Kuhn, a former baseball commissioner, had perhaps never said so, certainly not in public, not about the owner who once labeled him "the village idiot."

Once labeled a "problem child," he took up karate to improve his range of motion after a shoulder injury sidelined him from high school football.

Still, I'm a "scorekeeper," as a friend once labeled me.

Unprovoked catastrophes: what ancient historians and jurists once labeled "acts of God."

And now, the newspaper that an analyst once labeled "the most unprofitable newspaper in the history of the world" is making money.

Washingtonian magazine once labeled him one of the city's "hired guns".

Wells employed two different ways of thinking about the future, which he once labelled undirected and directed thinking.

But now the flow reaches farther east, filling an area once labeled the Great American Desert.

People who live on a housing estate once labelled the worst in Europe are fighting to keep the headquarters of their community development project.

So why has the player that Mike Piazza once labeled "our silent assassin" suddenly spoken up?