The Phoenix Coyotes regular season ended in a way that’s almost as improbable as their upcoming playoff bid, which ESPN is calling “the best story in the NHL: They lost in a shootout to the San Jose Sharks. The Coyotes have the best shootout record in the NHL but couldn’t muster the goals necessary…
The next time someone tells you that you throw like a girl you might as well say thank you because a female knuckleballer is slated to join a men’s, professional baseball team in early May, and the word on the street is that she has no problem keeping up with…
Senator John McCain picked up the endorsement of the National Federation Of Independent Business yesterday, but he seemed to need a little reminder as to the name of the organization endorsing him.McCain took a brief tour of the Central Bindery Company in Phoenix before NFIB President Farrell Quinlan stepped to…
Justice Janet?! With the announcement that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is calling it a career, there is no shortage of rumors as to who will replace him.One name swirling around the rumor mill is former Arizona Governor and current U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano…
Just one day after Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio made his latest plea for attention hint that he would run for governor, a group dedicated to bringing him down achieved a milestone.As of yesterday, the Facebook group People Against Sheriff Joe Arpaio has attracted 25,000 members in the roughly two…
NASCAR’s in town for a Sprint Cup Series race this weekend, and as part of the festivities, the folks at Sprint invited us, as well as some of the other who’s-nots in local media, to participate in a charity race this morning.We were racing for Central Arizona Shelter Services –…
After a brief break from the airwaves, the gals in brown were back with a vengeance last night, and one of them threw us a bit of a curveball — she showed a little human decency. Officer Lindsey Smith both protected and served when she stopped a man for not…
The Phoenix Coyotes snapped a four-game, road losing streak with a comeback 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings last night — and, like many games for the Yotes this season, it never should have happened. Also similar to many of the Coyotes’ improbable wins this season, the W came…
The Goldwater Institute announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals will review the decision of a lower court that put an end to matching funds for political candidates who run under Arizona’s publicly funded elections system.If you’re unfamiliar with matching funds, or Arizona’s Clean Elections Act, click here for…
Arizona’s Congressional beefcake, Jeff Flake, isn’t just a hit with the ladies, he’s the fan-favorite of the limited-government crowd, too.Members of the “economic freedom” group Club for Growth put Flake at the top of their list in the group’s Congressional power rankings.The power rankings reflect the group’s members’ opinions of…
As you may have read in Feathered Bastard yesterday, the weather this weekend may be a little wet. Sure, the sun will be out, but a Glenn Beck tear storm is projected all day Saturday. Fox News’ resident cry-baby will be in Phoenix this weekend as part of his…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio continues to rattle his political sabers (and keep the media foaming at the mouth), claiming now that he’s taking the next step in getting his name on the ballot for this year’s gubernatorial election.Arpaio, who has been stirring up rumors that he would run for…
Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods wants to put an end to the latest dose of J.D. Hayworth buffoonery, but he may just be adding fuel to J.D.s paranoid fire.In an interview with Newsweek earlier this week, Woods joked: “Someone needs to drive a wooden stake through this guy’s heart.”…
Pardon the pun, but while we hate to beat a dead horse in regard to Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth’s recent comments that gay marriage could somehow lead to humans marrying horses, we tracked down a local “zoo-sexual” who takes offense at the former congressman’s comments for a completely different reason than…
It’s over: Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan’s 23-game scoreless streak came to an end last night as the Yotes beat the Nashville Predators 5-3 in Glendale”It’s great for Doaner,” Coyotes goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov told reporters after the game. “He tries so hard. It’s so many games. We all felt bad…
Sports giant Nike aired an ad today that even has us scratching our heads wondering “is there no shame.”The black-and-white ad shows a sullen-looking Tiger standing on a golf course with the voice of his dead father speaking to him…
John Favreau’s futuristic answer to the über-successful Avatar is a 3-D journey into a Southwestern conflict between Silver City, Arizona, settlers, who must resolve their differences when an alien spaceship crash-lands in their city.The movie is called Cowboys and Aliens, and we learned today that mega-star Harrison Ford has signed on to…
Darrell Ankarlo, the self-righteous host of KTAR’s Ankarlo Mornings, whose lips have often been firmly attached to the rump of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, will no longer have a show on KTAR, the station announced at the end of the Ankarlo Mornings broadcast this morning.Ankarlo has been absent from the program…
For the fourth straight year, the Arizona Diamondbacks have the least expensive average ticket prices in all of Major League Baseball, according to a study by Team Marketing Report.If you ask us, we’d be willing to pay a few bucks extra if the team would use the money to get…
Just when we thought the bottom of the reality TV barrel had been scraped to give us The Jersey Shore, the We TV network unveiled its latest reality masterpiece, and it’s featuring a little local flavor.Sunset Daze is the network’s latest attempt to cash in on the reality craze, and…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced last night that Arizona will be joining 14 other states in a lawsuit against the federal government over the federal healthcare mandate passed by Congress last month.Brewer’s general counsel, Joseph Kanefield, will represent Arizona in the lawsuit, and the governor claims that after all is…
Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, and Congressional candidate for the House seat getting vacated by Congressman John Shadegg, picked up the endorsement of Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, the campaign announced last night. Quayle is one of nearly 10 Congressional hopefuls in a crowded field of GOPers seeking the seat,…
