At first glance, the inaugural Cactus Classic in May 2006 appeared to be like any other grassroots basketball tournament. There were 32 teams in Tucson, Ariz., for the three-day event. Games were played on the campus of the University of Arizona, split between three courts in the McKale Center and three in the school's intramural gym. Teams were grouped into pools of four and played three games within their pool.
In a messy drug bust this week, investigators uncovered more than 700 pounds of marijuana stuffed in a septic tank truck full of human waste, Arizona police said Friday.
Many Americans love living in university towns, especially ones with big-time college football teams. One of the surprising attractions of these places is that they can be very affordable.
When Sean Miller took the Arizona job in April, he studied Lute Olson's empire -- the 11 Pac-10 titles, four Final Fours and national championship that preceded the recent chaos -- and noticed that early on Olson had received an improbable recruiting gift.
You're probably starting to think about what you and your family will do over the winter holidays. Spend a week at Mom's in Tucson? Jet to Paris? Stay home and clean the basement?
Lined up next to Pittsburgh police officers protecting a downtown office building Thursday morning were officers who traveled a little farther to get to work.
It's not just for French kissing or for showing your dissatisfaction.
Gasoline prices fell more than 7 cents a gallon over the past two weeks, despite a rise in crude oil prices, according to a survey published Sunday.
While Congress is considering major spending requests for security along the Mexican border to help curb drug violence, others are proposing a less-expensive but, some say, dangerous solution: decriminalizing drugs.
Last week, a bride-to-be visited online wedding hub TheKnot.com and posted a wistful set of questions to her virtual sisters. "Fiancé got laid off a month ago. We're trying to keep our wedding the way we had originally planned. How many of you are working through similar situations, and how do you...adjust your wedding/honeymoon plan?"
At first glance, the inaugural Cactus Classic in May 2006 appeared to be like any other grassroots basketball tournament. There were 32 teams in Tucson, Ariz., for the three-day event. Games were played on the campus of the University of Arizona, split between three courts in the McKale Center and three in the school's intramural gym. Teams were grouped into pools of four and played three games within their pool.
In a messy drug bust this week, investigators uncovered more than 700 pounds of marijuana stuffed in a septic tank truck full of human waste, Arizona police said Friday.
Many Americans love living in university towns, especially ones with big-time college football teams. One of the surprising attractions of these places is that they can be very affordable.
When Sean Miller took the Arizona job in April, he studied Lute Olson's empire -- the 11 Pac-10 titles, four Final Fours and national championship that preceded the recent chaos -- and noticed that early on Olson had received an improbable recruiting gift.
You're probably starting to think about what you and your family will do over the winter holidays. Spend a week at Mom's in Tucson? Jet to Paris? Stay home and clean the basement?
Lined up next to Pittsburgh police officers protecting a downtown office building Thursday morning were officers who traveled a little farther to get to work.
It's not just for French kissing or for showing your dissatisfaction.
Gasoline prices fell more than 7 cents a gallon over the past two weeks, despite a rise in crude oil prices, according to a survey published Sunday.
While Congress is considering major spending requests for security along the Mexican border to help curb drug violence, others are proposing a less-expensive but, some say, dangerous solution: decriminalizing drugs.
Last week, a bride-to-be visited online wedding hub TheKnot.com and posted a wistful set of questions to her virtual sisters. "Fiancé got laid off a month ago. We're trying to keep our wedding the way we had originally planned. How many of you are working through similar situations, and how do you...adjust your wedding/honeymoon plan?"
Super Bowl fans in Tucson, Arizona, caught a different kind of show during Sunday's big game.
When a cool breeze breaks the desert heat and the faint scent of mesquite wafts through Tucson, photographers Jeff Smith and Tom Willett hit the road to chase lightning. The duo drive their pickup beneath dark thunderheads, shooting hundreds of photos during the summer monsoons that rumble over Arizona's Sonoran Desert and reach their climax in September.
In this ragged Steve Coogan comedy about a struggling actor's hapless high school production, satire goes south
City officials and community activists can't wait to get their hands on nearly $4 billion the federal government is about to inject into blighted neighborhoods suffering from record foreclosures.
Anita Fancon and her husband want to fly from Tucson, Arizona, to Bordeaux, France in business class. They have the miles they need, and they've already cashed them in. But do they have the seats? American Airlines says they do, except on the flight from Dallas to London. Is there anything Fancon can do to secure the seats she's already paid 180,000 miles for?
The fun won't be over for the University of Arizona when batteries for the school-led Phoenix Mars Lander fail and its computers freeze up in the Martian arctic after its three-month mission ends.
Microbes flourish in the most punishing environments on Earth. Could such exotic life emerge in the frigid arctic plains of Mars?
(TUCSON, Ariz.) -- Scientists for the Phoenix Mars Lander are wrestling with an intermittent short circuit on the spacecraft.
This spring, SI.com senior writer John Donovan is touring the Grapefruit and Cactus leagues to cover baseball's biggest newsmakers. Today, he files his final Hot Spot of the spring from Tucson, Arizona, home to the Diamondbacks, Rockies and White Sox.
The home to the senior circuit's surprise pennant-winning Rockies and the equally surprising division-champion Diamondbacks, those feats guarantee those teams nothing, because this is a division that has four contenders for the division title.
To celebrate our 20th year of publication, Cooking Light wanted to know what places best fit our philosophy to eat smart, be fit, and live well. Using statistics from such organizations as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Zagat Survey, we ranked major metropolitan areas on 15 criteria. The result, we think, is a ranking of U.S. cities that best provide the resources people need to live healthful lives.
Ever hear the one about the guy who had peachy-pink peonies imported from Chile every February? Apparently, he wanted to guarantee his sweetheart a touch of spring each morning.
The price of gasoline has jumped another 13 cents in the last two weeks, close to the all-time high set earlier this year, according to a survey published Sunday.
Readers tell AOL Autos how they avoided getting a traffic ticket from a police officer.
The husband of Carol Anne Gotbaum, the woman who died in police custody at the Phoenix, Arizona, airport, says a little kindness might have saved her life.
A second young woman has come forward to claim that Southwest Airlines employees made her cover up on a recent flight, leading jet-setters to ask: Will my outfit fly?
Unlike the famous commercial that introduced the best golfer to the world, I am NOT Tiger Woods.
When Mark Coronado stands on the Surprise Recreation Campus, 20 miles northwest of Phoenix, and looks north to the Bell Road corridor, he sees 10 new restaurants, the construction of another hotel and the development of an entertainment complex.
The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship at The Gallery at Dove Mountain in Tucson, Ariz., starts Wednesday with 32 first-round matches. Need help filling out your bracket? SI.com's Alan Shipnuck is here to help. He predicts every match in every round (that's 64 matches, including the consolation match).
As expected, the chase is on. And Charles Howell, Andrew Buckle, Jeff Quinney and the rest of the Buick Invitational field at Torrey Pines last week can confirm that Tiger Woods usually catches what he chases.
Ecosphere Associates sells what appear to be plastic eggs full of bilge water. But look closer. Inside each Ecosphere you'll find a self-contained ecosystem - replete with shrimp, algae, and bacter...
When people say they live in a "dry town," they don't mean Tucson.
Single-family home prices finished 2005 with gains of more than 10 percent for the year, according to the latest report from the National Association of Realtors.
Q. I hadn't used my E-Trade account in a while and didn't check the online statements. When I finally did, I saw ATM charges for $1,846 -- but the account doesn't have an ATM card! I asked for my money back, but they said I didn't log my complaint in time. Help!
Most Americans know about the flood of Mexican immigrants into the United States, but many may not realize that there's a growing movement in the opposite direction.
Like politics, all real estate is local. The national housing market includes both go-go markets with soaring home values and tamer areas.
Like politics, all real estate is local. The national housing market includes both go-go markets with soaring home values and tamer areas.
I don't want to alarm anyone, but gigantic animals are invading the nation. Hundreds of enormous beasts-turned-advertisements are stalking the nation's highways and byways, and they're beaconing travelers to enter gift shops, restaurants and other destinations.
A common thread connects this year's standouts: They all responded to crisis by radically changing the way they make things. Autoliv reprocessed its factory to fend off stiff competition in airbags...
Giancarlo de Astis has found a solution to his midlife crisis: pursuing his childhood passion, airplanes, by making furniture out of used parts. His latest design is the much-anticipated La Fortuna...
Funny, isn't it, how some places seem to be meant for two? Certainly that's often thanks to the associations that we bring to our travels. Sometimes, though, it's the place itself--you'll catch a g...
It may be worth postponing Valentine's Day for a visit to the Sonoran southwest.
It's late afternoon in the hills above the Anderson Valley, and this quiet backwater a few hours north of San Francisco is showing why it has attracted urban deserters of various stripes for at lea...
These days, it's been easier than ever to find a great travel deal.
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As its rodential nickname attests, Radioshack Has an image problem. And with good reason: Many of the chain's 7,200 locations are dark, dingy, poorly organized, or all of the above. To buff up its ...
My mom is 77 and has been losing a lot of her savings -- about $58,000 -- in her stock and mutual fund portfolio. Someone advised her to switch to an immediate annuity, which would give her a monthly payment. Is this a good idea?
I'm in my 20s and my portfolio consists of a good mix of large- and mid-cap funds, with both growth and value strategies represented. Should this mix suffice, or should I seek out a small-cap growth and a small-cap value fund as well?
In Oxford, Miss., the spirit of William Faulkner fills the air. In Eugene, Ore., retirees are on a first-name basis with nature. In Tucson, you can enjoy the calming still of the desert without for...
This past Valentine's Day, a year-old Houston startup called Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc., or CNI, began FedExing jelly-jar-sized containers of a high-tech soot so coveted that buyers have been wil...
Six months ago, 33 men and women ages 49 to 72 checked in to the Life Enhancement Center at the Canyon Ranch complex in Tucson for the kickoff of a new program called Optimal Aging. I was a member ...
"Most of my patients are CEOs or doctors or attorneys or priests," says Patrick J. Carnes. "They are people with a great deal of power. We have corporate America's leadership marching through here,...
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At 6:45 a.m., you could excuse Maitland Dimock for wondering why instead of vacationing on the sands at Maui he is huffing up the rock-studded face of a Mexican mountain, wiping sweat from his eyes...
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! When an American antique sofa sells for $605,000, up from the prior record of $262,000 four years ago, 1986 seems cushy indeed. Not every purchase paid off so handsomely, of course. Herewith a Mo...
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