HBO has released a new trailer for Game of Thrones’ climactic Season 8. As you might expect, it’s a fairly sombre, stirring affair, bringing along (dragon-filled) new clips that offer ominous warnings about the war to come. Naturally, we don’t know a great amount of detail about the upcoming season, although we do know it…
STOCKHOLM — The awarding of the Nobel Prize in physics to Canadian scientist Donna Strickland has ended a drought for women winning any of the prestigious prizes. Strickland is the first woman to be named a Nobel laureate since 2015. She is also only the third to have won the physics prize — the first…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – National Pro Fastpitch launched a new website for the 2017 season. The new website will be video friendly with a cleaner and brighter appearance. The player statistics area has been upgraded in the specific categories of overall stats and historical stats. In addition, the Live Stats portion of the website where fans can…
NBC has announced that Brooklyn Nine-Nine will be renewed for a seventh season, reported by Variety. This will mark the show’s second season on NBC, as it was cancelled on its original network, Fox, just last year. There were talks of it heading to Hulu at one point, but the streaming company ended up passing. 429…
The head of the Chechen Republic has requested that President Vladimir Putin amend the Russian transport strategy with a plan to build a high-speed railway link between the city of Krasnodar and the Chechen capital, Grozny. Kommersant reported that in a June 15 letter, Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov wrote that he had learned about…
OTTAWA — The federal Liberal party just scored its best-ever third quarter fundraising result in a non-election year — but still fell $1 million short of the money raked in by the Conservatives. According to the latest quarterly financial reports filed with Elections Canada, the governing party pulled in nearly $3.8 million between July 1…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Virginia Wesleyan’s Hanna Hull and Texas Lutheran’s Kaymee Gooden scored Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III National Pitcher and Player of the Week recognition, respectively. For Hull, it is the freshman lefty’s third honor of the season, following a week in which she went 2-0 with a save, no earned runs, just six hits…
A district court in Moscow has ordered access to popular internet messenger Telegram to be blocked after the company repeatedly refused to hand over encryption keys to its messages to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). On Friday morning, the Tagansky District Court described the request of Telegram’s lawyers to adjourn the hearings as “abuse of…
A white nationalist running for mayor of Toronto is now branding herself as “the only candidate who stands with Doug Ford.” In a robocall sent to households across the city, Faith Goldy tries to entice voters by linking herself to Ontario’s premier and calling herself, “a common-sense conservative.” Goldy, a white nationalist who’s appeared on…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) is pleased to announce that Virginia Wesleyan University freshman pitcher Hanna Hull has been named the 2017 winner of the Schutt Sports/NFCA Division III National Player of the Year award. Earlier this week at OGE Energy Field at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma…