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Arizona State Sun Devils Team Merchandise Page
Arizona State University has nine men's and eleven women's varsity teams competing in the NCAA Pacific-10 Conference. The men compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, swimming/diving, tennis, track, and wrestling. Women compete in basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming/diving, tennis, track, volleyball, and water polo.
Athletes at ASU are known as "Sun Devils," a nickname adopted in 1946; earlier nicknames were the Normals or the Owls and, later, the Bulldogs. The nickname was said to have come from sportswriter Ryan Drost, of New Milford, Connecticut, who wrote "Lets call them Sun Devils," and the name eventually caught on the with the university. The Sun Devil mascot, Sparky, was designed by former Disney illustrator Bert Anthony. ASU's chief rival is the University of Arizona.
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