LAS VEGAS — A sold out exhibit show, two 1,500-game winners and a jam-packed mentoring session were just some of the highlights on day two of the NFCA National Convention at Bally’s Las Vegas. For the second straight year, MIT’s Jen Williams led an early morning work out followed by the Schutt Sport Continental Breaks….
Click:bamboo rods New Delhi and Tehran sealed an agreement to switch to a rupee payment mechanism to pay for Iranian crude imports, according to a Reuters source. It said half of those payments will be used for exporting items to Tehran. India’s state-owned UCO Bank is expected to announce the new payment mechanism in the…
OTTAWA — Experts consulted by the Bank of Canada discussed including a reference to the Black Lives Matter movement on the new $10 bill featuring civil rights activist Viola Desmond. Documents obtained by HuffPost Canada through the Access to Information Act show the idea came up on Nov. 2, 2016 in a design workshop. A…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The NFCA is pleased to announce the renewal of Bownet Sports as an official partner. Bownet, the world’s best portable goals, nets and training systems, has agreed to a three-year contract and will provide first-rate softball equipment to be used at NFCA Coaches Clinics and subsequently raffled off to clinic attendees. “One…
While certain politicians are still having difficulties getting their walls built, Russia has announced it had finished a border barrier between Ukraine and Crimea. Construction took just over a year and less than $3 million. Bids for building the two-meter tall, 60-kilometer long fence separating the peninsula from Ukraine opened in September 2017. The Federal…
TORONTO — The Toronto cannabis shop was packed one day in early 2017. Marc Emery, Canada’s “Prince of Pot” who served a U.S. prison term for selling marijuana seeds to American customers and created a successful chain of marijuana-related retail ventures with his wife, was not happy with an arrangement of vape pens in his…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The National Fastpitch Coaches Association has announced the addition of the Geri Ann Glasco Memorial Scholarship in partnership with the Natasha Watley Foundation (NWF) and the Glasco Family. The scholarship is dedicated in the memory of Geri Ann Glasco, an aspiring coach and elite former student-athlete. Glasco, a 24-year old University of Louisiana volunteer…
There are a lot of things you might expect to see in -37°C temperatures in Siberia, but a man in his underwear riding the bucket of an excavator before being doused in ice water probably isn’t one of them. Still, it happened. A video posted online shows the practically naked daredevil hold onto the excavator…
As border walls go, this one’s pretty cheesy. A Montreal-born artist who specializes in works made from cheese and other edibles started building a quarter-mile wall along the U.S.-Mexico border on March 25. Cosimo Cavallaro said his giant cheese wall is being built in Tecate, Calif., 45 feet from the real border at Tecate, Mexico….
Despite being granted exemptions from US sanctions against Iran to enable them to buy Tehran’s oil, some European countries fully cut off crude imports from the Islamic Republic, according to Iran’s oil minister. Washington agreed to give temporary waivers to several Iranian oil buyers when it imposed an embargo on oil shipments from the country…