Sports Illustrated ran an article this morning detailing the results of background checks into all college football players who play for the Top 25 ranked schools in the country. The results are unsurprising: some college football players have criminal records. In fact, SI found that 7 percent of all…
There has been a firestorm of reaction from Phoenix officials over admissions that the kidnapping statistics generated by the Phoenix Police Department are inaccurate.Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris is steaming over reports that the he will be reassigned, and it remains unclear what exactly will happen with his post.However, change…
If you’re a professional athlete looking to get nabbed for a DUI, look no further than Scottsdale.In the past few years, celebrity athletes such as Mike Tyson, Charles Barkley, Seattle Seahawks tight-end Jerramy Stevens, and Edmonton Oilers goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin have found themselves on the wrong end of a breathalyzer in…
ederal prosecutors handling the the trial of Jared Loughner, the lone suspect in the January 8, shooting rampage in Tucson, have requested a gag order that would bar the release of the autopsies of the six people killed during the attack. Today, Loughner’s attorneys filed a similar request.Prosecutors are concerned that…
A Scottsdale pervert was sentenced to prison and a lifetime of probation by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Karen O’Connor today for recording himself having sex with a then-14-year-old girl and concocting a kidnapping scheme that was foiled by federal law enforcement agents.Michael Raymond Ward was sentenced to 18 years…
It isn’t just Forbes magazine that’s noticed how miserable the Phoenix sports scene is. New Arizona Diamondbacks General Manager Kevin Towers saw it at Chase Field the day he took charge of the team last season. In a recent piece in the New York Times, Towers recalls a conversation with Diamondbacks…
At the same facility Tiger Woods was “rumored” to have attended when he was treated for his poon addiction in late 2009.As you may have heard, Galliano was canned by fashion house Christian Dior for making anti-semetic statements (the guy apparently loves Hitler. Jews… not so much) while apparently drunk…
Do you think Governor Jan Brewer, or any Arizona governor from this point on, should have a volunteer military force that she can call up and use for any purpose whatsoever?Well, that’s what the governor would have if Senate Bill 1495 becomes law: A blank check to establish a “state guard”…
The United States Supreme Court ruled this morning that groups like Westboro Baptist Church, an anti-gay/anti-logic bunch of twerps known for protesting the funerals of soldiers killed overseas, are protected under the First Amendment, regardless of how disgusting their message may be.You may recall, these are the same attention whores who…
An Avondale man convicted of murdering his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where Judge Janet Barton sentenced him to life in prison. Alvaro Holguin Duarte pleaded guilty to the 2008 murder of Alisandra Oliviana Romero, his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter. On November 17, 2008, police were…
Putting your hands on a woman is never a good idea (just ask that guy who socked “Snooki” in the face, or state Senator Scott Bundgaard), but Michael Pollard allegedly didn’t get that memo.According to court documents obtained by New Times earlier this week, Pollard punched his own mother in…
Yesterday, Forbes Magazine ranked Phoenix as the third “most miserable” professional sports city in the entire country — behind only Atlanta and Seattle.The publication cites the Phoenix-area’s four major pro sports teams’ — the Phoenix Suns, Arizona Cardinals, Phoenix Coyotes, and Arizona Diamondbacks — and their one championship in 92…
In an effort to further curtail the rights of citizens to visit the state Senate, Senate President Russell Pearce has issued a dictate that the public will no longer be allowed to attend press conferences held inside the Senate building.Today, he sent a missive to his fellow Senators, stating in…
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Highly-touted pitching prospect Jarrod Parker walked three Rockies hitters in a row yesterday before getting Troy Tulowitzki to fly out in a meaningless Spring Training game. And the Arizona Republic covered that series of events by calling it “starpower,” a silly characterization from a writer — Nick Piecoro — who…
A Phoenix woman was arrested yesterday for trying to burn her apartment building to the ground. When asked later why she set the blaze, 37-year-old Tiffanie Worz told investigators she was having a hard time securing a doctor’s appointment, and was mad at some of her friends.Last night about 9…
A 21-year-old man was shot this afternoon as he pulled up to his Tolleson home to discover it was getting burglarized. Phoenix police Sergeant Tommy Thompson says about 12:15 p.m., the unidentified man went to his home on the 3700 block of South 100th Avenue to find at least one…
Phoenix-area sports teams just can’t win — even in a contest where all they would need to do to win is lose consistently.Forbes Magazine released its list of the country’s “Most Miserable Sports Cities,” and despite the fact that only one Phoenix-area major sports team has won a championship in…
Sources tells New Times that city officials have been behind closed doors all day trying to figure out what’s next after police finally admitted there are inaccuracies with the agency’s reported U.S.-Mexico border related kidnapping statistics. The word now is that Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris will move to City…
As the saying goes, don’t let the door hit you in the ass…Of the countless boners made by the Arizona Cardinals last season, paying cry-baby quarterback Derek Anderson any amount of money to do what he did (D.A.’s suckiness is well-archived here) tops the list as the most costly. Thankfully,…
Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your grapes.Tempe police arrested a 17-year-old Phoenix kid suspected of a burglary on Friday afternoon — as he sat eating the same grapes he’d stolen from a house he allegedly broke into…
Phoenix police officials finally admitted that the border-related kidnappings statistics they trumpeted for years are not accurate, blaming the problem on “challenges with how cases are classified.” The admission from the police department comes after at least six months of Police Chief Jack Harris’ reassuring the City Council and the public…
