to try to break their campaign deadlock.

LOS ANGELES - Jodie Foster's "Flightplan" stayed aloft at the box office, as the airplane thriller took in $15 million to remain the No. 1 movie over a rush of new wide releases.

‘Twas not the winter of everyone’s discontent. At least, not for all the basketball players, soccer studs and wrestlers who took their shots, saves and takedowns for glory’s sake and found some.

WASHINGTON - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.

Dive shouldn't be a dirty word. At least not in today's corporatized culture, where the corner coffee shop is a Starbucks, kids meet at the Barnes & Noble instead of the library, and the neighborhood Italian restaurant is an Olive Garden.

Dive shouldn't be a dirty word. At least not in today's corporatized culture, where the corner coffee shop is a Starbucks, kids meet at the Barnes & Noble instead of the library, and the neighborhood Italian restaurant is an Olive Garden.