Tucson Unified School District students now have a healthy way to spend their fall break this November. Hint: it involves bikes. Check it out.

A Tucson resident goes to Burning Man and comes back with some photos of amazing bikes.

For the second year bikes and art collide in the VelociPrint show. Check out what it is and how to get some great art.

There's about three weeks left in the regular season for Major League baseball, and at this point the vast majority of teams' fan bases have given up on their annual overembellished hopes of a World Series title.

That includes you, Diamondbacks fans. Stop kidding yourself: they're 10 games behind the Giants for first place in the NL West with 20 to go, and at five back in the wild card standings they'd need to leapfrog four other teams to get into the playoffs. Ain't. Gonna. Happen.

That's why it's time to bite the bullet, suck it up and look to the future. The future that came today in the form of the 2013 schedule announcement!

Arizona opens the 2013 slate at home on April 1 (nope, this isn't an early April Fool's Day joke) against the St. Louis Cardinals. The D-Backs will close out next season with three games against the Washington Nationals Sept. 27-29.

In between is the usual flotsam and jetsam of games against the National League West, but there's also some very intriguing highlights. First and foremost: a Memorial Day (May 27) doubleheader at home against the Texas Rangers. That's followed by a day off, then two games in two days at Texas.

Those interleague matchups are part of the quirky 2013 schedule for all of MLB, as Houston's move from the NL to the American League means interleague games will occur all season instead of just a block in May-June.

Arizona's other interleague foes all hail from the AL East, with the D-Backs hosting Tampa Bay and Baltimore in August and Toronto in September (including Labor Day), while visiting the New York Yankees in mid-April, Tampa in late July and Boston in early August.

For fans of other teams not named Arizona, the Los Angeles Dodgers come to Phoenix April 12-14, July 8-10 and Sept. 16-18, while the Chicago Cubs will make their visit July 22-25.

Next year's gonna be awesome! That's what all you downtrodden D-Backs are thinking now, huh? Much better than lamenting the current team's 2-games-under-.500 record.

i knew oklahoma state coming off a 81-0 victory was gonna lose to UofA
— vince vallejo(@wookiee14) September 9, 2012

Shockingly, this wasn't the most ridiculous thing that popped up on Twitter immediately following the University of Arizona's upset victory over then-nationally-ranked Oklahoma State last Saturday. And so you didn't have to, I took the liberty of culling these winning tweets from all over the Twittersphere immediately following the game last week.

You're welcome, Tucson. Check 'em out after the jump.

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brandon Ayanbedejo recently appeared in a video for Marylanders for Marriage Equality, expressing his support for an initiative that would legalize same-sex marriage. He recently ran into a bit of conflict from Maryland state delegate, Emmett C. Burns Jr., who wrote to Ayanbedejo's employer, Ravens owner Steve Biscotti, requesting that he "inhibit such expressions from his employee."

That's where Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe comes in. Kluwe, over the past year or so, has made a name for himself outside of punting as an occasional writer and commenter on the sports blog, Deadspin. As a proponent of gay marriage himself, Kluwe decided to craft an absolutely shredding response to Burns.

Here's the second point of his open response to Burns, published on Deadspin — fair warning, it gets a little vulgar in there.

2. "Many of your fans are opposed to such a view and feel it has no place in a sport that is strictly for pride, entertainment, and excitement." Holy fucking shitballs. Did you seriously just say that, as someone who's "deeply involved in government task forces on the legacy of slavery in Maryland"? Have you not heard of Kenny Washington? Jackie Robinson? As recently as 1962 the NFL still had segregation, which was only done away with by brave athletes and coaches daring to speak their mind and do the right thing, and you're going to say that political views have "no place in a sport"? I can't even begin to fathom the cognitive dissonance that must be coursing through your rapidly addled mind right now; the mental gymnastics your brain has to tortuously contort itself through to make such a preposterous statement are surely worthy of an Olympic gold medal (the Russian judge gives you a 10 for "beautiful oppressionism").

Head over to Deadspin if you want to read the rest — it's a fun read.

• Students stop at an intersection on the University of Arizona campus.

A local mountain bike advocacy group is set to partner with an international group. Check out the details.

When a bicyclists gets behind the wheel, often their greatest fear is crashing into a cyclist or pedestrian.

University of Arizona softball great Jennie Finch turns 32 today, 10 years removed from setting an NCAA record with 60 consecutive wins. Since leaving the UA, Finch has won two Olympic medals in softball, including a gold in the 2004 Athens games, played pro fast-pitch softball, unsuccessfully advocated for the return of softball to the Olympic Games, married current minor-league pitcher and former Tucson Sidewinder Casey Daigle and become the mother of two children (with a third on the way).

With all of that in mind, let's watch her throw a fastball that destroys a piece of technology made specifically to test the force of things hitting it really, really hard.

Happy birthday, Jennie.

Several passengers in a car sent their dog to attack a bicycle commuter. Find out what the police didn't do.

A national bike-commuting retailer is relocating to Tucson, and they also launched a way to help people ditch their cars.

A new safety class is targeting UA students to help them navigate campus and the new streetcar track. You'll also get some free gear.

The voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Vin Scully, announced yesterday that he would return next year for his 64th season behind the microphone.

LA's KTLA Channel 5 had an anchor do a rundown of some of the accomplishments of the greatest sports announcer who has ever lived. And then this happened.

• Photo by Nate Woiwode

The summer photo contest is over, and Labybird the dog was the big winner. See which photos won second and third place.

A local mountain-bike organization awarded the first of 10 grants to a local elementary. Check out what they will use the money for.

A pedestrian was struck and killed this week by a police officer responding to a call. See where it happened.

• Jim Nintzel

Well, the Padres might have had one the weirdest rain-outs ever yesterday when the Colorado Springs Sky Sox got stuck in Vegas, but the team has made it to Tucson for tonight's game, which starts at 7:05 p.m. at Kino Stadium.

But you can get into the ballpark as early as 6 p.m, since it also happens to be the last Thirsty Thursday of the season (co-sponsored by your friends at Tucson Weekly), so why not get out to a ballgame for some cheap drinks and plenty of fun? Details on tickets here.

Lots of other fun is on tap this weekend as the Padres wrap up their final homestand of the season, including a big giveaway on Friday night (which will now be a double-header to make up yesterday's game), fireworks on Saturday night and the final Bark in the Park on Sunday night.

As an added bonus. two local Olympians will be throwing out the first pitch. From the Padres' Tim Hagerty:

The Tucson Padres are welcoming two local Olympians from the recently concluded Summer Olympics in London to throw out ceremonial first pitches before Thursday’s game against Colorado Springs. Women’s swimmer Alyssa Anderson and Men’s swimmer Clark Burckle are both former University of Arizona swimmers who competed for the United States teams last month.