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This should be an exhilarating moment for college tennis.Wimbledon featured a record 26 current or former college players in men’s singles and nine more in the women’s draw. TCU’s Jack Pinnington Jones and San Diego’s Oliver Tarvet, who reached the second round, played for their college teams just this spring. Ben Shelton, a 2022 NCAA singles champion at Florida, reached the quarterfinals.All of this is occurring as the threat of elimination faces numerous tennis programs.According to the International Tennis Association, which governs college tennis, Division I schools dropping tennis since 2023 include Central Arkansas (women), Eastern Illinois (men and women),…
A global “plastics crisis” is costing governments and taxpayers $1.5 trillion annually as they try to cope with the escalating injury, disability and death caused by the substance polluting our land, sea and bodies, according to a new report by a leading medical journal.Plastic production is on course to triple by 2060, less than 10% of it is recycled, and around 8,000 megatons now pollute the planet, according to a review of recent studies published Sunday by The Lancet.This causes harm at every stage of its lifecycle: from the extraction of fossil fuels and production, to its use by humans…
PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane told The Associated Press on Monday he isn’t sure how long the contract standoff with James Cook will last after the running back declined to participate in practice for a second straight day.Cook wore a white hat, red Bills pullover and blue shorts upon briefly entering the practice field, before ducking into a portable bathroom about 12 minutes before practice was scheduled to start. He then left the field, exiting through the trainer’s tent and did not re-appear for at least the first hour of practice.This marks the second day…
Alexis asked her manager to stop using ChatGPT. Delaney sees her eco-conscious friends making exceptions for the technology. Weezy said she tries to make sure none of her friends touch AI.Much is made of Gen Z being the first “AI native” generation. Young people have grown up on AI, using it for everything from homework help to companionship, and thus can bring their skills with it into the workforce.Many Gen Zers embrace AI — but not every young person is on board.A McKinsey study earlier this year found that millennials, and not Gen Z, reported the most familiarity and comfort…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Stacey Lokey-Day, a 37-year-old security operations analyst at Wiz, based in Georgia. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I got married at 20 and started a family really young. My husband was in the National Guard, and I was a stay-at-home mom, and then our marriage ended.At 29 years old, I was single and had two small boys. Reentering the workforce, I knew I needed to make $15 an hour, which is about $30,000 a year. I enrolled in a cybersecurity boot camp, and when I got my first…
When Google agreed to buy Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz earlier this year, making for the search giant’s largest acquisition, it threw a $32 billion bucket of water on the idea that the mega-deal drought was here to stay.In March, Google agreed to acquire the five-year-old startup at an all-cash price roughly equal to Iceland’s gross domestic product last year, pending regulatory sign-off. The acquisition now stands as an early litmus test of the Trump administration’s willingness to green-light pricey Big Tech mergers and acquisitions.For Wiz cofounder and chief technology officer Ami Luttwak, the moment feels like déjà‑vu— the same…
TOKYO (AP) — Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician from Nara Prefecture, has became Japan’s oldest living person, following the death of 114-year-old Miyoko Hiroyasu, according to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.Kagawa, a symbol of Japan’s extraordinary longevity, graduated from medical school before World War II, served at a hospital in Osaka during the war, and later ran her family’s clinic as an obstetrician and gynecologist. She retired at 86.At 109, Kagawa became one of the oldest torchbearers in Olympic history during the Tokyo 2021 torch relay.“I don’t have any,” Kagawa told TOS News in 2023 when asked…
A Dutch group seeking compensation on behalf of soccer players who might have lost income due to transfer regulations has filed a class action lawsuit against the sport’s governing body FIFA and five other football associations.The Justice for Players foundation said in a statement Monday that men and women across the world who have played for a club in the European Union or the United Kingdom since 2002 are eligible to join the legal procedure. The legal move follows a landmark ruling from top EU court last year stating that some parts of FIFA’s transfer regulations did not comply with…
LONDON (AP) — A gloomy, drizzly London morning. The final day of a fifth test. Just 35 runs or four wickets away from victory.Those are not usually temptations for selling a bunch of match tickets.But the Oval was sold out on Monday in goosebump anticipation of a dramatic end to the England-India series, and a buzzing crowd of 27,000 wasn’t disappointed.The action lasted for only an hour and 8.5 overs but every ball drew a roller-coaster of emotions as India won by a measly six runs in a fitting climax to a series that finished in a 2-2 draw.Adding to…
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — The instant the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Braves cleared the baseball diamond inside the infield at Bristol Motor Speedway, a new clock started. “The Last Great Colosseum” has to switch from hosting the MLB Speedway Classic and be ready for NASCAR’s return to the historic racetrack hosting a playoff chase race Sept. 13. “As soon as the last pitch is thrown, the last hit’s hit, teams do their thing, postgame’s taken care of, pads will start coming off the wall, and they’ll work through the night to basically start disassembling so we can reassemble for the…