The Arizona State University athletic department unveiled its new threads at a press conference — complete with fog machines and a laser show — at the university yesterday afternoon, and they were met with mixed reviews.When we see fog machines, we expect to have our minds blown. That was not…
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asu.edu ASU’s new logo and typeface Fear the fork — Arizona State University’s longtime devlish mascot, Sparky, is taking the backseat to a pitchfork as A-State’s logo, just one change in a series of new athletic looks unveiled by the school today. The redesign of ASU’s athletic look includes…
Skinny dipping can be fun when the participants are visually appropriate. Another suggestion/law is making sure that nobody participating is a 10-year-old boy — especially if you’re a 25-year-old “friend” of the family.Last week, police in Casa Grande arrested Nicholas Ryan McCray, who — among other pervy things — allegedly thought it…
Is Councilman Sal DiCiccio playing the victim card?The councilman claims he has been the target of attacks over his political beliefs that city services should be privatized and city employees are overcompensated.DiCiccio was in a city meeting and unavailable for comment. In an e-mail blast asking for support (read money),…
The accomplice of three inmates who broke out of an Arizona prison last summer pleaded guilty today to state-level charges of escape and robbery. Casslyn Welch, the fiancee/cousin of one of the escaped inmates, will be sentenced to 20 years in prison for the state crimes. However, punishment for the federal…
Two weeks into the Arizona Republic’s coverage of the Fiesta Bowl fiasco, John Zidich — publisher of the daily newspaper — finally quit his position on the bowl’s five-member board of directors. The Republic’s article on Zidich’s resignation says the former Fiesta Bowl secretary wanted to avoid “any question of the…
We may have found the cure for “Bieber fever”: twerpy Tempe “Pastor” Steven Anderson, who recently compared teen heartthrob Justin Bieber to a “sissified, effeminate twinkie” in one of his sermons.Anderson, you may recall, is the leader of the Faithful Word Baptist Church, which teaches that homosexuals should be put…
A Phoenix man taking out the trash made a grim discovery in an alley near his house: a barely clothed dead body.The body was found near 29th Avenue and Madison Street earlier this morning.Police haven’t said much about the discovery of the body, but ABC 15 spoke with Jose Torres,…
It was but a year ago that the Phoenix Suns made an improbable and fairly glorious run to the NBA Western Finals, where the eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers finally beat them in a hard-fought series. Fans know what happened next — among other things, unloved team owner Robert Sarver ran…
Elizabeth Johnson, mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, has a choice to make: actually show up in court for her next hearing under her own free will, or allow Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jailhouse goon squad to use “any means necessary” to get her there.Yikes!In the past, Johnson’s had some…
As the United States government creeped closer to shutting down on Friday because far-right-wing-nuts don’t like abortion, Senator Jon Kyl took to the Senate floor to give a less-than-“factual statement” about the amount of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood, a federally funded organization that’s been known to end a pregnancy…
Anyone still wondering whether the 2010 Phoenix Suns were a team of underachievers or a mediocre ballclub received an answer last night in the form of a narrow overtime victory against the terrible Minnesota Timberwolves, 135-127. It’s only one game, sure, but the Suns proved once more in the penultimate…
The Arizona Republic reported yesterday that Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, whose prison-bound wife was recently convicted of having sex with the same teenage boy whom his adult daughter is accused of having sex with, has a GOP challenger for his seat in the 2012 election.According to the Republic, investor…
Governor Jan Brewer and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne have issued a joint press release denouncing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2-1 decision today upholding District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton’s injunction of four key parts of Arizona’s “breathing-while-brown-law,” Senate Bill 1070.You can read the entire release, here. However,…
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The Phoenix Police Department has released a sketch of the man cops believe is responsible for the bizarre February murder of a Phoenix woman.About 2 a.m. on February 27, 22-year-old Alexcia Salsberry and a friend were driving home from a party in west Phoenix. The women got into an argument,…
Good news: 44-year-old Steven Michael DeMarlie, reported missing yesterday by his wife, was found alive and well in the Tonto National Forest near Roosevelt Lake, the Chandler Police Department announced this afternoon.According to Chandler P.D. spokesman Detective Frank Mendoza,several fishermen at Roosevelt Lake called the Gila County Sheriff’s Office after…
So far, Jose Canseco’s life after baseball has included the following: spilling the beans on the droves of other professional baseball players who used steroids, appearing on several reality TV shows like The Apprentice, The Surreal Life, and Stripper’s Ball with porn legend Jenna Jameson, and MMA fighting other D-list…
A verdict was returned Friday in the case of 39-year-old Daniel Gukeisen, a Tempe attorney accused of fatally stabbing a 22-year-old Arizona State University student in 2008. Gukeisen, however, didn’t bother to show up.The proceedings went on without him, though, and he was found guilty of manslaughter in the death…
Gabriela Compton, a Western Valley Middle School teacher’s aide accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with at least two teenage students, was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning, where she pleaded not guilty to three counts of sexual abuse, three counts sexual conduct with a minor, and one…
State Senate President Russell Pearce, Governor Jan Brewer, and the forces of nativism here in Arizona and nationwide have suffered a crushing blow. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has today upheld District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton’s injunction of the most egregious parts of Senate Bill 1070.You’ll recall that…
