Former Marcos de Niza quarterback Tommy Thornton has officially committed to the Wyoming football program. Thornton joined Marcos de Niza his junior year, moving from Parker, Colorado where he played two seasons of varsity football. He led the Padres to a 9-3 season in 2011 with 2,368 yards passing, 20 touchdowns and only five interceptions. [...]
A woman falls in love with her fiancé’s estranged brother. An aging, successful businessman cheats on his wife. These are the plot and subplot, respectively, of Moonstruck, which turns 25 this year. To someone who’d never seen the film, that description might sound more like the basis for a sordid melodrama with a violent, tragic [...]
Brother Todd Jr. and fellow football and basketball teammate Avery Moss will have to do without Andrus Peat at Nebraska next year. The 6-foot-7, 290-pound offensive tackle has chosen to be one of Stanford University’s 16 national recruits, surprising experts who were predicting he would choose the Cornhuskers. After receiving more than 30 scholarship offers, [...]
Corona del Sol Corona had seven athletes honored at the Tempe All City Association Fall Sports Banquet held Jan. 30 at the Tempe Sheridan. Zack Hamm, Avery Moss and Andrus Peat were given awards for football by head coach Tom Joseph. “All three were instrumental to our success this season,” said Joseph. “They are all [...]
After repeatedly being knocked out of the running, the Marcos de Niza boys soccer team is fighting back for spot in the Division II state championship game for the first time in 20 years. This current group of players with head coach Daryl Chavez, who is a banker by day, finished the regular season undefeated [...]
In the small gym at Corona del Sol High School, 60 students gathered for one reason: to learn tolerance from one another. The occasion is known as Awareness Day, a bi-annual event organized by the school’s Unity Club to raise awareness of prejudices, self-image, gender issues and teen suicide. For the past 14 years, generations [...]
Five members of Tempe’s Buena Vista Mavericks 4-H Club were among the Arizona 4-H delegates who helped Arizona take seventh place High State at the Western National Roundup in Denver. The “Horse Classic” pitted the “best of the best” 4-Hers from 32 states and Alberta, Canada, against each other in individual and team competition in [...]
Despite the title, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a mostly quiet movie, and for quite a while it keeps its emotional distance, too. The central character, Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), the son of a Manhattan jeweler (Tom Hanks), speaks in a direct, declarative manner, even when, a couple of times, he raises his tone [...]
After defeating Hamilton 63-47 at the MLK Basketball Classic on Jan. 16 and Desert Vista 52-44 a week earlier, Corona’s boys basketball team is doing exactly what coach Sam Duane Jr. wants it to this time of the year—starting to click. “We are playing well but we still have room for improvement,” said Duane. “We [...]
Thomas Hickey, local attorney and Rotarian, is back from a family visit to Finland with a renewed sense of friendship, plus some rekindled memories of his first trip there while he was still a teenager. “My junior year of high school (in Anchorage, Alaska) I applied as a Rotary exchange student and was accepted,” Hickey [...]
