Larry Fitzgerald

Scottsdale's Axis-Radius Closing on June 29, Will Become Music Venue and Drinkery

Load up your copy of Avicii's "Last Dance" and steel yourself for some depressing news, EDM fans and nightlife fiends: Axis-Radius, the longest-running dance club in Scottsdale, will close by month's end after 16 years in operation. The Old Town institution -- which has served as the epicenter for D ... More >>

Faith Hill Leaves Sunday Night Football. Why Was She There?

Faith Hill leaving Sunday Night Football is interesting mostly because it reminds us that Faith Hill was--for something like six years--employed by Sunday Night Football. "This Kiss," and then helmet-to-helmet hits, every week. Counterprogramming, I think they call that. We've seen cultural institu ... More >>

Is Carson Palmer the Answer to the Arizona Cardinals' Quarterback Carnival?

The Arizona Cardinals landed quarterback Carson Palmer in a trade, which sounds way, way better than the prospect of Drew Stanton being the Cards' top QB.Though Palmer appears to be an improvement on the surface, he might not be the one who ends the Cards' quarterback carnival.See also:-Cardinals Ge ... More >>

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 >>

Kevin Kolb Out for "Unspecified Time Frame"; John Skelton's in Charge Again

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb didn't break any bones during Sunday's loss to the Buffalo Bills, which is probably the only good news the team has today about the quarterback.Kolb does have damage to his rib cartilage, as well as a sprained sternoclavicular joint -- more specifically, seve ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Cream the Philadelphia Eagles; Kevin Kolb's Still Righteous

The Arizona Cardinals wrecked the Philadelphia Eagles 27-6 in Glendale yesterday, and quarterback Kevin Kolb is still the messiah of the National Football League.This was Kolb's first start against his former team, and it couldn't have gone better for him.See also:-Arizona Cardinals, Football Jesus ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals, Football Jesus Kevin Kolb Defeat New England Patriots

See also: Kevin Kolb Temporarily Replaces Tim Tebow as Football JesusArizona Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb has retained his temporary title of "Football Jesus" for another week, after New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow didn't do much of anything again, and Kolb led the Cards to a win over the Ne ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals' Ronald Talley Accused of Piercing Guy's Skull With Champagne Bottle

To answer the question about what Arizona Cardinals players do in the off-season -- it varies.Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald did a bunch of stuff, including going on a hike through the Amazon and starring in a public-service announcement to help raise awareness about an ongoing drought in Africa.Def ... More >>

Peyton Manning Likely Definitely Not Coming to Arizona Cardinals. Baseball, Anyone?

​UPDATE: The Arizona Cardinals released a statement from coach Ken Whisenhunt saying Manning "is no longer an option for us."You can throw that Arizona Cardinals Peyton Manning jersey you prematurely ordered straight in the garbage -- the Cardinals won't be landing Manning, and Cards quarterback K ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Win Fifth Straight With Victory Over San Francisco 49ers

​The Arizona Cardinals beat the San Francisco 49ers 21-19 yesterday for the team's fifth win in 6 games -- and that's after starting the season 1-6.Cards' quarterback Kevin Kolb went down early with concussion-like symptoms after getting drilled by Niners linesbacker Ahmad Brooks.Enter B-squad QB ... More >>

Arizona Cardinal Outlast St. Louis Rams 23-20 for Relatively Meaningless Victory

​Beanie Wells had arguably the biggest game of his career yesterday, as the running back rushed for 228 yards during the Arizona Cardinals' 23-20 win over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday afternoon at the Edward Jones Dome. He nabbed a franchise record for rushing during the game, averaging 8.4 yards ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals' Defense Awful in One-Point Loss to Washington Redskins

​There's good news and bad news following the Arizona Cardinals 22-21 loss to the Washington Redskins last night.The good news: after two games, Kevin Kolb seems like a legitimate quarterback. The bad news: the Cards' defense is embarrassing.The Cardinals defense gave up 455 yards in the loss, bri ... More >>

Cam Newton Unstoppable, Kevin Kolb Acceptable in Arizona Cardinals' Win Over Carolina Panthers

The Arizona Cardinals, it appears, have found their quarterback.​There's good news and bad news for Arizona Cardinals fans following yesterday's 28-21 win over the Carolina Panthers.The good news: the Cards appear to have a real-deal quarterback in Kevin Kolb.The bad news: the team's defense sucks ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Crushed by 49ers to Finish Season in Last Place in Worst Division in NFL

​The Arizona Cardinals got clobbered 38-7 by the San Francisco 49ers yesterday, but there's a silver lining: what's been an atrocious season for the Cards is now over -- with the team finishing in last place in the worst division in the NFL.As has been the narrative all season, the Cards were awfu ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Drop Fifth Straight. Hey, Derek Anderson, Stop Trying to Kill Your Receivers

Derek Anderson​The Arizona Cardinals lost their fifth straight game on Sunday, this time in a 31-13 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. What caused yesterday's loss? Same shit, different day.The Cards were bad on defense, the Cards were bad on offense -- they dropped passes, got too many penalties, an ... More >>

Derek Anderson Not Horrendous as Arizona Cardinals Blow Another One

​There is a silver lining to the Arizona Cardinals 27-24 overtime loss to Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings -- sure, for the second week in a row they blew a lead in the fourth quarter, but, for the first time all season, the man coach Ken Whisenhunt chose to play quarterback, Derek Anderson, ... More >>

Ten Most Overplayed Sports Arena Songs (with Music)

​I was grumblings of the Suns' porous, lackadaisical defense during a recent game when a different debate started between my girlfriend and I.Which Green Day album is "Brain Stew" is on again? The answer, of course, is 1995's Insomniac. But a better question is why such an odd query came ... More >>

Max Hall Gets Shot at Redemption When the Arizona Cardinals Host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday

​Arizona Cardinals quarterback Max Hall will get another chance to throw a touchdown in the NFL this weekend after failing to do so in his first two NFL starts, neither of which went well.The Cardinals will host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday and despite coming off one of the worst performance ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals' Quarterback Dilemma Remains Following Loss to Seahawks

Rookie QB Max Hall.​Arizona Cardinals rookie quarterback Max Hall went undrafted in the 2010 NFL draft, and we saw why during the Cards' 22-10 loss to the Seahawks yesterday in Seattle.Hall was atrocious.Going 4 for 16, with an interception and no touchdowns, Hall deserved the 13.5 passer rating h ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Quarterback Max Hall Named Rookie of the Week

Rookie QB Max Hall.​Props to Arizona Cardinals rookie quarterback Max Hall.As we told you yesterday, Hall was one of five nominees in the running for the NFL's Rookie of the Week honors. Today, we found out Hall won.The award comes after Hall's mediocre-at-best performance against the Super Bowl c ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals QB Max Hall Nominated for NFL Rookie of the Week

Rookie QB Max Hall.​Despite not throwing a touchdown, despite not handing the ball off to someone who scored a touchdown, and despite throwing an interception in the first drive of his first game as an NFL starter, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Max Hall has been nominated to be the NFL's rookie of ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals' Situation Goes From Bad to Worse; Leading Receiver Steve Breaston Out With Injury

www.sportsgrumblings.com Steve Breaston will be out for a few weeks after undergoing knee surgery.​If you were under the impression that things couldn't get much worse for the Arizona Cardinals, guess again.It's reported this afternoon that wide receiver Steve Breaston will be out the ... More >>

Beanie Wells Expected to Play as Arizona Cardinals Host Oakland Raiders in Home Opener -- But Can Derek Anderson Hit His Receivers?

​Coming off a miserable loss to the Atlanta Falcons last week -- and barely winning in St. Louis in week one -- the Arizona Cardinals have even the most loyal fans asking "what the hell happened."The answer could go several ways but the most popular explanation for the team's fall from the last tw ... More >>

Morning Poll: Are the Arizona Cardinals Better Off Without Matt Leinart?

www.mmaathletics.comFormer Cards quarterback Matt Leinart​Arizona Cardinals quarterback Derek Anderson had his first test in a Cardinals uniform yesterday and he passed -- barely.The Cards eeked out a 17-13 win against the St. Louis Rams but it certainly wasn't pretty. And Anderson, the recently a ... More >>

The Arizona Cardinals: Questions Aplenty As Training Camp Starts Tomorrow

ssur.orgWill the Cardinals make the playoffs for the third-straight year? ​ After being a doormat in the NFL for decades, the Cardinals have put together back-to-back solid seasons that even included a trip to the Super Bowl two years ago. But the roster turnover between this season and last has ... More >>

Madden 2011 Rankings: Breaking Down The Arizona Cardinals

​It's a date that has been circled on the calendars of video game and football geeks for months: August 10, 2010. Why? That's the release date of Madden 2011, pretty much the most successful video game ever. Since some nerds will be lined up to buy their copy at midnight, we thought we'd break d ... More >>

Larry Fitzgerald Sticks Up for LeBron James in Twitter-Town

​The soap opera that is the LeBron James free-agency saga should have come to an end yesterday when King James announced his plans to sign with the Miami Heat but within hours of the uber-hyped announcement, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert threw some new fuel on the fire with some comments h ... More >>

Derek Anderson Inks Deal With Arizona Cardinals; Will He Be Competing With Matt Leinart for Starter Job?

www.blog.cleveland.com Arizona Cardinals new quarterback Derek Anderson​Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart might have some competition if he wants to be the Cards starter next season.The Cardinals announced today that Derek Anderson, the former QB for the atrocious Cleveland Browns, ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Calling on Veteran Quarterbacks to Compete With Matt Leinart

Matt Leinart​ With the retirement of the Arizona Cardinals veteran quarterback Kurt Warner, the team's quarterback situation has become more of a quarterback problem.The heir-apparent to Warner, Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart, is inconsistent at best and members of the Cardinals offense ... More >>

Hot Links: SRP, Wild Burros, and a SWAT Standoff

​Electrical workers with the Salt River Project (SRP) power company will meet tonight in Phoenix to discuss issues between their union and the company. Some workers say they're not happy with their contracts and will walk off the job if their demands are not met. The union's Web site says contract ... More >>

ICE Agents in Phoenix Seize More Than $8K Worth of Bogus NFL Jerseys and Ed Hardy Shirts as Part of "Operation Holiday Hoax"

​Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Phoenix and Tucson rounded up nearly $800,000 worth of bootleg clothing last week, including more than $8,000 worth of phony football jerseys, as part of a national campaign called "Operation Holiday Hoax."Two weeks before Christmas? Talk about ... More >>

Cardinals Shut Down Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings; Next Stop: San Francisco

​When Tim Hightower fumbled on the opening drive of the Cardinals 30-17 win over the Minnesota Vikings last night in Glendale, and the Vikings marched down the field to score with ease, you couldn't help but to think, "Okay, here comes a classic Brett Favre beat-down." Fortunately, that was a ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Beat Down "Da Bears" in Chicago

www.thescroogereport.com​Kurt Warner's Jekyll and Hyde season has been nothing short of maddening. Last week, after giving up five interceptions and a fumble in the Cards' 34-21 loss to the Carolina Panthers, we were calling for Kurt's head (not to mention Coach Ken's pl ... More >>

Dine with Kurt Warner at the Wrigley

On Monday, November 16, Warner and wife Brenda will host a Night of Champions dinner at The Wrigley Mansion, 2501 E. Telewa Trail in Phoenix.

WNBA "Superfan" Ends 13-City "Journey" on a High Note With Mercury Championship

www.facebook.comAlex Chambers (left) spent his summer traveling to each of the 13 WNBA cities. ​What would drive someone to use their summer vacation to travel to exotic destinations like Indianapolis, Minneapolis, and Detroit? For one Phoenix man, the motivation came from one of the most unlikely ... More >>

Championship Rally for Phoenix Mercury Tonight at US Airways Center, After They Win Their Second WNBA Title 94-86 Friday Night

Phoenix Mercury players pose with fans, and their two championship trophies.​How big of a deal was Friday's WNBA championship game in Phoenix? Well, consider this: the only other time a basketball team's won a championship in this city, it was the Boston Celtics beating the Phoenix Suns on ... 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 >>

Arizona Cardinals Receiver Donates Brain to Medical Study; Yes, Football Players Have Brains

Cardinals wide receiver Sean Morey​A pro football player donating his brain to science? Well, we never...  Arizona Cardinals receiver Sean Morey announced yesterday that he has agreed to donate his brain, plus some spinal-cord tissue, to a medical study being conducted at Boston ... More >>

The Big Cactus Becomes the Big Abandoned Steel Mill. Good for Cleveland, but It Leaves Us with Zilch

www.nba.com O'Neal and King James reunited on the same team, this time for what the Cavs hope is a championship season.So what's Shaq gonna be called now that he's no longer the Big Cactus? Maybe the Big Abandoned Steel Mill or the Big Mistake By the Lake. Actually, O'Neal's trade loo ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, February 12, 2009

Super Bowl Decided by Ref? How Did Kurt Warner's Pass Get Down Field if it Was Fumbled?

For our own mental health, we've been trying to let go of the Super Bowl for two days now. We've been trying to remind ourselves that the NFL is sports entertainment, and that we correctly predicted what was going to happen: Cardinals fans would be massively outnumbered in Tampa, and the Steelers w ... More >>

Morning After: Arizona Cardinals Come Oh-So-Close to Winning One of the Most Exciting Super Bowls Ever in Coach Ken Whisenhunt's Second Season

  The biggest game in Arizona Cardinals history -- the second-biggest in Arizona sports history -- is over, and what can we take away from it? Sure the Cardinals snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, but they certainly had the odds-makers in Vegas sweating. For the fourth g ... More >>

Hot Links: Defeated Cardinals to Be Welcomed Home by Rally at Sky Harbor; Porn Interrupts Super Bowl Broadcast in Tucson ; McCain Criticizes Spending in Stimulus Bill

They came, they saw -- they choked. Or maybe they were robbed of a Super Bowl victory by a bad call. But the Arizona Cardinals put up a helluva fight against the Steelers and they'll be coming home at 3:30 today to a cheering crowd at Sky Harbor. Daddy, what was that? Television hackers manage to a ... More >>

Looking for the Valley's Biggest Super Bowl Parties? We've Got the Lowdown

These ladies definitely know how to celebrate Super Bowl Sunday in style. Do you? Less than 48 hours remain until Kurt Warner and the rest of the Arizona Cardinals become either champs or chumps. As Steve Jansen wrote earlier today over on our Valley Fever blog, Kurt and the boys in red have a gold ... More >>

Philadelphia Columnist Says Glendale Boring, Arizona Good for Nothing But Porn Stars

Is Glendale horrifically boring, its citizens so apathetic toward football they wouldn't care if Larry Fitzgerald was nearly killed in a motorcyle accident?That's what blogger Jason McIntyre of the Metro of Philadelphia writes in a recent blog post trashing the town entitled "Glendale Less Than Supe ... More >>

The 10 Coolest Places You Can Catch Tomorrow's NFC Championship Game

Where will you be watching Sunday's big game?Tomorrow is shaping up to be one of the biggest days in Phoenix sports history. It all depends, of course, on how well the Arizona Cardinals do against the Philadelphia Eagles in Sunday's NFC Championship game. Will the Red Birds defy the predictions o ... More >>

Who Would've Ever Thunk it? The Arizona Cardinals are a Win Away From the Super Bowl

 In our wildest dreams, we never thought we'd be saying Arizona Cardinals and Super Bowl in  the same breath. We never thought we'd be saying Arizona Cardinals and two consecutive playoff wins in the same breath. But here Kurt Warner (pictured) and the Cardinals are, ... More >>

Cardinals Can Run, Too: The Redbirds Have a Chance Against the Panthers if Ground Game Clicks

Carolina Panthers RB DeAngelo Williams The Arizona Cardinals are 0-5 this season in the Eastern Time zone, and some of the defeats went like this: 56-36 at the New York Jets, 48-20 at the Philadelphia Eagles, and 27-23 at the Carolina Panthers on October 26. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. Let's talk ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Go Cosmic Against Atlanta Falcons in Historic Playoff Win

The game was clinched on a third-and-16, 23-yard pass from Captain Kurt to Mr. Spach. It was logical. Most teams would've kept it on the ground and probably had to punt, giving their opponent another chance to score and win the game. But most teams don't have Arizona's passing attack. So  Card ... More >>

The Weather Was Rotten in New England, and So Were the Arizona Cardinals (Except Matt Leinart)

It wasn't the worst defeat in Cardinals history. The worst was a 49-0 ass-kicking by the Kansas City Chiefs in December, 2002. But it was an ass-kicking, all right. I know we've said it before, but the Cardinals were really pathetic this time. And it wasn't all about the weather in Foxboro, Ma ... More >>