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The rink where?Josh Harding?now works is five minutes from?his house in Edina, Minnesota. A road trip now means a drive to a different local high school. Every day includes lots of quality time with his 3-year-old daughter and 3-month-old son.Even over the phone, you can sense that Harding is at peace with the fact that this is where his career path has led.When the doctors say enoughs enough, you kind of have to listen to them, the former Minnesota Wild netminder said.Just before he picked up the phone to call an ESPN.com reporter, Harding, 32, spoke with?Carolina Hurricanes forward Bryan Bickell.Bickell, 30, was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and is taking time away from the game to try to figure out how best to deal with the disease, the same incurable one that ultimately ended Hardings career in 2015.By sharing some of his experiences in dealing with MS, which attacks and scars the protective covering of nerves in the brain and spinal cord, Harding gave Bickell at least some sense of what lies ahead. He also shared strategies, things that worked and things that didnt work for him.Anything I can obviously do for him to kind of help him along, Harding said. I was just telling him that one of the things I felt was very tough was when youre trying new medications but trying to play and practice through those. That was pretty tough for me. But I think Bryans handling it great.Apart from his hands-on advice, Harding has also helped simply by being a sounding board, someone who understands intimately the nature of the now-competing narratives that will dominate Bickells life moving forward -- battling the disease and fighting to stay in the game.When Harding was diagnosed in 2012, he spoke with Jordan Sigalet,?another netminder whose playing career had been derailed by multiple sclerosis. Both Sigalet and Harding have been or plan to be in touch with Bickell, a kind of unspoken pay-it-forward mentality that springs from the shared experience of being diagnosed with MS.Just coping with it and accepting that there isnt a cure right now, but the sooner you can kind of wrap your head around it and really get what works for you, the better its going to be, Harding said.The one thing that Harding cannot give Bickell is the answer he wants to hear: that he will definitely, at some point, return to being an NHL player.If there was a blueprint for what you have to do, I really think Id still be in the league, Harding said. Thats obviously another tough thing with this disease, that there isnt this exact handout that you can follow to get it out of your body.Harding knows the difficulty of that fact all too well.The native of Regina, Saskatchewan, was diagnosed with MS in September 2012. That fall, NHL players were locked out in a labor dispute for several months and the season was ultimately cut almost in half.Harding wrestled with how to deal with his diagnosis. The Wild were aware, but he considered keeping his condition from becoming public knowledge. That ultimately didnt seem workable, given that he was going to need to take time away from the team for rest and treatment.Harding ultimately decided that sharing his story -- letting people know that multiple sclerosis wasnt something to be ashamed of and that he was going to work to continue his job while dealing with the disease?-- was an important part of his new reality.That mindset has never changed, even if Harding did have to make concessions to his health.He registered a shutout in his first game after the lockout but appeared in just five games during the shortened 13 season. That spring, Harding was pressed into service in the first round of the playoffs when starter Niklas Backstrom was injured before Game 1 against the?Chicago Blackhawks. Harding was excellent in an overtime loss in the Wilds first game against top-ranked Chicago and played in every game of the series before the Wild were eliminated in Game 5.Later, Harding would receive the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy in recognition of his perseverance and dedication to the game.But the reality was that Hardings best opportunity to keep the disease at bay was at odds with being a player -- and, specifically, an NHL netminder.Im not going to sugarcoat it: It was very tough for me, he said. Right when I thought that I kind of had it under control, it just seemed like something would kick my legs out from under me again.For Harding, taking as much stress out of his life and having an orderly schedule of rest allowed him to function as close to normal as possible. And that meant an end to his life as an NHLer. I feel like Im in a lot better place now, healthwise, he said.Maybe Bickell will find that his experience with MS is different. Harding, for one, is rooting for Bickell to find something that eluded him.I would give anything to be back playing hockey, Harding admitted. Thats kind of what weve done for our entire life. Its kind of a diagnosis that you know you didnt ask for and you didnt want. Theres really not much you can do except to battle through it. But I really miss [playing].The extra time Harding gets with his young family is a treasure that is denied most NHL players, given the travel demands of the sport. And coaching alongside former NHLer and highly successful high school coach Curt Giles at Edina High School has given Harding a welcome connection to the game.Sometimes the kids on the Edina Hornets will ask whether Harding is going to put on the pads at practice. But he doesnt. Harding is aware that even something that seemingly simple could upset the balance that he has established in his life, could add unneeded stress.Plus, he joked, there are pretty good shooters among the high schoolers and his confidence might take quite a beating. He figures that he can live without that. Hes focusing on the positives and happy that he still has a tie to the sport he loves.I try to take the positives out of it, he said. Air Max 97 Vapormax Pas Cher . Kiriasis and brakeman Franziska Fritz finished two runs in one minute 55.41 seconds -- a mere 0.01 seconds ahead of Meyers and Lolo Jones, who likely bolstered her Olympic hopes by helping give USA-1 a huge push in the second heat. Vapormax 2019 Homme Pas Cher . Jane Virtanen scored two, and Alex Roach and Elliott Peterson rounded out the offence for the Hitmen (40-15-6). Brady Brassart chipped in with three assists. 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NEW YORK -- For Sania Mirza, the more things change, the more they stay the same.Twelve months ago at Flushing Meadows, Mirza was lifting her second of three consecutive major doubles titles with Martina Hingis.But the pair decided to go their separate ways last month, having won 14 titles in all since April 2015, with their recent results -- including a quarterfinal exit at Wimbledon -- falling below their lofty expectationsMirza immediately rediscovered her winning touch with titles in Cincinnati and Connecticut. The first of those triumphs came alongside Barbora Strycova, her partner here at the US Open, and they continued their excellent start together with a 6-3, 6-2 win over the all-American pairing of Ena Shibahara and Jada Myii Hart on Wednesday.The partner has changed, but I was No. 1 when I got here last year as well, Mirza, 29, told reporters. I was there for a while already. Its been a great year, I cant say that it hasnt. Its been an amazing last few years especially.Not a lot has changed in terms of tennis. Im still doing the same things, trying to achieve bigger and better things.She added with a laugh: Besides that, Im just older. The age has changed.All in all, it was a perfect day for Indias tennis stars here. Leander Paes and Hingis opened up in mixed doubles with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Sachia Vickery and Frances Tiafoe, while Rohan Bopanna and partner Frederik Loechte Nielsen saw off Radek Stepanek and Nenad Zimonjic 6-3, 6-7(3), 6-3 in the opening round of the mens doubles.But how Mirza would start Grand Slam life alongside Strycova was an intriguing detail -- they certainly had a hard act to follow.I didnt have to adjust my game too much. Barbora plays very similar to Martina in some ways, Mirza said, though. She volleys good, helps me at the net, its like the balance me and Martina had found. Thats the balance were trying to find.In Cincinnati it was great to win our first tournament we played together. We tried to understand each other. But weve known each other since we were 13. We played juniors, were exactly the same age.It helps to have that chemistry, that camaraderie, that mutual respect. Its great to understand how we react in tough moments, winning moments. Were playing well, it was a tricky match.Mirza recharged her batteries after she and Hingis exited Wimbledon earlier than expected, starting with a personal project that meant a great deal to her -- finally releasing her long-awaited autobiography, Ace Against Odds.ddddddddddddIt was good. It was a big three-city launch, she said. Weve had some very good responses to the book. You should read it!I think the book is something very special to me for many reasons. One of the most important reasons is that so much has been said and written about me over my 15 years in the limelight. I deserve to tell my story from my side, how I really feel.That was the whole thing of the book, it wasnt a business angle, just everything I felt. I owed it to my family, myself and also to my fans. Its important for them to know how I feel about a lot of things that have been said about me, some true and some not.Given the books success, could there be a follow up down the road?Thats a long shot, not that its on the cards. If I did happen to win three more slams then yeah, Mirza added, laughing.It was a really long process. It wasnt something written over a year. The process started six or seven years ago. Its not just bout tennis, its also about me as a person, how I picked up a tennis racket, how I got into it.It starts at me being four years old. We tried to do it three years ago, but so many things happened on the tennis court. We had to keep stalling, just adding, adding, adding. Its basically everything up until this French open.Mirza has also been buoyed by Indias Olympic experience in Rio. PV Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver with her badminton medal, while Sakshi Malik became just the fourth Indian woman to win a medal overall at the Games with bronze in the 58kg wrestling category.Dipa Karmakars fourth-placed finish in the gymnastics vaults final was also a highlight.Weve always had good athletes from the country, said Mirza. Theyre very sparse in terms of the sports, but for us it was amazing to have a gymnast come fourth, even though we had the silver and the bronze. Amazingly we had all the women win the medals.But the gymnastics, we dont really represent in those kind of sports. It was unfortunate we couldnt win that medal, we came very close.It was a great experience. It was my third Olympics. I dont know what will happen in four years, but it was an amazing experience to be part of that contingent. ' ' '