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Phoenix Bartending Guru Steve Shliveck Recalls His Days With Ali, Don King

By Robert Nelson
Apr 23, 2017

Making a commercial with the champ for Rope-a-Dope Jump Rope; sitting next to Don King; climbing under the ring during the 'Thrilla in Manila'; Phoenix bartending guru Steve Shliveck was always near the action
Arrested Development

Heard about the 29-year-old sex offender who posed as a seventh-grader? Here's how the sordid case was broken

By Robert Nelson
Feb 22, 2007

On Tuesday afternoon, January 16, an old man walked into the administrative office of a small charter school on the high desert plains north of Prescott. He was skinny, with floppy jowls that made him look like the Bitter Beer Face man of the old Keystone ads. But other than...
The Curse

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

By Robert Nelson
Jan 11, 2007

Valley business mogul Karl Eller was well aware that Bill Bidwill was a chronic loser when he began courting him in 1987 to bring his football team to Arizona. "Who didn't know?" Eller asks. "In pro football, your record is there for everyone to see. And the Cardinals have had...
Raising Arizona

Okay, Janet, you won. Now what?

By Robert Nelson
Nov 9, 2006

Janet Napolitano, Arizona's Greatest Governor. Hmmm. Feels a bit presumptuous, like renaming Squaw Peak after a soldier who died just weeks earlier in a car accident. But that's what a few historians and politicos are already suggesting — depending on what happens in the next four years. Janet Napolitano. Saver...
The State of Her State

Few argue that Janet Napolitano has been a good governor. The question is, why isn't she great?

By Robert Nelson
Oct 26, 2006

Janet Napolitano is the most unlikely of political superstars. A career born in bureaucracy and raised in political backrooms; physically frumpy, asexual and thick, a voice somewhere between that of an adolescent male and the overexcited Howard Dean; brusque, oft combative, grudge prone; hints of Girls State I'm-Trying-Too-Hard rah-rah; more...

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