LAUSANNE, Switzerland – The president of the World Baseball Softball Confederation, Riccardo Fraccari, today announced that the world governing body has submitted an official proposal to the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (TOCOG) for the addition of men’s baseball and women’s softball at the 2020 Games. “It is an honour for the…
Christopher McQuarrie, the writer and director responsible for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Fallout, is set to write and direct two more sequels back-to-back. Reported by Variety, the reasoning for the combined schedule is to capitalize on the major critical and financial success of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which was both the best reviewed…
Fatima Bhutto asked the Imran Khan government to free the Indian pilot who was taken into custody on Wednesday following air combat over the divided region of Kashmir. India and Pakistan must maintain a “profoundly moral stand” as tensions escalate between the two nuclear-armed nations, the niece of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and granddaughter…
Legal recreational marijuana is still quite new in Canada — just two months old — but of course social cannabis use has long been normal at certain gatherings. “Cannabis has always been a very social activity,” Dr. Jordan Tishler, a cannabis specialist and physician at Harvard Medical School in Boston, told HuffPost Canada in an…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Lehi High School assistant coach Carla Grow passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 2 succumbing to injuries sustained after being struck by lightning on Sunday, Aug. 30. “We lost a tremendous, selfless human being and she will be missed,” said head coach Tim Kennedy. Everyone here on staff at the NFCA wishes to send…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Last season’s national runner-up Texas-Tyler is the unanimous No. 1 team in the NFCA Division III Top 25 Preseason Poll to start the season. The Patriots, who went 50-5 and recorded the second-most wins in a Division III campaign last season, host Pacific Lutheran later today in their 2016 opener. Texas-Tyler returns…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The British Royal Family released their Christmas card photographs today, and there’s a little something in them for everyone. Cheeky Prince George? Check. Princess Charlotte being all regal? Check. A new photo of wee Prince Louis looking adorable in the front and centre? Check, check! The photo…
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Virgin Atlantic has announced the launch of a flight from London Heathrow to the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo that will begin in 2020. The service will operate on a daily basis as of an unspecified date next year, with a Boeing 787-9 making the journey across the Atlantic in just under 12 hours. In…
At least two passengers believe they have been given a second chance at life after missing the fatal Ethiopian Airlines flight that killed everyone onboard after the Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed shortly after takeoff. Just two minutes can make a difference to someone’s fate, Antonis Mavropoulos discovered this weekend after arriving late at the…