All-Tribune First Team

Here are the local athletes expected to sign Letters of Intent with colleges beginning Wednesday. For additions, email varsity@evtrib.com and include the athlete's name, high school, sport and college of choice.

It took just four minutes for Pinnacle to set the tone in its first-round boys soccer state tournament match against Hamilton. The aggressive Pioneers parlayed a loose ball into an amazing bicycle kick goal by Mason Robertson to take an early lead.

In the eight years I’ve taken on the regular duty of reviewing movies, 2012 just might have been the best.

The early unveiling of this season’s high school boys soccer map isn’t too far removed from most of the past few years’ worth of championship geography.

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

Among many of Albert Schweitzer’s notable sayings is, "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

A Division IV football coach who saw Seton Catholic and Blue Ridge both in person and on film breaks down Friday night's state championship game at NAU Walkup Skydome in Flagstaff.

Predictions for the Division I, III and IV football championship games:

No. 1 Blue Ridge vs. No. 3 Seton Catholic

Once worse for the wear, Seton Catholic’s football team now feels stronger for enduring the proverbial spanking.

NEW YORK — If you just looked at the cast and crew of "Skyfall," you could easily confuse the assembled talent for a prestige costume drama. Director Sam Mendes, actors Judi Dench, Javier Bardem and Ralph Fiennes, and cinematographer Roger Deakins might just as easily be mounting a Shakespeare adaptation.

‘Cloud Atlas’

“Cloud Atlas” is a movie that you’re either going to walk out of within the first thirty minutes or watch repeatedly in order to analyze the meaning behind every scene.

Larry Cain had visions of being a head football coach one day.

Red Mountain quarterback Mason Thorman tied a big-school state record with six touchdowns passes to lead the Mountain Lions to a 56-13 rout over visiting Gilbert on Friday night.

Cuteness will carry an actor or actress a long way in Hollywood, usually right into those awkward teen years.

Gilbert Christian Knights

Are you ready for some football? It’s about that time, as Desert Vista kicks off the season in the Sollenberger Classic on Saturday, and almost everyone else begins on Aug. 24. Here are the Tribune’s preseason rankings for every division: