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The Northern Arizona Suns have announced they will be leaving Prescott Valley and the Findlay Toyota Center. The Suns Public Affairs Advisor Maria Baier said the COVID-19 pandemic forced the move. She says “Sadly, when the 2020-21 G-League season tips off, the team will be playing at a location, to be determined, in the PhoenixFull Story

The man who built the Mingus Union High School football team into a region power will reportedly take over at Bradshaw Mountain High School. KAFF News has learned from selection committee member Matt Showalter that 59-year-old Bob Young has been chosen to take over as the Bears new football coach, pending approval from the HumboldtFull Story

We are proud supporters of high school athletics and we are looking forward to our fifth season of broadcasting the “Highlands Floor Coverings High School Football Game of the Week” on KAFF Country 93.5/AM 930. We think we have our best broadcast schedule in the five years covering the Flagstaff Eagles and Coconino Panthers withFull Story

Both Flagstaff and Coconino high schools have released their 2020 high school football schedules with hopes they will begin play in August. The Flagstaff Eagles will begin their season earlier than usual. They will open up in the Flagstaff Kickoff Classic Friday, August 21st against the Peoria Panthers in the Skydome. The following week theyFull Story

One of the most successful quarterbacks in NAU football history has signed with the New York Giants. Case Cookus leaves NAU having thrown for over 12-thousand yards and over 100 touchdowns, in a career where he was injured parts of two seasons with broken collarbones. Cookus agreed to a free-agent deal with the Giants, whoFull Story

Coconino High School alum J.J. Nakai is transferring to NAU. Reports surfaced this morning that the former Panther had entered the transfer portal and was leaving the University of Nevada. Lumberjacks head coach Loree Payne says “We’re obviously really excited to bring JJ home,” She said “for her to finish out her career in herFull Story

NAU Athletics has taken the interim tag off of Shane Burcar and has named him head coach of the Lumberjacks men’s basketball program. The decision was announced on Wednesday. Burcar led the team to 16 wins, which is the most in program in the last five seasons. NAU athletic director Mike Marlow says the schoolFull Story

The NAU women’s basketball team battled, but couldn’t pull off the upset as they fell to top-seeded Montana State, 76-71 in the semifinals of the Big Sky Conference Tournament in Boise, Idaho. Nina Radford led the Jacks with 21 points and Lauren Ordoff added 13 points in the loss. NAU’s two leading scorers during theFull Story

NAU guard Cameron Shelton missed a layup with six-seconds left as the NAU men’s basketball team was upset by 11th-seeded Idaho State, 64-62 in the first round of the Big Sky Tournament in Boise, Idaho Wednesday. Brooks Debisschop led the Jacks, in what may have been his last game as a Lumberjack, scoring 17 pointsFull Story

The NAU women’s basketball team is on to the Big Sky semifinals after a 68-65 win over the Montana Grizzlies in the Big Sky Conference Tournament in Boise, Idaho. Lauren Orndoff led the Jacks with 17 points and Khiarica Rasheed had a double-double with 14 points and ten rebounds in the win. The last timeFull Story