Tom Danehy

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Bigger is just more dangerous

1 week ago | tucsonweekly.com | Tom Danehy

Note to the guy who took up two parking spaces with your big-ass vulgar truck: Big isn’t always better. For example, you know that foaming rash you have in your groin area? You don’t want that to be bigger. It’s like there has been an explosion of big trucks on the road. They’re bigger, they’re longer, they’re wider, and they’re louder.
As Catholic as I’m gonna get

3 weeks ago | tucsonweekly.com | Tom Danehy

I’m Catholic, always have been, always will be. I guess it could be said that since my mother was born in Italy, my father was born in Ireland, and my wife’s ancestors come from Spain and Mexico, I’m an industrial-strength Catholic. But I don’t see it that way. I’m simply as Catholic as I can be and I’m not going to get Catholic-er. One of the problems that I’ve always had as a Catholic is that there is always somebody who thinks that they’re more Catholic than you.
Athlete of the Week: Kaia Siego

1 month ago | tucsonlocalmedia.com | Tom Danehy

Someday, I’ll do a full profile on Kaia Siego, an Amphi High freshman. She’s a straight-A student and a three-sport athlete whose personal tachometer is redlined at all times. However, right now, we’re going to take a closer look at a few weeks in the life of her left knee. She’s not really sure when she injured it. The knee was fine throughout the Panther football season, when Kaia was a varsity cheerleader.
Athlete of the Week: Eswin Reyes

1 month ago | tucsonlocalmedia.com | Tom Danehy

It’s a strange thing about rivalries these days. Back in the day, it was school vs. school in everything. Bisbee vs. Douglas, Amphi vs. Canyon Del Oro, Tucson High vs. Rincon. Now, it’s individual team vs. individual team. In girls’ basketball, it’s Sahuaro vs. Pueblo. In boys’ soccer, it’s Salpointe vs. Ironwood Ridge. And these days, in boys’ volleyball, it’s Flowing Wells vs. Catalina Foothills. Well, the Flowing Wells team aims to be competitive.
Basketball nirvana in Tucson

2 months ago | tucsonlocalmedia.com | Tom Danehy

Oh, what a night! And no, it wasn’t late December back in ’63. It was actually March 21, the day that is supposed to be the Vernal Equinox (the time when the center of the Sun and the equator align, marking the first day of spring, but almost never does). Because the Earth’s orbit is not a perfect ellipse, the Vernal Equinox will fall on March 20 nearly every year of this century. (In 2096, those of you who are still around will delight in the fact that it will occur on the March 19.
Athlete of the Week: Tarrell Reid

2 months ago | tucsonlocalmedia.com | Tom Danehy

Acouple weeks ago, we profiled Ironwood Ridge senior shortstop Keanu Bracamonte. He was adamant in expressing the collective desire of the Nighthawks baseball team to play a game against their neighbor and fellow Amphi District school, Canyon Del Oro. It’s certainly understandable, seeing as how CDO has been in the state championship game three straight years, winning twice and losing 2-1, last year to one of the best pitchers in the country.
Athlete of the Week: Jordan Crawford

2 months ago | tucsonlocalmedia.com | Tom Danehy

Jordan Crawford has a lawyer name: Jordan Crawford, Attorney at Law. Jordan has no interest in pursuing the law as a career. Instead, she wants to study psychology at the University of Oregon and use her degree to help people. Why Oregon? “I’m done with the Tucson heat.” Why psychology? “I’m taking AP psychology now and I love (the class). I find myself thinking about how my brain is working as I learn about how the brain works.”OK, that’s not strange at all.
AI, AI, Ewww!: This is a bunch of ‘stupid stuff

Mar 6, 2025 | tucsonweekly.com | Tom Danehy

I’m not sure how long it’s going to last, but we’re still in the nascent era of artificial intelligence and it is showing itself to be rather stupid. Just as early computers were limited by the maxim of garbage in/garbage out, today we’re dealing with AI gathering huge amounts of nonsense and trying to make sense of it. It’s like that bit that Steve Martin did back when he was a stand-up comedian.
Athlete of the Week: Keanu Bracamonte

Mar 5, 2025 | tucsonlocalmedia.com | Tom Danehy

You can likely learn a lot about someone by asking them to name their favorite Keanu Reeves movie. If they say, “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” their favored class in high school was probably chemistry (wink, wink). If they mention “Speed,” they might possess a twisted sense of humor, laughing every time Reeves tells Sandra Bullock, “You go to the University of Arizona?
A parade of rectums behind the wheel

Feb 20, 2025 | tucsonweekly.com | Tom Danehy

Most local politics — potholes, planning commissions, honoring individual citizens — can feel mundane, especially when compared to the Unholy Orgy of Clowns and Ignorance happening back east. However, some important issues still need to be addressed. The town of Marana is grappling with a local mess that resembles the Quintic, a legendary math problem that great thinkers over the centuries attempted to solve until it was ultimately proven that it couldn’t be solved.