TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Currently in her eighth season as the head coach of the Florida State softball program, Lonni Alameda will soon add another head coach title to her résumé as the USSSA Pride announced that she will lead their professional team for the 2016 season in the National Pro Fastpitch league.

“I’m honored to coach in the NPF,” said Alameda. “I think the National Pro Fastpitch league is an outstanding opportunity to grow our game and to be the head coach of the USSSA Pride with all of their great athletes, tradition and reputation that they have is going to be an amazing experience.

“I’m really excited to learn from the athletes and to continue to create the culture and environment of growing the game for professional fastpitch, collegiate softball and softball in general. We all have the responsibility to keep moving this game forward. As we have people like Don DeDonatis who nurtures such a great learning environment and experience for athletes, it is truly an honor to be a part of.”

Alameda will be the latest in a long line of collegiate coaches that have been at the helm of the USSSA Pride in during the summer. Former Pride head coaches include Tim Walton (Florida – 2010-2011), Beth Torina (LSU – 2012), JT D’Amico (Washington – 2013), Gerry Glasco (Georgia – 2014) and Mike Davenport (North Georgia – 2015).

It also continues Florida State’s involvement with the Pride as assistant coach Travis Wilson was an assistant coach during the 2015 NPF season. In 2015, the Seminole hitting coach helped the Pride lead the league in several offensive categories and finish as the NPF regular season champions.

The Seminoles have placed several student-athletes in the professional ranks in recent seasons with Courtney Senas and Maddie O’Brien on the PA Rebellion, Briana Hamilton with the Akron Racers and Lacey Waldrop with the 2015 Cowles Cup Champion Chicago Bandits.

The 2016 National Pro Fastpitch season begins on May 31 with the Akron Racers taking on the PA Rebellion. Alameda will join the Pride following the conclusion of the Florida State season and opening day for the Pride will be on June 10 in Conroe, Texas against the newest NPF Franchise, the Scrap Yard Dawgs. For more information on the USSSA Pride, go to www.usssapride.com.

— Courtesy of Scott Moriak (Florida State Assistant Sports Information Director)
— Image courtesy of Maury Neipris

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Tom Holland shared a cryptic tweet Monday in response to fans asking when the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer will be released, teasing that it would be any day now.

“So I spoke to Sony…” the tweet read.

The response came following a well known Marvel fan, Kirk Deveyck, who uploaded a video on Twitter for Holland on Saturday, demanding the trailer be dropped.

Comicbook reports that Deveyck did something similar for Avengers: Infinity War that ended up going viral, in which he landed a pass to the film’s Hollywood premiere. His current video has over 2 million views alone.

Holland first responded to Deveyck by saying, “I’ll see what I can do.” While including the laughing-crying emoji at the end. He then came back Monday morning with his current tweet, heavily hinting that the trailer will drop any day.

A rumor has since been circulating that the trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home will drop on Tuesday, Jan. 14th, from @gavinfeng97 on Twitter who said it came from people connected to Sony’s local partner in China.

The first trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home was played during Sony’s panel at Brazil Comic Con in Sao Paulo, but Sony decided to hold off on publishing the trailer online following the event.

For the full trailer description, read IGN Brazil’s breakdown of the trailer, who were there to see it in person, and make sure you peek at Holland’s new Spider-Man suit in the sequel, which was revealed this past October.

In other Tom Holland news, the Uncharted movie now has a new director in Dan Trachtenberg and should begin filming after Holland’s press tour for Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Jessie Wade is a news writer and is part of the Avengers squad here at IGN. Follow her on Twitter @jessieannwade to chat with her about anything Marvel. 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Senior Victoria Haugsness of North Platte (Mo.) High School is this week’s MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Player of the Week for contests played September 28-Oct. 4.

Haugsness twirled a pair of complete-game shutouts with 19 strikeouts and also knocked in four runs helping North Platte post victories over DeKalb and Lawson to extend its winning streak to seven games. In a 2-0 blanking of DeKalb, the 5-7 senior struck out 10, allowed four hits and a walk in her first start of the week. The next day Haugsness punched out nine, surrendered two hits and did not walk a batter in a 5-0 triumph over Lawson. She also helped herself out at the plate with a pair of hits, four RBI and a double, while picking up her 20th win of the season.

MaxPreps.com, the official high school statistical provider of the NFCA, provides all statistics for the NFCA High School Player of the Week award. 
To nominate a player for the award, the coach must enter his or her athlete’s game stats into MaxPreps.com by Sunday evening to be eligible for that week’s award.

The MaxPreps/NFCA High School Players of the Week are announced on NFCA.org every Monday during the fall season, with one representative chosen from the participating regions. During the spring campaign, a player from each of five separate high school regions is selected.

Please note, in order for a school to have multiple player(s) recognized during the course of a season, a coach from that institution must be an NFCA member. To become an NFCA member, please check out NFCA.org or call 502-409-4600.

MaxPreps is a free stat tool that is available to high school coaches across the country and is one of the most recognized and respected high school athletics websites on the internet. Coaches who enter their team’s stats on Max Preps will not only be nominating their players for this award, but they will be getting their team’s information out to thousands of high school sports fans, as well as college coaches across the country. 

2015-16 Max Preps/NFCA Players of the Week
10/6 – Victoria Haugsness | North Platte (Mo.) HS
9/28 – Taylor Parham | Wilber-Clatonia (Neb.) HS
9/21 – Savannah Chalfant | Gilmer (Ga.) HS
9/14 – Madison Ingram | Bowling Green (Mo.) HS
9/7 – Riley Craig | Mountain Range (Colo.) HS
8/31 – Sieara Price | Eaton (Colo.) HS 
8/24 – Callyn Carter | Charlton County (Ga.) HS

Seemingly leaked box art has revealed the next Far Cry game may be titled Far Cry: New Dawn.

Posted by Wario64 on Twitter, the potential cover art features the same lush post-apocalyptic setting and buzzsaw-blade-shooting crossbow highlighted in yesterday’s teaser trailer.

The potential Xbox One box art also hints at HDR and 4K support for Xbox One X. Ubisoft previously announced Far Cry: New Dawn, should that be the official title, will also be released for PlayStation 4 and PC.

It’s still unclear whether this will be a spinoff, a direct sequel to Far Cry 5, or an entirely new entry in the series. We’ll almost certainly have a definitive answer tonight when it’s officially revealed at The Game Awards 2018.

For start times and streaming options for the show, head over to IGN’s Game Awards viewing guide.

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated IGN had reached out for comment before the article was published. IGN regrets this error.

Jordan is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter @jdsirani.

Update #2: EA has officially commented on the reports that an open world Star Wars game has been canceled.

In a statement provided to IGN, a representative for EA said “the great work by our team in Vancouver continues and will evolve into future Star Wars content and games.”

EA’s full statement reads:

EA did not concretely confirm or deny Project Orca’s cancellation, but the statement seems to imply the work done so far will be possibly focused into new projects if indeed Orca has been canceled.

Update #1: Kotaku has updated its story, saying that new sources have now indicated that the cancelled Star Wars game was code-named Orca, and has been replaced with a “smaller-scale Star Wars project” at EA Vancouver.

Orca was reportedly deemed too long a project for EA’s current development road map – the new, smaller game is apparently tentatively scheduled for late 2020. Kotaku also indicates that some EA Vancouver workers hope Orca will re-enter development after the new game is completed.

More details about what Orca would have been have also emerged. The game would apparently have seen players taking on the role of a “scoundrel or bounty hunter who could explore various open-world planets and work with different factions across the Star Wars universe.”

According to a new report, EA’s open-world Star Wars game, in development following the closure of Visceral Games, has also been canceled.

Kotaku has reported this game’s alleged cancellation. According to Kotaku, this Star Wars game was the one announced following Visceral Games’ closure in 2017, which came alongside the cancellation of Amy Hennig’s game in production at the studio. Development resources at the time shifted from Visceral’s title, reportedly codenamed Ragtag, to this new, now reportedly canceled title.

IGN has reached out to EA for comment.

There is no new word on what EA Vancouver’s focus may be, and whether or not they will continue exploring potential Star Wars games.

At the time of its initial announcement, EA framed the closing of Visceral and the game’s status as a “refocusing” of Hennig’s title. EA said the intention was for it “to be a broader experience that allows for more variety and player agency, leaning into the capabilities of our Frostbite engine and reimagining central elements of the game to give players a Star Wars adventure of greater depth and breadth to explore.”

Following the closure of Visceral, EA Motive’s Jade Raymond, who has since left the studio, said they had plans to use work from Hennig’s project for the new Star Wars game.

Story and gameplay details then came out about Hennig’s canceled “Ragtag” project, with the intention of letting players control several members of a team of smugglers in the Star Wars universe. Todd Stashwick, who was co-writing the game with Hennig, called it “beautiful, amazing, fun, and funny.”

Hennig joined Visceral Games’ Star Wars project in 2014, following her departure from Naughty Dog. Later reports regarding the project suggested it would be a story-focused, Uncharted-esque game. Jade Raymond’s Motive Studio originally opened to collaborate with Visceral.

For more, be sure to look at other Star Wars games that never were.

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Mom knows best, especially in the kitchen. There’s just something magical about what she does that makes her food taste better than anyone else’s. But is it possible to adapt our immigrant mothers’ recipes and cook as well as they do … or even better?

Host Angelyn Francis and reporter Al Donato present a trio of guest stories, and reflect on their own immigrant mothers and the ways cooking passes on intergenerational knowledge and feeds our souls.

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This episode’s transcript is available for download.

This episode’s stories:

Tasha Stansbury assumed going vegan meant she’d have to miss out on her favourite Lebanese dishes and be satisfied with just enjoying the sides. But, she had made the decision and there was no turning back. Then, her mom found out, and Tasha’s world changed in ways she’d never imagined.

Preena Chauhan runs cooking classes with her mom, Arvinda, but they don’t agree on certain techniques. One of them loves sticking to traditional, slower methods, while the other tells students to take shortcuts when they can. And only one can be victorious in this culinary battle of wills.

Ben Lootens grew up with a nemesis — a traditional Dutch dish his mom often made for dinner. Why would she feed her family something that tasted so … awful? As an adult who now has a passion for all things culinary, Ben thinks he understands her reasoning, and came up with a way to turn the dish around. Would his family bite?

Places mentioned in this episode:

• Arvinda’s cooking classes are held at Nella Cusina in Toronto
• No Frills is a Canadian grocery chain with locations in several provinces

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