LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The World Baseball Softball Confederation announced the expansion of television coverage for the XIV Women’s Softball World Championship, which is currently being staged from August 15-24, in Europe for the first-time ever — marking a major landmark for the global growth of the women’s sport. The 16-nation world championship in Haarlem…
The royal wedding of the year — a.k.a. the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — will take place on Saturday, May 19 at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle. But just because the nuptials are taking place across the pond doesn’t mean us Canucks have to miss out on the action. Back in…
For 1,653 days Islamic State has ruled over its prophesied caliphate. During that four-and-a-half years they inflicted untold misery on the nearly 10 million people that lived in it – a vast cross-border territory that at its height was the size of Britain. But last night, their reign of terror appeared to be in its…
VANCOUVER — A Vancouver home that a court heard is owned by a recently arrested Huawei executive and her husband was broken into early Sunday morning. Vancouver police say the break-in was reported just before 5:30 a.m. at the home on West 28th Avenue and the suspects fled the area after being challenged by someone…
Even though she’s been gone for 20 years, Princess Diana is still in the minds and hearts of her family. After giving birth to her third child — a baby boy — on Monday, the Duchess of Cambridge presented her son outside the Lindo Wing of London’s St. Mary’s Hospital wearing a red Jenny Packham…
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir, facing the country’s biggest popular protests since he came to power 30 years ago, declared a one-year state of emergency on Friday and called on parliament to postpone constitutional amendments that would allow him to seek another term in a 2020 presidential election. In a televised speech, Bashir said he would dissolve…
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…