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Arizona Theatre Company's Lombardi Leaves Little to Cheer About

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Arizona Cardinals: Decent at Best; Green Bay Packers Win 31-17

The Arizona Cardinals' trend of playing mediocre-but-losing football continued for a fifth straight game, as the Cards lost to the Green Bay Packers 31-17 at Lambeau Field yesterday.Even with the offensive line not playing at Pop Warner-level for once, the offensive unit was still meh, and as you ca ... More >>

Andre Rison, Decent Former Football Player, Owes More Than $300,000 in Child Support

Andre "Bad Moon" Rison is a former NFL wide receiver who made the Pro Bowl five times, and had his mansion burned down by the late TLC singer Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes in 1994.Rison also made child-support payments precisely zero times, which he was ordered to start paying in 1999.Since he managed to sk ... More >>

NFL Hype Songs: Four Tracks Inspired by Football's Final Four

nfl.com​This Sunday's NFL conference championships will determine which two teams will be headed to Super Bowl XVLI in Indianapolis on Sunday, February 5. Until then, the league's final four teams will be duking it out for a shot at football immortality when the San Francisco 49ers and New Y ... More >>

Phil Smithers' Green Bay Packers Man Cave

It isn't hard finding someone who's a fan of the Green Bay Packers these days, especially since the NFL powerhouse is in the midst of one of its best seasons in history (and is currently riding a 14-1 record into the upcoming playoffs).The real trick, however, is finding the true Packers fanatics wh ... More >>

Madonna Confirmed to Perform at Super Bowl XVLI Halftime Show

​As the football weekend wrapped up Monday night, fans had plenty to cheer about. Cheeseheads everywhere breathed a sigh of relief as the Green Bay Packers survived the New York Giants 38-35 to preserve their undefeated season, while the Cardinals shocked the Dallas Cowboys in overtime. Alth ... More >>

Mythical Underage Super Bowl Hookers: Phoenix P.D. Won't Worry About the Mythical Invastion Until 2014

www.quickmeme.com Contrary to the rhetoric of the religious right, they're not at the Super Bowl.​The 2015 Super Bowl is coming to Phoenix, and if you believe the rhetoric from the self-righteous religious-advocacy groups, so are swarms of underage hookers looking to cash in on the testoste ... More >>

Arizona Submits Bid for 2015 Super Bowl. Again, Bring on the Underage Hookers!

www.funnybabytshirts.com​National Football League officials will receive Arizona's official bid to host the 2015 Super Bowl today, which -- as we noted in April -- means one thing: thousands and thousands of underage hookers will invade the state to cash in on the testosterone of Super Bowl weeke ... More >>

Arizona One of Two Finalists for 2015 Super Bowl. Bring on the Underage Hookers!

www.funnybabytshirts.comIf the Super Bowl comes to Arizona in 2015, you won't have any trouble finding beer. Hookers might be a little tougher to come by.​The National Football League announced today that Arizona is one of two finalist cities to host the 2015 Super Bowl, which means one thing: tho ... More >>

Tanzy at Scottsdale Quarter Introduces New Lunch Menu & Artisan Chef Happy Hour

Tanzy takes the bitterness out of Brussels sprouts.​Tanzy, the modern Mediterranean restaurant that opened adjacent to the plush iPic Theaters at Scottsdale Quarter in January, began its run with a single menu covering both lunch and dinner hours. This week, Executive Chef Geoff Baumberger ... More >>

Super Bowl XLV in Cave Creek, Arizona: the Good, the Bad, and the Trashy

​This year's Super Bowl was a special one for a lot of cities -- Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Green Bay among them. But few had a scene comparable to Cave Creek, Arizona.The hamlet north of Phoenix is most famous for drawing outlaws like the rapper DMX and Hell's Angel's founder Sonny Barger but it's a ... More >>

Super Bowl Preview: the Steelers, the Pack, and Why the Vince Lombardi Trophy is Going Back to Green Bay

www.Packers.com​To date, only one sixth-seeded playoff team has won the Super Bowl: the 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers. This year's Green Bay Packers reminds New Times of that year's Steelers insofar as neither of those teams is an authentic sixth-seed. Rather, both teams are SINOs, Sixth-Seeds In Name ... More >>

Game On: Pittsburgh and Wisconsin Treats for Super Bowl Sunday

tastingpoland.com ​Why don't we just make Super Bowl Sunday an official holiday? After all, it's a time to gather with your family and friends, party like a rock star (albeit in front of the boob tube, unless you're a lucky ticket holder), and eat just as decadently as you do at Christm ... More >>

Lil Wayne Releases Green Bay Packers Anthem

Lil Wayne's not shy about rooting for green and yellow in the Super Bowl this year.​Lil Wayne will be rooting for the Green Bay Packers in this year's Super Bowl, according to SPIN.Weezy's all about reppin' the green and yellow, stating in his newly released Wiz Khalifa rip-off "Green and Y ... More >>

Feb. 4 In Blogs: Kyrsten Sinema, Spraygraphic, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bolotnik, and Abortion

​​​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:

Instant Classic

Aaron Rodgers vs. Ben Roethlisberger. Swoon.

Green Bay Packers: Five Signs You Might be a Fan (and a Hillbilly)

Peter StorchPackers fans make Steelers fans look like GQ models.​The Green Bay Packers are headed to the Super Bowl this Sunday, which means one thing for those of us in civilized society (a.k.a. anywhere but Wisconsin): we're gonna have sit back and listen to the Midwestern drivel coming from the ... More >>

Stupid Things Pittsburgh Steelers Fans Will Say This Week

gunaxin.com A female Steelers fan: Texas hair, Minnesota thighs, Las Vegas values.​If you have the misfortune of standing within earshot of a Pittsburgh Steelers fan during the next seven days, you will hear him say some really, really dumb stuff.Part of that can't be helped -- the Steelers ... More >>

Larry Fitzgerald Going to Pro Bowl, Compliments of Green Bay Packers

Larry Fitzgerald is heading to Hawaii.​Despite a less-than-impressive season (thanks to three even less-impressive quarterbacks), and being a member of one of the worst teams in all of football, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald's heading to Hawaii for the Pro Bowl.Fitzgerald& ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals 2010 Schedule Includes Christmas-Day Home Game Against Dallas Cowboys

​The NFL revealed the Arizona Cardinals 2010 schedule this morning and not only will the Cards host a Monday night game in Glendale this Kurt Warner-less season, Jesus will have a little competition for a fan-base on Christmas Day.The Cards will host a somewhat-rare Christmas Day game against the ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Sign Kicker Jay Feeley

www.passiontruth.comArizona Cardinals new kicker Jay Feeley​The Arizona Cardinals announced today that the team has signed kicker Jay Feeley, even though negotiations with the Cards current kicker, Neil Rackers, are still sort of going on.Feeley played last season with the New York Jets, where he ... More >>

NFL Playoffs: Somehow, We Were Perfect Last Week. Here's This Week's Picks

We make it a practice (once) every year of making the trek to Vegas and donating money to the "cause," that is, those poor casinos, by wagering on all manner of sporting events.   ​Unfortunately, we were not up there last week to put down our hard-earned shekels on the four Natio ... More >>

A History of Underdogism May help the Cardinals Against the New orleans Saints Tomorrow

​The Arizona Cardinals have defied the odds once again and are heading to the divisional round of the playoffs to take on the Saints in New Orleans. The Cards weren't favored to win last week, they weren't favored last year in the playoffs, and, as you may imagine, they aren't favored now.The Card ... More >>

Karlos Dansby to the Rescue; Cardinals Beat Packers in Overtime

Cards hero Karlos Dansby​If Cardinals kicker Neil Rackers left University of Phoenix Stadium in anything other than a body bag after yesterday's 51-45 win over the surging Green Bay Packers, he probably has Karlos Dansby to thank. After the Packers clawed their way back from a 17 ... More >>

No Pants Ride, Neil Hamburger, Cardinals vs. Packers, and Cherry Lounge Over the Weekend

​No Pants Ride Invades the Light Rail and Downtown Phoenix In conjunction with Improv Everywhere's No Pants Subway Ride in New York, half naked people in cities around the world enjoyed freedom from pants on public transit on Saturday, January 10, 2010. In Phoenix, Improv AZ organized two team ... More >>

Boldin Questionable Against Green Bay as the Cardinals Return to Playoff Glory

www.17weeks.comAnquan Boldin is hopeful to play Sunday but an ankle injury may keep him on the sidelines​The Arizona Cardinals return to the playoffs on Sunday to square off against the Green Bay Packers for the second time in two weeks, and they may have to do it without wide receiver Anquan Bold ... More >>

Cards Get Crushed by Green Bay, but the Game Meant Squat and They'll See 'Em Next Week

www.theredzonereport.com​By kickoff time for the Cardinals 33-7 loss to the Green Bay Packers yesterday, the Redbirds knew their shot at a No. 2 playoff seed was not to be. The Minnesota Vikings beat down the Giants earlier in the day making the outcome of the ... More >>

Revenge of the Birds

Cards look to squash the Pack attack

Can the Cardinals Get the No. 2 Playoff Spot? They Gotta Beat Green Bay First

​There is a legitimate chance that the Arizona Cardinals could earn the No. 2 seed for the 2009 playoffs, but some things need to happen -- a lot of things.First and foremost, the Cards need to beat Green Bay on Sunday. Given everything else that needs to happen -- all of which are out of the Card ... More >>

Cardinals Cruise Past St. Louis to Win Ten Games in a Season for the First Time Since 1976

​In a football culture where winning ten games in two seasons was often a milestone, for the first time in Arizona history the state has an NFL football team that has won ten games in a single season. But it hasn't come without its ups-and-downs. The Cards beat up on the St. Louis R ... More >>

Coming Soon: Mabel's on Main

​I've talked to chef Aaron May about a number of his restaurants over the past few years, but I'm not sure I've ever heard him sound as excited as he does about Mabel's on Main, the old-school-chic watering hole he's opening sometime around December 1. "For me, after Sol y Sombra and Over E ... More >>

Forget the Alamo: Arizona Cardinals Must Whup Hubris and the Houston Texans to Salvage Their Season

If Beanie can hold on to the ball, expect a breakout day for the rookie RB against the Texans.​ Three years ago, Suns fans considered Kobe Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers their personal bitches. Two years ago, D-Backers openly lampooned the hapless, pre-Joe Torre L.A. Dodgers. Last year, Arizon ... More >>

On Garfield Comic Strips and William Barrett Travis

NFL Regular Season's Finally Here! Cardinals Begin Defense of NFC Championship Sunday Against 49ers at U of P

SF head coach Mike Singletary and his team won't be the patsies of the past on Sunday.​ How much stock should one put in a team's performance during the NFL preseason? In our opinion, not a damn thing. That's why Arizona Cardinals' fans should give a rousing "so what?" and "who cares?" when ... More >>

Pack to the Future

Cheeseheads visit Glendale, sans Favre. That’s a good thing.

Chef Aaron May's "Mabel Murphy's" Coming to Old Town Scottsdale

Chef Aaron MayYesterday we announced Chef Aaron May's plans to open a noodle house and Mexican restaurant as part Downtown Phoenix's CityScape project. As it turns out, the good chef is cooking up something else in Scottsdale. Last week, May closed on the building formerly known as Green Bay Packer ... More >>

Tony Mandarich, Ex-Green Bay Packers Player, Sued by Ex-Girlfriend Over Explicit Online Postings

Image: From Ferbrache's Twitter siteSharra Ferbrache A former Green Bay Packers player famous for his use of steroids has been sued by an ex-girlfriend who claims he posted sexually explicit pictures of her online -- under her own name. Tony Mandarich of Scottsdale, who recently released a tell-mos ... More >>

Web Site With Explicit Shots of Tony Mandarich's Ex-Girlfriend is Taken Down

  An hour after Valley Fever called ex-Green Bay Packers player Tony Mandarich (above) for comment about a lawsuit filed against him by an ex-girlfriend, an offending Web site with pictures of the girlfriend no longer works. Mandarich never called us back, but our message may h ... More >>

June 19 In Blogs: MADE, Glory Hole, Welcome Diner, Tony Mandarich, and Gannett

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: Up on the Sun: Arty Girl: Save money at MADE art boutique tonight! DJ Dossier: Glory Hole Chow Bella: Brew Review ... More >>

Steve Garvey and Paul Hornung

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The Curse

Here's why the Cardinals have sucked forever, and why they might never suck again

She's a little teapot

Show biz, confidential no longer

Long Bomb

If only they were joking

Indie Outings

The highs and lows of another adventurous year in the world of indie rock

Rations for the Sporting Life

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