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Uber said Monday that Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, one of the company’s longest-tenured top executives and the head of is delivery business is leaving after almost 13 years.

Gore-Coty joined Uber as a general manager in France in 2012, and worked his way up to become vice president of mobility for the Europe and Middle East region four years later, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was named senior vice president of delivery in 2021.

“It’s hard to imagine Uber without Pierre, because there hasn’t been much Uber without Pierre,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement that was part of a regulatory filing. “As one of our first employees, he was a driving force behind our global Mobility expansion and stepped up to run Uber Eats just weeks before the first Covid lockdowns.”

The company didn’t say what Gore-Coty plans to do next.

Uber also said that Andrew Macdonald, the company’s senior vice president of mobility and business operations, will become chief operating officer, reporting to Khosrowshahi. Macdonald, 41, will oversee the company’s global mobility, delivery and autonomous businesses in addition to “key cross-platform functions like membership, customer support, safety, and more,” the filing said.

Gore-Coty is one of 11 people listed on Uber’s executive team page. Macdonald is the only one who has worked at the company longer. He joined in May 2012, four months before Gore-Coty, according to LinkedIn.

“These last nearly 13 years have been the ride of a lifetime,” Gore-Coty said in the statement. “It was a true team effort, and I’m so proud of what we’ve built and the impact we’ve had on daily life in cities around the world.”

Uber shares were little changed in extended trading after closing on Monday at $83.64. The stock is up 39% this year, while the Nasdaq is about flat.

Last month, the company reported first-quarter results that beat on earnings but missed on revenue. A month earlier, the Federal Trade Commission sued Uber, alleging that the company engaged in “deceptive billing and cancellation practices” related to its Uber One subscription service.

In an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Khosrowshahi characterized the lawsuit as “a bit of a head-scratcher for us.”

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Elon Musk’s brain tech startup Neuralink has closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced Monday.

ARK Invest, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and other firms participated in the round, according to a press release. Neuralink said the fresh capital will help the company bring its technology to more patients and develop new devices that “deepen the connection between biological and artificial intelligence.”

Neuralink is building a brain-computer interface, or BCI, which is a system that translates brain signals into commands for external technologies.

The company’s first system, called Telepathy, involves 64 “threads” that are inserted directly into the brain. The threads are thinner than a human hair and record neural signals through 1,024 electrodes, according to Neuralink’s website.

The initial aim of the technology is to help patients with severe paralysis restore some independence. As of Monday, five patients have been implanted with Neuralink’s technology, and are able to “control digital and physical devices with their thoughts,” the release said.

Neuralink is currently carrying out four separate clinical trials around its Telepathy system.

BCIs have been studied in academia for decades, and several other companies, including Synchron, Paradromics and Precision Neuroscience, are developing their own systems.

Paradromics on Monday announced it successfully implanted its BCI in a human for the first time.

It’s not clear what devices Neuralink will look to develop next, but Musk has for years espoused grand ambitions for the brain tech startup. He has even claimed that he would be willing to get an implant himself.

One of the capabilities Musk has repeatedly highlighted is the ability to restore vision to blind patients.

Neuralink received a “Breakthrough Device” designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a device called Blindsight. This designation is granted to medical devices that have the potential to provide improved treatment for debilitating or life-threatening conditions.

In a post on his social media platform X in September, Musk said Blindsight will enable even those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see.

Neuralink still has a long road ahead before it can commercialize these technologies.

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The 2025 French Open is into its second week, and the stakes are only getting higher.

Defending champions Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz are still alive in their bids to repeat on the storied clay courts of Roland Garros. But they still face a difficult road to get back to the winner’s circle. Swiatek knows how to navigate that road better than anyone, however, having won the title each of the last three years.

The second Grand Slam tournament of the 2025 tennis season will culminate with the women’s final on Saturday, June 7 and the men’s final on Sunday, June 8.

Here are the latest results and schedule from Paris.

How to watch the 2025 French Open

Date: Ongoing through Sunday, June 8
Where: Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France
TV: TNT, TBS, truTV
Stream: Sling TV, YouTube TV

2025 French Open: Men’s singles bracket

For a full list of results, visit the Roland-Garros 2025 tournament site.

Tuesday, June 3

Quarterfinal round

8-Lorenzo Musetti (Italy) def. 15-Frances Tiafoe (U.S.) 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2

2-Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) vs. 12-Tommy Paul (U.S.)

Wednesday, June 4

Quarterfinal round

1-Jannik Sinner (Italy) vs. Alexander Bublik (Kazakhstan)

3-Alexander Zverev (Germany) vs. 6-Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

Friday, June 6

Semifinal round

8-Lorenzo Musetti (Italy) vs. TBA

TBA vs. TBA

2025 French Open: Women’s singles bracket

Tuesday, June 3

Quarterfinal round

1-Aryna Sabalenka def. Zheng Qinwen (China) 7-6 (3), 6-3

5-Iga Swiatek (Poland) def. 13-Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 6-1, 7-5

Wednesday, June 4

Quarterfinal round

7-Madison Keys (U.S.) vs. 2-Coco Gauff (U.S.)

6-Mirra Andreeva (Russia) vs. Lois Boisson (France)

Thursday, June 5

Semifinal round

1-Aryna Sabalenka vs. 5-Iga Swiatek (Poland)

TBA vs TBA

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DAZN believes the FIFA Club World Cup could become the most live streamed event in sports history.

The Club World Cup begins June 14 with Lionel Messi and Inter Miami playing in the opening match in Miami, and ends with the Club World Cup final at MetLife Stadium on July 13. The Club World Cup winner will take home at least $125 million of a $1 billion prize pool on the line for the tournament.

All 63 matches of the Club World Cup will be available to live stream for free worldwide on DAZN.com, while TNT will broadcast select matches on TV in the United States in English. Univision, TUDN and ViX will broadcast matches in Spanish in the U.S.

‘If you take a global point of view, soccer is the biggest sport in the world. We think this will easily become the highest streamed live sports event ever because we’re going to have audiences not just in the U.S, but in South America, across Europe, across the Middle East, and so on,’ DAZN’s CEO of Growth Markets Pete Oliver told USA TODAY Sports.

‘It’s a really big moment to have a truly global sporting event available on one streaming platform. This is going to be an opportunity to bring in a big, new audience of fans onto DAZN, and for them to experience all of the things we do.’

Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid, Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain, Champions League runner-up Inter Milan, Chelsea, Manchester City, Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are among standout clubs participating in the tournament.

Along with Inter Miami, the Seattle Sounders and Los Angeles FC will represent Major League Soccer and the U.S. in the field. Club World Cup matches will also be played in Atlanta, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Orlando, Nashville, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington D.C.

Consider the Club World Cup a precursor to the 2026 World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico from June 11-July 19, 2026. 

‘Well, it’s a very big moment. It’s a big moment for America, first of all, because it’s the first time this tournament (this size) has ever happened,’ Oliver said. ‘The biggest teams in the world are going to come and play in the U.S., which we think is hugely exciting. We think it’s going to be a very big cultural moment ahead of next year’s World Cup.’

Oliver expects viewership to be in the ‘hundreds of millions’ and believes DAZN has the infrastructure in place to handle streaming the tournament worldwide.

DAZN streams over 90,000 live events annually and is available in more than 200 markets worldwide – showcasing soccer matches from LaLiga (Spain), Serie A (Italy), Bundesliga (Germany), Ligue 1 (France), women’s football, boxing and MMA, the NFL and NBA internationally, and auto racing from Formula One and Moto GP.

‘We’re planning for hundreds of millions of people because, of course, it’s free. And that makes a big difference. No one has to buy a subscription to watch it. They can just download the app and watch,’ Oliver said.

‘It’s going to be very big for us globally. As proving ourselves as a global platform, this is going to be very important for us from a technology point of view as well as a customer point of view.’

DAZN plans to make the soccer-viewing experience unique for fans.

The Fan Zone within the DAZN app will allow viewers to participate in polls, chat with each other, and talk to influencers while watching the action.

DAZN also will have a referee camera in a FIFA tournament for the first time.

DAZN also will broadcast the tournament in 15 different languages so respective regions across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and South America will be able to experience the tournament like they would any other soccer broadcast by the company.  

More than 100 popular social media influencers and creators with a combined reach of more than 32 million followers from countries like the U.S., England, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Libya, France, Venezuela, Italy, Norway, Brazil, and Portugal will bring a wide range of perspectives and cultural energy for the tournament. 

There also will be alternative watch-along streams, and daily wrap-up shows to recap the tournament.

‘The coverage we’re going to bring is going to be very focused on bringing influencers, younger players who’ve retired recently and got a more contemporary view, players and pundits who represent all the different countries involved,’ Oliver said.

‘We think fans will see a very different premium experience, plus all of those interactive features through the app, making it a much more social and interactive viewing experience than maybe they’ve had before.’

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Have you been this kid?

‘I wouldn’t raise my hand in class to answer a question in case I would say the wrong thing,’ Annika Sorenstam says. ‘I was always afraid that my classmates would laugh at me.’

She would even miss on purpose – maybe hit a three-putt, maybe leave the ball at the bunker – coming down the stretch at junior golf tournaments so she wouldn’t have to speak in front of a crowd.

‘They wanted the winner to give remarks of some kind, even at early ages,’ she tells USA TODAY Sports, ‘just to kind of  teach you more than the game itself, and I remember just being so afraid of it. I could finish second or third and still get a prize.

‘But you can imagine that would haunt me because I practiced a lot and I’m very competitive and got home knowing that I could have won it.’

Sorenstam, who would go on to win 10 major tournaments, 72 events on the LPGA Tour and make hundreds of post-round comments, says shyness has always been her weakness. But today it’s a smaller hurdle she can clear because of lessons she learned from her parents and from sports that she has continued to apply.

She’s now a mom of two teenagers (Ava, 15, and Will, 14) trying like us to distinguish their individual traits, and to give them room to grown into them, like she did.

‘I always tell people, ‘Get back to me in 10 years,’ ‘ she says. ‘I’ll let you know if it worked.’

Sorenstam, 54, has been instructing for 18 years through her ANNIKA foundation, which empowers and advances the cause of young women in golf and life. This spring and summer, she is running clinics for Bank of America’s ‘Golf with Us’ program to help give more boys and girls access to experiences similar to what she had.

She doesn’t formally coach Will, her rising junior golfer, though.

‘I’ve learned you don’t want to be a helicopter parent,’ she says. ‘You’re so invested and you’re so engaged and you’re so caring. We all love them so much and we just want them to succeed, and then it’s just, how do you handle it?’

Here’s her advice for parents and their athletes to help us all try and figure out golf, sports and overcoming our fears.

Foster independence through enjoyment of sport

Sorenstam’s mother, Gunilla, would swing a golf club when she was pregnant with her. She jokes with her daughter about how the action propelled her into her future.

Sorenstam describes her development as more of ‘one of those slow loves.’ Slow, indeed.

She grew up near Stockholm, Sweden, where she could whisk down ski slopes. Tennis, which she played for eight years, was her first love, not golf.

‘I really didn’t like it in the beginning,’ she says. ‘It was for older people and I wanted to chase a ball.’

Gunilla and her father, Tom, weren’t experts as much as facilitators for Sorenstam and her sister, Charlotta, who would also play on the LPGA Tour. The freedom to choose their favorite sport sparked curiosity.

‘It was just giving us the resources,’ Annika says. ‘Driving us to the golf course or driving us to the tennis tournaments, providing the stuff that we needed. Not like a coach or anything; it was more they’re loving parents and not very pushy and just kind of help us and guide us through the steps. And I think that worked quite well.

‘I disappointed them in my own way, but not through the score. And I always felt like they had my back. And on the contrary, I wanted them to be pleased and happy with what I was doing.’

She reflects today with a knowing chuckle about how right it felt: the way the support built her up inside and helped her along her teenage journey.

A seminal moment came when she was 16, and she had found her sport. ‘I want to play golf,’ she told her parents.

‘I don’t think I really knew where the golf would take me,’ she says. ‘It was more just kind of a hobby. I enjoyed playing. And then I got a little better. And then I played some tournaments. And then one thing kind of led to another.’

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It’s a process she started over again when her kids were very young and they traveled with her to golf events.

‘They probably thought that was work,’ Sorenstam says, ‘and that’s not what they wanted to do.’

These can be delicate times with our kids and their sports. We can teach lessons on grip, ball position and aim by sprinkling them in while playing with friends (‘It’s very convincing when friends play a certain sport,’ she says) or having putting competitions.

‘I am a big believer in understanding the fundamentals of the sport early on,’ Sorenstam says, ‘and then just let them learn and let them test.’

We don’t always have to emphasize drilling. We can take breaks, she says, to stack golf balls into pyramids or stress the concepts of the sport with a soccer ball.

‘Introduce them to the game so it doesn’t become so focused on golf and having to do everything perfectly,’ she says. ‘I think that’s when you lose your kid early, because it’s all this structure. There’s a fine line of having structure. There’s a fine line of having etiquette. And I think you have to find that balance.

‘When your kid leaves the golf course or the driving range you want them to have a smile on their face. Then I think you’ve been successful.’

Over the years, we have seen Will’s eyes drawn to not only Tiger and Charlie Woods but to his mom as they play the course at the PNC Championship together.

‘Slow down, Mommy,’ he said in 2023 as they walked down the 18th fairway in Orlando, Florida. ‘I don’t want this moment to end.’

Will and his sister tried just about every other sport Sorenstam and husband Mike McGee played – ‘I was the mean mom; I didn’t give him a chance to play football,’ Annika says – before Ava made the varsity softball team and he settled on golf. It’s all he wants to do.

‘We practice a lot together,’ Sorenstam says, ‘but he’s also kind of a student of the game, so about a year ago, I said, ‘I think you need to find a real coach’ and he was like, ‘Well, I want to work with you.’ I said, ‘That’s fine, but then you have to listen.’ That didn’t really work out very well so he’s working with somebody.

‘It’s good to get a different perspective. I love to attend some of his lessons and learn so that when we do play, I can be of help a little bit, because I know what they’re working on. … I know a little golf and sometimes he wants to talk about it and I feel like I can add some value, and sometimes I’m just his mom and let him do his thing.

‘You just gotta go with the flow. He asks a lot of questions, not so much technique with me maybe, but just (about) traveling and what was your greatest shot, your most important memory. I love to have that discussion.’

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‘Feel the temperature’: Put your kids in situations to succeed, fail and express themselves

Golf was hard, but Sorenstam dove into the challenge to figure it out. It was like finding a missing piece of the puzzle that formed her identity. 

Playing it was fun, but then it became terrifying.

Tom and Gunilla started to see a pattern in Annika’s near-misses at tournaments. They called ahead to an upcoming one. When it was complete, Annika was asked to say something.

‘My reply was, ‘Well, I didn’t win,’ and they said, ‘We know, but we’d like to hear from you,’ ‘ Sorenstam says.

Her heart was pumping, her palms sweating. Her dad told her to grab her seven iron and make a simple statement like, ‘I let my clubs do the talking.’

‘I realized after that, ‘Oh, that was it,’ ‘ she says, and public speaking became easier.

‘It’s interesting how parents sometimes, they say we did so well, but she or he played so poorly,’ she says. ‘It’s like they have a third person. I think it’s really important to separate the athlete vs. the human and just really understand that the sport is helping you to grow as a human being, and not vice versa. Be able to separate that and not judge by the score.’

Her dad’s was a calculated nudge she has learned to use as a parent herself.

She likes to ask Will three questions after he plays:

How did it go?

What did you do well?

What can you do better?

‘And it’s kind of up to him. I’m not going to tell him: ‘I think you should do this better,’ ‘ she says.

He’ll tell her something, and then say, ‘I got it.’

‘Whether he actually knows or not, he’s telling himself, ‘That’s probably what I need to do,’ ‘ she says. ‘And I think for us, it’s worked quite well, because I want him to be accountable and responsible for his own thing, and then if he doesn’t know, then just ask me. I don’t want him to feel when we get in the car ride home that he’s like trapped in a car, and I’m bombarding him with questions. You have to kind of feel the temperature.’

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It’s putting the power of the experience in our kids hands for their own self-discovery, she says, no matter what our level of accomplishment. We learn with each kid when to push and when to pull back.

‘Hopefully he feels the safety net, but I’m only there if he needs it,’ she says. ‘Otherwise, I’m just gonna let him do his thing because that’s how he learns. I’ve learned that myself: If he gets in a sticky situation, or if he’s on the golf course (and) it’s not working, he can’t ask me anyway. He’s gotta try to figure it out. So I might as well try to give him all the help early on and let him learn from his mistakes.’

‘The goal is to make great individuals’: We can go the distance with sports

Bank of America is offering kids 6 to 18 a free one-year membership through June 15 to its Youth on Course program, which grants access to rounds for $5 or less at affiliated courses. The clinics are open to Youth on Course members in the market and to children from youth partner organizations like Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

Sorenstam says she’s not necessarily trying to create the next superstar but use golf, or whichever sport they choose, to help unlock things like dedication, curiosity, competitiveness and attention to fitness.

‘The goal is to make great individuals that represent the sport, and not so much just result and performance,” she says. “It’s really tough today with pressure and expectations. It’s better if you can build a solid foundation and then once you have that, you can go out and be successful in whatever you choose.

“There’s so many things you can do within the sport, whether it’s running an event or sports marketing or manufacturing. If you love sports, there’s so many things you can do more than just play it and you can still be around the sport.

[Don’t forget sports writing.]

To help kids find the right fit, we can be engaged from a distance while letting them learn, explore, hit and miss on their own.

Kids are more resilient than you think, especially the shy ones.

‘People think that people that have done well, it’s a straight line, straight journey; that you have no issues, you’re not scared, things come really easily,’ she says. ‘But I think we all have weaknesses that we got to work on and try to improve.’

Steve Borelli, aka Coach Steve, has been an editor and writer with USA TODAY since 1999. He spent 10 years coaching his two sons’ baseball and basketball teams. He and his wife, Colleen, are now sports parents for two high schoolers. His column is posted weekly. For his past columns, click here.

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The White House defended the President Donald Trump-endorsed ‘big, beautiful bill’ Tuesday after outgoing DOGE-chief Elon Musk doubled-down on his criticism of the spending bill, calling it a ‘disgusting abomination.’

Musk, who has been openly critical of the proposed reconciliation bill, said Tuesday afternoon that he ‘just can’t stand it anymore.’

‘This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,’ Musk added in a Tuesday afternoon post on X. ‘Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.’

The bill passed the House in late-May, ahead of Memorial Day, largely along party lines. However, two Republicans did vote against the measure, citing insufficient spending cuts and a rising national debt. GOP Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has also signaled he likely will not vote in favor of the bill in its current form, citing a debt ceiling increase that is a red-line for him. 

Trump has lashed out at Paul and others for opposing the bill, but he has taken a more measured approach to Musk’s criticism.

‘Look, the president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill,’ White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a Tuesday afternoon press briefing when asked about Musk’s most recent criticism.

‘It doesn’t change the president’s opinion. This is one big, beautiful bill and he’s sticking to it,’ she said. 

Musk, who led the cost-cutting efforts at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), previously criticized the bill during an interview with CBS, noting he was ‘disappointed’ in the spending bill because ‘it undermines’ all the work his DOGE team was doing.

In May, when Trump was asked about Musk’s criticism of the bill on CBS, he responded, ‘Well, our reaction’s a lot of things,’ before pivoting to talk about the votes needed to support pass the bill. 

‘Number one, we have to get a lot of votes, we can’t be cutting — we need to get a lot of support and we have a lot of support,’ he said. ‘We had to get it through the House, the House was, we had no Democrats. You know, if it was up to the Democrats, they’ll take the 65 percent increase.’

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South Korean voters swung left in the presidential race Tuesday, and conservative candidate Kim Moon-soo conceded defeat to liberal opponent Lee Jae-myung in the snap election.

Kim, candidate of the People Power Party (PPP), said at a press conference in the early hours of Wednesday morning he ‘humbly accepts (the) people’s choice.’

The decision came after record early voting turnout prompted speculation Lee would secure the presidency and flip the top seat after the impeachment of predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol, who was booted from office after he declared martial law in December.

The impeachment threw the country into political chaos after Yoon, also a member of the PPP, was removed from office two years early. 

It is unclear by what margin Lee secured the presidency, though reports had suggested for weeks that the liberal candidate was favored to win the top job. 

But Lee’s candidacy also prompted some serious concern when it came to his policy on international relations, particularly Seoul’s relationship with the U.S., China and North Korea.

Kim challenged Lee’s policies in a presidential debate last month after the liberal candidate said he would take a ‘pragmatic’ approach.

‘There’s no need to worry. The South Korea-U.S. alliance is important and should continue to grow and strengthen,’ Lee said, adding Seoul should not be ‘unilaterally bound’ to Washington, especially when it comes to the U.S.’s adversarial rivals.

‘We should not neglect ties with China or Russia,’ he added. ‘We need to manage them appropriately, and there’s no need to have an unnecessarily hostile approach like now.’

This position is a shift from the previous administration, which was hawkish on China and North Korea. 

Lee has said he wants to mitigate the ‘North Korea risk’ by easing relations with Seoul’s northern neighbor.

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President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance will attend the opening night of the musical ‘Les Misérables’ at the Kennedy Center next week, Fox News Digital has learned.

‘Les Misérables,’ one of the longest-running shows in Broadway and West End history, will have its opening night at the Kennedy Center on June 11. 

‘I love the songs, I love the play,’ Trump told Fox News Digital Tuesday. ‘I think it’s great — we may extend it.’  

The president has famously played songs from ‘Les Misérables’ at his rallies and events. 

‘The Kennedy Center is coming back,’ the president told Fox News Digital. ‘It was not properly taken care of and we are taking it back and we are going to turn it back into something great.’ 

Kennedy Center President Richard Grennell told Fox News Digital that ”Les Misérables’ is proving to be a huge hit.’ 

‘Opening night is going to be electric,’ Grennell told Fox News Digital.  

Kennedy Center officials told Fox News Digital that there will be a red carpet for opening night and that select members of the media will be invited to attend. Officials also said that attendees of the opening-night performance will be encouraged to walk the red carpet. 

Meanwhile, Kennedy Center officials told Fox News Digital that the first two weeks of the performance are nearly sold out, exceeding $3 million in ticket sales at the box office and exceeding the typical sales timeline.

‘We expect sales to exceed all expectations, surpassing the previously defined goals,’ a Kennedy Center spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

Meanwhile, sources told Fox News Digital that the president is committed to revitalizing the Kennedy Center, with some suggesting it should eventually be renamed ‘the Trump–Kennedy Center.’ 

The Kennedy Center has two affiliates — the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera. The new leadership team is currently working on business plans with its affiliates to ensure the Kennedy Center has larger endowments and ‘greater sustainability.’

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History was made in the NCAA baseball tournament.

And not the good kind, either, if you’re No. 1 Vanderbilt and No. 2 Texas. These two leading contenders for the national championship were quickly ejected from their respective regionals over the weekend, marking the second time since national seeding was introduced to the tournament in 1999 that the top two seeds failed to advance out of regionals.

After losing to Louisville on Saturday and Wright State on Sunday the Commodores became the first No. 1 overall seed to be eliminated in the regionals altogether since UCLA in 2015 and the first No. 1 seed under the current format to fail to at least reach its regional final.

The Longhorns lost to Texas-San Antonio twice in as many days. The Roadrunners were 0-6 in its tournament history entering the weekend while Texas, hosting a regional for the 38th time, won the SEC regular-season crown by two games under first-year coach Jim Schlossnagle.

These upsets serve as a black eye for the SEC, which dominated the regular season, the USA TODAY Sports college baseball poll and the 64-team bracket. With No. 7 Georgia and No. 10 Mississippi also sent packing, the SEC now turns to No. 3 Arkansas, No. 4 Auburn and No. 6 LSU to carry the flag for the conference. The Tigers were pushed to the brink by underdog Little Rock but managed to eke out a 10-6 on Monday night to advance.

The tournament continues with super regionals beginning on Friday. Those are best-of-three series played on the home field of the higher-ranked team. From there, the eight winners advance to Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska, for the College World Series.

Led by the two massive disappointments coming out of the SEC, here are the biggest winners and losers from the opening weekend:

Winners

Arkansas

The Razorbacks went unscathed through their regional – winning by a margin of 26-6 in three games – and are now the highest remaining seed left in the field. While this makes Arkansas the de facto favorite moving forward, the aforementioned chaos that is college baseball means a title is anything but guaranteed for a program that has never won the College World Series and has endure several heartbreaks along the way.

The ACC

By the conclusion of Sunday’s action, three ACC squads had punched their tickets to the next round and two more added to the league’s total on Monday when North Carolina and Miami were victorious. Two of the weekend victors, Duke and Louisville, advanced through regionals hosted by SEC members, a particularly satisfying outcome for certain fan bases subjected to the ‘it just means more’ mantra on a daily basis. It wasn’t all good news for the league as national seed Clemson and regular-season conference champ Georgia Tech were knocked out, but thus far it’s been a promising showing for the conference.

Texas-San Antonio

The Roadrunners were known to be dangerous heading into the tournament, and they proved it with a pair of wins against No. 2 seed Texas. UTSA won a 9-7 slugfest Saturday to send the Longhorns into the losers’ bracket, then jumped on Texas early once again Sunday and held on  7-4 to reach the super regionals for the first time in program history. The Roadrunners, who were winless in their previous three trips to the tournament, next face UCLA.

West Virginia

The Mountaineers provided arguably the most dramatics of the weekend. After rallying Saturday to defeat host Clemson, West Virginia again found itself trailing in the late innings Sunday against Kentucky. But the Mountaineers overcame a 12-7 deficit with a six-run eighth and held on to eliminate the Wildcats 13-12 to secure a second consecutive trip to the super regionals.

The erstwhile Pac-12

The former power conference will be well represented in the round of 16. The first weekend wasn’t all good for former Pac-12 schools with nationally seeded Oregon making an early exit, but a trio of other former league members did advance, with Oregon State joining Arizona and UCLA after its defeat of Southern California on Monday night.

Coastal Carolina

The 13th-seeded Chanticleers completed a sweep of their home regional in Conway, South Carolina., finishing it off Sunday with a masterful pitching performance from Riley Eikhoff and Dominick Carbone in a 1-0 shutout against East Carolina. The Pirates made a surprising run to the regional final by knocked off Florida twice after qualifying for the field by winning the American Athletic tournament.

Oklahoma State

The Athens regional ended painfully for Oklahoma State, which seemed poised to put the tying run on base on a wild pitch in the ninth inning of Sunday’s elimination game against Duke but had the runner called out for leaving the baseline and interfering with the throw to first. But one of the last four teams in the World Series field also captured maybe the most dramatic moment of the weekend. Earlier on Sunday, the Cowboys trailed Georgia 9-7 heading into the bottom of the ninth but rallied for four runs, ending things on a two-run, walk-off blast by third baseman Brock Thompson.

Mississippi State

After making a coaching change amid a disastrous start to SEC play, Mississippi State rebounded to reach the final of the Tallahassee regional before losing to No. 9 Florida State. That marked the second year in a row the Bulldogs were bounced in the opening weekend; the program hasn’t advanced to Super regionals since winning the whole thing in 2021. But the weekend ended with some very good news: Late on Sunday night, Mississippi State announced the hire of longtime Virginia coach Brian O’Connor, a five-time ACC coach of the year who led the Cavaliers to the 2015 national title.

Losers

Vanderbilt

The top-ranked team in the tournament led for just one of 27 innings over the weekend: Vanderbilt needed a three-run seventh inning and another run in the bottom of the eighth to beat Wright State 4-3 in Saturday’s regional opener. You can attribute this historic tournament exit to the Commodores’ disappearing bats. One of the hottest teams in the country heading into tournament play, Vanderbilt scored 10 runs over these three games and hit just .132, managing just four hits in the opener, five in the 3-2 loss to eventual regional winner Louisville and then three in the 5-4 loss to the Raiders. Two-time national champions under celebrated coach Tim Corbin, the Commodores reached the finals in 2021 but haven’t advanced out of the regionals since.

Texas

This had been a banner year for the Longhorns, who were buoyed by the offseason addition of Jim Schlossnagle from rival Texas A&M. But things had started to unravel down the home stretch of the regular season, capped by an early exit from the SEC tournament, so there were some warning signs heading into regionals. This was still a completely unexpected whipping at the hands of Texas-San Antonio.

Oregon

After dropping the opener of the Eugene Regional to Utah Valley – the 6-5 loss included a controversial decision to remove an Oregon run due to “malicious contact” on a play at the plate – the No. 12 Ducks trailed Cal Poly 3-1 after three in Saturday’s elimination game before rallying for seven runs across the middle innings to lead 8-5 heading into the bottom of the seventh. Then came the meltdown: Oregon reliever Ian Umlandt walked in a run, gave up a two-run single and then another run-scoring single to hand the Mustangs the 9-8 lead. They’d add another run in the bottom of the eighth for the 10-8 win. Losses from higher-ranked teams meant the Ducks were in line to host a Super Regional; that makes this collapse all the more painful.

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The Indiana Fever are set to face the Washington Mystics for the second time in less than a week in WNBA regular-season action, and it will also be the second time in less than a week that Fever star Caitlin Clark will be relegated to watching the two teams play from the sideline.

Clark is on the verge of missing a third game in a row due to a quad injury she suffered in the Fever’s 90-88 loss to the the defending WNBA champion New York Liberty on May 24. Even worse is that the team’s injury woes have only gotten worse, and Indiana (2-4) will ride a three-game losing skid into its rematch with the Mystics (3-4) at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Washington beat the Fever, 83-77, in the first game after Clark’s injury.

Here’s what to know about Clark’s status for Tuesday’s game against the Mystics and her timeline to return to the court:

Is Caitlin Clark playing today?

Clark is not expected to play in the Fever’s rematch against the Mystics on Tuesday, June 3. It will be the third game in a row she misses while dealing with a left quad strain. This is the first time during Clark’s college or professional careers she has missed games due to injury. She played 139 games while at Iowa and 46 games during her first season-plus with the Fever.

Caitlin Clark injury update

‘I don’t know when it happened,’ Fever coach Stephanie White said of the injury, according to the Indianapolis Star. ‘I know (after the Liberty game) we got a message that something was going on with her leg and they were getting an MRI, and then we got the word.’

White clarified Clark’s injury is a new one and not an aggravation of the left quad injury that caused the star point guard to miss a preseason game against the Mystics. The Fever were subsequently forced to sign guard Aari McDonald Monday via an emergency hardship exception. Sophie Cunningham and Sydney Colson were injured in the team’s loss to the Connecticut Sun last Friday.

Though Clark can’t play for the Fever at the moment, she did sit courtside with teammates Aliyah Boston and Lexie Hull when the Indiana Pacers closed out the New York Knicks in Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals last Saturday.

Caitlin Clark stats 2025

Clark is the Fever’s leading scorer and leads the WNBA in assists per game to start the 2025 season. Here’s a look at the 2024 Rookie of the Year’s full stats per game:

Minutes: 35
Points: 19
Rebounds: 6
Assists: 9.3
Steals: 1.3
Blocks: 1
Turnovers: 5
FG%: 40.3
3P%: 31.4

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