A buddy just sent us a link to this cool little story in the New York Times. Seems that a factory worker from Long Island named Saul Linares recently penned a little corrido — those wonderful Latino folk ditties about love, murder, and about everything between. The subject? Maricopa Country’s duly elected sheriff. Linares is originally…
The 12-person jury in the Doug Grant Mormon murder case has gone home for the weekend, and it appears that members are nowhere close to reaching a verdict. The best indication of that is a “deliberation schedule” the panel sent out a few days ago to Judge Meg Mahoney, who…
The ASU men’s basketball team has one last chance at 6 p.m. tonight to beat one of the Washington schools this season, when they meet the Washington Huskies in semi-final action at the Pac-10 basketball tournament here in L.A. The Sun Devils are fresh from completing a trifecta of victories…
Arizona State’s 68-56 win over the boys from Tucson in a Pac-10 tourney game that ended a few minutes ago can be attributed to one player’s piss-poor performance: Arizona’s Chase Budinger. The highly touted Wildcats’ forward played as soft as a cushy little pillow for the entire contest, finishing with…
Time was that the Arizona Wildcats hated the Pac-10 postseason basketball tournament with a passion. That was when the `Cats routinely dominated league play, finishing first or second seemingly every year after now-retired Lute Olson revved up the program in the mid-1980s. Olson and his minions considered the tourney an…
Maricopa County Superior Court jurors in the Doug Grant murder case have been deliberating his fate for 10 hours and counting. Grant (not the Jason-looking Doug Grant to the left) is charged with killing his wife Faylene back in September 2001 at their Gilbert home. With devout Mormon Faylene’s written blessing, Grant married his…
The less said about the ASU men’s basketball team’s effort against an average Stanford team in last night’s loss at Wells Fargo Arena, the better. Hard to believe it’s been just a month since the Sun Devils humilated the Cardinal by 30 points up in Palo Alto, California. This time, Stanford took it…
Coming off two spirit-crushing overtime losses last weekend in Washington, the Arizona State Sun Devils try to regroup tonight against Stanford in a 6:30 game in Tempe. ASU’s Pac-10 championship hopes went out the window with the back-to-back defeats, and now the team is playing for a decent seed at…
Closing arguments started Tuesday in the closely watched trial of former Phoenix Suns nutritionist Doug Grant, and prosecutor Juan Martinez immediately went for the defendant’s throat — proverbially, of course. We’ll be writing a postmortem about this remarkably weird trial when (and if) the jury returns its verdict, which could be…
Sometime later this week, the Maricopa County County Superior Court jury of 12 men and women finally should begin deliberations in the murder case of sports nutritionist Doug Grant. The high-profile case has been especially contentious on every level — family vs. family, prosecutor vs. defense attorney, judge (often) vs. defense attorney…
When I heard about radio great Paul Harvey’s death at his Phoenix home at age 90, it got me thinking about a memorable interview I had with him about 30 years ago. At the time, I’d already been listening to Harvey’s “News and Comment” segment for many years. Despite its corniness, I loved the show. It…
After all is said and done in the regular college basketball season (that would be next weekend) and the Pac-10 conference tournament, the ASU Sun Devils and the Washington Huskies will find themselves playing somewhere in the Big Dance. But all that seems so far away at the moment. At hand, in…
County Attorney Andrew Thomas didn’t answer many questions at his press conference a few hours ago about Phoenix’s “assisted suicide” case, the story we broke in an August 2007 piece entitled “Death Wish.” What he did tell those assembled in the crowded conference room of his eighth-floor suite was that investigators…
It’s finally in the homestretch at the closely watched first-degree murder trial of former Phoenix Suns nutritionist Doug Grant, and the whole thing almost caved in Monday. Many of you reading this have been following this weird murder case, which we reported on in great detail before the trial started last November. Heads…
A few sights, sounds and other memories from last night’s thrilling ASU win over Arizona at the Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe:…
What was most (maybe the only thing) memorable about last night’s Pac-10 slugfest between ASU and Southern Cal happened with about a minute left. USC head coach Tim Floyd (the oddly gesticulating gent in the photo) took such umbrage with a pivotal call against his squad that he felt compelled to whirl like…
ASU star James Harden was wheeling and dealing in the lane last night with just more than a minute to go against UCLA. The 11th-ranked Bruins were up by one point, and time was running out on the shot clock. This is the kind of game that UCLA usually wins. It…
Some years ago, Bridget Sharpe became eligible for AHCCCS, the state’s health-care program for the needy. She enrolled with the program’s Mercy Care Plan to receive medical services. What remained of Sharpe’s teeth were in a state of “rampant decay,” according to an Arizona Court of Appeals decision this month. (Those perfect choppers depicted…
Reasonable minds may differ on whether Doug Grant’s guilty of killing his wife, Faylene, by drugging and drowning her at the couple’s Gilbert home back in September 2001. It’s an understatement to call this case complex and odd. I mean, the county Medical Examiner couldn’t even call it homicide (the…
Prosecutor Juan Martinez tried to paint murder defendant Doug Grant’s current wife Hilary as a co-conspiring, manipulative, slutty, cold-blooded, gold-digging, backstabbing floozy during hours of tense testimony Wednesday. Doug Grant, a onetime nutritionist for the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks, is accused of killing another of his wives, Faylene (that’s the…
It was an unlikely coming-out party for Washington State freshman Klay Thompson at Wells Fargo Arena last night, as the rail-thin guard led the Cougars to a 65-55 upset over the Arizona State Sun Devils. The son of former NBA player Mychal Thompson hit shots from all over the court, stealing the…
The ASU men’s basketball team hasn’t played in eight long days. It was back on January 21 that they squeaked by the Arizona Wsildcats in Tucson in a game that, safe to say, won’t be placed into a time capsule for future generations to marvel at. Even the best of all…
