The scenes were about 20 miles and three hours apart on Thursday, but nonetheless felt much the same.

Ninety feet is the perfect distance between bases, but on Thursday afternoon it must have felt more like 90 miles for Mountain Pointe.

Mountain Pointe has made it to the final four of the baseball season for the fourth time since 2008.

Ahwatukee is a pretty tight community especially when sports involved.

At one point it looked like Mountain Pointe’s boys baseball team might win its Division I first-round playoff game in a blowout.

Brantley Bell has been around a couple of championship celebrations, but he wants one more in a Mountain Pointe uniform before heading to the next stage of his career.

The major league scouts who surrounded Mountain Pointe’s baseball field on Tuesday should have come back Wednesday morning to truly see what Zach Cordova is about.

A spider crawls up the leg of 18-year-old India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) early in Park Chan-wook's English-language debut, "Stoker," and she regards it passively, intrigued.

One of my freelance gigs I have is covering the Chicago Cubs in spring training and it involves being at the ballpark early enough to see infield practice.

The Notre Dame Women’s Golf Team, in conjunction with Longbow Golf Club and Visit Mesa, will host the 2013 Notre Dame Clover Cup, a 54-hole women’s collegiate invitational golf tournament featuring 16 teams to be contested March 8-10.

If you had told me a month ago that my Oscar predictions would look anything like this, I probably would have advised you to go do a little more research. “Argo” poised for the Best Picture win sans a Best Director nod? Unthinkable. Emmanuelle Riva and Naomi Watts as viable Best Actress contenders against youthful powerhouses like Jennifer Lawrence and Jessica Chastain? You’re pulling my leg.

The presidents of the state’s three universities came to the Capitol Tuesday hoping to salvage at least some of the funds they told the governor and lawmakers they need.

The presidents of the state's three universities came to the Capitol Tuesday hoping to salvage at least some of the funds they told the governor and lawmakers they need.

The presidents of the state's three universities came to the Capitol Tuesday hoping to salvage at least some of the funds they told the governor and lawmakers they need.

The Oscar season is customarily kicked off by the Academy president and a random star solemnly announcing the nominees in a drab ceremony. The Academy decided to shake up tradition this year, however, in one of the most cheerful Oscar mornings we’ve ever had. Seth MacFarlane, director of “Ted” and this year’s Oscar host, announced the nominees Thursday morning alongside the invaluable Emma Stone, who had the funniest bit at last year’s Oscar ceremony. MacFarlane and Stone made for an outstanding duo, engaging in playful banter about each of the categories. Even when one of their jokes didn’t quite hit the mark, MacFarlane and Stone still looked like they were having a genuine ball on stage. That’s more than can be said about Anne Hathaway and James Franco when they hosted the Oscars two years ago.

‘Silver Linings Playbook’

Everyone can agree that Ridley Scott’s “Alien” is a science fiction classic, which combined a visionary future with genuine thrills. “Aliens” was one of the rare sequels that was just as good as the first. The film was so well received that it even made leading lady Sigourney Weaver an Oscar nominee. The series took a wrong step in “Alien 3” though, despite being directed by the then unknown David Fincher. Once “Alien: Resurrection” came along, it became clear that this franchise had gone completely off the tracks. It was game over, man, game over. Those two “Alien vs. Predator” movies didn’t help either.

Snow White has been mesmerizing moviegoers and TV watchers with a smile and a song -- and, now, a sword -- since 1937, when Disney released its first full-length animated feature.