Woman fine after heart pumps

A woman was released from a hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on May 18 after undergoing what may have been the world's first successful operation to embed two assist pumps for her heart, officials at the institution said. Unlike pumps outside the body, those embedded internally increase blood flow and are believed to be less likely to cause complications involving brain-blood circulation or infection. (Kyodo News)

要約:

大阪府吹田市の病院で、重い心臓病で心臓が機能しなくなった30代の女性患者に2つの植え込み型の補助人工心臓を装着する手術が行なわれ、無事成功した。女性は現在退院している。

単語:

heart pumps
人工心臓で血液を送れるようにする手術
undergoing ～
～を受けて
embed
～を埋め込む
internally
体内に
complications
合併症
brain-blood circulation
脳の血液の循環

Kawaguchi returns to World Cup squad

Veteran goalkeeper Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi and striker Kisho Yano were the biggest surprises in an otherwise familiar selection as national team manager Takeshi Okada named his squad for the World Cup on May 10. Shinji Ono, who many had tipped to make a late run into the 23-man roster, did not make the cut. Kawaguchi has been a member of every squad since Japan first qualified for the world's top tournament in 1998. (The Japan Times)
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要約：

6月11日に開幕するサッカーのワールドカップ南アフリカ大会に出場する日本代表メンバー23人が5月10日、東京都内のホテルで発表された。川口選手が代表復帰した。

単語：

had tipped to ～
～すると思っていた
roster
代表チーム
make the cut
代表に選ばれる
qualified for ～
～への出場権を得た

master league -Real vs Barce

"Real Madrid and Barcelona have 95 and 96 points respectively with a game to play in La Liga," writes Thomas Phillips. "Surely they're both on for some sort of record?"
In fact, they're on for a few. Both teams have already smashed the previous highest points tally in the Primera Division, set by Barça last season with 87. Pep Guardiola's side look ready to set a new best, so Real may have to settle for the unwanted title of the team scoring the most points without winning the league.
The pair will also set a remarkable standard of 197 points combined should they both win their final games. Obviously that's a La Liga record, but we can't find anything to beat it anywhere in the football world. It certainly beats the best we can muster in England – Reading and Sheffield United's combined 196 points in the Championship in 2005-06 – and that came over 46 games in a 24-team league rather than the 38 games and 20-team league that is the Spanish top flight. Rangers (85) and Celtic (103) combined for 188 points in the Scottish Premier League in 2001-02. Barry Town's 104-point romp to the Welsh title in 1997-98, when combined with runners-up Newtown, adds up to 182. Italy's best? A competitive 172 in 2006-07. If you can do any better, we'd be pleased to hear from you.
Real have already broken the record for most wins in a season, their 31 (presumably soon to be 32) beating the record of 28 set by themselves in 1987-88 and matched by the Barça of Ronaldo, Luis Figo and Hristo Stoichkov in 1996-97. Barcelona's solitary defeat this season is not a record, however. Athletic Bilbao in 1929-30 and Real Madrid in 1931-32 both went unbeaten in their league campaigns (though back then they consisted of just 18 matches).
Leo Messi is well short of a record-breaking season of scoring. His 32 was matched by Atlético Madrid's Diego Forlan last year, beaten by Ronaldo's 34 in 1996-97 and dwarfed by Hugo Sanchez's 38 (in 36 games) for Real in 1989-90 and Telmo Zarra's 38 in 30 games for Athletic Bilbao back in 1950-51.
Real will have to go some to set a new team high-scoring mark. The current ensemble have thus far mustered 101 six short of the Sanchez-inspired Los Blancos who scored 107 in 1989-90. And defensively they have both been a bit of a shambles, nowhere close to Deportivo's astonishing 18 conceded in 38 games in 1993-94 or the outright record of 15 set by Real in the 10-team top flight of 1931-32.

単語：
・combine 結合させる
・romp とびはねる
・

感想：　
レアルとバルサの対決はかなり見物ですね!!
…見る気はありませんが。