HOUSTON - Jerry Izenberg knows about the Super Bowl.

The Arizona Interscholastic Association announced Tuesday the sites for the Nov. 30 state semifinal football games. For the fourth consecutive season the Centennial Coyotes will be at Glendale Community College (6000 W. Olive Ave) trying to punch their ticket to the state title game. Set for a 7 p.m. kickoff, the top seeded and defending state champion Coyotes (11-1) will take on No. 5 Sunnyside (10-2). The Blue Devils have only been beaten on the field once this season as their second loss came by forfeit. Following a victory over Marana Mountain View Oct. 19, Sunnyside discovered they had unknowingly allowed an illegible player to take the field during a 49-42 victory. The team's only other loss came the next week in a 15-14 nail-biter to Ironwood Ridge, a defeat it avenged in Friday's 5A Div-II quarterfinals as Sunnyside earned a 21-14 win in the rematch. Centennial's road to the semifinals has been much smoother. Following a Week 2 loss to defending 5A Div-I state champion Hamilton, the Coyotes have run off 10 consecutive victories, most of which have come in lopsided fashion. Following a 56-14 win in the opening round of the playoffs over No. 16 La Joya, the Coyotes had little trouble with No. 8 Desert Ridge, beating the spots off the Jaguars in a 51-8 rout. The semifinal matchup between the Blue Devils and Coyotes will mark the third consecutive season the two teams have met in the playoffs. After defeating Sunnyside in the 2005 quarterfinals, Centennial defeated the Blue Devils in last year's state championship game. While Centennial will take on a Tucson team in Glendale in the state semifinals, the Peoria Panthers (10-2), the No. 7 seed in the 4A Div-I ranks, will be headed to Tucson Nov. 30 as their 7 p.m. neutral-site game against No. 6 Tucson Canyon del Oro (11-1) will be at Tucson High School (400 N. Second Ave., Tucson). Canyon del Oro earned its semifinal bid with wins over No. 11 Cienega (38-7) and then last week 34-0 over No. 14 Prescott. Overall, the Doradoes have won eight straight games. Peoria, which has a five-game winning streak, earned its second consecutive semifinal berth with playoff victories over No. 10 Marana (30-12) and then 53-17 over No. 15 McClintock in last week's quarterfinals.

A Coconino County woman may have a deal to wear her "tea party'' shirt to her polling site, but that same shirt is "not appropriate," and would not be welcome at Valley polling sites, said Karen Osborne, director of elections for Maricopa County.

Two neutral-site games between the Suns and the Nuggets — one outdoors on an Indian Wells, Calif., tennis court (Oct. 11) and the other in the Carrier Dome (Oct. 17) at Syracuse, N.Y. — are the highlights of Phoenix’s eight-game exhibition schedule that was released Tuesday.

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic.

2013 Girls Soccer State Tournaments

2013 Boys Soccer State Tournament schedules

The rubber match between the Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe boys volleyball teams this season comes in the form of a first-round state playoff matchup with a neutral site.

Possible hazardous waste contamination at a gun range near northeast Mesa has prompted an investigation that some say is long overdue.

Boys volleyball state championship

Boys volleyball state tournament outlook

SAN ANTONIO - Lyrics performed by Pearl Jam criticizing President Bush should not have been censored from a webcast by AT&T Inc., a company spokesman acknowledged Thursday.

Danny White heard the Arena Football League will consider playing its championship game at a neutral site in the future, and he simply chuckled.

Few surprises emerged on the field during the state soccer tournaments. Favored teams that reached the final four last weekend (Brophy, Pinnacle girls, Xavier, both Hamilton teams and both Notre Dame squads) showing why they were top contenders.

A potentially hazardous chemical has been found in a septic tank at a Mesa gun range, where rumors of toxic waste dumping went unchecked for four years.

2A Girls

Other than anything containing the words “bubble” or “lock,” the most overused phrase on Selection Sunday might be “body of work.” There’s good reason why.

RICHMOND, Kentucky - The U.S. Army is expected to begin draining and neutralizing a container of lethal nerve agent on Wednesday, almost 15 months after a one-gallon (3.8-liter) leak was identified at a Kentucky storage site for chemical weapons.

Frolicking in the forest soon will be more convenient than ever. The Tonto National Forest is doing away with its automated fee collection machines, which sell visitors daily recreation passes and watercraft stickers for the forest’s recreation sites.

Frolicking in the forest soon will be more convenient than ever. The Tonto National Forest is doing away with its automated fee collection machines, which sell visitors daily recreation passes and watercraft stickers for the forest’s recreation sites.

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