| Carcillo returns for Coyotes
I don't think the word 'fear' is in his language, so I'm not too worried about him being worried about it," Gretzky said. "He'll play the same way. He'll be hungry, and he'll give us that energy. It's good to see him back in the lineup. He'll give us that extra burst. And when we have a little bit of a lull, he seems to fire the guys up with either a good hit or a fight. He's a big part of our team." Carcillo had a rash of penalty minutes early in the season but reined in some of that aggression and became more of a complete player. He started the game on the fourth line with Mike York and Niko Kapanen. Also returning from a stint in San Antonio was defenseman Matt Jones, who was in the lineup Tuesday. Ice chips The Coyotes put center Mike Zigomanis on waivers before the game. If he is not claimed today, he was expected to be sent to San Antonio.
Valley restaurants expect full houses
I'm anticipating a lot of business." At the Tee Pee in Phoenix, Zip Killeen is also bracing for crowds hungry for Mexican food. Killeen is making regular customers his priority. "They're the ones who put me on the map," he said of his 48-year history. "They're the ones who make the Tee Pee." Restaurants near University of Phoenix Stadium, home of Super Bowl XLII, could be the busiest. NoRTH , a Fox restaurant in Glendale, has found its phone ringing off the hook with reservations from both locals and visitors. Fox Restaurant Concepts marketing director Debbie Porter said NoRTH Glendale expects to be full from lunch Thursday through Super Bowl Sunday. Rosemarie Hoffmann, owner of Haus Murphy's in Glendale, 10 minutes from the stadium, can't predict the size of her crowd but guesses her classic German restaurant will be packed.
Home Foreclosure Rate Soars in 2007
Some properties may have received more than one notice if the owners had multiple mortgages.A late-year surge in the number of properties reporting foreclosure filings suggests that many are in the initial stages of the foreclosure process and could end up lost to foreclosure this year unless lenders or the government steps in, RealtyTrac said."It does appear that we're seeing a new batch of properties enter the process," said Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac's vice president of marketing.RealtyTrac is forecasting that the pace of foreclosure filings will remain steady, rather than accelerate during the first half of 2008."Assuming nothing else bad happens economically ... we will have exhausted the bulk of the worst-performing loans by the end of June," Sharga said, referring to adjustable-rate mortgage loans made to borrowers with poor credit.Many of these subprime loans defaulted last year, triggering a credit crisis and saddling major financial institutions with losses.More than 1.8 million subprime mortgages are scheduled to reset to higher interest rates this year and next.Last year's explosion in foreclosure activity came amid a worsening housing downturn, as falling home values ate into homeowners' equity, making it harder for many to refinance into more affordable loans or to find buyers.
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