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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The NFCA is pleased to announce six additions to the Association’s Board of Directors, including incoming President, Karen Weekly, co-head coach at Tennessee. Elected by their peers, each coach that is named to the 17-member board is slated to serve one three-year term. The term for incoming board members and those reelected […]

German metal band Rammstein have come under fire for using controversial imagery of Nazi concentration camps to promote their upcoming single ‘Deutschland,’ in what has been called “a tasteless exploitation of artistic freedom.” The band has been posting short clips featuring shocking imagery in recent days. The images range from several members posing on a […]

FX has announced that it has ordered Y, a TV adaptation of the post-apocalyptic science fiction comic Y: The Last Man, to series. Announced by presidents of original programing at FX, Nick Grad and Eric Schrier, the series follows Y, the last man alive, as he “traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The National Fastpitch Coaches Association has announced that 47 student-athletes from 19 programs have received 2016 NFCA NJCAA DII All-Region accolades.   Click HERE for teams. The awards honor softball student-athletes from the Association’s three regions with first-team recognition. NFCA member coaches from each respective region voted on the teams, and all […]

At least 10 people have been injured during an ongoing, high-risk evacuation of the Viking Sky cruise liner, which had engine problems and was forced to anchor in Norway’s Hustadvika Bay with 1,300+ passengers and crew on board. After suffering an engine failure, the Viking Sky sent out a mayday call on Saturday afternoon, requesting […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. –  Humboldt State senior Tiffany Hollingsworth and Western Washington freshman Anna Kasner were named the Louisville/Slugger NFCA Division II National Player and Pitcher, respectively. The duo earned the first plaudit of 2017 after outstanding play during the opening week of the season. Hollingsworth played a pivotal role for the second-ranked Jacks as they […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It has been 20 years since USA Softball won the first gold medal in Olympics history, claiming a 3-1 victory over China in Columbus, Ga. Fast-forward to Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016 in New Orleans. USA Softball in conjunction with the NFCA Convention is holding a reunion game which features a slow-pitch exhibition […]

Catholic churches in France are being targeted with arson attacks, vandalism, desecration of holy statues, and the destruction of the Eucharist. The attacks have been happening since the start of the year. The Church of St. Sulpice in Paris, where the Da Vinci Code movie was filmed, was set on fire just after midday mass […]

Before he played the title role in DC’s Shazam!, actor Zachary Levi was Fandral in both Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World and (oh so briefly) Thor: Ragnarok. Levi had replaced Josh Dallas, who played Fandral, one of the Warriors Three, in the first Thor movie. But from what Levi told the press on the set […]

Russian ships are keeping a close eye on NATO, whose three frigates recently crossed into the Black Sea, preparing to sail near Crimea and conduct a joint naval drill with Ukraine and Georgia. The large patrol ship ‘Vasily Bykov,’ along with surveillance ship ‘Ivan Khurs,’ both of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, are closely tracking the […]