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WHETHER INDIVIDUAL ARIZONA cities can compete against Dixie municipalities backed by state money promises to be a pivotal question in the spring training wars. Should Arizona...
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Wherever you go during spring training they talk about the great Ted Williams.
In my dream, I was still in high school. Our football practice field was at Macombs...
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Take 6 yawns and stretches. It is Friday, February 24, and the a cappella gospel-jazz-blues-soul-pop-doo-wop group is paying the price after winning two Grammys only 48...
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I have no political authority to do this, but I am hereby nominating the Wigwam Resort's Arizona Kitchen to be our official state restaurant. Here is an ultimate dining...
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For all the Normal Guys of the world who are forced by the circumstance of their employment to have a paging device clipped to their belt--and who hate every minute of...
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I blame Ronald Reagan for many things, but most of all I blame him for his polyp.
I remember his polyp almost as clearly as I remember his face. And during the...
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In Britain it's shaken up music, fashion and virtually the whole of U.K. youth culture. In Italy, its synthesis of classic funk samples and trippy techno-beats has been...
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Earl Platt leans his old body on his battered pickup and points to the mountains beyond his sprawling ranch in eastern Arizona.
It's way out there, he says, where...
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The young television producer was hesitant. He stood on the top step of the dugout. He looked down to where Jimmy Piersall was sitting.
"Jimmy, could you spare a...
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Who says blacks can't play rock 'n' roll? After a couple of listens to Living Colour, nobody in his right mind would say that.
Living Colour, an all-black rock...
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Investment bankers who specialize in handling government bond debt stand to make huge fees if the $8.5 billion ValTrans project is approved by voters later this month. So...
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I started out as a model parent. And I'd still be a model parent if my wife had had a hysterical pregnancy instead of a kid.
Before my son was born, the rules by...
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In 1923, circus czar and Florida land owner Charles Ringling decided a major league baseball team should do its spring training in Sarasota. With the help of Al Lang, the...
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I have never seen John Tower drunk.
Am I the only American who can say that?
Hell, even Earl de Berge saw Tower bombed on three occasions.
De Berge wrote...
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The Republic and Gazette's latest attempt to check the Mesa Tribune's growing influence in the sprawling East Valley hit the front lawns of subscribers February 27. But talk...
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If you asked I would have told you:
The University of Arizona may rank No. 1, but I don't see them making the Final Four.
Putting Kemper Marley on the cover ensures...
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The residents of Sun City and Sun City West just want some equity. But not too much.
To hear state Representative Nancy Wessel tell it, the huge retirement...
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In 1923, circus czar and Florida land owner Charles Ringling decided a major league baseball team should do its spring training in Sarasota. With the help of Al Lang, the...
