At full throttle, the intense thrill of driving the 1,001-horsepower Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport alarms the senses into focusing on the road rushing past as you try to harness the car’s power with its equally capable agility.
Crashing this $2.3 million supercar loaner into a lake is not an option I care to explore as I blast down the twisting Bartlett Dam Road on a recent morning. more…
Glendale’s spring-training facility is expected be among the best of the Cactus League’s nine parks while raising the bar nationwide. more…
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Glendale did not recoup what it spent to host Super Bowl XLII, according to a new study that showed out-of-towners here for the game added an estimated $1.2 million to the city’s tax coffers. more…
Ownership of a parking garage has become a battle between influential downtown Phoenix players, and, in the end, representatives of the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks are likely to get to control the game. more…
When Annika Sorenstam, Juli Inkster and Lorena Ochoa have won the previous titles, it speaks volumes about the quality of your golf tournament. More…
You’ve known for years that the Super Bowl was returning to the Valley. But if you haven’t been paying attention, don’t fret.
Today, The Arizona Republic’s Super Bowl XLII team provides a crash course on what you can expect when the world’s largest and most lucrative sporting event descends on the Valley.
With less than a month until kickoff, we’ll let you in on which celebrities and broadcast personalities will be in town, where you can rub shoulders with them and how much you’d have to pay. You also might want to study our cheat sheet on where to catch Super Bowl block parties, concerts and events guaranteeing you a piece of the action.
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- Family -friendly events
- Tickets still available
- Initiatives of Super Bowl Host Committee
- Phoenix Stadium transforms into NFL Experience
- Valley to provide spots for national sports shows
- Guide to the upcoming Super Bowl
It’s Arizona’s Super Bowl, but Valley cities are competing for their piece of the action, including where the national news networks will stage broadcasts leading up to the February showcase. More…
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The local group helping to organize next year’s Super Bowl is walking a delicate line. As it tries to lure big-money sponsors, it’s also trying to retain control of its most precious asset: Super Bowl tickets. E-mails recently obtained by The Arizona Republic show that when the Arizona Office of Tourism pledged $750,000 to sponsor the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee, the office was offered just four game tickets in return. That didn’t sit well with Margie Emmermann, the state agency’s director. She thought the cash contributions warranted more tickets. More…
The local group helping to put on Super Bowl XLII is trying to make it easier for the NFL and its sponsors to host private dinners, pregame parties or corporate meetings ahead of next year’s game. The Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee has reached out to dozens of venues throughout the Valley and asked them to block out the four-day period leading up to the Feb. 3 game at
Jerry Thiele wasn’t worried about the score of last year’s Super Bowl. When the festivities unfolded in Miami, he was keeping an eye on air traffic. As the airport manager of
The reserve of 18,000 hotel rooms and a calendar that has the FBR Open overlapping Super Bowl XLII will make it difficult, though not impossible, to get a room for that February weekend. Super Bowl XLII will be held Feb. 3, 2008, at the
Glendale officials, in the final stretch, hope to knock home deals to make spring training with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox a reality. The City Council tonight, in its last meeting before summer recess, is expected to finalize details to open an $80.7 million spring-training site in 2009. Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, who is in town as the Dodgers play the Diamondbacks, is expected to attend tonight’s council meeting. The agreements include a tax-revenue sharing plan with
Derek Martinez, who plays his Xbox regularly, says playing indoor golf resonates with him. “As a gamer, I really like it,”
SCOTTSDALE - Stung by an oversupply of new courses and a decline in play, the golf industry is showing signs of stabilizing. Hodges Ward Elliott, a golf course brokerage that represented Scottsdale-based Troon Golf, reports an increase in golf real estate deals in the past two years. But industry observers say that success varies by individual markets and golf courses. More…
Five companies are being considered to design Glendale’s latest professional sports venue, a spring training stadium for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox. City and team representatives will meet in the coming weeks to whittle the list to one. Then they will search for a construction manager. The city hopes to break ground this summer and start playing ball in 2009. More…
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