The Phoenix Coyotes season just went from good to historic. Last night, the Coyotes beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1, marking the doggies 43rd win this season, a franchise-tying, single-season record. Coyotes Coach, Dave Tippitt isn’t letting the team’s impressive record get to the players’ heads, though. In fact, he’s using…
Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Royals fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys in blue happen to play against the Dodgers, the Cubs, or the…
Arizona State University is running a billboard ad campaign pushing ASU as all-world, and ABC 15 is quibbling with its slogan on a billboard in town..The station’s beef is the result of the billboard at 32nd Street and Cactus Road, where an article “the” was missing, as in “one of…
Congressman Harry Mitchell may want to think twice before giving the Obama healthcare bill the thumbs up because a new poll suggests that, if he does, voters in his district will give him the heave-ho come November. Harry shouldn’t start packin’ his bags just yet — the poll was funded…
Former Phoenix Coyotes goalie, Nikolai Khabibulin, has got himself a date — in court, that is.We learned today that Knabibulin’s first court appearance after getting nailed for speeding through Scottsdale in his black Ferrari is scheduled April 12.Not only do police claim Khabibulin was speeding, but they say he was a…
Former Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling says professional baseball players, who have admitted to using steroids, should be barred from the Baseball Hall of Fame.New York Yankees fans would say: So should a dirty sock with some alleged blood on it that somehow managed to slip past Cooperstown’s content police.Schilling…
A researcher at Arizona State University found that ads featuring plus-sized models are unlikely to work on their intended audiences: fatties.Sorry, Kirstie Alley, the Jenny Craig endorsement buffet may be coming to an end…
“Spiritual warrior” James Arthur Ray will get his day in court, but autopsy photos of his alleged victims will not be released to the public, a Yavapai County Superior Court judge ruled this morning.Judge Warren Darrow set a trial date of August 31, for Ray and ruled in favor of…
Congratulations sports fans, you can start watching golf again without dozing off. After a sexless four months away from the sport he helped re-invent, Tiger Woods announced he will be returning to the world of professional golf in less than a month. Tiger released a statement yesterday confirming what many…
Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Royals fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys in blue happen to play against the Dodgers, the Cubs, or the…
Seattle Mariners pitcher Cliff Lee is a punk.In the third inning of today’s spring training game with Arizona Diamondbacks, Lee threw two pitches at the head of D-backs catcher Chris Snyder — missing both times — leading to a bench-clearing backlash between the two squads, which netted no punches and…
Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth says the only way to keep a man from marrying a horse is through a federal marriage amendment.Naturally, we can think of several other snafus that might keep a man from marrying a horse — namely a horse’s inability to speak or sign a marriage license (basic…
Rather than face his victim’s families in Arizona’s death chamber, a death-row inmate took the easy way out and did something the state has been trying to do since 1997: end his life.Department of Corrections officials say 46-year-old James Adams was found hanging lifeless in his cell yesterday at 3:30 yesterday afternoon at the Browning Unit,…
Maricopa County’s brown-bashing sheriff, Joe Arpaio, is still considering a run for governor, and as luck should have it, he’s got a super-secret plan to help ease the state out of its budget woes.He says we’ll have to wait for him to announce his candidacy before he dazzles us all…
Jason Rose, the high-powered public-relations guru, who’s handled everyone from Joe Arpaio to Phil Gordon, is jumping ship on the J.D. Hayworth Senate campaign because Hayworth has failed to enter a contract with Rose’s firm.Rose tells New Times that his firm began working for Hayworth without a contract out of…
“People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do: I stare out the window and wait for spring.” — Rogers HornsbySpring has sprung, so here is your guide to today’s spring training games:…
It’s impossible to lose a hockey game if the other team is unable to — as the saying goes — put the biscuit in the basket. That being the case, having Phoenix Coyotes net-minder Ilya Bryzgalov between the pipes is an asset any team would be happy to have. In…
“People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do: I stare out the window and wait for spring.” — Rogers HornsbySpring has sprung, so here is your guide to this weekend’s spring training games:…
The latest controversy surrounding the endorsement of ex-Congressman J.D. Hayworth by the controversial Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC), now involves another Hispanic Republican group, this one with ties to Sheriff Joe Arpaio and to a blog allegedly written by a Maricopa County prosecutor.The American Post Gazette, an ultra-conservative blog linked to Andrew Thomas’ office, published…
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard wants to run as a publicly funded candidate for governor, and he claims today that he’s got everything he needs to do it.Goddard announced that he has received the 5,000 $5 donations and the 8,000 petition signatures needed to qualify as a publicly funded candidate…
The search of a San Antonio, Texas, landfill for the remains of baby Gabriel Johnson was called off today after investigators were unable to find any clues suggesting the baby was there.Authorities spent 16 days combing through 4,200 tons of trash at the Tessman Road Landfill, where they believed the…
William Gheen, organizer of the controversial Americans for Legal Immigration, is calling on Senator John McCain to apologize for a “smear campaign” his campaign has waged, suggesting the group has racist leanings.This is the same guy who just yesterday told New Times he has used the term “wetback” to describe Mexicans in…
