Aiming for the best shot

Four years after they were formed,  the Arizona WildGats have become expert marksmen. In 2014, Tyler Browne, and Bill Perkins, sat down at Boston Market to discuss bringing a shooting team to the University of Arizona. Brown was a freshman at the university, and Perkins was an employee at the Scholastic Action Shooting Program, a…

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Is hockey dying in the desert?

Average fan attendance for the Arizona Coyotes dropped 13 percent in the last decade. At the end of this NHL season , the team finished 30 out of 31 teams in attendance. The Coyotes attendance average for the 2007-2008 season was 14,820 fans. This season, they averaged 13,040 fans per game. The Coyotes play at…

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ACL tears hit women hardest

One of the most common knee injury in sports — the ACL tear — is on the rise, especially among women, but is no longer the end of an athlete’s career. A study published in 2017 by a physician at the University of Minnesota, Nicholas Beck, showed ACL tears have increased over 2 percent in…

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