HAARLEM, Netherlands — When Japan defeated the United States, 4-1, to win the first ISF World Championship held in Europe, it highlighted softball’s continued expansion beyond traditional geographic boundaries as one of the world’s most commercially successful and popular spectator and participation sports for women, young girls and families. Australia earned the bronze to…
2013-14 NFCA NCAA Division IIIAll-Academic Teams School Name GPA Emerson College 3.644 Iowa Wesleyan College 3.571 Illinois Wesleyan University 3.571 Pomona-Pitzer Colleges 3.563 Washington University (Mo.) 3.55 Middlebury College 3.54 Fontbonne University 3.52 Wesleyan University 3.518 Newbury College 3.513 University of Texas at Tyler 3.51 Messiah College 3.502 Otterbein University 3.497 St. Catherine University…
Aretha Franklin just died of pancreatic cancer at age 76. She had a long and sometimes difficult life. She won 18 Grammys. She is indisputably one of the greatest singers of all time. “American history wells up when Aretha sings,” former U.S. president Barack Obama told David Remnick in a 2016 New Yorker profile of…
A farmer in Australia accused of brutally kidnapping and raping a backpacker in an abandoned pig shed after responding to her advertisement on Gumtree has pleaded not guilty, saying the alleged assault was an “invention”. Gene Charles Bristow, a 54-year-old pig farmer, allegedly assaulted the 24-year-old Belgian traveller at his property in the small town…
TORONTO — A union representing Ontario couriers delivering packages for Amazon.com Inc. are alleging the e-commerce giant engaged in unfair labour practices that resulted in the termination of employees, the closure of one courier company’s Mississauga operations and the bankruptcy of another. In a series of applications filed with the Ontario Labour Relations Board in…
Click:C27035-20 Nigeria’s president and the leading opposition candidate urged people to remain calm after a national election scheduled for Saturday was postponed by a week just five hours before polls were due to open. However, the opposition candidate, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, later accused President Muhammadu Buhari of instigating the delay to "disenfranchise" the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – As a result of her outstanding play over the past week, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) has selected senior Keara O’Toole of Bishop Machebeuf High School in Denver, Colo., as the MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Player of the Week. O’Toole was a perfect 10-for-10 at the plate in the Buffaloes’…
The French authorities opened an investigation on Sunday into “yellow-vest” protesters who were filmed shouting anti-Semitic insults at a leading writer and philosopher. Police intervened to protect Alain Finkelkraut, 69, after a group of “yellow vests” started yelling furiously at him on the sidelines of a protest in Paris on Saturday. Video footage posted on…
HALIFAX — A new study from Statistics Canada draws data from an unexpected source to suggest Halifax has the highest rate of cannabis consumption per capita among five urban centres across the country. The national statistics agency launched its study in March, using a relatively new technology called wastewater-based epidemiology. Watch: Nova Scotia leads Canada…
To see a landscape from above is to transform it, to understand it differently, to form new concepts of action within it. A plane’s window brings a world into view and renders it alien, a swollen floor of cloud-tufted strangeness. It feels like game developers are still discovering the power of such perspective shifts, though…