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New Year's Eve Guide 2013

ASU Softball Season Ends With Hard-Fought Loss To Oklahoma Sooners

Women's college softball is terrific these days--they can really play ball, and they all look so damned coachable.So, natch, it's very hard to win a national championship, no matter the level, no matter the sport--and Division I fast-pitch definitely is no exception.The Arizona State Sun Devils were ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Baby Blues

White Denim @ ASU Gammage Auditorium

Devils in the Details

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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:

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 >>

Odd Man Out

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Little Manhattan Project

Sun Devils seek payback against the ’Cats in Surprise

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 >>

All About Eve

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All About Eve

ASU Men's Basketball vs. Nebraska

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New Year's Eve of destruction

Turf War

Fiesta Bowl touches down in Tempe

Devils' Advocate

ASU coach Rob Evans rocks his world

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Big Red of the Desert

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.

Bowl Fight

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

Chocolate It Up to Experience

Chocofin's owners have a way with handmade candies

Flashes 12.16.99

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Billy's Blues

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

Pic Hits for the week

Pic Hits for the week

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

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

TEXAS RIBBER

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