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Ask a Mexican's Annual Christmas Guide

David Horowitz Has Made Taunting College Students a Spectator Sport

Good News: Coffee Might Extend Your Life. Bad News: Sugar Might Make You Dumb

The food science news has been pretty dire the past couple of months. Our fancy beef isn't what it claims, the tacocopter was a hoax, red meat will probably kill you in your sleep, etc. The Good News: This week, researchers at the National Cancer Institute released a study peeking at data collected ... More >>

Arizona Legislature Apparently Trying to Criminalize Being Annoying on the Internet

​It has been brought to our attention that there's a bill cruising through the Legislature that, according to some critics, could cause people like myself and this blog's commenters to be thrown in jail for generally being jackasses on the Internet.We understand that there's probably a healthy amo ... More >>

ASU Basketball Season Ends With Rout At Hands Of Tree

Stick a pitchfork in the Arizona State men's basketball team, which got thumped last night by Stanford in a first-round Pac-12 Conference tournament game.​ The 85-65 loss at LA's Staples Center in front of about as many folks as watched the Sun Devils this year in Tempe at the Wells Fargo Are ... More >>

ASU Pretty Much Ruins Arizona Wildcats' Dream Of Goin' Dancing With Stunner In Tempe

Arizona State's basketball team (the guy's version) has been ranked in the lower realms of all Division I programs this season, and yesterday afternoon's game in Tempe against the Arizona Wildcats had the makings of a butt-whipping--for the Cats.   ​Most of those geeks who study the "B ... More >>

ASU Sun Devils Lose 20th Game Of Season as Arizona Wins Its 20th

We didn't go by the Wells Fargo Arena last night for Arizona State's 66-57 loss to UCLA, but we know a few diehards who tells us that the announced attendance of 5,477 was exaggerated by a whole lot.Head Coach Herb Sendek​The game itself was a microcosm of ASU's lost season--a nice effort by a sad ... More >>

ASU Basketball "Fires" Onetime Prospect Keala King After Split In LA Games

We're not going too far out on a limb here by saying it's going to be another long year for ASU's men's basketball team. The Sun Devils play hard for head coach (he of the recent contract extension) Herb Sendek--but the team is thin and the remaining players on the squad  basically are jus ... More >>

ASU Pulls Out Best Win of Season With Shorthanded Thumping of USC: Arizona Loses

There's a very sound reason we don't engage in sports gambling but on the rare occasion: We learned the hard way a long time ago that we come too close too often to striking gold--but almost inevitably lose.Sun Devils surprise Trojans in LA last night​We wrote yesterday that, in our imaginary ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Wrought-Iron Fences and the Meaning of "Illegal"

Ask a Mexican on Waiting for Work and Authentic Mexican Music

Knocked Out: For Kids, Concussions Can Be Worse Than for Adults

Devil's Due

Arizona Wildcats Go Into Tonight's Game Vs Duke As Decided Underdogs

The defending NCAA champion Duke Blue Devils will strut into the basketball arena in Anaheim later today brimming with confidence, fully expecting to leave as the victor over the Pac-10's Arizona Wildcats in a Sweet 16 contest.Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski hopes to gnaw on Arizona Wildcats tonightThe g ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats Set To Start Dancing In A Few Hours Vs Memphis

The Arizona Wildcats will take the floor in a few hours against the Memphis Tigers in first-round NCAA action.Onetime Arizona Wildcat Josh Pastner about to coach against old team​The 5th-seeded Cats are favored over a young Tigers team coached by former Arizona player and assistant coach Josh Past ... More >>

Arizona Schools Sweep Weekend Basketball Games, Pac-10 Tourney Looms

We hadn't used that headline even once during this men's college basketball season.But the improbable happened, and both the Arizona Wildcats and the ASU Sun Devils won their weekend games against the Oregon schools fairly easily to close out the regular season in fine fashion.Herb Sendek and his AS ... More >>

ASU Finally Wins A Game and Arizona Continues Unlikely Run In Weekend Thrillers

When the Washington State Cougars rushed down the court down by two points with seconds to go on Saturday afternoon, just about everyone in the Wells Fargo Arena probably shared a similar thought: Oh, shit!A win! A win! ASU coach Herb Sendek gets off the snide.​The Arizona State Sun Devils ha ... More >>

Arizona Wins 3-OT Thriller Over Cal As ASU Slips Further Into Abyss

One of the very best college basketball games of the season aired on Saturday night, ending with the Arizona Wildcats nipping the Cal Golden Bears 107-105 in three thrilling overtimes.​Saturday night's road win made it a rare sweep of the Bay Area schools (Cal and Stanford), and kept the surprisin ... More >>

Arizona Moves Into First-Place Tie in Pac-10 Basketball as Devils Falter

The Arizona Wildcats and ASU Sun Devils men's basketball teams have at least a few things in common this season--they both are well-coached (by Sean Miller and Herb Sendek, respectively) and play hard from the opening tip until the final horn.   Arizona's "Pop" McKale, who has a famous b ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats Snag Big Win in Tucson as ASU Goes Down In Tempe

Two men's college basketball teams going in opposite directions at the moment, those being the Arizona Wildcats and the Arizona State Sun Devils.Down year continues for ASU​We watched the Cats break open a tight game against the formidable UCLA Bruins last night on ESPN-2, coming away with an 85-7 ... More >>

Bad Bad Religion

Punk group frontman eschews a life dedicated to the big dude upstairs

Senate Bill 1070: Even The Damned Psychologists Are Chiming In!

Other than Pinal County sheriff's deputy Louie Puroll (if you believe him), just about everyone , including small children and our loyal mascot Frax (who looks an awful lot like the Jack Russell terrier in the photo), has heard about Senate Bill 1070. You know, the divisive anti-illeg ... 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 >>

Psychedelic Mushrooms May Help Treat Drug Addiction; Somebody Call the Irony Police

www.theemptyroom.com​Congratulations drug addicts -- doctors hope to prove that the cure for your addiction is the actual cause of your affliction: More drugs!Doctors from around the globe are meeting in San Jose, California, this week to revisit the topic of hallucinogenic drugs used t ... More >>

Great Start To Weekend As ASU, Arizona Men's BB Teams Win

At the moment, most pundits are predicting that the once-powerful Pac-10 men's basketball conference will only win only one bid to next month's NCAA tournament--the automatic spot that goes to the winner of the postseason tourney in Los Angeles.​That's because the league happens to be in one of th ... More >>

Arizona Men's Basketball Teams Need to Sweep Oregon Schools at Home Tonight and Saturday

Only one thing's certain in this topsy-turvy Pacific-10 men's basketball season: From first place to last, any of the 10 teams are eminently capable of winning on any given night.   ​ ​That definitely includes the Arizona State Sun Devils and the Arizona Wildcats, both of who ... More >>

Sun Devils Men's Basketball About To Embark On Big Pac-10 Weekend Here

Pac-10 men's basketball supposedly is in a down cycle this season, what with UCLA and other squads losing a bunch of underclassmen to the professional ranks. ​One of those schools is ASU, which saw Jeff Pendergraf and the great James Harden split to the land of the big bucks (especially ... More >>

Silver Medallion Posts New Music Video

Silver Medallion's Oren J. (left) and Carnegie.​The bombastic electro-hop duo of Oren J. and Carnegie (a.k.a. Silver Medallion) have been crazy productive in recent weeks. Not only have they released a brand new CD (The Last of the Popstars), they've also been gigging all around the Valley, and he ... More >>

On Nothing Good Coming Out of California, plus Stupid Names

Sun Devils In Latest "Game Of The Year" Tonight in Seattle

After all is said and done in the regular college basketball season (that would be next weekend) and the Pac-10 conference tournament, the ASU Sun Devils and the Washington Huskies will find themselves playing somewhere in the Big Dance.  But all that seems so far away at the mom ... More >>

Big Games Coming Up Tonight and Saturday in Tempe for ASU

The ASU men's basketball team hasn't played in eight long days. It was back on January 21 that they squeaked by the Arizona Wsildcats in Tucson in a game that, safe to say, won't be placed into a time capsule for future generations to marvel at. Even the best of all the Sun Devils, the fabulous ... More >>

It's Prime Time, Baby

Friday Night Lights Frenzy Starts This Afternoon

  It's one of our favorite times of the year, and not just because of all the great food and the blessed relief that temps under 100 degrees can bring. No, we're talking about the Arizona high school football championships, and all the goofy color and pagentry that the homestretch games can pro ... More >>

Is It August 30th Yet?: 2008 ASU Football Preview

The Mexican on rural similarities and lies born of vanity

James Garcia's Dream Act puts the spotlight on the obstacles immigrant children face in the fight for citizenship

Covert Care

Lineup lines up to play it forward

Scammer From the Slammer

Here's why you shouldn't believe a word of an ex-con's bombshell "news story" about the Mexican government's helping illegal immigrants to enter the U.S.

Meth and Sex

Tweakers, straight and gay, are obsessed with sex. The result is that pregnancy and HIV-infection rates among meth-heads are increasing at alarming rates

Hallway Gangstas

When bad things happen to good kids, their Luck always holds

Savage Republic

Box Set (Mobilization Recordings)

Flashes

Gael Force

Not the Same Old Song and Dance

With innovative Love Songs, choreographer David Roussve steps way past the tried and true

Letters

The Selling of ASU Football

No matter what happens on the field, ASU athletics hits pay dirt every game--with a nonstop stream of advertisements

The Stopgap Coach

Don Newman lifted ASU's basketball program out of the trash heap by making his players believe in themselves. Despite 18 wins and an NIT berth, ASU boosters remain unconvinced.

Tapering to the Peak

It takes months to make a magic moment in swimming

PRESS TO PLAY

GIVE HIM AN ANCIENT PRINTING PRESS AND AN OUT-OF-TUNE GUITAR, AND BRUCE LICHER WILL CREATE ART

TRADE SECRETS

ARIZONA'S TRADE REPRESENTATIVE TO MEXICO WAS CUTTING DEALS WITH HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY. A SECRETARY REPORTED THE PROBLEM--AND PROMPTLY GOT CANNED.