| Heart disease impacts local patients, too | | Posted Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:12:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | GRAND RAPIDS -- As he watches new coverage of the passing of Bo Schembechler, the former football coach's story touches the heart of 75-year-old Jack Carroll. Despite never meeting Schembechler, Carroll and the late coach had something in common - Carroll has an implantable cardiac device in his chest, similar to one the coach had in his. "When my heart, for example, if it stops this device will kick in and get your heart back in rhythm again," Carroll said. Doctors said when Schembechler's heart failed, it was simply too weak to respond to the pacemaker. "It gave him a total of 11 shocks, and despite the 11 shocks there was no response from the heart muscle," said Dr. Shukri David, chief of cardiology at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Mich.... | |
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| | | Golf: Woods has his No. 1 fan | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:11:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | Tiger Woods found at least one spectator in the throng around him at the Champions tournament on Thursday who could relate to being a multimillionaire dominating his sport: Roger Federer. Two months after Woods watched Federer win the U.S. Open, the top-ranked golfer failed to draw the same inspiration from his tennis counterpart. Federer is in Shanghai for the season-ending Tennis Masters Cup, which starts Sunday. .... | |
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| | | Mohr part of a growing international presence | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:20:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | THE MEDIA HYPE about the two games each season between the Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys is nothing new for fans in the Philadelphia area. But imagine if you were an Eagle and knew absolutely nothing about the rivalry. That's the feeling Eagles practice-squad defensive end Christian Mohr had last month during Cowboys week, when the Eagles' locker room and practice facility were bombarded by dozens of local, national and international journalists. "That was crazy," said Mohr, one of eight NFL Europe players taking part in the NFL International Development Practice Squad program this season. "In Germany, if you grow up interested in football, you know a couple players in the game. Now, all of a sudden, you're involved in that because you're on the team.... | |
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| | | Domestic sport | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:29:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Former world boxing champion Jeff Fenech won't know for another six months whether he'll be sent to jail for allegedly stealing three watches from a Gold Coast fashion boutique. In Southport Magistrates Court on Thursday, magistrate Graham Lee adjourned Fenech's case until May 16 when a two-day committal hearing will begin. Fenech, 42, was excused from appearing at the brief mention. His defence lawyer Bill Potts had made a submission to police for the charge of stealing to be downgraded to unlawfully taking away shop goods, which carries a fine as a maximum penalty. Stealing carries up to seven years' jail. Police prosecutors have rejected Potts' submission, meaning Fenech still faces a jail term if found guilty of the stealing charge.... | |
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| | | VICTORY RIGHT ON CUE FOR ROBERTSON | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:30:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | Royal London Watches Grand Prix winner Neil Robertson has revealed his first ranking event title success has made him hungrier to win more honours. But the popular Melbourne player admitted he came close to quitting the game when he was a teenager and recalled a miserable moment when he tried to snap his cue in half. "There was one point when I was 19 when I just got fed up with it (the game) and got fed up with the tour. "I was practising with the rest and actually tried to break my cue," Robertson said. "It's an amazing story really. Because I'm so far away it just seems like a dream (being a snooker professional and winning a ranking event title). You think it's never going to happen. "You have to commit so much and sacrifice so much.... | |
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| | | Consumer Madness Goes Berserk | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:28:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | The furious wave of Dussehra and Diwali shopping that India is witnessing has left many people stunned with disbelief. Never before has the country's middle-class consumer indulged in such a frenzied pursuit of pleasure through the acquisition of "lifestyle"-related goods-from pricey cars to diamonds, from internationally branded clothing (Mango, Dolce & Gabbana and Fendi) to luxury watches, and from super-expensive chocolates to bathroom fixtures that cost lakhs of rupees. Cities across the board reported unprecedented traffic jams during Diwali. The frenzy didn't leave even the lower middle class untouched. Industry sources estimate that the August-November season will see a 30 percent year-over-year spurt in the sales of branded products. For instance, LG-Electronics surpassed its sales target for the current season, itself set 55 percent higher than last year's.... | |
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| | | Rejuvenated Ronnie goes on the attack | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:18:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ronnie O'Sullivan blazed his way into the quarter-finals of the Royal London Watches Grand Prix - and then declared he wanted to be like Billy the Kid. The Rocket came out firing as he romped to a 5-2 win over former UK champion David Gray. Read more: Snooker's tears for golden boy Hunter And having revealed he has rediscovered his love for snooker, O'Sullivan stressed he will not be changing his natural attacking game. 'I want to be like Billy the Kid,' said O'Sullivan. 'A lot of snooker players are too intense and serious. 'You can catch it off them. It's like a lurgy which goes around if you hang around them too much. You kind of become them - you get cloned without knowing it. 'You end up being like them and I've got to be careful not to be.... | |
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| | | Anoai's mom wrestles with violent game | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:12:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | Joe Anoai never told his mother the full story behind his desire to take up football. The 7-year-old had just watched his best friend, Henry, strap on a helmet and run head first into a wall. And if Henry did it, Joe wanted to, too. So, he ran home, burst through the kitchen door, pointed down the street of his Pensacola, Fla., neighborhood toward Henry's house, caught his breath and stammered: "Oh . . . mom . . . I want . . . to play . . . football." He left out the part about head-butting walls. And for a good reason. His mother, Lisa Anoai was - and still is - "very cautious and paranoid about her kids." Even today she watches her son play for Georgia Tech with her hands glued to her face, peering through her fingers at him.... | |
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| | | Higgins Confident Of Defending Title | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 3:12:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | John Higgins is hoping home support will help guide him to a successful Grand Prix title defence. The 'Wizard of Wishaw' returns to the green baize after a two-month absence when the second ranking event of the season, the Royal London Watches Grand Prix, gets under way at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on Saturday. "The crowds are always very good in Scotland and the home crowd always want a Scottish winner," revealed Higgins. "Looking back over my career the Grand Prix is the first professional tournament I ever won - and I think I've won the Grand Prix four times all in all. "It's just a very special tournament and I have very fond memories of playing in it and for some reason seem to do well there." This year's Grand Prix is being staged in Aberdeen for the first time and Higgins, like many of the other Scottish stars competing, can't wait to play on home turf.... | |
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| | | Downeast Cyclo-cross/Verge NECCS #2 - C2 | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:14:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | The first couple of New England cyclocross swept the top of the podium for the weekend with wins in the Elite Women's and Men's races on day two of the Downeast Cyclocross, round #2 of the Verge New England Championship Cyclo-cross Series. Lyne Bessette (Cyclocrossworld.com) was well warmed and ready to go for the women's race after having competed in the men's B race just beforehand. After the start and the first tour in the woods, she and Katerina Nash (Luna) renewed their battles from yesterday in the front of the field with the rest of the riders left to chase. Unlike yesterday however, Bessette could not get rid of Nash, as the two battled back and forth throughout the race. Bessette was in this position last weekend at Gloucester, when she was beaten by Georgia Gould after leading her the entire race.... | |
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