Miley Cyrus‘ “Flowers” has been plucked from the highest of the charts by Teddy Swims.
After a record-breaking 57 weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Grownup Modern chart, “Flowers” has now been changed by Teddy’s hit “Lose Management.”
That is the fifth Billboard airplay chart on which “Lose Management” has reached #1, following Grownup Pop Airplay, Pop Airplay, Radio Songs and Grownup R&B Airplay.
Solely 4 different songs have ever topped all 5 of these charts: John Legend‘s “All of Me,” Sam Smith‘s “Keep With Me,” Adele‘s “Good day” and Pharrell Williams‘ “Joyful.”
An govt at Teddy’s report label tells Billboard of his across-the-board enchantment, “Teddy Swims has a timeless voice that breaks boundaries, and we needed to make sure his music reached as extensive an viewers as attainable with out being confined to a selected style.”
Teddy Swims’ “Lose Management” provides one other No. 1 to its uncommonly spectacular résumé of radio chart coronations, because it rises to the highest of Billboard’s Grownup Modern survey (dated Aug. 3).
The tune, on SWIMS Int./Warner Data, guidelines a fifth airplay rating, because it led the all-format Radio Songs chart, Pop Airplay, Grownup Pop Airplay and Grownup R&B Airplay previous to its Grownup Modern takeover.
(Additionally notably, the monitor halts Miley Cyrus’ report 57-week Grownup Modern reign with “Flowers.”)
“Lose Management” turns into simply the fifth tune to have reached No. 1 on the 5 charts, and the primary in practically a decade, after the primary 4 led in 2014-16. Right here’s a recap of the elite such crossover hits (relationship to the early/mid-Nineteen Nineties, when the majority of Billboard’s airplay charts started).
“Lose Management,” Teddy Swims:
Grownup Pop Airplay, 4 weeks at No. 1, starting March 23, 2024
Pop Airplay, two, starting, April 13, 2024
Radio Songs, 9, starting April 20, 2024
Grownup R&B Airplay, three, starting June 15, 2024
Grownup Modern, one week (up to now), starting Aug. 3, 2024
“Hiya,” Adele:
Radio Songs, 11 weeks at No. 1, starting Nov. 28, 2015
Grownup Modern, 21, starting Nov. 28, 2015
Pop Airplay, 4, starting Dec. 5, 2015
Grownup Pop Airplay, seven, starting Dec. 5, 2015
Grownup R&B Airplay, one week, starting Feb. 20, 2016
“Keep With Me,” Sam Smith:
Radio Songs, six weeks at No. 1, starting Aug. 23, 2014
Grownup Modern, 5, starting Aug. 23, 2014
Pop Airplay, two, starting Aug. 30, 2014
Grownup Pop Airplay, two, starting Sept. 6, 2014
Grownup R&B Airplay, 13, starting Oct. 11, 2014
“Completely happy,” Pharrell Williams:
Radio Songs, eight weeks at No. 1, starting March 15, 2014
Previous to topping the 5 airplay charts famous above, “Lose Management” additionally ascended to a No. 2 peak on Grownup Various Airplay in January. It joins solely Adele’s “Hiya” and Sam Smith’s “Keep With Me” in having led Radio Songs, Pop Airplay, Grownup Pop Airplay, Grownup R&B Airplay and Grownup Modern and having reached the highest two on Grownup Various Airplay, reflecting uncommon assist at codecs starting from pop and grownup to R&B and rock. (“Hiya” and “Keep With Me” every hit No. 1 on Grownup Various Airplay.)
In the meantime, as “Lose Management” led the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Scorching 100 for every week in March, it and “Hiya” are the one songs to have topped the Scorching 100 and the 5 airplay charts listed above.
“Teddy Swims is a once-in-a-generation expertise who defies genres, making him actually distinctive in at the moment’s music panorama,” says Warner evp of promotion and commerce Mike Chester. “After we started selling ‘Lose Management,’ our journey was fastidiously deliberate. From the beginning, we observed that the tune was resonating in numerous pockets of tradition, creating a robust and numerous fanbase. Our digital division performed a vital function, setting the groundwork for the tune’s development; shoutout to [the division’s] Randall Telfer.
“We understood that ‘Lose Management’ wanted time to evolve earlier than we might efficiently introduce it to different codecs, like grownup R&B,” Chester provides. “Particular because of Ron Stewart, our head of city radio, for crafting a really perfect technique, alongside Josh Reich [pop], Rob Goldklang [rock/alternative] and Michelle Babbitt [adult]. Teddy Swims has a timeless voice that breaks boundaries, and we needed to make sure his music reached as vast an viewers as doable with out being confined to a particular style.”
I’ve been pondering Yusei Kikuchi’s commerce deadline destiny for months. That sounds overly particular – there are such a lot of gamers that get traded yearly. Why surprise about this one man? He has a 4.75 ERA this yr and a 4.72 mark for his profession. He’ll be a free agent at yr’s finish. Months? Shouldn’t I’ve been doing one thing extra helpful with my time? In all probability. However hey, now I’m in a greater place to jot down about this significantly astounding deadline transaction: Final night time, the Blue Jays traded Kikuchi to the Astros in change for a bountiful crop of younger gamers: Jake Bloss, Joey Loperfido, and Will Wagner.
Kikuchi turns analysts like me into Fox Mulder: We need to imagine. We’re speaking a couple of man with one of many prettiest fastballs in baseball, interval. It has nice form. He throws onerous, sitting 94-96 mph and topping out round 99. Stuff fashions find it irresistible. PitchingBot thinks it’s the nastiest fastball thrown by a starter, and tied for the general greatest (with Sonny Grey’s fastball) after contemplating location. Stuff+ is skeptical, comparatively talking – it thinks the fastball is the third-best amongst starters, behind the warmers of Kutter Crawford and Zack Wheeler.
Kikuchi throws a pleasant slider to enhance the fastball, 88-90 mph and with sharp chunk for a gyro slider. He rounds out his arsenal with a tough, two-plane curveball and a weird slider that appears to drift and fade concurrently. He does it from a cool arm slot and with a misleading supply. When Kikuchi is on, he’s able to torching opposing lineups singlehandedly. His first 10 begins of this season had been phenomenal: 2.64 ERA, 2.61 FIP, a 26% strikeout charge, and a minuscule 5.5% stroll charge. He’d been steadily enhancing in Toronto, and this yr appeared like his breakout.
Since then, issues have gone fairly poorly. I’m speaking a couple of 6.87 ERA and 4.67 FIP poorly, 13 homers in solely 12 begins poorly. Kikuchi has gotten shelled repeatedly, and the Jays have plummeted out of the playoff race on the similar time. His timing for his woes might’ve hardly been worse, creating an odd dilemma for the Jays. Kikuchi was on hearth via most of June, and the Jays’ playoff odds bounced round between 20 and 40 p.c throughout that point. When Kikuchi’s perceived commerce worth was at its highest, the group wasn’t able to promote.
Then he began getting worse, and the Jays’ playoff odds began dipping on the similar time, with the underside falling out across the finish of June, when a seven-game dropping streak, adopted by a 4-6 stretch towards playoff competitors, put them hopelessly far behind within the standings. It was lastly time to commerce Kikuchi – besides, throughout seven begins from Might 26-June 28, he had a 7.12 ERA and peripherals that weren’t a lot better. The good transfer appeared to be holding Kikuchi a bit longer, ready for each a rebound and the commerce deadline to provide some motivated consumers.
So the Jays held, however Kikuchi didn’t enhance a lot. He’s been barely higher in July, however solely barely: 6.59 ERA, 4.03 FIP, and a house run per begin over 5 begins. He managed six or extra innings in solely a kind of begins, as well. However now time has run out, and so Kikuchi’s on the transfer. Or perhaps I ought to rephrase: Fortunately, simply earlier than time ran out, it seems that your entire hypothetical decline in Kikuchi’s commerce worth was simply made up. The Astros despatched the Blue Jays an exceptional commerce provide, and now Kikuchi is headed right down to the Gulf Coast to chase the playoffs.
I nonetheless suppose Kikuchi is an effective possibility as a mid-rotation starter. He’s nearly definitely inferior to his early-season type, however he’s a lot better than he’s carried out during the last two months. His sport sinks or floats based mostly on what number of dwelling runs he permits. That’s been the story together with his model-beloved arsenal, too; they’re nice pitches on common, however he leaves each his fastball and slider in harmful places an excessive amount of for somebody with out big motion. His pitches are extra timing-disruptive than pure bat-missers, and that simply doesn’t work as nicely if you depart it middle-middle.
For the Astros, that mixture most likely feels acquainted. A homer-prone pitcher who appears dominant when the ball stays within the yard? Seems like Hunter Brown, or late-career Justin Verlander. However the Astros have struggled to area beginning pitchers all yr. They misplaced two starters they had been relying on for the entire season in June. Verlander has been out for greater than a month. Lance McCullers Jr. hasn’t pitched all yr, and his rehab has been rocky; there’s at the moment no timeline for his return. Their rotation has been three strong arms (Framber Valdez, Ronel Blanco, and Brown), after which pray for rain, not one of the best plan in a retractable-roof stadium.
Even worse, Blanco and Brown are going to succeed in their profession highs in innings quickly, so the group is speaking a couple of six-man rotation to guard its arms. Including Kikuchi lessens the load on the highest trio considerably. He’s not precisely an innings eater, however the Astros certainly can be proud of somebody going on the market each fifth or sixth day and placing up five-plus respectable innings.
One of many guys Houston has turned to for innings in current weeks is Jake Bloss, the headline of the gamers heading to Toronto within the deal. He’s been superior, a spectacularly quick riser who was a 3rd spherical draft decide solely final yr earlier than tearing via the minors. He was a breakout small-college participant who transferred to Georgetown in his senior yr and impressed towards his hardest competitors but, so he’s been transferring up ranges and stunning folks for 3 years now. A winter within the Houston pitching lab appears to have sharpened his command, and as you would possibly count on, he has the group’s signature rising fastball cooking in 2024.
This isn’t some mirage; he’s throwing a number of plus pitches and may need fairly good command, too. Within the minors, he struck out 27% of batters and allowed little or no onerous contact en path to a sub-2.00 ERA and strong 3.20 FIP. He shredded minor league hitters so comprehensively that I utterly perceive why Houston introduced him as much as the majors to see if the magic might proceed, however his first three large league begins have been tough. Extra particularly, his third main league begin was tough: The A’s launched 4 homers off of him in solely 4 innings. I’m a giant fan of the potential right here, however I’d ideally give him a little bit bit extra time within the minors to develop, and I feel the Astros reached that conclusion as nicely, therefore the commerce.
This is able to’ve made for a logical one-for-one swap: a fast-rising pitching prospect for a mid-rotation rental. However then, unfathomably, the Astros kicked in considerably extra. We had Bloss as their no. 2 prospect; Joey Loperfido was no. 3 till he graduated from prospect standing earlier this season. He’s a giant versatile outfielder with true-outcome fever; he has 30-homer energy, takes walks, and strikes out a bunch. Our prospect group put a forty five FV grade on him as a flexible bench participant with the flexibility to area 5 positions (the outfield plus first and second), with an out of doors probability of hitting sufficient to turn out to be an on a regular basis participant.
However wait, there’s nonetheless extra. The final participant within the deal is Will Wagner, Billy Wagner’s son and an upper-minors infielder with a contact-over-power method. You possibly can most likely image this normal archetype; when it really works out in addition to doable, it’s Brendan Donovan. When it doesn’t, it’s any variety of utility infielders that your group makes use of to patch holes within the roster. Wagner is hitting .307/.424/.429 with extra strikeouts than walks in Triple-A this yr, however I feel that line overstates his possible main league influence. Pitchers are going to assail him with strikes till he begins to make them pay for it, and as you may need realized from how comparable his OBP and slug are, that’s been a battle for him.
Nonetheless, it’s extremely possible that Wagner turns into a part-time contributor within the majors, if solely on the backside of the roster. He’s Rule 5 eligible after this yr, and I feel that the Jays’ roster state of affairs makes it possible that he’ll find yourself on the 40-man consequently. The Astros had been unlikely to have house for him, in order that addition seems like a get-the-deal-over-the-finish-line sweetener.
Solely… why did the Astros want so as to add a sweetener? This can be a big win for the Blue Jays, in my view. The Astros are wizards in relation to getting probably the most out of mid-round draft picks. Bloss, Loperfido, and Wagner are all large success tales, unheralded picks who’ve far exceeded their expectations. However after doing all that tough work, the group circled and flipped them for a mid-rotation rental.
I perceive why the Astros want Kikuchi. However based mostly on returns on the previous few commerce deadlines, Bloss alone was proper round what I’d count on the Jays to get for dealing him. Possibly a Wagner-type participant or two if the Astros had been significantly eager to get the deal carried out. Loperfido, too? That’s a number of good younger gamers for 2-3 months of a solid-but-not-overwhelming pitcher.
The extra I mull this over in my head, the extra I feel the Astros wished Kikuchi particularly. In the event that they had been calling each group in baseball and saying “We want beginning, and we’ll provide Jake Bloss plus…” somebody would have dealt them an arm in pretty quick order. I’d commerce a number of the starters who haven’t but been moved (Jack Flaherty and Zack Littell spring to thoughts) for lower than this return, and I believe that their groups would possibly too. This solely is sensible to me if the Astros wished Kikuchi particularly and weren’t keen to overlook their man. That’s how you find yourself making a suggestion that makes analysts throughout the board go “Whoa, actually?”
I feel it’s price bumping expectations of Kikuchi up barely given this context. When a group desires somebody this badly, it certainly has a cause. However I additionally suppose the Astros entrance workplace is an odd mishmash of outdated and new, and that they’re working at cross functions. The a part of the org that sagely selects school pitchers with attention-grabbing peripherals after which helps them unlock new heights of their sport most likely isn’t the identical half that ships out a mountain of prime prospects for two-plus months of a mid-rotation starter. I perceive the Astros’ motivation within the deal, and but I nonetheless suppose they gave up an excessive amount of.
Instantly in critical pursuit of a playoff spot, the Mets made a transfer to bolster their rotation.
The Mets introduced Tuesday afternoon that they’re buying beginning pitcher Paul Blackburn from the Oakland Athletics. The Mets are sending out right-handed pitching prospect Kade Morris, the staff’s No. 25 prospect within the pipeline, within the commerce.
Blackburn, 30, has been restricted to only 9 begins this season after lacking a number of months with a stress response in his proper foot. In these appearances, he holds an ERA of 4.41 over 51 innings. In his first begin after getting back from the 60-day injured listing on Friday, Blackburn allowed 4 earned runs on 5 hits and one stroll throughout 5 innings.
“I feel that is an extremely constant pitcher, fills the strike zone, has form of a kitchen sink strategy to what he does,” stated David Stearns, the Mets’ president of baseball operations. “And we expect he is gonna match into our rotation fairly properly.”
The suitable-hander has yet one more 12 months of arbitration eligibility remaining, which means he may very well be an element for the Mets in subsequent season’s rotation. Proper now, the lone assure for the Mets in subsequent season’s rotation is Kodai Senga. Luis Severino and Jose Quintana are within the closing years of their offers, whereas Sean Manaea holds a participant possibility for 2025.
In keeping with Stearns, the Mets did their due diligence on the highest of the beginning pitcher market, however nothing got here to fruition.
“I feel as a matter in fact, we examine the whole lot and so we actually had conversations all around the spectrum, throughout place groupings and we’re capable of recover from the road on these offers,” Stearns stated.
Blackburn agreed to a one-year, $3.5 million cope with the Athletics to keep away from arbitration heading into the 2024 season.
Blackburn depends on his variability and management to get the job performed, as he deploys a six-pitch combine, led by his four-seam fastball, cutter, changeup and slider. He additionally throws a curveball and sinker greater than 10 % of the time. He is more likely to issue into the again finish of the Mets’ rotation.
In eight years in Oakland, Blackburn has a 4.83 profession ERA. The previous first spherical decide of the Cubs, Blackburn was the A’s lone All-Star in 2022 when he was 7-6 with a 4.28 ERA, 1.26 WHIP and 89 strikeouts in 111⅓ innings.
The 22-year-old Morris, a 2023 third-round select of the College of Nevada, is 4-3 with a 3.43 ERA, 1.16 WHIP and 57 strikeouts in 57⅔ innings for Excessive-A Brooklyn this season.
NEW YORK — Sensing weak spot in each their depleted rotation whereas additionally trying to fortify a bullpen that’s confronted adversity all season, the Mets traded for 3 pitchers previous to Tuesday’s Commerce Deadline, buying starter Paul Blackburn from the A’s, and right-handed relievers Huascar Brazoban and Tyler Zuber from the Marlins and Rays, respectively. Every deal price the Mets one prospect.
Mets obtain: RHP Tyler Zuber Rays obtain: RHP Paul Gervase
“The plan coming into the season was to compete and make the playoffs,” Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns mentioned. “The place we’re proper now, it doesn’t actually matter how we received right here. We received to a spot the place we’re a playoff-caliber staff. We consider we’re a playoff-caliber staff. And we did what we thought was the correct factor to do in including to the staff.”
It’s a plan that revolves largely round pitching. Blackburn, 30, has made simply 9 begins this season attributable to a stress response in his proper foot, from which he just lately recovered. He’s 4-2 with a 4.41 ERA and has been markedly constant the previous two seasons, producing a 4.35 ERA over 215 innings from 2022-23 with the A’s. Blackburn throws within the low 90s along with his fastball, counting on a six-pitch combine to maintain hitters off-balance.
“He’s very constant along with his actions, the best way he pitches,” mentioned Manaea, Blackburn’s teammate in Oakland from 2017-21. “He’s fairly quiet however brings constant conduct. He’s an ideal particular person to have.”
The fitting-hander is underneath staff management by 2025, making this — like all three Deadline strikes — greater than only a rental for the Mets. He’s making $3.45 million this season and shall be due for a increase in arbitration subsequent yr.
The Mets have been searching for beginning pitching in earnest since Saturday, a day after Kodai Senga strained his left calf in his season debut. Senga will virtually actually miss the remainder of the common season, and the Mets don’t have a ton of readability concerning one other rotation member, Christian Scott, who has a sprained UCL in his proper elbow.
Presently, the Mets possess little depth outdoors of their beginning 5 of Luis Severino, Manaea, Jose Quintana, David Peterson and Tylor Megill. Blackburn offers them extra of a margin for error, although it stays to be seen how all six items will match. Mets officers plan to make these choices within the coming days.
“We’re excited to proceed so as to add to the staff,” supervisor Carlos Mendoza mentioned. “We really feel good with what now we have in that room.”
Brazoban, 34, produced a 2.93 ERA with the Marlins after lacking the primary month of the season attributable to visa points. He’s been one of many recreation’s higher relievers at suppressing laborious contact over the previous three years, permitting simply 99 hits over 121 1/3 innings.
Zuber, 29, started the season with the impartial Lengthy Island Geese earlier than signing with the Rays in Might. The fitting-hander spent most of his time in Tampa Bay’s group at Triple-A Durham, the place he compiled 29 strikeouts and a 2.49 ERA over 18 appearances. He just lately earned a promotion to the Majors, permitting one run over his first 3 1/3 innings. Zuber additionally frolicked on the highest stage with the Royals from 2020-21.
Each Brazoban and Zuber have 4 remaining years of staff management. Furthermore, each have accessible Minor League choices that can give the Mets’ 26-man roster flexibility in August and September — one thing the staff largely lacked over the primary half of the season. Each relievers are making near the Main League minimal wage, and Brazoban particularly was interesting for his means to pitch a number of innings. With the addition of Blackburn to the rotation, the Mets plan to maintain José Buttó within the bullpen for now.
“It’s in all probability amount and high quality if we’re doing this proper,” Stearns mentioned of his aid pitcher technique. “Bullpen efficiency is absolutely unstable, and bullpens evolve over the course of the yr. … We’ve tried to be attentive to the wants of our ’pen.”
The value for these trades was a trio of comparatively low-ranking prospects. Morris, 22, was the group’s third-round Draft choose in 2023 and Twenty fifth-ranked prospect total. He has 95 strikeouts over 92 1/3 innings and a 3.51 mixed ERA between Single-A St. Lucie and Excessive-A Brooklyn. Lara was the membership’s Twenty second-ranked prospect because of his intriguing mix of velocity and energy. Gervase, a 6-foot-10 right-hander who was taken within the twelfth spherical in 2022, held a 3.25 ERA over 22 aid appearances at Double-A Binghamton.
The Mets did focus on trades for extra vital beginning pitchers, Stearns mentioned, however ultimately opted for a measured technique in what turned out to be an excessive sellers’ market.
“You’re by no means going to exchange a pitcher like Senga on the Deadline,” Stearns mentioned. “I believe we simply tried to determine how finest to fortify our staff round it in each the rotation and the bullpen to make sure that we had sufficient arms, and a few flexibility in numerous roles to place us in the very best place for the following two months and hopefully past.”
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks through the Microsoft Construct convention at Seattle Conference Heart Summit Constructing in Seattle, Washington, on Might 21, 2024.
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Microsoft shares fell as a lot as 7% in prolonged buying and selling on Tuesday as buyers regarded previous better-than-expected earnings and income and centered as an alternative on disappointing cloud outcomes. However executives supplied a dose of optimism after they predicted a cloud development speed-up within the first half of 2025.
Here is how the corporate did, in contrast with the LSEG consensus:
Earnings per share: $2.95 vs. $2.93 anticipated
Income: $64.73 billion vs. $64.39 billion anticipated
Microsoft’s income elevated 15% 12 months over 12 months within the fiscal fourth quarter, which ended on June 30, based on a press release. Web earnings, at $22.04 billion, was up from $20.08 billion, or $2.69 per share, within the year-ago quarter.
With respect to steerage, Microsoft referred to as for fiscal first-quarter income between $63.8 billion and $64.8 billion, implying 13.8% development on the center of the vary. Analysts polled by LSEG had been in search of $65.24 billion in income. The forecast included $15.25 billion in working bills on the center of the vary, beneath the StreetAccount consensus of $16.10 billion.
The corporate’s prime phase, Clever Cloud, generated $28.52 billion in income. It consists of the Azure public cloud, Home windows Server, Nuance and GitHub. The whole was up about 19% and beneath the $28.68 billion consensus amongst analysts surveyed by StreetAccount. GitHub’s income is now at an annual run price exceeding $2 billion, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated on a convention name with analysts.
Income from Azure and different cloud providers grew 29% through the quarter. Analysts polled by CNBC and StreetAccount had anticipated 31% development. Microsoft’s Azure quantity hadn’t fallen in need of consensus since 2022. The tech large does not disclose income from the class in {dollars}.
Final week, Google guardian Alphabet stated income from its cloud enterprise, encompassing Workspace productiveness software program and Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, went up by about 29%.
Microsoft’s cloud unit is of specific significance to Wall Road, as the corporate is battling with Amazon Net Companies and Google for synthetic intelligence workloads. All three firms are investing closely to spice up AI capabilities and to try to lure startups and large firms as generative AI fashions quickly advance. For Amazon, AWS has been a important supply of revenue for a decade.
Of the 29% development for Azure and different cloud providers, 8 share factors got here from AI providers, Microsoft stated.
“Our share positive aspects accelerated this 12 months pushed by AI,” Nadella stated. However demand for Azure AI providers remained larger than accessible capability, stated Amy Hood, Microsoft’s finance chief. The corporate pointed to that pattern in April. She stated Azure development in June was barely decrease than anticipated throughout some components of Europe.
Microsoft sees fiscal first-quarter Azure income development between 28% and 29% at fixed forex within the fiscal second quarter, with quicker development within the second half of the fiscal 12 months, Hood stated. Analysts polled by StreetAccount had been in search of fiscal second-quarter income development of 30.6% for Azure.
The Productiveness and Enterprise Processes unit that features Workplace software program and LinkedIn produced $20.32 billion in income. That is up 11% and greater than the $20.13 billion StreetAccount consensus.
Microsoft’s Extra Private Computing unit, with the Home windows working system, gaming, units and search promoting, contributed $15.90 billion in income. That final result is up 14% and better than the StreetAccount consensus of $15.49 billion.
The outcomes benefited from a solidifying PC market. Gross sales of Home windows licenses to gadget makers had been up 4%. Know-how trade researcher Gartner estimated that PC shipments through the fiscal fourth quarter elevated 1.9%, up from 0.9% development within the prior quarter.
In gaming, Microsoft now has over 500 million month-to-month energetic customers, together with numerous consoles, PCs and cell units following the Activision Blizzard acquisition that closed in October, Nadella stated.
Through the fiscal fourth quarter, Microsoft began promoting Floor PCs with AI options that may run sure fashions domestically with out the necessity for an web connection. Dell, HP and different gadget makers additionally touted their very own so-called Copilot+ PCs. Nadella stated at a press briefing in Might that “we’re bringing actual pleasure and a way of marvel again to creation on the PC.”
Excluding the after-hours transfer, Microsoft inventory is up 12% 12 months up to now, whereas the S&P 500 gained 13% over the identical interval.
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Right here’s a latest AP story on European soccer:
GENEVA (AP) — Simply 11 months earlier than the inaugural 32-team Membership World Cup in males’s soccer, FIFA invited bids on Monday for rights to broadcast the 63-game event to be staged in america.
FIFA revealed an “invitation to tender within the Americas, Asia, and Center East & North Africa” weeks after talks with tech big Apple over an unique world rights deal reportedly hit hassle.
FIFA stated a second part of rights gross sales for the 2025 and 2029 Membership World Cups will comply with in Europe. Soccer’s wealthiest and strongest continent will ship 12 groups together with key sights Actual Madrid, Manchester Metropolis and Bayern Munich to the revamped event scheduled subsequent June 15 to July 13.
A relaunched and profitable Membership World Cup has been coveted by FIFA President Gianni Infantino since he was elected in 2016, with goals to pay collaborating groups tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in prize cash.
Nonetheless, the worth of a possible Apple deal was seen as a problem for the influential European Membership Affiliation (ECA) led by Nasser al-Khelaïfi, the president of Paris Saint-Germain which can also be within the Membership World Membership lineup.
FIFA stated on Monday it will contain the ECA in “an revolutionary, progressive type of session and decision-making” in regards to the event.
The ECA already has an enormous say in industrial choices for the Champions League by way of a three way partnership with competitors organizer UEFA.
It’s unclear what sort of broadcast mannequin FIFA now favors, or if it is going to depend on its in-house streaming service FIFA+ in some markets.
Entries to the Membership World Cup are earned by title wins and constantly good leads to continental championships from 2020-24, and simply three are left to be determined: Two from South America and one from the host league, Main League Soccer.
The Membership World Cup will change into a month-long event performed each 4 years in June-July. For practically twenty years it has been performed every December as a small-scale annual occasion for continental champions. Europe’s champion has received 16 of the previous 17 titles.
The FIFA membership event additionally shall be a rehearsal for the 2026 World Cup in males’s soccer in among the similar stadiums within the U.S., which is co-hosting with Canada and Mexico.
FIFA has but to announce which cities will host video games within the revamped Membership World Cup nor any separate sponsor offers, although funding is predicted from Saudi Arabia. The annual model was beforehand packaged up with World Cup offers.
Amid issues at overloaded schedules for top-tier gamers, the primary 32-team Membership World Cup will see the finalists play seven video games on the finish of a season through which the Champions League in Europe is also increasing with extra groups and extra video games in a brand new format.
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The Baltimore Orioles traded for Marlins left-handed starter Trevor Rogers on Tuesday, utilizing a few of the minor league expertise they’ve stockpiled lately.
Miami obtained second baseman Connor Norby and outfielder Kyle Stowers in return.
Rogers, 26, is 2-9 with a 4.53 ERA however has gotten higher outcomes over his previous 9 begins, producing a 3.17 ERA. Norby is ranked because the Orioles’ Twelfth-best total prospect by ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel. Stowers, 26, reached the majors up to now, however he has had all however 36 at-bats within the minor leagues this season.
The Orioles have had a evident want for rotation assist due to a sequence of devastating accidents to their rotation. Final week, they traded for the Rays’ Zach Eflin, who’s beneath contract for 2025, and now they get Rogers, who turns 27 in November and will probably be beneath staff management for the subsequent two seasons.
“9 or 10 actually good begins his final instances out,” Orioles supervisor Brandon Hyde mentioned of Rogers. “All the time searching for beginning pitching, and hopefully he can assist us down the stretch.”
The Orioles, in addition to most of the high groups within the majors, have been preventing by a midseason malaise, with plenty of pitching struggles — however Baltimore is preventing the Yankees and the Crimson Sox for the highest of the AL East. Mike Elias, the Orioles’ common supervisor, has been conservative at previous commerce deadlines, preferring to carry onto prospects. However with the Orioles in a troublesome race for a playoff spot, Baltimore has surrendered two place gamers from what is usually considered one of the best farm system within the sport.
Norby was the Orioles’ second-round choose in 2021, and like so most of the Baltimore gamers, he has improved within the minors. He has hit .297 with 16 homers and 13 steals for Triple-A Norfolk this yr.
The Marlins made the playoffs final yr for the primary time in a full season since 2003, however from early this season, once they traded Luis Arraez, they’ve been targeted on buying and selling their older gamers for younger expertise whereas decreasing payroll.
BALTIMORE — Previous to Tuesday’s 6 p.m. ET Commerce Deadline, the Orioles’ pitching employees skewed too right-handed, with not sufficient lefties to assist them of their push for a second consecutive American League East title.
That’s not a difficulty.
Baltimore first acquired southpaw Trevor Rogers from Miami, with infield prospect Connor Norby and outfielder Kyle Stowers going to the Marlins in return. Rogers is slated to be the one lefty within the O’s rotation, with John Means (Tommy John surgical procedure) out for the season.
The Orioles then added left-handed reliever Gregory Soto from the Phillies in trade for right-hander Seth Johnson (the membership’s No. 8 prospect per MLB Pipeline) and fellow Minor League righty Moisés Chace, a supply informed MLB.com.
TRADE DETAILS Orioles get: LHP Trevor Rogers from Miami, LHP Gregory Soto from Philadelphia Marlins get: INF Connor Norby (O’s No. 5 prospect), OF Kyle Stowers Phillies get: Minor League RHPs Seth Johnson (O’s No. 8 prospect) and Moisés Chace
Rogers has a 4.53 ERA in 21 begins this yr, with 85 strikeouts and a 1.53 WHIP over 105 1/3 innings. The 26-year-old southpaw has a 4.23 ERA in 80 profession begins over 5 massive league seasons, though he was restricted to 4 outings in 2023 as a consequence of accidents (left biceps pressure/proper lat pressure). Rogers positioned second in Nationwide League Rookie of the 12 months Award voting in 2021, his lone season as an All-Star.
“All the time searching for beginning pitching, and hopefully, he may also help us down the stretch,” supervisor Brandon Hyde stated of Rogers.
“We expect that he’s going to be a very good match towards the middle-back a part of this rotation,” basic supervisor Mike Elias stated on MASN throughout Tuesday’s 6-2 win over Toronto. “Matches in nicely with the group. He’s bought an actual reside, sneaky arm, quite a lot of extension. He will get quite a lot of floor balls, and I feel that from the left facet is one thing we haven’t had on this rotation for some time.”
After a gradual begin to the yr (5.68 ERA by means of 12 begins), Rogers has recorded a 3.17 ERA over his previous 9 outings, permitting two or fewer earned runs in eight of these begins, and solely three within the different.
The transfer for Rogers got here on the heels of the O’s commerce for right-handed starter Zach Eflin with the Rays on Friday. Their rotation misplaced three starters in June, when Kyle Bradish, Means and Tyler Wells all underwent season-ending UCL surgical procedures.
Like Eflin, who’s below contract by means of the tip of the 2025 season, Rogers comes with some staff management, as he isn’t set to hit free company till after the ‘26 marketing campaign.
“He’s going to deliver competitiveness,” stated Eflin, who allowed three runs in six innings in his Orioles debut vs. the Blue Jays on Monday. “He pitches like a bulldog, and he’s at all times been enjoyable to observe pitch, so I’m trying ahead to attending to know him and attending to work with him.”
Right here’s how Baltimore’s rotation panorama now stands:
Suárez, who has made 14 begins amongst his 21 outings, will doubtless be shifting to the bullpen to make room for Rogers.
“The expertise that [Eflin] brings — you noticed what a professional he was [Monday],” Hyde stated. “With Rogers, the unbelievable rookie yr, after which I do know he’s had some damage stuff, however the final couple months, he’s been actually good. So hopefully, these guys each assist us down the stretch.”
Norby and Stowers had each been blocked within the Orioles’ deep farm system, with every getting solely sporadic time within the Majors this season. Norby (who had been on the 26-man roster) went 6-for-32 with two homers over his 9 MLB video games this yr, whereas Stowers slashed .229/.274/.369 with 4 homers in 67 massive league video games over the previous three seasons.
In Miami, each former O’s ought to get alternatives for elevated enjoying time.
“Norby and Stowers have been superior. Not solely nice mates to me, however nice baseball gamers. They’re going to go on and have nice massive league careers,” outfielder Heston Kjerstad stated. “It was enjoyable enjoying with them, however will probably be enjoyable enjoying in opposition to them within the time to return.”
Soto will give Baltimore one other high-leverage lefty to make use of along with Cionel Pérez. The O’s are additionally anticipating southpaw Danny Coulombe (surgical procedure to take away bone chips in left elbow) to probably return in September.
A two-time All-Star for Detroit in ‘21 and ‘22, Soto had been with Philadelphia for the reason that begin of ‘23. The 29-year-old had a 4.08 ERA in 35 1/3 innings over 43 appearances for the Phillies this season.
Soto shall be reunited with right-handed reliever Seranthony Domínguez, who was traded from the Phils to the O’s on Friday. Nearer Craig Kimbrel spent the 2023 season with each of them in Philadelphia’s bullpen.
“This man throws 100 mph. He’s very powerful on lefties,” Elias stated. “He’s had good numbers the final couple of years, and an influence lefty like that, you’ll be able to at all times use, so I feel he’s going to slot in very well.”
Gabriel Medina rode a wave to historical past on Monday.
The 30-year-old Brazilian surfer recorded the perfect single-wave rating in Olympic historical past through the third spherical of the lads’s browsing occasion within the 2024 Paris Video games.
On his second wave, Medina almost posted an ideal rating with a 9.90 in waters off the coast of Teahupo’o, Tahiti. And following his near-perfect journey, Medina celebrated by holding up one finger as he soared via the air.
The celebration led to probably the perfect picture of the 2024 Video games to date, courtesy of Agence France Presse photographer Jérôme Brouillet.
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Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina celebrates as he soars via the air after recording the best single-wave rating in Olympic historical past.
Medina, a three-time world champion, superior to the quarterfinals with a complete rating of 17.40. He is now slated to face the one different remaining Brazilian within the subject in João Chianca, who tallied 18.10 factors in Spherical 3.
Medina and Chianca are each trying to ship Brazil a second straight gold after Italo Ferreira made the highest of the rostrum within the sport’s Olympic debut on the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Video games. Medina got here up simply shy of of the rostrum within the Tokyo Olympics, ending fourth.
The browsing quarterfinals, together with the remainder of the knockout rounds, have been slated for Tuesday earlier than being postponed resulting from climate. The occasion hasn’t but been rescheduled.
Robust winds have postponed males’s and ladies’s Olympic browsing occasions in Tahiti.
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