Now that Kurt Warner is the Cardinals' starting quarterback, he has two missions.

TUCSON - Donovan Porterie threw for 327 yards and three touchdowns Saturday night, and New Mexico beat a Pac-10 team for the second time in school history, 29-27 over mistake-prone Arizona.

Junior fullback A.J. Willis scored the winning touchdown in overtime to help Tucson Desert View knock off visiting Queen Creek, 32-26 in overtime Friday night.

Phoenix North Canyon survived a furious fourth-quarter onslaught Friday to hold off visiting Basha 28-21 in a 5A non-region game.

Ask coach Dave McGinnis to put aside the obvious turnover problem and address what his Cardinals have done well and not so well halfway through the season, and he doesn’t hesitate in his answer.

The announced plan to move of the Fiesta Bowl’s headquarters to Scottsdale’s tony Waterfront project certainly harkens us to a Scottsdale of old that rode in at full gallop, scooped up another city’s prize and carried it off into the sunset before anyone could ask, “Who was that masked town?”

Today is day six of my latest effort to lead a better life. It is going pretty well.

The Arizona Cardinals are searching for a cure for fumble fever. The virus spread through the Arizona offense Monday night, when five lost fumbles led to an embarrassing 24-9 loss at San Francisco.

Today is day six of my latest effort to lead a better life. It is going pretty well.

Queen Creek had been looking forward to its shot at top-ranked Tucson Canyon Del Oro throughout the first three weeks of the season.  However, the Bulldogs learned they have some work to do if they want to compete with the defending 4A-I state champs. Mainly, they have to learn how to hang onto the ball.

Turnovers always make the difference in football games, and Friday night’s 4A-I quarterfinal between Phoenix Paradise Valley and Tucson Canyon del Oro was no exception.

A funny thing happened on Scottsdale mayoral candidate Jim Lane's way to gaining some new ground on the issue of financing the expansion of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve:

For politically-active people who talk of the importance of remembering history, Jewish voters must enjoy playing Charlie Brown with one particular political football, the location of the U.S. Embassy to Israel.

While America is sharply divided over how to shape U.S. immigration policies, the vast majority of us instinctively know that no one should sneak into the country illegally and the U.S. Border Patrol should play a vital role in securing our borders while protecting us from foreign terrorists and criminals.

The first fumble all but gave the Cardinals a win. The second one may have torpedoed a season. Sitting well within kicker Neil Rackers’ range with less than two minutes left after Rams quarterback Marc Bulger simply dropped the ball, Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner capped arguably his most miserable day by fumbling away the ball himself, allowing St. Louis to walk out of Cardinals Stadium with a 16-14 win.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is shown wearing American tennis shoes and unable to operate his automatic rifle in video released Thursday by the U.S. military as part of a propaganda war aimed at undercutting the image of the terror leader.

Tom Zbikowski and his teammates would not secondguess officials on the play that overturned a turnover, costing Notre Dame possession and momentum late in the third quarter of Monday’s Fiesta Bowl at Sun Devil Stadium.

Washington's defense forced four fumbles in the first half Friday en route to a 33-7 victory over Notre Dame Prepatory in a 4A Wells Fargo No. 2 Region game.