The Phoenix Suns jumped out to a ridiculous start against the Golden State Warriors last night en route to a 104-92 win, banging out 33 points in the 1st quarter while holding the Warriors to 17. It was a matchup between two of the worst defensive teams in basketball that…
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 remind us of that year’s Steelers insofar as neither of the teams was an authentic sixth-seed. Rather, both are SINOs, Sixth-Seeds In Name Only. The typical sixth-seed is, by…
Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice (AACJ) held a press conference this morning to announce the release of a report highlighting the need for sentencing reform. The study, conducted by Judith Greene of Justice Strategies, notes that the state’s criminal justice policies have “been among the harshest in the nation for…
nba.com/suns Steve Nash leads the league in double-doubles with 26. After an agonizing three-game stretch against the bottom-dwelling Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia 76ers and Charlotte Bobcats, the Phoenix Suns needed a big performance this weekend — and they got it, in one game, anyway. The Suns played their best defensive game…
The Phoenix Suns have a tough couple of games ahead of them this weekend as they’re scheduled to face a Boston Celtics team tonight that’s considered by some to be the best in the league and a very good New Orleans squad on Sunday. This weekend’s contests will be a…
The Phoenix Suns lost their third game in a row yesterday to the Charlotte Bobcats, getting outscored 114-107 by a team that’s lost 25 of 44 games this season. Steve Nash played his heart out against the Bobcats, going 11-15 from the field with 27 points, 5 rebounds and 15…
www.mlb.fanhouse.com Micah Owings: Is he a hitter or a pitcher — or neither? The Arizona Diamondbacks announced yesterday that they’ve re-signed former pitcher Micah Owings to a minor league contract and hope to play him at first base next season. Here’s the backstory on Owings: In 2007, his rookie…
The Governing Board of the Maricopa Community Colleges meets tomorrow morning to vote on candidates for several positions available within the institution. But the board will not vote on the Maricopa Community Colleges’ scandal-plagued original choice to be Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Dr. Brian K. Johnson, after “a…
You might not know it, but the Arizona Diamondbacks will soon have their first Hall of Famer. No, not Randy Johnson. He isn’t eligible for election yet. It’s not Curt Schilling, either — although both guys are going to make it into the Hall someday. Roberto Alomar, who played 38…
The Suns needed a win last night to keep their momentum and playoff hopes alive. But on a day when they announced next season’s ticket prices and incentives for ticket-holders to renew in the next month, they needed a more convincing victory than a 106-98 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers…
A group of state representatives has introduced a bill that would strip the governor of the power to commute prison sentences and hand it over to the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency. The legislation, formally titled HCR 2025: the Arizona Commutation Reform Act, is designed to ease over-crowding and save…
A Chandler woman claims a California-based mortgage company swindled her out of her home by buying her mortgage note and unlawfully selling it to another company — a familiar narrative of the recent housing crisis.Jill Slikker accepted a loan from the Marshall & Ilsley Bank in March of 2008 to…
