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6/4/2021 | Lincoln – The Nebraska baseball team (31-12) capped the 2021 regular season on Saturday with a doubleheader spit against the Michigan Wolverines (27-17) in front of a season-high crowd of 7,650. The Wolverines took game one, 2-0, and then the Huskers responded with a 5-3 victory to take the weekend series, as NU took the opener on Friday, 1-0.   Michigan entered the weekend with a Big Ten-high 300 runs on the season in 41, an average of 7.3 runs per game. Nebraska’s pitching staff limited the Wolverines to a total of five runs over the three-game series.   Saturday’s cr...

Maltese author Aleks Farrugia has been disqualified from participating in the EU's Prize for Literature because the media house that published his book is affiliated with a political party.  “Apart from this condition not being mentioned in the rules, it is the author’s right to choose the publisher,” Farrugia, author of Għall-Glorja tal-Patrija, ( The Glory of the Homeland) said. On Wednesday SKS Publishers "deplored" and "condemned" the EUPL’s decision to disqualify the Malta Book Prize winner. EUPL was launched in 2009 to recognise emerging fiction writers from across Europe. ...

MEP Alfred Sant has questioned regulations governing the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) and has called on the European Commission to explain why writers nominated for the prize are automatically disqualified if they have been published by a political party publishing house. The rules governing the EUPL would, therefore, exclude Maltese writers whose works were published by PIN Publications and SKS Publishers due to their political affiliation. In a parliamentary question, Sant, who heads the Labour Party's delegation in the European Parliament, stated that the condition excluding ...

Michigan’s win streak snapped by Rutgers on Saturday Michigan had the winning run at the plate in the ninth. Share this story Michael Barera Michigan Baseball's six-game winning streak came to an end on Saturday afternoon in a 4-2 loss to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (13-13) in Ann Arbor. The Wolverines (19-8) saw the bats go cold on a chilly Saturday afternoon at home, finishing the day with a pair of runs on only five hits. The action in this game was mostly seen in the middle innings. Michigan scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth without achieving a hit. The two runs came on a...

Newsbook Creative Europe Desk Malta Kissirtu Kullimkien and Joe Pace, with his book Papa Aħmed, are the two Maltese authors shortlisted for this year’s European Union Prize for Literature. Both books are published by Merlin. Joe Pace’s Papa Aħmed is an action-based work of fiction about the first Maltese Pope, and Lara Calleja’s Kissirtu Kullimkien is a series of short stories revolving around the destructive impact the construction industry is having on the Maltese islands. The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) is an annual initiative that recognises emerging fiction writ...