Columnist Rosters

Stuart: A cup-ple observations about soccer (Rushville Republican)

24 Jul 2008

Neither heat nor downpours nor more stinkin’ heat nor stinkin’ hot downpours have kept me from finishing my latest summer vacation by watching No. 4 son play in a soccer tournament. But they have kept me from writing a new column.

Jason A. Kline's Waiting by the Lake: Spring training question marks were on the money, even if answers weren't (Mansfield News Journal)

20 Jul 2008

The Cleveland Indians brass might publicly disagree, but a lot more went wrong with the Tribe this season than just injuries and bad bullpen that, like sabermetric folks like to say, regressed to the mean. For this fan, the best place to start and the worst place to start are the same. In a regretful, bizarro-world exercise I'm already regretting, a quick look through the News Journal archives ...

U.S. game is richer for Reyna (Sun-Sentinel)

20 Jul 2008

Claudio Reyna turns 35 today, an age when he could still play for a top-flight club, and perhaps even his country, if not for the injuries that effectively ended his career last week in New York.