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Scottish Sun
3 hours ago
- Sport
- Scottish Sun
‘People didn't realise I was really ill' – Darts star, 42, feared he'd never play again after health scare
Player has revealed what condition he suffered from STAR'S BATTLE 'People didn't realise I was really ill' – Darts star, 42, feared he'd never play again after health scare Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) JAMES WADE feared he'd never play darts again after suffering a string of illnesses. The Aldershot hotshot claimed the Players Championship 19 title after defeating Scott Williams 8-3 in yesterday's final in Leicester. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 1 James Wade has opened up about his health struggles Credit: Getty It was Wade's first ranking title since 2022 and the 19th Players Championship Event in his stellar career. 'The Machine' took out a brilliant 110 checkout to take a 4-2 lead against 'Shaggy'. The World No.10 followed this up with a cracking 120 finish to gain a 5-2 advantage over Williams at the Mattioli Arena. Wade, a ten-time major winner, pearled in a ten-darter to go 6-3 up. Wade sealed the deal with another cracking 110 outshout as he averaged 101.52 and pinged in eight out of nine doubles for the victory. Former World Matchplay champ Wade opened up about struggles with his health and how it impacted his career and rankings before making a terrific comeback to the winner's circle. He said: 'It's been a bloody long time that is for sure. 'I'm really pleased and happy. I felt I have just been lucky the last two games. 'Everyone forgets I had pancreatitis. It's a serious health condition and I went from world number three to plummeting down and out of the rankings. 'I just think everyone takes their health for granted. Peter Wright stunned after James Wade farts during game 'The public and probably the organisation didn't realise I was really ill. 'I went from world No3 to 27. It wasn't because my darting ability disappeared, it was because my health disappeared. 'So give me a little bit of a break. 'Today I felt really proud of myself because I've never been a press favourite or an organisation favourite. 'But you know when I've gone against what I've gone against, not knowing if I'm going to play darts again, today is a milestone. 'I've put myself under quite a bit of pressure over the last 12 months so today it has been really nice.' The 42-year-old smashed in two ton plus checkouts to overcome Gian van Veen 6-4 in the quarter-final. Wade hit seven out of 13 doubles to record a routine 7-3 triumph against Andrew Gilding in the last four.
The Irish Sun
3 hours ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
‘People didn't realise I was really ill' – Darts star, 42, feared he'd never play again after health scare
JAMES WADE feared he'd never play darts again after suffering a string of illnesses. The Aldershot hotshot claimed the Advertisement 1 James Wade has opened up about his health struggles Credit: Getty It was Wade's first ranking title since 2022 and the 19th Players Championship Event in his stellar career. 'The Machine' took out a brilliant 110 checkout to take a 4-2 lead against 'Shaggy'. The World No.10 followed this up with a cracking 120 finish to gain a 5-2 advantage over Wade, a ten-time major winner, pearled in a ten-darter to go 6-3 up. Advertisement READ MORE IN DARTS Wade sealed the deal with another cracking 110 outshout as he averaged 101.52 and pinged in eight out of nine doubles for the victory. Former World Matchplay champ Wade opened up about He said: 'It's been a bloody long time that is for sure. 'I'm really pleased and happy. I felt I have just been lucky the last two games. Advertisement Most read in Darts Breaking 'Everyone forgets I had pancreatitis. It's a serious health condition and I went from world number three to plummeting down and out of the rankings. 'I just think everyone takes their health for granted. Peter Wright stunned after James Wade farts during game 'The public and probably the organisation didn't realise I was really ill. 'I went from world No3 to 27. It wasn't because my darting ability disappeared, it was because my health disappeared. Advertisement 'So give me a little bit of a break. 'Today I felt really proud of myself because I've never been a press favourite or an organisation favourite. 'But you know when I've gone against what I've gone against, not knowing if I'm going to play darts again, today is a milestone. 'I've put myself under quite a bit of pressure over the last 12 months so today it has been really nice.' Advertisement The 42-year-old smashed in two ton plus checkouts to overcome Wade hit seven out of 13 doubles to record a routine 7-3 triumph against Andrew Gilding in the last four.
Los Angeles Times
12 hours ago
- Health
- Los Angeles Times
AGs in California and other states lead campaign to defend reproductive rights
Democratic state attorneys general led by those from California, New York, and Massachusetts are pressuring medical professional groups to defend reproductive rights, including medication abortion, emergency abortions, and travel between states for health care in response to recent increases in the number of abortion bans. The American Medical Association adopted a formal position June 9 recommending that medical certification exams be moved out of states with restrictive abortion policies or made virtual, after 20 attorneys general petitioned to protect physicians who fear legal repercussions because of their work. The petition focused on the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology's certification exams in Dallas, and the subsequent AMA recommendation was hailed as a win for Democrats trying to regain ground after the fall of Roe v. Wade. 'It seems incremental, but there are so many things that go into expanding and maintaining access to care,' said Arneta Rogers, executive director of the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at the University of California-Berkeley's law school. 'We see AGs banding together, governors banding together, as advocates work on the ground. That feels somewhat more hopeful — that people are thinking about a coordinated strategy.' Since the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion in 2022, 16 states, including Texas, have implemented laws banning abortion almost entirely, and many of them impose criminal penalties on providers as well as options to sue doctors. More than 25 states restrict access to gender-affirming care for trans people, and six of them make it a felony to provide such care to youth. That's raised concern among some physicians who fear being charged if they go to those states, even if their home state offers protection to provide reproductive and gender-affirming health care. Pointing to the recent fining and indictment of a physician in New York who allegedly provided abortion pills to a woman in Texas and a teen in Louisiana, a coalition of physicians wrote in a letter to the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology that 'the limits of shield laws are tenuous' and that 'Texas laws can affect physicians practicing outside of the state as well.' The campaign was launched by several Democratic attorneys general, including Rob Bonta of California, Andrea Joy Campbell of Massachusetts, and Letitia James of New York, who each have established a reproductive rights unit as a bulwark for their state following the Dobbs decision. 'Reproductive health care and gender-affirming care providers should not have to risk their safety or freedom just to advance in their medical careers,' James said in a statement. 'Forcing providers to travel to states that have declared war on reproductive freedom and LGBTQ+ rights is as unnecessary as it is dangerous.' In their petition, the attorneys general included a letter from Joseph Ottolenghi, medical director at Choices Women's Medical Center in New York City, who was denied his request to take the test remotely or outside of Texas. To be certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, physicians need to take the in-person exam at its testing facility in Dallas. The board completed construction of its new testing facility last year. 'As a New York practitioner, I have made every effort not to violate any other state's laws, but the outer contours of these draconian laws have not been tested or clarified by the courts,' Ottolenghi wrote. Rachel Rebouché, the dean of Temple University's law school and a reproductive law scholar, said 'putting the heft' of the attorneys general behind this effort helps build awareness and a 'public reckoning' on behalf of providers. Separately, some doctors have urged medical conferences to boycott states with abortion bans. Anti-abortion groups, however, see the campaign as forcing providers to conform to abortion-rights views. Donna Harrison, an OB-GYN and the director of research at the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, described the petition as an 'attack not only on pro-life states but also on life-affirming medical professionals.' Harrison said the 'OB-GYN community consists of physicians with values that are as diverse as our nation's state abortion laws,' and that this diversity 'fosters a medical environment of debate and rigorous thought leading to advancements that ultimately serve our patients.' The AMA's new policy urges specialty medical boards to host exams in states without restrictive abortion laws, offer the tests remotely, or provide exemptions for physicians. However, the decision to implement any changes to the administration of these exams is up to those boards. There is no deadline for a decision to be made. The OB-GYN board did not respond to requests for comment, but after the public petition from the attorneys general criticizing it for refusing exam accommodations, the board said that in-person exams conducted at its national center in Dallas 'provide the most equitable, fair, secure, and standardized assessment.' The OB-GYN board emphasized that Texas' laws apply to doctors licensed in Texas and to medical care within Texas, specifically. And it noted that its exam dates are kept under wraps, and that there have been 'no incidents of harm to candidates or examiners across thousands of in-person examinations.' Democratic state prosecutors, however, warned in their petition that the 'web of confusing and punitive state-based restrictions creates a legal minefield for medical providers.' Texas is among the states that have banned doctors from providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth, and it has reportedly made efforts to get records from medical facilities and professionals in other states who may have provided that type of care to Texans. The Texas attorney general's office did not respond to requests for comment. States such as California and New York have laws to block doctors from being extradited under other states' laws and to prevent sharing evidence against them. But instances that require leveraging these laws could still mean lengthy legal proceedings. 'We live in a moment where we've seen actions by executive bodies that don't necessarily square with what we thought the rules provided,' Rebouché said. Sciacca writes for KFF Health News, a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF — the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism.
Daily Record
17 hours ago
- Sport
- Daily Record
James Wade opens up on health battles after ending three year darts title drought
The Machine opens up on struggles following first triumph since 2022 as he beat Scott Williams 8-3 to return to PDC winners circle Proud James Wade blew his rivals away with a milestone return to the PDC winners circle. The Machine made all the right noises to win his first darts ranking title since 2022 at the 19th Players Championship event of the campaign. Wade had been all over social media in build-up to Thursday's tournament after an incident of breaking wind earlier in the week during a match against Peter Wrigh t was caught on TV camera. But the headlines around the 42-year-old are all about the arrows after his brilliant win which was sealed by a 8-3 success over Scott Williams in the Final. Wade has battled against health struggles during his victory drought and revealed how it has impacted his career. He said: "Everyone forgets I had pancreatitis. It's a serious health condition and I went from World No.3 to plummeting down and out of the rankings. "I just think everyone takes it for granted their health. The public and probably the organisation didn't realise I was really ill. 'I went from world number three to 27. It wasn't because my darting ability disappeared it was because my health disappeared. So give me a little bit of a break! "Today I felt really proud of myself because I've never been a press favourite or an organisation favourite, but you now, when I've gone against what I've gone against, not knowing if I I'm going to play darts again, today is a milestone. 'I've put myself under quite a bit of pressure over the last 12 months so today it has been really nice. I'm really pleased and happy. It's been a bloody long time, that is for sure.' The 42-year-old smashed in two ton-plus checkouts to overcome Gian van Veen 6-4 in the quarter-final, hammered Andrew Gilding in the last four before seeing-off Williams. Wade's success made him the third different winner of the lengthy week in Leicester after Stephen Bunting produced a string of outstanding performances to clinch his fourth title of 2025. The Bullet backed-up World Series titles in Bahrain and Copenhagen this year and a maiden European Tour crown in April's International Darts Open with a win on Wednesday. Bunting said: 'I'm so happy that my consistency is there. I'm playing with a smile on my face and, when I've got a smile on my face, I'm dangerous.' The previous day, it was Bunting's Premier League colleague Chris Dobey who took the spoils when he claimed Event 17 in dramatic fashion at the Mattioli Arena. The Geordie was able to ride a wave of momentum during his day with crucial victories over Wade and van Veen which earned him a spot in the final against Dirk van Duijvenbode. Dobey kept cool to beat the Dutchman in a deciding leg and said: 'This is my second win of the year, but just to win one tournament is an achievement. "I want to be competing with the top boys to give myself more chances of getting to the top.'
Time Magazine
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
The True Story Behind Netflix's Coastal Family Drama The Waterfront
The dock was quiet with the kind of stillness that settles just before dawn. Fishing boats bobbed in the tide, hulls worn and sun-bleached, their nets folded like sleeping limbs. For Kevin Williamson, it wasn't just a familiar sight, it was a decades-old memory. This was the world he knew as a child growing up in the small town of Oriental, N.C., a place where everyone was seemingly related to everyone, where seafood came straight off the boat, and where the tides governed life as much as the church bells or school calendar. 'I was the small-town weirdo,' Williamson tells TIME. 'I was the kid who didn't belong and couldn't wait to get out. Then I got out, and all I wanted to do was write about it.' With The Waterfront, his new eight-episode Netflix drama starring Holt McCallany, Maria Bello, Melissa Benoist, and Jake Weary and debuting June 19, Williamson has done just that. The show tells the story of the Buckleys, a once-proud fishing family in fictional Havenport, N.C., now fractured by buried secrets, addiction, and the threat of financial collapse. It's a slow-burn Southern gothic tale rich with betrayal and moral ambiguity, but beneath the genre trappings lies a deeper current of meaning. This is, in many ways, the story Williamson has been circling his entire career, as he broke out as the writer of such horror mainstays as Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer and the creator of TV megahits including Dawson's Creek and The Vampire Diaries. 'I always told my dad I was going to write the story,' Williamson recalls. 'He said, 'Wait until I'm dead.'' And so he did. A family history rewritten The roots of The Waterfront stretch back decades to Williamson's own childhood. Born in New Bern, around 30 miles from Oriental, he grew up in a family shaped by the tides. His father Wade was a fisherman; his mother Faye worked at a hotel. 'I come from a family of fishermen—not just my dad, but the entire family,' he says. ' Everyone I knew was a fisherman.' But by the '80s, that way of life was vanishing. Overfished waters, tightening environmental regulations, and broader economic shifts devastated the industry. As the fish began to disappear, so did people's livelihoods, and in some cases, desperation filled the void. For Williamson's family, that desperation manifested in the decision his father made to use his fishing boat to run drugs, a crime which would catch up with him: 'He was arrested for conspiracy to traffic marijuana—20,000 pounds.' Though Wade ultimately served less than a year behind bars, the impact was deeply felt in the larger community. 'They didn't just arrest my dad,' he recalls. 'They arrested a whole bunch of people. It was part of a cartel. They were the low men in the operation.' The trauma eventually seeped its way into Williamson's writing. On Dawson's Creek, Joey Potter's (Katie Holmes) father serves time for a similar offense. 'That was the beginning of me fictionalizing it, but I always knew I'd come back to it,' he says. That unflinching, long-deferred return arrives in The Waterfront. But the road to telling that story began with a restless boy in a quiet town, one who found escape not on the water, but in the light of screens both big and small, captivated by Steven Spielberg's work and the classic soap opera Guiding Light. After high school, Williamson enrolled at East Carolina University, where he studied theater, graduating in 1987 and landing in Los Angeles by the early '90s. His breakthrough came thanks to a bout of late-night paranoia. After watching a 20/20 episode about Danny Rolling—the 'Gainesville Ripper' who murdered five college students in Florida—Williamson found himself home alone, unsettled and on the phone with a friend. The experience eventually sparked the script for Scream, which married razor-wire tension with meta self-awareness. Released in 1996, Scream didn't just succeed, it helped revive the slasher subgenre. With its whip-smart satire and adolescent vulnerability, the movie catapulted Williamson into the Hollywood spotlight. He followed quickly with Scream 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Faculty, infusing each with more than scares. These were stories about fear as metaphor: adolescence, alienation, the fragile armor of identity. Then came Dawson's Creek, a teen drama set in the small fictional town of Capeside, Mass., whose emotional frankness and hyper-verbal teen characters helped define a generation. The series was famed for its romantic entanglements and earnest dialogue, as well as launching the careers of actors like Michelle Williams and Joshua Jackson, but beneath it all was a writer mining personal history for deeper truths. In the years that followed, Williamson explored the truth in darkness. He co-created The Vampire Diaries, a gothic teen soap pulsing with desire and loss, The Following, a psychological thriller about a serial killer and his cult, and Tell Me a Story, which reimagined classic fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel as twisted modern parables. Even when his work veered into fantasy, it never lost its grounding in emotional reality. Williamson's stories are defined by a familiar undercurrent: the bittersweet pang of longing, the weight of secrets, the intergenerational ghosts we carry. When it came time to create The Waterfront, Williamson didn't have to look too far. The fictional town of Havenport shares DNA with Oriental, and production took place nearby in Southport—the same town where he shot much of I Know What You Did Last Summer nearly 30 years earlier. 'I absolutely love North Carolina. Through and through, I'm a Carolina boy,' he says. 'Southport looks very much like how I grew up.' To capture that authenticity, the production team even visited Oriental to rent real fishing boats to use as stunt boats. 'It's a seafood fresh-off-the-boat type of town,' he says. 'That's where I got the idea for the Buckley fish house. It's common in little port towns: restaurants attached to fish houses.' That personal connection found its way to the cast. The Waterfront is a sprawling family saga anchored by characters who feel flawed and lived-in. Family patriarch Harlan Buckley (McCallany) is a hardened man recovering from two heart attacks who's pulled back into the family's struggling fishing business; Belle (Bello), his wife and the fishery's unofficial operator in his absence, is the pragmatic backbone of the family, keeping the business (and its secrets) intact with a steely resolve. Bree (Benoist) is the bruised and bristling daughter, struggling with sobriety and aching for redemption. 'Holt [as Harlan] has the exact same straight John Wayne persona [as my dad],' Williamson says. 'That sense of humor, where he can just throw out a line, and it's funny.' Bree is another reflection of Williamson's psyche. 'That addictive part of me, that's where I wrote from,' he adds. 'I took her to the extreme, but it's personal.' Then there's Cane (Weary), the son who stayed behind, who never chased a bigger life. 'Cane is who I would've been if I'd stayed in Oriental,' Williamson says. 'There were times I thought I might, but my parents pushed me out. They didn't see a future in fishing.' Each of the Buckleys strive for something elusive: approval, redemption, control, freedom. ('They want to love and be loved,' he says.) This emotional dynamic plays out in particular in the push-and-pull dynamic between mother and daughter. '[Bree] always felt like the outcast,' Williamson says. 'The show asks, did she feel that way because it was true, or did she create it?' Even the structure of the show reflects its themes. 'I tried to do a 60/40 ratio of family drama to crime drama, but any time you do a mathematical equation for storytelling, it goes out the window,' he says. Instead, he focused on the characters' journeys. 'I put my characters on a board: Where do they start, where do they end up, and how do I twist them through it?' The ties that bind With The Waterfront, Williamson is writing about the soil, the salt, and the silence of home. While the Netflix drama centers on hubris and crime, it's also about consequence. The Buckleys may bury secrets or protect one another, but they're not caricatures. 'We're not 'either or' in life. We're always 'and,'' Williamson says. 'We're good and bad.' That duality grounds the show's jarring bursts of violence. 'I love the dark,' he admits. 'It's my happy place. There's a whole horror side of me, so I think it's safe to say if you're going to watch a show that I'm part of, someone's going to get killed eventually.' But the brutality isn't purely for shock value. 'Sometimes we're knocked on our ass by life, and I wanted the show to reflect that,' he continues. The atmosphere intentionally heightens the sense of unease. Each episode opens with an eight-second title sequence showing the camera partly submerged in seawater, bobbing beneath dark clouds. It's disorienting and ominous, evoking the sensation of drowning or barely staying afloat. 'We went through so many different versions of the title sequence, but the idea was always there: treading water, drowning, danger rising,' he says. ' Who's going to survive? Where's the life raft coming from?' Williamson sees The Waterfront 's debut season as just the beginning. 'I would love very much a chance to write Season 2, because I feel like I'm just getting started with this story and this family,' he explains. Until then, the series stands as a meditation on loyalty, legacy, and the weight of unfinished business. 'I hope people connect to the messiness of family life,' Williamson explains. 'Regardless of what these characters do—whether they're fishing or getting their hands messy with a little crime and a little blood—I hope viewers connect with the idea of family. Each [character] is trying to be the best version of themselves. They just don't know how to get there.'
