Originally published in Tribune Sports on March 5, 2006

The saying used to go that you couldn’t tell the players without a scorecard. These days you can’t spell the players’ names without tildes and accented vowels.

The saying used to go that you couldn’t tell the players without a scorecard. These days you can’t spell the players’ names without tildes and accented vowels.

The saying used to go that you couldn’t tell the players without a scorecard. These days you can’t spell the players’ names without tildes and accented vowels.

Before Cox, DirecTV and DISH Network were competing for customers in the East Valley, CableAmerica was in Mesa offering cable television service.

January 19, 2005

Sixty-four years ago, on Dec. 7, 1941, a dozing United States abruptly and violently began its transformation into a global superpower. That morning, memorialized by President Franklin Roosevelt as "a date which will live in infamy," the Japanese navy launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor that had been a year in the planning. It was a brilliant tactical victory and a fatal strategic blunder.

It is so far beyond my comprehension or understanding how unbelievably gullible almost half of America still is.

Hosur Road in Bangalore — India’s Silicon Valley and America’s back office — is dilapidated and dangerous. Cows sacred to Hindus nose through burning garbage. Bodies, dead, drunk or sick, sprawl in gutters as a mass of humanity teems above them.

We’re battle worn. The past two years of campaigns were no less hostile than Hurricane Sandy. Election pundits tell us we’re a nation divided and stuck in this place. All the while, the critical mass of the big government crowd has taken control. We’ve been told this day would come, and it has.

It is hard now to remember the feeling that swept over our country five years ago. Our country, our people, had suffered a devastating and destructive attack by a shadowy but malignant force whose motivations we struggled to understand.

October 20, 2004

This country has truly changed, and I believe there will be no going back. Hate lost on Election Day. That is amazing in and of itself. Add to that all the women who were elected and you have a total rebuke of Neanderthal attitudes.

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Roger Clemens was looking for a much better finish to his brilliant career. Clemens pitched well Thursday night, but a lineup loaded with All-Stars couldn’t get the job done for the United States.

DETROIT - For generations, General Motors fueled America's love affair with the automobile, building cars that defined their owners' status in life and the industrial might of the nation. But less than a year after entering its second century, the company that survived wars, international rivalry and even the Great Depression is being driven by the government into bankruptcy court.

Mike Reagan: Last Thursday marked the 31st anniversary of the Iranian Islamic Revolution. Iranian leaders, including the state's religious leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, have decided to "festively" commemorate this anniversary by vowing to deliver a powerful punch to the West.

As we celebrate the Fourth of July this weekend, it’s the perfect time to recognize America’s culinary heritage. From New England clam chowder to Cajun gumbo to Texas beef brisket, the United States enjoys a gastronomic diversity few countries, if any, can rival.

"I'm quite new to this whole press package," admits British actor Tom Weston-Jones, conducting an interview on a bustling street with buses and foot traffic zipping by rather than talking indoors, where a party's noise level is not much better.

TORONTO - Derek Jeter is taking this tournament personally. Chipper Jones and Jake Peavy are, too.

I voted from abroad for the first time in almost 30 years of voting. I watched with trepidation and hope from abroad.

British wit Graham Norton never set out to be a talk-show host.

Shame on America’s liberal journalists

A sad day for not only Arizonans but for all Americans. Another heroic U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in the line of duty. Words of condolence to the family of officer Brian Terry seem so inadequate at this time. The agents of the U.S. Border Patrol perform the front-line defense of America’s borders. Theirs is a thankless job. They are reviled and demeaned by the left-wing liberals as racist bigots. Yet I, as a Mexican-American, have only been treated with courtesy and respect whenever I have crossed back to the United States.