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Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
PWHL Takeover Tour Set To Play Finale In St. Louis With Critical Points On The Line
Jincy Roese and Hilary Knight watch the puck during PWHL action - Photo @ Ellen Bond The PWHL Takeover Tour is making its next stop in St. Louis, where the Ottawa Charge will take on the Boston Fleet this Saturday at 2:00 p.m. This game will give fans in Missouri their first opportunity to see the league's skill, speed, and physical play in action. Advertisement For Ottawa, this game represents a crucial opportunity to snap a tough Takeover Tour losing streak. The Charge have dropped all three of their previous Takeover Tour games this season—falling to Montreal in Quebec City, Toronto in Edmonton, and most recently, Minnesota in Raleigh. Despite their previous Takeover Tour struggles, Ottawa players are embracing the Takeover Tour experience. Goaltender Gwyneth Philips, who played a key role in their win over New York, is eager for another chance to showcase the team in front of a new audience. 'It's great to do these Takeover Tour games. I really enjoyed Raleigh, and I'm excited to go to St. Louis,' she said. This game holds extra significance for Ottawa defender Jincy Roese, who hails from O'Fallon, Missouri. Playing in front of a hometown crowd is a special moment, especially given her deep ties to growing the game in the area, as each summer, Roese runs hockey camps for young girls back home. Advertisement Both Philips and Roese have ties to the St. Louis Blues organization through Hockey Hall of Famer Al MacInnis, as Philips attended college with MacInnis's daughter, while Roese credits him for helping her take a key step in her hockey journey. It was MacInnis who called a local boys' team and encouraged them to take Roese on, giving her an opportunity to continue to develop her game. With the Takeover Tour bringing the PWHL to new cities, many fans have wondered if St. Louis could one day be home to an expansion team. It's an idea Roese would love to see become a reality. 'That would be very cool and very convenient for myself,' she said. 'I know they're doing their due diligence. I could advocate for it, but I don't make the decisions.' Across all Takeover Tour stops, a total of 106,511 fans have shown up to support the events, including the latest matchup between the New York Sirens and Minnesota Frost at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, which drew an impressive 14,288 fans—a game that helped the league surpass the one-million-fan mark. These games highlight the growing excitement and demand for professional women's hockey in new markets. Advertisement Despite the challenges they've faced this season, the Charge are staying focused on their ultimate goal. 'At the end of the day, we're here to win games and make the playoffs,' said Roese. 'We're getting paid to play hockey, and we've got a job to do.' With St. Louis set to host this weekend's showdown, Ottawa is determined to keep climbing the standings and secure a playoff spot. 'We haven't strayed from our goal,' Roese said. 'We know what it's like to have our fate in our hands and lose it. I feel good about where our team is right now.'
Axios
12-03-2025
- Business
- Axios
Axios interview: John Roese on Dell's federal AI push
John Roese, Dell's global chief technology officer and chief AI officer, told Axios during a Washington visit Tuesday that the federal government's AI adoption is poised to speed up in part because of success cases in business. Why it matters: "Nobody in the government wants to be the bleeding-edge, first adopter of a technology — that's pretty risky," he said. Roese said his message to D.C. is: "Come on in — you're not the first to move. It's early, but you don't have to figure this out by yourself. I can show you with confidence this is actually achievable. How you do it will probably be a bit different; your data will be different." The big picture: Michael Dell, the company's chair and CEO, told Bruce Mehlman during an event yesterday at the National Press Club that shunning AI tools soon will be like having a phone without WiFi. Dell Technologies says in new recommendations for Washington that AI "will require substantial and appropriate investment focus to help address chip resourcing and increased compute power, data storage and energy efficiency needs. Public and private sector collaboration provides the optimum basis from which to move forward." Looking ahead to agentic AI, Roese told us: "Imagine a world where ... the agent that manages your finances talks to the agent at the IRS and your taxes just happen continuously." "The level of efficiency goes up, the effectiveness goes up, the actual outcomes improve, and the friction of humans having to interact with bad processes and complex environments just disappears. ... Compliance probably goes up, too." Behind the scenes: Roese said Dell decided it needs to be "Customer Zero," since there's no playbook for transforming an organization using generative AI. "The only way that we would be able to properly inform the strategy and have any credibility with customers who are also on this journey [was] to be a first and visible aggressive adopter of the technology," he said. A chief AI officer needs to be "deeply involved in the actual technology evolution that's occurring, and can translate that and understand it is actually a strategic asset to make your company better," Roese said. "You're literally changing the way work happens in an organization," he added. "If you try to do that bottom-up through consensus building, good luck! It will take you a thousand years to get to a consensus. You have to be top-down. You have to make decisions." Roese, who holds about 30 patents, said he has "never met a problem that wasn't interesting and worth solving." He said the Dell approach is: "Do it fast; fail forward faster; have a high-risk profile." "I go into a meeting, I don't even have to tell people, anymore. If we're debating something, they all realize: If we don't make the decision this week, John's going to make the decision. So we get moving, because we don't have time to waste." Go deeper: Read Dell's new 7-page paper, "A Blueprint for U.S. AI Global Leadership."
