It's the last day of March and your Phoenix Suns have just 9 games left in the regular season. I don't want to reminisce too much at this point since we still have 11% of the season left (I can’t seem to get away from doing these dorky calculations now), but this season sure has been fun! Read more

“If a tie is like kissing your sister, then losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.” - George Brett Read more

Nine games into the official “Shaq Era,” the Suns were 3-6 with their Big Addition and had fallen from 1st place to 7th in the vicious Western Conference playoff race. Read more

Forget the new sheriff bit. There’s a new JUGGERNAUT in town. Well, actually it’s really just a souped up version of the old juggernaut. And it has astounded the experts by adding a lot more power without losing so much as one iota of speed. Read more

“I’m Adam Beechen’s mother, and I approved this message…because Adam promised me he’d come home for Passover if I did. Don’t forget the matzo, honey!” Read more

Hello again. I want to thank you for all your support, particularly the past month or so since Shaq arrived. Read more

The much-discussed Psychological/Philosophical Period of Adjustment to the Shaq Era is over! And let the record show it took much less time than the pessimists thought it would (estimates ran as low as “never”) and is working out even better than the most cockeyed optimists hoped it would. Read more

I admire a fan who insists on watching every game live, but not because he is morally superior to those of us who occasionally record a game and watch it later. No, I admire him because he doesn’t live with the anxiety of having someone spoil the end of the game. Read more

When the Suns traded for Shaquille O’Neal last month, I felt like a 9-1-1 operator fielding calls from panicking friends and family worrying that his addition would slow us down.

It’s baaack! The swagger or mojo or aggressiveness, just plain confidence, or whatever you want to call it is definitely back with the Suns. Read more

Ever since the second season of the Steve Nash Era, I have told anyone who would listen that you need to give the team nine games to get into a groove. Read more

Hey, guys, I’m on my way to Albuquerque for another stop with the D-League Thunderbirds, but definitely wanted to get another blog up before doing so. Read more

Lot of good omens this one. And maybe one of the most significant ones is that instead of playing down to the opposition, as has been their wont, the Suns played up to their potential. Read more

My friend Dino e-mailed me from New York yesterday. "Shaq is done," he wrote. "Sorry, but he is." I wrote back, "Obviously, you didn't watch the Spurs game Sunday," in which Shaq had 14 points and 16 rebounds against one of the better defensive teams in the league. Read more

The Suns had a big win over the Spurs on Sunday. Sports writers have documented every conceivable thought about what that duel meant in the highly contested Western Conference. Read more

Sometimes we just need to be reminded of things. Sunday’s big win over the Evil Empire was a reminder that the Suns didn't, in fact, forget how to play like a championship caliber team. Read more

As a sports intern and then production assistant for a television station in Chicago, I spent more hours watching more sports than a bookie. Read more

Today I come not so much to praise the Suns (although they are certainly highly deserving of some) but to unbury them. Read more

What with Spring Training having broken out in our midst, we need a baseball-related idiom to describe this one, namely and to wit: The Suns were like an infielder who plays every hop right except the last one. Read more

To paraphrase a disaster description made famous by a Knick of yore whose name I misremember: The ship may not be sinkin’ --- but it ain’t exactly sailin’ either. Read more