All-Tribune Girls Track First Team

PHILADELPHIA — The City of Brotherly Love is perhaps best known for its Colonial roots but locals will tell you there's much more to explore in this city of 1.5 million people. Options abound for travelers looking for free things to do in and around the historic district and beyond — and they don't all involve tri-corner hats and Betsy Ross' flag.

Even Madison Clarke’s mother is in admiration.

Georganne Moline finishes second in final of 400 hurdles as winner sets NCAA record.

The best-selling author of “The Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” Kahled Hosseini, stops at Tempe’s Changing Hands Bookstore to read from and sign his latest novel: “And the Mountains Echoed.”

Most foot races take place early in the morning or at sunset, when temperatures start to lower — but not this race. The first-ever Beat the Heat race will begin at 2:47 p.m., the time when, on June 26, 1990, temperatures reached 122 degrees, the hottest recorded temperature the Valley has ever endured.

All-Tribune First Team

This weekend, Chandler husband-and-wife team Chad and Erin Romanoff celebrate the one-year anniversary of their vintage silver food truck — The Uprooted Kitchen. Appearing weekly at Gilbert Farmers Market and Food Truck Friday in Phoenix, the Romanoff’s “restaurant on wheels” is a true gem found right in our own backyard.

There have been highs and lows from the 2012-2013 athletic year.

Spring sprang, and now summer has set in.

PHOENIX — Obstacle course runners start on their feet, but eventually end up on their stomachs, sides, even backs at they clamber through mud, over shipping containers, across netting made of mangled ropes.

Austin Schnabel had his pitches working but needed a little luck to give Notre Dame its first baseball state title.

With a deep inhale and wide smile, Jordan Beck let out the worst-kept secret in Arizona high school softball, and came as close as anyone wearing black and red to acknowledging the history that’s been made on the east end of Brown Road.

Never a doubt.

A quick breakdown of Monday night's Division I softball state championship matchup between No. 14 Chaparral and No. 6 Red Mountain:

A lone, painted white bicycle sits at the side of Usery Park Road near Bush Highway.

It took six school years, but Williams Field now has a championship trophy to call its own.

The 2013 Arizona track and field championships started to resemble 2012 a little too closely for Devon Allen’s liking.

The pendulum of momentum swung back and forth several times in the sixth inning of Thursday’s winners’ bracket baseball game between No. 1 Desert Mountain and No. 2 Tucson.

Maybe the hat on Sam Messina’s head is less about uniform attire and more to cover the continuous discoloration of his hair.

Sunday was not a day of rest for Bre Macha.

Darkness can be paralyzing.

It’s Red Mountain and Mountain View in a Division I state tournament semifinal on Wednesday night, which means there’s not much left to say other than “Let’s play.”

The Chaparral Firebirds broke open a scoreless game on a bases-loaded error at the plate as pitcher Dallas McBride held off the Mountain Ridge Mountain Lions for a 2-0 win in its elimination game Tuesday.