LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Eleven finalists have been selected for the 2017 Schutt Sports / NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year award, announced the Association on Thursday afternoon. The award will be presented to the winner prior to the 2017 NCAA Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, Okla. The finalists hail from 11…
In an interview with Comicbook.com, Dark Phoenix writer and director Simon Kinberg described his film as the “natural culmination for this cycle of X-Men movies” rather than an ending forced by Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox. “From the beginning of conceiving what we were going to do with this film and writing it, which…
New anti-Russian sanctions being proposed by US senators are part of the internal political strife in Washington with the real target being Donald Trump, a senior Russian MP has told reporters. “The US senators’ initiative to toughen the anti-Russian sanctions is yet another manifestation of the anti-Russian agony. People on the Capitol Hill cannot put…
AUSTIN, Texas — The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced its 2017 Academic All-America® softball teams. NCAA Division I, II and III had three teams apiece, while two teams made up the College Division. Auburn’s Kasey Cooper (DI), Southern Arkansas’ Maddie Dow (DII), Texas Lutheran’s Amanda Lochte and Reinhardt’s Taylor Weeks (College/NAIA) were selected the winners…
Russia may see a hike in health care, education and infrastructure spending by around $162 billion in the next six years, with cuts in its military spending, according to a report on Vladimir Putin’s plan for his term in office. The 10 trillion rubles ($162 billion) spending plan has been under consideration for several months…
OTTAWA — Well before Statistics Canada set out to scoop up private banking information from 500,000 Canadians, it had already collected reams of corporate and individual tax forms and health records — part of its growing reliance on “administrative data” sources instead of traditional surveys. But the uproar over the banking data threatens more than…
George R.R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series that HBO’s Game of Thrones is based off of, turned down the chance to make a cameo in the show’s final season. In an interview with EW, Martin revealed that series showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss invited him to travel to…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two more wins kept California’s Norco rolling atop the USA Today Sports/NFCA High School Super 25 poll, with a Friday showdown with No. 6 Los Alamitos (27-3) in the CIF Southern Section championship game looming. The Cougars have now won 44 of their last 45 contests. The lone loss during that stretch…
Gearbox has announced the release date for the first DLC pack for We Happy Few, entitled They Came From Below. The announcement came during the studio’s keynote address at PAX East 2019. The first piece of downloadable content will launch on April 4, 2019, and cost $7.99 individually or can be purchased along with the…
The US exit from the Iranian nuclear deal will provoke another major international crisis and grant Iranians freedom to develop nuclear weapons and related programs, a senior Russian MP has said. “If the deal is destroyed then of course Iran would get a theoretical freedom of action, including the capability to develop nuclear weapons and…