Attendance at Phoenix Coyotes games is once again an issue. Like much of last season, the Howlers have the worst attendance in the league — partly because desert-dwellers tend to not like hockey (until the Canadian snowbirds arrive, that is), and party because of games like Saturday’s 3-0 loss to…
Arizona Cardinals rookie quarterback Max Hall threw his first NFL touchdown in the Cards’ 38-35 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. It was a short, three-yard pass to Larry Fitzgerald to give the team an early, 7-point lead. It was a nice moment — following the touchdown, Fitzgerald’s…
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Max Hall will get another chance to throw a touchdown in the NFL this weekend after failing to do so in his first two NFL starts, neither of which went well.The Cardinals will host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday and despite coming off one of the…
New Times is issuing a travel alert to take effect on all Arizona roadways for the duration of next week. The danger isn’t weather related, it’s more alleged-drunk-driving-governor, who just declared next week “Arizona Wine Week” related.We couldn’t help but laugh (and laugh, and laugh) and then shudder in fear…
The alleged Phoenix pimp accused of throwing a McDonald’s cheeseburger at one of his (ahem) ladies says there’s a lot more to the story than what’s been reported in the media.As the story goes, Greely, and a hooker, ordered some food at a McDonald’s drive-thru last week.The McDonald’s employee forgot…
A Valley painter apparently thought he’d try to cash in on the down-on-brown mentality gripping many Arizonans at the moment by making the slogan for his business a racial slur about Hispanics.It seems to have backfired.The business card of Russell Lewis, of Russell Lewis & Son Painting, has an American…
After pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of his infant son, a Mesa man was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison by a Maricopa County Superior Court judge this morning.In August of 2007, 24-year-old Gregory McMillan brought his 2-month-old son to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix because he was…
Governor Jan “Drive Hammered, Get Nailed” Brewer wants to set the record straight: when she crashed her car into the back of a mini-van in 1988, she had been drinking wine — not scotch, as was recorded in the police report.”Well ya know, I’ve never drank scotch in my life…
Phoenix Coyotes goalie Ilyov Bryzgalov stopped 43 shots during the team’s 4-2 win over the Red Wings in Detroit last night. For the non-hockey-fans out there, 43 shots is a lot.”It keeps you in the game all the time, the whole game,” Bryzgalov said after the game. “But don’t need…
The Phoenix Police Department has identified the man found shot to death in front of a Phoenix hotel on Sunday. The victim is 38-year-old Timothy Wallis, the PPD announced today. About 3 a.m. Sunday, people heard gunshots in the Premier Inns near Interstate 17 and Peoria Avenue.Security at the hotel…
Governor Jan Brewer will appear on CNN tonight and give her explanation of the allegation that she was drunk when she crashed into the back of a mini-van in 1988. According to Jan, the news that she apparently got away with a DUI is the result of one thing: “Silly…
There’s a video making the rounds in the blogosphere of a man, who is supposedly a supporter of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, choking a supporter of her opponent, Republican Jesse Kelly. Conservative bloggers are using it to discredit the Democratic congresswoman and her supporters. Check it out here. At first glance, we concluded that either the video’s bullshit…
Comedian Steve Hofstetter spent an hour standing in front of Governor Jan Brewer’s office asking white people if he could see their birth certificates. He videotaped his findings and the end result is hilarious. The video is obviously designed to point out the hypocrisy of the new law, and those who…
The family of the Oklahoma couple allegedly murdered by two escaped Arizona prison inmates and the fiancee/cousin of one of the inmates, is asking for $40 million in damages from the state of Arizona. Relatives of Gary and Linda Hass, both 61, of Tecumseh, Oklahoma, sent a notice of claims letter…
“He’s taking it like a champion.” That’s what a Pinal County Sheriff’s deputy allegedly told another officer as he held a stun gun to a frog’s back. The officer, Deputy Raul Alvarado, was fired after he allegedly zapped the frog, but the Sheriff’s Office was forced to take him back after he…
Nik Richie, founder of the sex-steeped Web site The Dirty, is gonna be pissed. The latest campaign ad for Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd is a little different from literally every ad the candidate has released before today. In other words, it’s not just 30 seconds of free promotion for Richie’s raunchy Web site. Hulburd today…
Just in time for happy hour, we got our hands on a copy of the Department of Public Safety report filed after Governor Jan Brewer rear-ended a mini-van in 1988. Jan admits having two scotches before the accident but says she wasn’t impaired — despite failing four different field-sobriety tests.Not to…
The University of Oklahoma got an unlikely shout out last night that it probably could have done without. It happened during the execution of a condemned murderer, and it was actually the last thing the inmate said before he bit the dust.A lot of inmates use their final gasps to…
our previous post about allegations that the wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock carried out a sexual relationship with a teenage boy, we contacted Brock’s office for comment. Brock wasn’t available but we were told we’d receive his statement this afternoon.A few minutes ago, Brock’s spokesman, Jason Rose, sent…
A woman was shot in front of an apartment complex in Mesa last night, and one of the two suspects police say was involved was found swimming in a nearby canal shortly after.About 8:30 last night, police got a call that there were shots fired in front of an apartment…
Straight from the you can’t make this shit up files, we’d like to congratulate Max Wilson, who now stands alone as the only member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors without some sort of scandal attached to his name.Until today, Wilson shared that honor with fellow Republican Supervisor Fulton Brock…
A week before the November election, the Arizona Republic was given by Terry Goddard’s campaign has stumbled upon Department of Public Safety records detailing a 1988 car wreck, where Governor Jan Brewer rear-ended a mini-van after throwin’ back at least two scotches.The case was never pursued, and Brewer gave three different…
