WrestleMania, the Super Bowl of Wrestling, Coming to Glendale; Announcement Expected Tomorrow

We received an e-mail stating that World Wrestling Entertainment will be holding a press conference tomorrow afternoon at the stadium to announce a “major international event” occuring there in spring 2010 that will “draw visitors from around the world for five days of activities.” Although the e-mail doesn’t specifically identify the event (and only names the WWE in the subject line), we’re fairly certain it’s next year’s Wrestlemania 26. After all, the yearly grappling extravaganza and pay-per-view is the only such event that the WWE puts on during the spring. A similar press conference is held every year around this time announcing where WrestleMania is heading next.

Shaq Meets Fans at 5 & Diner in Phoenix Through Twitter

As we reported on this blog back in November, Suns star Shaquille O’Neal’s on Twitter, the “micro-blogging” site where users can post short messages on the Internet (through computers or their cell phones) that detail what they’re doing at any given moment. (For example, Shaq Twittered on January 16 at…

Arizona Cardinals Cheerleaders Seeking New Recruits

It’s time to show ’em what you’ve got:The Arizona Cardinals are looking for a few good cheerleaders following the team’s stellar season as Super Bowl contenders.If you’ve got the right moves, can squeeze your butt into one of those postage-stamp-size pair of shorts and you’re hot enough to steal attention…

Hepatitis-C Linked to Almost One-Fourth of State Prison Deaths in 2008

In looking at records on deaths in state prisons last year for our post about the homicides, we couldn’t help but notice the large number of Hepatitis-C-related deaths among prisoners. Arizona Department of Corrections records show 75 natural-cause deaths, three suicides, two homicides and fourteen “pending” cases of 2008 prisoner…

Skull and Bones, Pancho Villa’s Head, and a Possible Phoenix Connection?

Curiosity’s driven me to write a little follow-up to my post Wednesday about the WASPy wieners at Skull and Bones being sued by the heirs of the Apache warrior Geronimo. They’re suing because it’s rumored that Yale’s secret society has possession of Geronimo’s skull, you see. According to legend, George W. Bush’s grandpappy…

Hot Links: Pet Chimps Banned, Barkley Apologizes, and Monks Get Funky

No, a dead president isn’t throwing people off yachts in California, but a man named John Fitzgerald Kennedy was convicted yesterday on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of a Prescott, Arizona couple who were tied to anchor and drowned in Southern California…Barrels of monkeys are apparently not…

Arizona Republic Finally Names Names in St. Johns Killing

The state’s largest newspaper took the blinders off today and published the name of the man killed in St. Johns by his own 8-year-old son — as well as the name of the boy, now 9. UPI named the kid and father two days after the double murder in which…