Featured Five for March 18-20

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Throughout the 2016 softball season, the NFCA will feature some of the sport’s highest-profile contests in our “Featured Five” Games of the Week. Each weekly installment will be released on Thursday, providing live stat links, game notes, team info, social media accounts and any available broadcast links in hopes of becoming another reason…

Chris McQuarrie Reportedly Turned Down DC to Make More Mission: Impossible Movies

Writer and director of the last two Mission: Impossible films, Chris McQuarrie, seemingly hasn’t been bitten by the superhero bug. The Rogue Nation and Fallout writer-director has reportedly turned down offers from a number of studios in favour of returning to the Mission: Impossible franchise for two more movies. THR reports that Warner Bros. was…

India bombs Pakistan, saying it targeted terrorist camps in cross-border air raid

An Indian minister claimed that the country’s aircraft made a successful bombing run against terrorists on the Pakistani-controlled side of Kashmir. Pakistan said the Indian jets “released a payload” while fleeing. “Air Force carried out aerial strike early morning today at terror camps across the LoC [Line of Control] and Completely destroyed it,” the minister…

Coaching Tools (Softball Excellence) Educational Package Now Available to NFCA Youth Coach Members

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The National Fastpitch Coaches association is pleased to announce that member coaches in the high school, travel ball and youth categories will receive EXCLUSIVE educational materials from Softball Excellence, a premier softball education and training company. The first-of-its-kind coaching package, which includes practice plans, drills, a hitting drills eBook and a team…

Magic The Gathering Esports Program Announced at The Game Awards 2018

Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast announced a new esports program for Magic: The Gathering at The Game Awards 2018. The program, which is coming in 2019, includes a $10 million prize bool across digital and tabletop Magic contests, with a $1 million Mythic Invitational at PAX East 2019. The Magic Pro League (MPL)  will…

3rd patient reportedly cured of HIV in incredible medical breakthrough

A third patient is said to have been cured of HIV in an amazing medical breakthrough. The news comes on the heels of the revelation that the second person ever is HIV-free following a bone marrow transplant. It has been 12 years since the first HIV-cured patient was reported. On Monday, doctors announced a second…

Scrap Yard Dogs hire Vela and MacKay as co-head coaches

The Woodlands, Texas – The Scrap Yard Dawgs announced that Javier “Jav” Vela and Tripp MacKay have signed as co-head coaches for the Dawgs Inaugural Season, the organization announced on Tuesday.   Jav Vela of Tomball, Texas will be returning to the NPF after an eight-year absence. Coach Vela recently retired from a 21-year stint…

‘Duque is the devil in person’: Maduro breaks relations with neighbor Colombia, expels its diplomats

Venezuela has severed relations with its neighbor Colombia and has expelled all diplomats from its embassy, President Nicolas Maduro has declared, during a rally in Caracas. Maduro had earlier closed the border with Colombia in the run-up to Saturday’s attempts by the opposition to deliver trucks of ‘humanitarian aid’ from Colombia, in defiance of Caracas….