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WG Grace

Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time, WG Grace had the honor of captaining England, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, the Gentlemen, MCC, the United South of England Eleven, and several other teams. One of the greatest things about this English cricketer was that he excelled at all the essential skills of batting, bowling, and fielding.

Born 18 July 1848 at Downend, near Bristol, this opening batsman scored 1,098 runs in 22 tests and 54,896 runs in 878 first class games. The bowling skills of WG Grace can be measured by the fact that he took five-wicket in an innings 246 times and ten-wicket in a match 66 times along with 887 catches as a fielder and 5 stumping as a wicketkeeper (all first class games). His innings of 344 for MCC v Kent at Canterbury in August 1876 season was the first triple century scored in first-class cricket. Grace was the sole recipient of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year award for 1896, which was the first of only three times that Wisden has restricted the award to a single player.

WG Grace died on 23 October 1915, aged 67, because of his heart attack and he is buried in the family grave at Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery, Kent.

A small study has suggested that a small amount of weight could be taken off and blood sugar control can be steadied in people with type 2 diabetes by engaging in gentle yoga classes.

“In our study the effect of yoga on BMI (body mass index) and blood sugar control was marginal,” Shreelaxmi V. Hegde of the Srinivas Institute of Medical Science and Research Center in Mangalore, India and the lead researcher on the work, told Reuters Health in an email.

From Reuters.com:

In addition to that, the study found, signs of so-called oxidative stress declined in the yoga group.

Oxidative stress refers to a situation where levels of reactive oxygen species or “free radicals” — damaging byproducts of energy use in cells — rise beyond the body’s capacity to neutralize them. Long-term oxidative stress is believed to contribute to a host of chronic diseases.

The findings do not suggest that yoga should replace other forms of exercise for people with type 2 diabetes.

The findings were reported in the journal Diabetes Care.

“There’s no anger toward anybody over there,” said the Jets wide receiver, now on the other side of the New York-New Jersey-area rivalry. “Everything that happened to me, I brought it upon myself.”

From NYTimes.com:

The fines by the team. The disagreements with coach Tom Coughlin. His release in April 2009. The 20-month prison sentence he served for accidentally shooting himself in a Manhattan nightclub.

Some fans and media believed the Giants had a good chance of going back to the Super Bowl before that incident. They finished 12-4, but lost to Philadelphia in the divisional round of the playoffs.

“We had a really good team, there’s no doubt about it,” he said. “We definitely had some special players. We had a good thing going. It’s unfortunate that everything happened the way that it did.

“Everything went well. It was a great meeting. Business is business, and now I’m over here,” Burress said.

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way. – Oprah Winfrey (1954 – ), O Magazine, August 2004

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. – Paul Dudley White

Pain (any pain–emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: “We would be more alive if we did more of this,” and, “Life would be more lovely if we did less of that.” Once we get the pain’s message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away. – Peter McWilliams, Life 101

If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it’s time to switch doctors. – Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 08-21-06

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution. – Jay Leno (1950 – )

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are. – Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05-04-05

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.  – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It’s also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be. -  Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones. - Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors. – Quentin Crisp

The company recently said that it has entered into discussions with its major investors and would be able to provide more details of its business plans on March 15, 2011.

From Dailymail.co.uk:

JJB, which operates nearly 250 stores and has 6,100 staff, battles to stave off administration. It is in the middle of a turnaround plan under which it is offering landlords £7.5million if they accept a deal that could result in 89 stores shutting down.

The latest money raising comes just a month after JJB tapped its five biggest shareholders, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, for £31.5million. It also raised £100million from shareholders just over a year ago.

‘The company currently expects the quantum of the proposed equity capital raising to be around £65million and is in constructive discussions with its major shareholders in relation to their continued support,’ JJB said in a statement.

It added: ‘The company currently expects to provide further details of its revised business plan, anticipated funding requirements and proposed financing arrangements on or around March 15, 2011.’

The group’s new chairman, Mike McTighe, is planning to offer directors shares in the company as part of his five-year strategy to turn the retailer around.

John Isner and

The match started on Tuesday, lasted all day Wednesday, and will hopefully come to an end on Thursday and thereafter it will be in memories of all sports admirers who were more than just proud to witness the freak and surreal stalemate.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

In the most mind-boggling encounter ever witnessed on a tennis court, or maybe even in the sporting world, Isner and Mahut sent statisticians scrambling and caused the scoreboard to malfunction as they fought toe-to-toe for 10 hours in the longest ever tennis match.

Incredibly as the sun set over Court 18, they staggered out of the All England Club at 2110 local time with their first-round match still undecided and the fifth set locked at 59-all.

The battle started on Tuesday, lasted all day Wednesday, will hopefully conclude on Thursday and will live long in the memory of those lucky enough to witness the freak, surreal stalemate.

“Seriously… doesn’t anyone have to pee? Umpires included?” Andy Roddick Tweeted as he watched the final set drag on for seven hours and six minutes.

The fifth set alone eclipsed the record for the longest ever completed match at six hours and 33 minutes.

It was meant to be a day when Federer, who had a narrow escape in the first round, was supposed to prove that he is still the undisputed king of Wimbledon, but again he failed to convince.

Fans wanted to see more of the tennis heroes but the supervisor stepped on court and signaled with his hands to call it the day.

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.  – Irish Proverb

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.  What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.  – Max Eastman

Laughter gives us distance.  It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.  – Bob Newhar

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.  – Friedrich Nietzsche

When we lose twenty pounds… we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have!  We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.  – Woody Allen

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.  – John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society

Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.  – Author Unknown

Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, “You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.”  – Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50

The midfielder had to undergo surgery on a fractured shoulder suffered during a warm-up world cup match.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

New Zealand’s Tim Brown faces a race against time to be fit for the World Cup after the midfielder underwent surgery on a fractured shoulder he suffered in a World Cup warm-up, New Zealand Football said on Thursday.

The All Whites vice-captain had three screws inserted into the bone he damaged in Monday’s match against Australia in Melbourne during the operation in Auckland on Thursday.

“Initial indications are positive and that the surgery went well, but it is too early yet to say what the recovery time frame for the injury is,” a statement on the New Zealand Football website (www.nzfootball.co.nz) said.

Team Wellington midfielder Cole Peverley, 21, has been brought into the 23-man squad as a “standby” for Brown.

New Zealand open their World Cup campaign against Slovakia on June 15 in Rustenburg before coming one-on-one against champions Italy and Paraguay in other Group F matches.

Wenlock and Mandeville are the mascots for the London 2012 Olympics and were unveiled on 19th May 2010.Ever since the names were made public, internet users made every possible effort to have a glimpse of them.

From Philly.com:

Their names are Wenlock and Mandeville, and they don’t appear to be either cute or lovable, but you are likely to be seeing a lot of them in the next two years.

“We want it to be fun,” London 2012 organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe said as the mascots for the London Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled Wednesday. “We want it to try to engage and reconnect young people to sport.”

The one-eyed creations are named after small English towns.

The mascots – which have neither fur nor gender – are based on a story by children’s author Michael Morpurgo. An animated film showed the two changing appearance, imitating athletes such as Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt.

London 2012 organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe said that “we want it to be fun”.