LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Tennessee’s Brooke Vines and Arizona’s Danielle O’Toole were named Louisville Slugger NFCA Division I National Player of the Week, for games played March 20-26, announced the Association on Tuesday afternoon. Vines had a monster week for the Volunteers, guiding them to four victories, including a three-game SEC sweep of then-No. 23 Ole Miss….
Russian investigators have charged former Ukrainian Defense Minister Anatoly Gritsenko with inciting terrorist activities after he urged his supporters to bomb Russian trains during a televised interview in 2014. The press service of the Russian Investigative Committee – the federal agency dealing with especially important crime – reported on Wednesday that a new criminal case…
According to a recently discovered report, 209 of the around 800 employees who were laid off as part of the Activision Blizzard restructuring worked on the Blizzard side of the gaming company. As reported by Variety, records were obtained from California’s Employment Development Department that stated that these 209 Blizzard layoffs impacted those around the…
HALIFAX — A terminally ill Halifax woman ended her life Thursday with medical assistance, after issuing a final deathbed plea asking lawmakers to change Canada’s assisted dying law. Audrey Parker was given a lethal injection and “died peacefully” in her Halifax apartment, surrounded by close friends and family, friends said in a news release late…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Demopolis’ (Ala.) Abbey Latham, Grapeland’s (Texas) Taylar Mullen and Casey Overfield of San Ramon Valley (Calif.) were selected the first MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Player of the Week of the 2017 spring season. The trio is recognized for their accomplishments in games played Feb. 20-26. South Region Latham played a key role…
The populist nationalist Liberal Democratic Party candidate has won over two thirds of the vote in the run-off governor polls in Russia’s Khabarovsk Region, while another LDPR candidate took Vladimir Region with a 20-point lead. The Russian State Duma MP and the LDPR candidate, Sergey Furgal, has gained almost 70 percent of votes in Khabarovsk…
The nominations for 2019’s BAFTAS have been revealed, and Sony Santa Monica Studio’s God of War pulled ahead of its competition with the most nominations overall, having been nominated in seven categories. God of War, IGN’s Best Game of 2018, is closely followed by Red Dead Redemption 2, and Return of the Obra Dinn, both…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – National champion Minnesota State was voted by its peers as the NFCA’s 2017 NCAA Division II National Coaching Staff of the Year, announced the Association on Tuesday afternoon. Head coach Lori Meyer, associate head coach Kristle Wolcott and graduate assistant Sammie Hildreth guided the Mavericks (64-7) to the program’s first national title…
Multiple people are dead after a shooter opened fire Saturday morning at the Tree of Life Congregation, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The suspect is in police custody, according to local news outlets KDKA and WTAE. Law enforcement responded to reports of an active shooter at the synagogue, which was crowded for Saturday service in…
Stranger Things and Hellboy star, David Harbour, has reportedly been cast in Marvel Studios’ standalone Black Widow movie in an unnamed role with Scarlett Johansson, according to THR. English actress Florence Pugh is also attached as a reported rival-spy that is on the same level as Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff. 429 Mashing buttons will get you nowhere!…