Mets reliever Matt Wise will seek a second opinion on the team’s right rotator cuff tendinitis diagnosis that landed him on the 15-day disabled list on Tuesday.
Wise’s current ailment, he said, is related to a nerve problem in the back of his shoulder that makes his arm feel as if he’s “throwing underwater.” Word from [...]

aura Casey is facing the reality of turning off life-support for her husband, Seamus Casey, after the celebrated young Christchurch opera singer was hit by a car, leaving him in a coma in Sydney.
Casey, 27, attended Burnside High School and did a Diploma of Performing Arts at the Hagley Theatre Company before moving offshore to [...]

%26quot;We hope our study provides a tool for better treatments of neurological diseases, diagnosis, prognosis during therapy, and improved delivery of therapeutic agents to the brain,%26quot; said Philip Liu of Harvard, one of the researchers involved in the study. Liu also said that more research is necessary to determine exactly how these gene probes reach [...]

In just days the games facelift will be revealed and it should expose a bright future.
The ANZ Championship will be fast, it will be tough and it will be physical %26mdash; all the trademarks of a traditional Australia v New Zealand test match %26mdash; and it will make for some damn good viewing in the [...]

Williams’ tears have dried up. The early prognosis was wrong. The Kansas transfer was back on the court in January, and he’s now pain-free for the first time in years.The 6-foot-11 Padgett’s return to form has coincided with Louisville’s best play of the season, with 11 wins in 13 games. The third-seeded Cardinals now hope [...]

On the night train from Delhi to Kolkata, trying to persuade myself to sleep, I started to count the Indian railway journeys I’d made. I reached 100 or so and then gave up. So many journeys, so many early-morning cigarettes smoked over tea [...]