Just play the games already.

No. 1 Mountain Pointe vs. No. 3 Hamilton

In the course of just a couple days, the film industry has delivered two extremely different, but uniformly brilliant, family oriented pictures. Peter Hedges fashioned an enchanting fable with “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” earlier this week. Now “ParaNorman,” a gothic stop-motion animated feature from Chris Butler and Sam Fell, has granted families a second reason to go to the movies this weekend. Even if a child or your family doesn’t accompany you though, both of these films can provide substantial entertainment for any audience.

2A Central Region

In the course of just a couple days, the film industry has delivered two extremely different, but uniformly brilliant, family oriented pictures. Peter Hedges fashioned an enchanting fable with “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” earlier this week. Now “ParaNorman,” a gothic stop-motion animated feature from Chris Butler and Sam Fell, has granted families a second reason to go to the movies this weekend. Even if a child or your family doesn’t accompany you though, both of these films can provide substantial entertainment for any audience.

Well, the scoreless streak ended. However, the Diamondbacks’ losing continued Monday at Bank One Ballpark with an 8-4 defeat at the hands of the San Francisco Giants.

Area football players were snubbed on the All-Arizona team voted on by the football coaches association.

The stop-motion animated "ParaNorman" unfolds tragically: So much drawing for such an unworthy script.

Andy Nguyen of Mountain Pointe defeated Erik Sheldon, also of Mountain Pointe, 6-2, 6-4, Friday to earn the singles title at the 5A Central Region boys tennis championship at Kiwanis Park in Tempe.

Paula Leibler (4-2-1) struck out 21 of the 22 batters she faced on Wednesday, tossing a one-hitter to lead Phoenix Arcadia to a 7-0 win over visiting Glendale Apollo in 4A nonregion softball action.

It’s a final shot, a first chance, a shot at redemption and a homecoming all wrapped into one. This week’s NCAA outdoor track and field championships is all of these things to the members of the Arizona State track team.

SAN FRANCISCO — Prior to the Diamondbacks’ series opener against the San Francisco Giants, manager Bob Brenly lamented his pitchers’ nagging inability to throw strikes.

Being a college golf coach is akin to being the pilot of a small airplane. In other words, you’re usually flying under the radar. Unless, of course, your team is playing really well. Or, really poor.

‘Twas not the winter of everyone’s discontent. At least, not for all the basketball players, soccer studs and wrestlers who took their shots, saves and takedowns for glory’s sake and found some.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - As Saddam Hussein's lawyer made a last-ditch effort to impede his execution Thursday, the White House was preparing for the ousted dictator to be hanged as early as this weekend, a senior administration official said.

All-Tribune First Team

The lasting image of the 2012 baseball season was Dylan Cozens blasting a walk-off, opposite-field homer to lift Chaparral to the Division I championship over Brophy.

Arizona Olympian Gymnastics put on a clinic last month at the Trampoline and Tumbling National Championships in Schaumburg, Ill.

All-Tribune First Team Offense

With his high school career complete and neatly filed alongside other East Valley baseball legends, Tim Alderson doesn’t need long to remember his worst game.

This Desert Valley Region-Fiesta Region thing in baseball has to stop, doesn’t it? Maybe not.

A couple of lasting impressions from Ridge Nielsen’s football career at Mesa Mountain View took place the final two weeks of 2006.

What is fast becoming one of the best events in the nation, the Nike Cross Nationals cross country championship series, will be holding its Southwest Regional meet on Saturday at Toka Sticks Golf Club in Mesa.