After a five-run first inning, the Arizona Diamondbacks were shut down for nine more, as the Miami Marlins clawed their way back into the game before taking the lead in the top of the 10th. The Marlins’ 6-5 win was their second straight over the D-backs as the two teams…
Unless you’re a huge follower of Major League Baseball, there’s probably only one reason you’d know the name of umpire Jim Joyce — two seasons ago, he blew a call in the bottom of the ninth inning to deny Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game.Joyce later apologized to…
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After a 25-year run as one of the nation’s top party schools, Arizona State University’s party-school reputation is likely dead in the eyes of national party-analysts.Just a week after Newsweek gave ASU one of the school’s lowest party rankings of all-time at 24th in the nation, the just-released Princeton Review…
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No one asked for lobbyist Cathi Herrod’s opinion on the shooting of a security guard at the headquarters of the Family Research Council, but she gave it anyway.Herrod’s the president of the Center for Arizona Policy — one of the Family Research Council’s state-level organizations — and pointed to “heinous…
Joe Saunders probably wishes that last night’s Arizona Diamondbacks loss to the Miami Marlins never, ever took place. Especially since the southpaw starting pitcher gave up a whopping nine earned runs to the Florida team on Monday evening at Chase Field and laid the groundwork for an epic 12-3 drubbing…
The Glendale Police Department still hasn’t gotten into a ton of detail about Friday’s shooting outside the University of Phoenix Stadium, but the question the burning question has been answered — the Arizona Cardinals fan shot the Oakland Raiders fan.The shooting occurred in a parking lot outside the stadium while…
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Click here for the “Go Topless Day” Phoenix slideshow. Topless women will be walking around downtown Phoenix on Sunday as part of what’s being billed as a protest against gender inequality.”Go Topless Day” apparently exists on an international level, in an effort to make laws about showing woman-boobs and man-boobs…
Republican Congressman Ben Quayle is accused of swimming in a lake.Politico published the story last night, claiming several Republican congressmen jumped in a lake last year in Israel during a trip funded by a pro-Israel lobbyist organization.Congressman Kevin Yoder, of Kansas, hopped in naked. Quayle was in that exact same…
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The Oakland Raiders came to town on Friday to play some preseason football against the Arizona Cardinals, and someone got shot.According to Glendale police, a man called police saying he’d “accidentally” shot another man in a parking lot just north of the University of Phoenix stadium, and waited at the…
The Arizona Diamondbacks swept the minor-leaguers known as the Houston Astros in a three-game weekend series, The Astros kept it almost-close in one of the games, but the D-backs put up 23 runs over the three games, compared to the Astros’ five…
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The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has filed a lawsuit against several federal agency heads, claiming the group’s foreign members have been wrongfully banned from entering the United States.Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas are named as defendants in…
The Arizona Supreme Court has upheld an age-old law requiring everyone seeking political office in the state be proficient in the English language.To put it in nativist terms, “Speak English, dammit.”Alejandrina Cabrera was trying to run for a city council seat in San Luis — where 88 percent of people…
