It might seem like Bizarro World to fans on either side of the Arizona State-Arizona football rivalry this week.

After struggling against the Los Angeles Lakers earlier this month, Amaré Stoudemire vowed to make amends.

The Arizona Cardinals were flying high a year ago, 7-3 and running away in the NFC West. What followed was four losses in five games, three by at least 21 points.

Albert Pujols was unanimously voted National League MVP on Tuesday, becoming the first player to repeat since Barry Bonds won four in a row from 2001-04.

NEW YORK — Joe Mauer became only the second catcher in 33 years to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award, finishing first in a near-unanimous vote Monday.

CALGARY, Alberta — Nigel Dawes scored the go-ahead goal with 5:44 remaining, and Miikka Kiprusoff made 27 saves in the Calgary Flames' 2-1 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Wednesday night.

It might seem like Bizarro World to fans on either side of the Arizona State-Arizona football rivalry this week.

Valley residents are in for a chilly weekend, with temperatures expected to dip into the low 30s early Monday morning and high 50s later that day.

If you'd just as soon take a baseball bat to the works of Shakespeare than read, watch or study them, this is the show for you.

After Glen Haidet was laid off from three jobs, the Mesa man joined hundreds of unemployed adults who are going back to school to find another career.

After a year of tight budgets and some uncertainty about whether town-sponsored events would happen, Gilbert’s second Holiday Nights of Lights celebration kicks off Thursday evening with a tree lighting, skating on an ice-like rink and lots of singing, dancing and music playing. 

A center for cancer survivor support thatcalls itself "the Valley's best-kept secret" is hoping to raise its profile by staging Arizona's first inclusive walk to supportall types of the disease.

Life for Edna Bonham changed forever three years ago, when she stood up from her bedside to get on her wheelchair and heard her ankle pop. The ankle broke, forcing Bonham, who suffers from severe osteoporosis, to become bedridden.

 When the curtain closes on Thanksgiving evening, the holiday lights will switch on. Twinkling displays are lighting up neighborhoods across the Valley, and just about every town has its own holiday lights spectacular. Here’s our roundup of the must-see displays in the East Valley, plus three worth driving across town for.

 Buff bods, pulsating dance moves and Aussie accents make the men of Thunder From Down Under the hottest blokes in the town. The traveling male revue has appeared on many television shows, including “The View,” “The Tyra Banks Show” and “Las Vegas,” and was voted this year’s Best Male Strip Show by the Las Vegas Review Journal’s for the fourth consecutive year.  

When decorating our homes, we tend to consider things like beauty and comfort, the durability of pieces we might buy or the image they project. But how many of us stop to consider our energy bills?

The Boys & Girls Club’s new $7 million downtown Chandler facility is the organization’s largest in the East Valley and the most environmentally friendly in Arizona.

Mike Reagan: Now, most taxpayers would hope that in pursuit of the 60 votes the administration and Senate Democrats would use the merits of the legislation as the basis for their swaying of members of their own party. Sadly, that simply is not the case. Rather, bribes in the form of earmarks ended up being the carrot that lured in the final votes on a critical piece of legislation that may dramatically impact the future of our nation's health care, and our nation's debt. 

Our View: We've noted before that no one can be faulted for making the survival and comfort of their own loved ones their first priority. But as we look ahead to the season of giving over the next few weeks, we hope you will consider offering a little more to aid those who have fallen on the hardest of times.