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Diabetes diagnosis doesn't stop stock-car driver Ryan Reed

Last updated Monday, May 21, 2012 - 2:48pm

First, the doctors told Ryan Reed that he had Type 1 diabetes. Then, they told him he would never be able to be a competitive race-car driver.

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Buzz grows for Rob Portman as GOP veep candidate

Tom Troy Toledo Blade

Last updated Friday, April 27, 2012 - 1:19pm

While political pundits and players focused this week on U.S. Sen. Rob Portman as the leading choice for running mate for Republican presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, Portman insisted that he already has the job in which he can best help the state of Ohio.

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Tiger-Rory has potential to be next great golf rivalry

Dave Hackenberg Toledo Blade

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 3:05pm

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It was going to be Tiger and Phil. And then Tiger and Sergio. Or was Sergio first?

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'Seniorhood,' forgive the pun, is a 'gray area'

Tahree Lane Toledo Blade

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 4:19pm

Just when you're beginning to come to terms with the idea that you might be considered middle-aged, you turn 50 and receive a "welcome" letter from AARP.

"Oh, puhleez," you think, tossing it into the recycling bin. Nevertheless, the seed has been planted.

When does "seniorhood" begin, anyway? And who says so?

"It's becoming a gray area, excuse the pun," said demographer William Frey, of the University of Michigan Population Studies Center.

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Steve Rubin practices yoga with his children, including son Isaac, at least once a week. (SHNS photo by Jetta Fraser / The Toledo Blade)

Yoga 'puts you in a good place'

Roneisha Mullen Toledo Blade

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 10:33am

Everybody's doing it.

Celebrities, seniors, young adults, teens and young children. Even cats and dogs.

People of every race and religious group are catching on to the benefits of yoga.

The 5,000-year-old practice has gone from an obscure Eastern-oriented discipline to somehow, almost overnight, the hottest exercise trend.

Features, Exercise, Mental Health, Trends, Yoga Read more Comments

Former death row inmate threatens judge, police say

Jennifer Feehan, Jim Provance Toledo Blade

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 12:49pm

OTTAWA, Ohio -- Kenneth Richey spent two decades on Ohio's death row after his conviction for setting a fire that killed a 2-year-old girl. Now, less than four years after he was freed, he is charged with threatening a judge.

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Baptist minister urges churches to appreciate gays

David Yonke Toledo Blade

Last updated Sunday, November 27, 2011 - 10:29am

The Rev. Stephen Sprinkle, an openly gay Baptist minister from Dallas, said it's not enough for churches to be "tolerant" of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people. They need to "move from tolerance through understanding to appreciation and celebration."

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Hackenberg: Weeknight football a bad deal for fans

Dave Hackenberg Toledo Blade

Last updated Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 10:46pm

At the risk of being repetitive -- I've said this before and I'll say it again -- weeknight college football stinks.

Yeah, there are two sides to every coin, I know. And "coin" is the operative word here.

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Hackenberg: Lions' Hanson endures way to record

Dave Hackenberg Toledo Blade

Last updated Monday, September 19, 2011 - 5:28pm

DETROIT -- Ford Field was jammed Sunday, Honolulu blue Lions colors everywhere, thousands of Matthew Staffords and Ndamukong Suhs and Calvin Johnsons filling every seat, their roars of approval almost deafening.

But with the game in its final seconds and the big crowd headed for the exits, one elderly gentleman sort of stood out. His souvenir jersey had No. 28 on the back and the name up across the shoulders was Yale Lary.

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In this July 20, 2011 photo, Randy Wright of Collins, Ohio, poses for a photo in Collins. Wright, who has enlarged kidneys from polycystic kidney disease and is seeking a kidney transplant, has turned to Facebook to find a donor and encourage others to donate organs. (AP Photo/The Blade, Jeremy Wadsworth)

Kidney patient uses Facebook to generate organ 'swap'

Julie M. McKinnon Toledo Blade

Last updated Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 12:06pm

COLLINS, Ohio -- Randy Wright has talked to almost everyone he meets about the demand for organ donors -- and his need for a kidney.

So when a Walmart clerk heard his plight and suggested the 45-year-old Huron County man join Facebook, Wright, with some help, began an awareness campaign on social media.

No one in Wright's family is a suitable donor, but at least two of his brothers, who have a different blood type than Wright, have agreed to donate to others as part of the paired donation concept. Wright, a father of three who has type O blood, is on the waiting list for a kidney at the University of Toledo Medical Center, which has been a pioneer in "chain donations."

Facebook, Kidney treatments, Organ transplants, Social media, National Read more Comments