That same shoulder cost him more than a month earlier this season. Newsday says that surgery has not been ruled out yet, and that if an operation is required, Posada will miss the rest of the season.
Since returning from the DL on June 5, Posada has been limited in his catching duties, playing mostly as [...]
This is it. For the final time in his long career, Dale Jarrett will strap in a NASCAR stock car and take the green flag. The 1999 Cup champion last competed in a points-paying race at Bristol in March, but this Saturday’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race will be Jarrett’s final race.
“When I got out at [...]
Dr Albert Hofmann, who died last week, was the inventor of LSD. But he was not merely a chemist. He was a revolutionary.
Hofmann changed the way a whole generation looked at the world. This is the sort of statement that is customarily made about thinkers and scientists of the stature of, say, Marx or Einstein. [...]
At 90kg and 1.83m tall, the 30-year-old immigration officer doesnt look like the type of guy who could drop someone with a lightning kick to the head.
And hes hoping giants such as 2m-tall world champion Daba Modibo Keita, of Mali, and French beast Pascal Gentil share that sentiment.
I know exactly where I am in my [...]
In fact the Wellingtonian believes it could be one of his biggest weapons when he competes at the Beijing Olympics.
At 90kg and 1.83m tall, the 30-year-old immigration officer doesnt look like the type of guy who could drop someone with a lightning kick to the head.
And hes hoping giants such as 2m-tall world champion Daba [...]
The panel nobody noticed — or needed.
The story earlier this week on the Governor’s Commission on
Discrimination and Hate Crimes begged the age-old,
tree-falling-in-the-forest question: If a commission never meets,
does anyone notice?
The commission hasn’t met in two years, because it fell apart
after the director, Kimberly M. White, invited the members to hear
a speech by her boss, Nation [...]
Sure, a win against the Chiefs at Westpac Stadium is important in the context of the push to make the Super 14 playoffs, but victory will not be enough.
The Hurricanes have to also woo their fans back.
Thousands of punters who had paid for a ticket didnt bother to turn up for last weeks match against [...]
Sure, a win against the Chiefs at Westpac Stadium is important in the context of the push to make the Super 14 playoffs, but victory will not be enough.
The Hurricanes have to also woo their fans back.
Thousands of punters who had paid for a ticket didnt bother to turn up for last weeks match against [...]
The crinkly Christchurch taxi drivers informative commentary on most things Canterbury fell into a giant hole on the trip to Cowles Stadium when I said I was checking out the first-year Australian womens national league franchise.
Never heard of them, mate, he confessed. The majority of the mainstream sports media had already mirrored Rons failure to [...]
Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek demonstrated acute man management
skills last week when calling on European-based stars for a
hit-and-run win over Qatar but he also showed his smarts with the
players he left behind.
Verbeek declined to call on Nick Carle and Mile Sterjovski after
both players signed for new clubs last month, and also let Michael
Beauchamp and Harry Kewell [...]
