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Big 12 Conference

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Witness the Great Kobe Beef Deception

    It would appear that the food industry has a problem being honest with consumers when it comes to labeling. Fish are mislabeled, lean finely textured beef is only grudgingly being labeled, and so on. But most of that pales in comparison to the financial ride consumers are taking on Kobe beef. Larr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Club Candids at Loco Patron

    ​ Things were most definitely loco inside Loco Patron in Scottsdale this past Sunday evening. The Mexican-themed Old Town drinkery was filled with an upbeat and goofy aura as energetic and inebriated patrons populated the place, each with their own reasons for partying it up on a school night ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Arizona Wildcats And, Gasp, ASU Sun Devils Both Take Conference Wins

    The Arizona Wildcats and Colorado Buffs are very similar teams--scrappy, undersized, terrific team defense, very well-coached. The two teams met last month in Boulder, and the Cats lost a one-point heartbreaker.​Last night in Tucson was a different story, as Arizona, playing with just seven player ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2012

    Baby Blues

    The Arizona Wildcats and Colorado Buffs are very similar teams--scrappy, undersized, terrific team defense, very well-coached. The two teams met last month in Boulder, and the Cats lost a one-point heartbreaker.​Last night in Tucson was a different story, as Arizona, playing with just seven player ... More >>

  • Music

    January 19, 2012

    White Denim @ ASU Gammage Auditorium

    The Arizona Wildcats and Colorado Buffs are very similar teams--scrappy, undersized, terrific team defense, very well-coached. The two teams met last month in Boulder, and the Cats lost a one-point heartbreaker.​Last night in Tucson was a different story, as Arizona, playing with just seven player ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2011

    Devils in the Details

    The Arizona Wildcats and Colorado Buffs are very similar teams--scrappy, undersized, terrific team defense, very well-coached. The two teams met last month in Boulder, and the Cats lost a one-point heartbreaker.​Last night in Tucson was a different story, as Arizona, playing with just seven player ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    ASU Softball Team Reaches National Championship Finals; Plays Florida Tonight in First of Best-of-Three

    Arizona State and Florida, the two best-hitting teams in the Women's College World Series, won berths in the championship finals in Oklahoma City yesterday.ASU softball team hopes to be soon wearing a 2011 version of this cap​The best-of-three series promises to be a great one, with veteran, well- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    ASU Women's Softball Team Begins Quest For NCAA Crown Today

    The top-ranked Arizona State women's softball team takes the field this afternoon against the Oklahoma Sooners in a first-round game at the NCAA World Series in Oklahoma City.NCAA College World Series starts this afternoon​The 4 p.m. game will be nationally televised on ESPN2 (Channel 32). It shou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    ASU Sun Devils Pull Off Controversial Last Inning Win In Softball Super Regionals

    Top-ranked ASU found itself down to its final strike in its NCAA softball Super Regionals opener last night against Texas A&M, down 2-1 with the bases loaded.Dallas Escobedo and the Devils squeak one out​The Aggies had managed all of two hits against the Sun Devils freshman ace pitcher Dallas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Arizona and ASU Softball Teams Earn Spot in Super-Regionals This Weekend

    Both Arizona major-college softball programs rolled through their respective NCAA Regionals over the weekend in Tempe and Tucson, the first of two steps necessary to earn a coveted spot in the College World Series.Freshman ace Dallas Escobedo leads Devils to Super Regionals​ Neither squad rea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Arizona Wildcats Move To Sweet 16 After Yet Another Wacky Win--This One Over Texas

    Arizona Wildcats fans at the arena in Tulsa and elsewhere could feel yesterday's game against Texas slipping away in the closing moments.Arizona faces defending champs Duke this Thursday night in Anaheim​With just a few minutes left, the Longhorns had taken their first lead since very early in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    Arizona Wildcats In Dramatic Win Over Memphis: Texas Longhorns Next

    Arizona has just beaten Memphis 77-75 in the first round of the NCAA championships.Derrick Williams saves the day--again--for the Arizona Wildcats​A last-second block by Derrick Williams--eerily similar to what he did in a 87-86 win over Washington a few weeks ago--preserved the big win. To c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    March 18 In Blogs: St. Patrick's Day, Saving Japan, Trader Vic's, Russell Pearce, and the Arizona Wildcats

    ​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Arizona Wildcats To Face Memphis in NCAA Tourney First-Round This Friday

    Arizona's 77-75 overtime loss to Washington in the Pac-10 tournament finals on Saturday afternoon was intensely fought, and ended dramatically when tough little guard Isaiah Thomas hit a fadeaway jumper at the buzzer that was one of ESPN's top ten plays of the day.Arizona's Derrick Williams takes th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 30, 2010

    Odd Man Out

    Embattled QB tries to knock off one of college football’s best

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Go Sooners! Arizona Death Row Inmate Chooses University of Oklahoma Fight Song as Last Words. WTF?

    Apparently, former death row inmate Jeffrey Landrigan's a Sooners fan. ​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 befor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    The Top 10 Most Annoying College Football Fight Songs

    music.colorado.eduThe University of Colorado Golden Buffalo Marching Band in action​I'm just gonna come right out and say it - college football is the best sport in the world. Unlike professional sports, where lockouts and strikes by multimillionaires are commonplace and players allegedly collude ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2010

    You Hang Up at Martini Ranch Last Night

    Mckay JaffeMalcolm in the corner?​When I received a phone call a few days ago from our esteemed music editor, Martin Cizmar, asking me to review the You Hang Up show at Martini Ranch in Scottsdale, I agreed almost immediately. As frequent New Times readers already know, Martin has a little bit of, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    ESPN Ranks Arizona State's 1996 Rose Bowl Loss As 12th Most Painful Game Of All Time

    public.asu.edu​ Brace yourselves, Sun Devil fans; you might need some tissues (or a lot of alcohol) for this one. ESPN is counting down the 50 most painful losses in college football history this week and the Sun Devils are pretty high on the list. ASU's crushing, last-second loss to Ohio State ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2010

    Arizona State Baseball Looking For Title Number Six In Omaha This Weekend

    thesundevils.cstv.com​The Arizona State baseball team is on a mission for title number six as they play in their opening College World Series game on Sunday. The program's last NCAA title was in 1981 and has won five overall (1965, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1981). In Tempe, however, it feels a lot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Colorado to Join Pac-10; Uncertainty Reigns in College Football Landscape

    ncaastrategies.com​The first domino fell when Nebraska decided to leave behind the Big 12 and move to the Big 10. The second came tumbling down this morning when Colorado announced it was also deserting the Big 12 and coming to the Pac-10. Now, it looks as all hell is about to break l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Arizona Diamondbacks Select Right-Hander Barret Loux in Draft. Word is... It's a Reach

    aggiesports.com​ With the 2010 season seemingly over for the last-place D-Backs, fans got a possible glimpse of the future Monday afternoon. With the sixth overall pick in the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft, the Snakes selected Barret Loux, a right-handed pitcher from Texas A&M. While ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Pork on a Fork: Nebraska Hog-Farmers in Phoenix

    ​If you've been at a farmers market in the Valley lately, you've probably run into a booth with a rather odd name and a Nebraska Huskers bumper sticker on the cooler: Pork on a Fork. The name, we're not sure about, but the Huskers sticker is there because the company's two owners, Wes Hansen ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 5, 2009

    The Little Manhattan Project

    Sun Devils seek payback against the ’Cats in Surprise

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    All the Young Dudes: Phoenix Suns vs. Indiana Pacers Tonight

    Though they've been hauling the boat anchor in the Eastern Conference's Central Division all year, the Indiana Pacers -- including third-year superstar-in-the-making Danny Granger (pictured above) -- aren't your prototypical NBA doormat. Another year (two, max) and Indiana Coach Jim O'Bri ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 25, 2008

    All About Eve

    Though they've been hauling the boat anchor in the Eastern Conference's Central Division all year, the Indiana Pacers -- including third-year superstar-in-the-making Danny Granger (pictured above) -- aren't your prototypical NBA doormat. Another year (two, max) and Indiana Coach Jim O'Bri ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 25, 2008

    Insight Bowl: Kansas Jayhawks vs. Minnesota Golden Gophers

    Though they've been hauling the boat anchor in the Eastern Conference's Central Division all year, the Indiana Pacers -- including third-year superstar-in-the-making Danny Granger (pictured above) -- aren't your prototypical NBA doormat. Another year (two, max) and Indiana Coach Jim O'Bri ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 18, 2008

    All About Eve

    Though they've been hauling the boat anchor in the Eastern Conference's Central Division all year, the Indiana Pacers -- including third-year superstar-in-the-making Danny Granger (pictured above) -- aren't your prototypical NBA doormat. Another year (two, max) and Indiana Coach Jim O'Bri ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 4, 2008

    ASU Men's Basketball vs. Nebraska

    Though they've been hauling the boat anchor in the Eastern Conference's Central Division all year, the Indiana Pacers -- including third-year superstar-in-the-making Danny Granger (pictured above) -- aren't your prototypical NBA doormat. Another year (two, max) and Indiana Coach Jim O'Bri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2008

    In Search of 50: Big Red of the Desert Brings Nebraska to the Valley

    Though they've been hauling the boat anchor in the Eastern Conference's Central Division all year, the Indiana Pacers -- including third-year superstar-in-the-making Danny Granger (pictured above) -- aren't your prototypical NBA doormat. Another year (two, max) and Indiana Coach Jim O'Bri ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 27, 2007

    New Year's Eve Guide 2007

    You may kiss us at midnight

  • Culture

    December 20, 2007

    Live and Let '007 Die

    New Year's Eve of destruction

  • News

    June 8, 2006

    Tough Coach

    Another winning season ends for Pat Murphy and his baseball team. Now, it's ASU management's turn at bat

  • Calendar

    January 1, 2004

    Turf War

    Fiesta Bowl touches down in Tempe

  • News

    March 20, 2003

    Devils' Advocate

    ASU coach Rob Evans rocks his world

  • Best of Phoenix

    September 26, 2002

    Best Refuge For The Nebraska Diaspora

    Big Red of the Desert

  • News

    May 23, 2002

    Ode to Coach Busken

    Bernie Busken may have gone too far in toughening his players. More likely, the world around him no longer goes far enough.

  • Calendar

    December 27, 2001

    Bowl Fight

    Forget the TV. In the Valley of the Sun, the games are live.

  • Dining

    December 13, 2001

    Chocolate It Up to Experience

    Chocofin's owners have a way with handmade candies

  • Music

    June 21, 2001

    Welcome to My Nightmare

    Trashman suffers through a holiday weekend's worth of wife-beaters, prison cutthroats and Ian Astbury songs

  • News

    December 16, 1999

    Flashes 12.16.99

    Trashman suffers through a holiday weekend's worth of wife-beaters, prison cutthroats and Ian Astbury songs

  • News

    December 9, 1999

    Flashes 12-09-99

    Trashman suffers through a holiday weekend's worth of wife-beaters, prison cutthroats and Ian Astbury songs

  • Music

    November 12, 1998

    Billy's Blues

    Singer/songwriter Billy Sedlmayr has spent half his life battling the law and his own dope demons

  • News

    April 16, 1998

    I Totally Object

    Arizona's high-stakes high school mock-trial program teaches kids the basics of jurisprudence--including how to recruit a ringer

  • Calendar

    December 26, 1996

    Pic Hits for the week

    Arizona's high-stakes high school mock-trial program teaches kids the basics of jurisprudence--including how to recruit a ringer

  • News

    April 25, 1996

    Mall Americans

    A fledgling indoor-football league is a steppingstone -- for some, to the future; for others, to the past

  • Calendar

    December 28, 1995

    Pic Hits for the week

    A fledgling indoor-football league is a steppingstone -- for some, to the future; for others, to the past

  • News

    June 29, 1994

    JIM BROCK LIVED FOR BASEBALLIN HIS FINAL DAYS, HE GOT ASU TO THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES

    A fledgling indoor-football league is a steppingstone -- for some, to the future; for others, to the past

  • Music

    August 25, 1993

    CLAWING THEIR WAY TO THE TOPWHEN IT COMES TO PUNK-METAL, YOU'VE GOT TO HAND IT TO PAW

    A fledgling indoor-football league is a steppingstone -- for some, to the future; for others, to the past

  • Music

    May 13, 1992

    TEXAS RIBBER

    ROBERT EARL KEEN JR.'S SONGS HAVE MORE MEAT THAN A LONE STAR BARBECUE

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