EastValleyTribune.com/Get Out's Mandy Zajac and Stephanie Perrault share ideas on weekend fun in the Valley of the Sun!

The amount of emotion that poured out of Rachel Ressler nearly matched the sweat and dedication she put into her Desert Vista soccer career.

The worn boxing gloves and yellowed punching bags tell only part of the story.

Desert Vista girls volleyball coach Molly West might have summed up the day the best.

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

The accolades from a state championship berth are starting to roll in for Mountain Pointe.

The MRI on Zack Tamburo’s bum leg returned over the weekend and the injury is back to the original diagnosis.

If the saying "defense wins championships" is true then Desert Vista took a step forward as it goes for a second straight Division l state championship.

They are the kind of players Mike Rowe could hang out with on his show popular show “Dirty Jobs.”

There will be limited closures along Phoenix-area freeways this weekend for improvement work, including Loop 303 construction north of Interstate 10 in the West Valley. The Arizona Department of Transportation recommends drivers allow extra travel time and consider alternate routes while the following restrictions are in place:

When Tommy Filler moved from one dust bowl town to another as an engineer in 1982, he was an analog man living in a world of dials and gauges that covered the cockpits of helicopters used by the military during the threat against the Soviet Union.

Drivers who normally use State Route 143 (Hohokam Expressway) to access Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport or for travel between McDowell Road and Interstate 10 are urged to use alternate routes this weekend. Staggered closures are scheduled this weekend as crews prepare to open two new ramps linking SR 143 with Sky Harbor Boulevard. The new ramps are scheduled to open Monday (March 5) to improve connections on the airport’s east side. The Arizona Department of Transportation recommends drivers allow extra travel time and consider alternate routes while the following restrictions are in place:

Every year for the last 20 years, Jack Heidemann has kept up a tradition of doing something his mind and body tells him he still can do, even if he knows it's not quite on the same level as it used to be.

With TV shows like AMC’s “The Walking Dead” starting up again Sunday, and students at ASU Polytechnic set to enact a zombie outbreak in a days-long game called Humans vs. Zombies, fascination with zombies is a pop culture phenomenon. If you can’t get enough, fear not: The zombie furor is alive — er, undead — and well in the Valley.

With TV shows like AMC’s “The Walking Dead” starting up again Sunday, and students at ASU Polytechnic set to enact a zombie outbreak in a days-long game called Humans vs. Zombies, fascination with zombies is a pop culture phenomenon. If you can’t get enough, fear not: The zombie furor is alive — er, undead — and well in the Valley.