How big of a deal was Friday’s WNBA championship game in Phoenix? Well, consider this: the only other times a basketball team’s won a championship in this city, it was the Boston Celtics beating the Phoenix Suns on our home court in 1976, and then the Chicago Bulls beating the…
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie performed some late-game heroics in the Cards’ victory over Houston on Sunday The (2-2) Cardinals’ 28-21 victory over the (2-3) Houston Texans Sunday in Glendale came in a way that would even raise the blood pressure of the 1980 “Kardiac Kid” Cleveland Browns. After taking a 21-0 lead into halftime, the Birds…
Phoenix will get its first railroad quiet zone at the end of this month. The zone, on the southern end of downtown along Harrison Street between Third and Fourth avenues, has to be re-certified each year, and has cost an estimated $100,000 in privately raised money so far…Crews rescued a…
Say what you will about our Yankee brethren, the editorial writers at the New York Times have consistently seen the immigration situation in Maricopa County through an unfiltered lens. This is because the Times’ unsigned, editorial writer of all opinion pieces having to do with immigration and Arizona has visited…
In Joe Arpaio’s press conference last week, and since then on several news shows, the sheriff has insisted there is a law in the federal code that allows him to continue his anti-immigrant sweeps without his 287(g) field authority. This is the power stripped from him recently by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement,…
Glenn Beck has some fun at Arpaio’s expense on Beck’s Fox TV show I normally loathe Glenn Beck and his smarmy posturings, but I may have to reconsider that attitude after watching Beck mercilessly mess with our geriatric top gendarme on his Friday show. At points, Beck openly makes fun…
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: Curtains: Phoenix Theatre’s Curtains Chow Bella: Thinking About Shacking Up With a Vegetarian?…
What could someone possibly need with 660 boxes of pseudoephedrine? That was the question Arizona Department of Public Safety officers were asking a Las Vegas man after they found an absurd amount of cold medicine in his car, and it didn’t take long for them to figure things out…
There was a “happy ending” to the month of September for Mesa Mayor Scott Smith as his crusade against “rub-n-tug” massage parlor yielded some results.Since September, a police task force has made 20 prostitution busts related to massage parlors in Mesa…
GQ magazine just published a damning portrait of Sheriff Joe by writer Alexander Provan titled “The Vigilante,” and it couldn’t come at better time. I know from experience that way too many reporters who come through town get snowed by our irascible, bulbous-nosed sheriff. They find him colorful and often…
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, Arizona Cardinals fans noisily pooh-poohed the antics of the San Francisco 49ers and the team’s head coach, Mike Singletary, who dropped his…
The Arizona Cardinals narrowly avoided making history today, as Sunday’s game against the Houston Texans finally sold out.The Cards have sold out all of the 36 games at University of Phoenix Stadium and without the extension, Sunday could have been the first time the team failed to sell out the…
Iron Mike Tyson will be on Oprah Monday, where he discusses the tragic death of his daughter in his Phoenix home earlier this year, saying he doesn’t want to know any details to avoid a potential “problem.”For the sake of every ear in the Valley, let’s respect his wishes.The death…
The free tickets for tonight’s WNBA Championship game at US Airways Center are gone, and only a limited number of seats remain for sale.The Phoenix Mercury will be shooting for their second WNBA Championship in three years. They’re facing the Indiana Fever, who are seeking their first-ever title, with Larry…
Arizona residents can kiss any hopes of a second honeymoon with former Governor Fife Symington goodbye.(Single tear.)The exonerated thief bowed out of the race for governor Thursday, the Arizona Guardian reports, and threw his support behind former Arizona GOP Chairman and longtime friend John Munger, who announced his candidacy last…
A Vermont woman, who was thrown off an airplane for refusing to put a blanket over herself while she breast-fed her 1-year-old daughter, is suing Mesa Air Group. The incident happened about three years ago and sparked national protests, or “nurse-ins” at 19 airports across the country. The lawsuit claims that on…
President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, and his former presidential rival and Arizona Senator John McCain seems to have some sour grapes. McCain told CNN’s John King that he thinks the president was given the honor, not based on any of his accomplishments but because of what prize…
Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies say they are investigating after someone painted “Kill Obama” in purple spray paint across a pair of political signs in Cave Creek. Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the Secret Service has been contacted, and asks anyone with information to contact his office…Arizona State University baseball coach Pat…
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: 2008 Music Sales Less Than Encouraging For Artists Shake! Says Goodbye With Halloween…
Between dropping names like Barry Goldwater and Fred Thompson, two high-priced Washington, D.C. special prosecutors hired by Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas to investigate Don Stapely didn’t offer much more today than saying that they won’t say much more.The notable exception to the otherwise hollow press conference came as Joseph DiGenova and Victoria…
As we reported yesterday, for the second time this season, the Arizona Cardinals were on the verge of not selling out Sunday’s game and being blacked out on local television.NFL rules state that if a game is not sold out 72 hours before kickoff, it will not be broadcast on…
The 2010 Census is set to bring thousands of much-needed jobs to the Valley. Vangent Inc., the company in charge of processing about 40 percent of the 2010 Census data, will be setting up shop in here and bringing about 3,000 jobs along with it…
