A fighting chance: MMA comes to downtown Glendale
By Natalie Urquiza | Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020
GLENDALE – RUF38 is hosting an MMA event in downtown Glendale Saturday and promotions company hopes to make inroads in area.
Arizona firms cited for role in hundreds of millions of scam robocalls
By Jessica Myers | Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020
WASHINGTON - A federal court Wednesday ordered two Paradise Valley residents to stop operating businesses that prosecutors said were used to funnel hundreds of millions of robocalls per month from overseas scammers.
Do uniforms play a role in college football recruiting?
By Evan Desai | Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020
LOS ANGELES – In the age of social media, an endless array of football uniform styles and combinations can dazzle during recruitment of top athletes.
With drought plans finished, water managers pause Colorado River negotiations
By Luke Runyon | Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019
LAS VEGAS – With the drought contingency plan finished, water managers from across the Southwest recently gathered in Las Vegas to figure out what’s next. Climate change already is restricting the arid region’s water supplies, and there’s little agreement on how to bring balance to the Colorado River Basin.
System will study headwaters of the Colorado to gauge stream flow, soil moisture, evaporation
By Luke Runyon | Monday, Dec. 9, 2019
GREELEY, Colo. – A new high-tech monitoring program is set to take shape in the headwaters of the Colorado and Gunnison rivers.
More than a name: Son of a Hall of Famer, Hamilton’s Brenden Rice hopes to forge own path
By Stephen Perez | Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019
CHANDLER – A legacy runs deep when you are related to the greatest wide receiver to ever play football. However, for Brenden Rice, it is the legacy he makes separate from his father which means more to him.
Longtime NFL coach Wylie surprise addition to Hamilton High coaching staff
By Tyler Henry | Friday, Oct. 25, 2019
CHANDLER - For the 2019 football season, Bob Wylie finds himself in a new and unexpected role: coach on the Hamilton High School football team.
Arizona Fall League players aren’t fans of ‘Robo Ump’
By Nicholas Aguilera | Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019
SCOTTSDALE – Major League Baseball’s latest Fall League experiment is one of the most controversial among baseball purists: the Automated Strike Zone.
Do not adjust your TV: NHL puck now changes color when it’s too warm
By Alex Simon | Monday, Oct. 7, 2019
GLENDALE – For this hockey season, game pucks are securing a little extra attention. The NHL is giving them a thermochromic coating that is purple when frozen but turns clear as the pucks thaw above freezing temperatures.
From out of baseball to Olympian: Jeremy Wolf’s path to Aliyah and Team Israel
By Tyler Dunn | Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019
SCOTTSDALE – Scottsdale’s Jeremy Wolf is a Jewish-American Olympian with a heart for baseball’s minor leaguers.
‘He got a bad rap’: Friends, NFL executives remember Bill Bidwill’s humble, caring side
By Erica Block | Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019
TEMPE – Bill Bidwill may have been an enigma to Cardinals fans and others who knew him only through his public persona. But in their tributes to him in the wake of his death at 88, Bidwill’s close friends and associates describe a humble, joke-telling man with a deeply caring nature.
Former top MLB picks Lewis, Moniak stare pressure in face at Fall League
By Nicholas Aguilera | Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019
SCOTTSDALE - For the first time since 2011, the Arizona Fall League is showcasing two former No. 1 overall MLB Draft picks in Royce Lewis and Mickey Moniak. Despite the pressure of the first pick label, both players are not letting the selection define their careers.