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USA Today
06-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
NCAA Women's Golf Regionals: Recaps, highlights from second round at every site
NCAA Women's Golf Regionals: Recaps, highlights from second round at every site The women's college golf postseason is here, as Division I regionals continued Tuesday at four sites across the country, with two having completed the second round Monday because of forecasted inclement weather. The six regional championship sites feature 12 teams and six individuals (72 teams and 36 individuals, total), with play beginning on Monday, May 5 and ending Wednesday, May 7. The top five teams (30 total) and the top individual (6 total) not on a qualifying team from each regional will advance to the national championship at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California, May 16-21. Below you'll find a recap, as well as a breakdown of what to watch for from each regional as the second round concludes from all six sites. More: NCAA Women's Golf Regionals: Recaps, highlights from first round at every site Recaps will be available once play concludes at each regional site. Charlottesville Regional Team leader: Individual leaders: The hook: If the cut were today: What to watch for Wednesday: Columbus Regional Team leader: Individual leader: The hook: If the cut were today: What to watch for Wednesday: Gold Canyon Regional Team leader: Individual leader: The hook: If the cut were today: What to watch for Wednesday: Lexington Regional Team leader: Individual leader: The hook: If the cut were today: What to watch for Wednesday: Lubbock Regional Team leader: Wake Forest, Even-par Individual leaders: The hook: After playing the opening round Sunday, the Lubbock Regional was able to finish its second round Monday, where Wake Forest has an eight-shot lead on Texas. But Texas is 18 shots ahead of the next closest teams, meaning the top spots are essentially locked up. However, only three shots separate Arizona and Iowa State, tied for third, and Tennessee and Texas A&M, tied for seventh. If the cut were today: 1. Wake Forest, 2. Texas, T-3. Arizona, Iowa State, 5. U.C. Davis What to watch for Wednesday: Whether ninth-seeded U.C. Davis can play spoiler. Only two teams carded better scores in the second round than U.C. Davis, with the Aggies a shot ahead of Purdue for the final spot. With the final round coming Wednesday, U.C. Davis will have to wait before its gets a chance to play its way into nationals. Norman Regional Team leader: Stanford, 16 under Individual leaders: Hsin Tai Lin, Northwestern; Ashley Yun, Northwestern; Meja Ortengren, Stanford; 5 under The hook: The top team in the country is comfortably ahead of the cut line after the second round, which was completed Monday afternoon. Northwestern was brilliant in the second round, shooting 10 under and is five shots behind the Cardinal. Meanwhile, Tulsa is looking to steal a bid, tied for fifth with North Carolina with 18 holes to go. If the cut were today: 1. Stanford, 2. Northwestern, 3. Michigan State, 4. Baylor, T-5. Tulsa, North Carolina What to watch for Wednesday: Baylor (1 over), Tulsa, North Carolina and host Oklahoma (3 over) are separates by four shots in positions 4-7. Come Wednesday, it'll likely be those teams battling for the final two spots. Can Tulsa steal a bit yet again? Can Oklahoma do the same on its home course?
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
U.C. Davis working to bring new opportunities to Sacramento
( Davis isn't just an academic powerhouse; it's a major economic engine for the Sacramento region. A new report shows the University generates nearly 10 billion dollars in local economic impact each year, supporting tens of thousands of jobs. As a result, U.C. Davis is moving full steam ahead with construction underway at Aggie Square. Once completed, the U.C. Davis Innovation Hub is expected to be a game changer for the Sacramento region. It will bring new jobs, new investments, and new opportunities to the community, according to U.C. Davis officials. In the heart of Sacramento's Oak Park neighborhood, a transformation is taking shape. George Baxter, the Chief Innovation and Economic Development Officer for U.C. Davis, says, 'We are moving faculty, students, and staff into that space as we speak. Over the next couple of months, it will feel like a square with our staff and students.' Aggie Square's 'New Innovation District' is more than just an extension of the campus, it's designed to spur job creation, research, and economic growth. Baxter says, ' It's really quite a large impact more than most people would consider for universities.' Once fully built, the project is expected to generate over $500 million in regional economic output each year and support more than 3,200 jobs. Baxter added, 'We will be doing research here, teaching, continuing professional education, running community courses, and really opening yourself up to the wider community in the Oak Park area and elsewhere in Sacramento.' A new economic impact report shows U.C. Davis contributes $9.6 billion to the Sacramento Metro Economy, supporting more than 61,000 jobs statewide, and that impact grows to more than $13 billion. A HUB Sacramento Mayor, Kevin McCarty says it's a major milestone for the city. He went on to say, 'This is a multibillion-dollar project bringing thousands of jobs right here to the core of Sacramento. And let's face it, we've been lamenting about our economy, good or bad, as our state workforce, and we've always wanted to have a little bit of what we see in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. And this allows us to have that right here in Sacramento.' Aggie Square is also attracting global interest, including a new partnership to bring international startups to Sacramento. A deal with a South Korean company is set to bring startup groups to Aggie Square as a soft-landing hub, helping them connect with U.C. Davis and the Sacramento Square's Grand Opening Ceremony is this Friday, and it is open to the public. The event runs from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Forbes
28-03-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Woman's Wine Journey From Bolivia To California's 100-Year-Old Vines
Old Vine Zinfandel in California getty Big Sur coastal landscape in California getty Over 150 years ago, the idea of the American Frontier, a.k.a. the Old West, was a dream for those who had limited opportunities in their own land; it was the chance to build a much better life through hard work without having one's social standing get in the way. That dream mainly existed in California, and even today, it is a state that has encouraged entrepreneurial innovation across many sectors. It is also a relatively new winemaking area that showed the world that great wines weren't limited to European borders. One woman, Susy Vasquez, experienced her own version of a modern-day American Frontier journey as she traveled to California from Bolivia to gain more experience with sustainable agriculture with a side benefit of improving her English, which she knew would open up better job prospects once she went back to Bolivia. Her focus was originally geared towards crops to be consumed as food, and the notion of making wine never occurred to her. Yet a friend introduced her to an American man, David, who would be the impetus to place her life on another track. Life Has Other Plans Susy Vasquez LangeTwins She wasn't interested in a romantic relationship then as she had always intended to go back home, so she only hung out with David as a friend. He also worked in agriculture but focused on growing grapes for wine, which was interesting to Susy, and brought to her attention that there was an intern opportunity with E. & J. Gallo Winery, one of the most successful wine companies in the world. The position was geared towards organic viticulture, which was very exciting to Susy, and she could work for a top company on the cutting edge of sustainability. Susy's boss at Gallo, who used to be a professor at U.C. Davis, was always on the lookout for talent and came to her to offer a position that would involve being a liaison between the vineyard team and the winemaking team. "I don't know anything about fermentation science," answered Susy, who was quite taken aback by the request. And her boss replied, "Well, we are going to send you to U.C. Davis." So Susy ended up taking winemaking classes at Davis, and then, she really got a fantastic education working in a lab for Gallo that took the grapes from the vineyards and put them through all of the winemaking stages, evening bottling the wines. Gallo has miniature equipment, even a small bottling line, within the lab; that way, they could do their testing at every stage with small batches. Since Gallo grows grapes all over California with various grape varieties and styles of wines, it gave Susy a chance to understand the nuances of precision winemaking for multiple styles. LangeTwins In Lodi Alley with stores in old town La Paz Bolivia. getty Through time, Susy never ended up going back to Bolivia permanently as she went on to oversee entire wine programs at other wineries in the highly competitive California wine industry. Finally, she found her new home in Lodi, California, at the family winery LangeTwins. Lodi has a special history - the first vineyard was planted there in 1850, and today, it has a high concentration of old Zinfandel vines, with the oldest dating back to the 1920s. The farmers in Lodi have always been ahead of the curve when it comes to sustainability, and they started America's original sustainable winegrowing program in the early 1990s. And because it is such a diverse winegrowing region, there are around 125 grape varieties in production; it is an ideal place for Susy, who loves to work with various varieties as well as making sustainability a major mission in her life, especially at such a multi-generational winery as LangeTwins. Brad and Randall Lange LangeTwins LangeTwins is run by twin brothers and their adult children; their great-grandparents came to Lodi in the 1870s to farm non-irrigated watermelons. As a family, they purchased their first vineyard in 1916, and through each generation, have evolved to make more premium wines with a site-specific approach. Today, they are committed to keeping this a thriving generational business and they have committed to ambitious environmental projects such as removing 60 acres of vineyards as they would like to increase the biodiversity, enrich the soil and improve the watershed through regenerative farming – just one of the many admirable programs they have implemented. A woman hiker helping another woman hiker getty Susy has been making wine for over 19 years, which seems shocking considering her vibrancy and overall glow when she talks about her job as a winemaker at LangeTwins. Because it is not old hat, and if anything, it has kept her young while accumulating lots of knowledge and experience, making her an incredible leader. She remembers how hard it was when she was younger and had her second child, as she was passed up for promotions and felt guilty knowing that it could cause issues for her job. She loves her job and feels so lucky to be in the position she is in today, but it was challenging, and she doesn't want any young woman working for her to go through what she had to go through. She reassures everyone who works for her that they are part of a team and that means that if someone has a baby or any major life event or crisis, others will step up and cover them, and the favor will be returned. Laid Out In The Past Driving down a long road getty It was heartwarming to hear Susy reminisce about all those years ago when she first became friends with that American man, David, who introduced her to wine and the opportunity at Gallo. Even though she thought they were just friends hanging out whenever it was convenient and easy, she didn't realize that he lived over two hours away and would come to see her almost every weekend to hang out. Then, when she took a trip back home to visit her parents before she started at Gallo, he told her that he would visit her, which she quickly dismissed as so many people she knew in California said they would come to Bolivia but never ended up coming. But one day, she got an email from David saying he was coming, asking if he had a good itinerary and attached a copy of his plane tickets to show her that it was true. He said he wanted to see her at home, in her environment, but even after all that, she still thought she would return home after Gallo. Susy hadn't talked about those memories in years because she is too focused on the present, as she has two kids, the oldest 16 years old, and yes, she ended up marrying David and he has been on this journey with her since that time. Sometimes, one's future starts to get laid out unbeknownst to that person, but it is all crystal clear when revisiting the past. Who she would marry or where she would live were not the only things that weren't clear during that time, as she couldn't even see her potential as an important leader who would make the road more possible for others. LangeTwins lineup of wines Cathrine Todd 2023 LangeTwins "Sand Point" Sauvignon Blanc, Lodi, California: 100% Sauvignon Blanc. This wine really punches above its weight retailing at only $12 with a refreshing zesty quality enhanced by tropical notes such as lemon sorbet and green mango flavors with mouthwatering fierce acidity balanced by a nice amount of weight on the palate. 2024 LangeTwins, Grüner Veltliner, North River Vineyard, Mokelumne River AVA, Lodi, California: 100% Grüner Veltliner (white grape originally from Austria) from the single vineyard North River, which is located in the sub-region of Mokelumne River - one of Lodi's cooler climates. Susy noted that for each vintage, they will decide what parcels to bottle as a single vineyard; for example, this Grüner Veltliner for some years will make a better blending partner for their white blends so that no single vineyard will be made, but 2024 was ideal for this Grüner Veltliner plot. Aromas of intense minerality with notes of pear drop and hints of white pepper with a softer acidity than the Sauvignon Blanc on the palate, yet it is still vibrant with a broad body with lemon curd flavors. 2022 LangeTwins 'Ivory & Burt' Old Vine Zinfandel, Lodi, California: 100% Old Vine Zinfandel. Another steal retailing at $16 as it has a nice amount of complexity and brightness that makes this wine irresistible with ripe strawberries flecked with cracked black pepper intermixed with the richness of blackberry preserves flavors that is lifted by bright cranberries with an underlying note of rocky gravel. 2020 LangeTwins "Midnight Reserve" Bordeaux Bend. Lodi, California: 55% Petit Verdot, 44% Cabernet Sauvignon and 1% Cabernet Franc. This is one of LangeTwins' top wines, and it changes its blend every year, yet Bordeaux varieties are always represented. 2020 was a spectacular year for Petit Verdot, which is why there is such a large percentage. Multilayered aromas of cocoa nibs, cassis and tapenade that has a slightly firm structure give shape and focus to the wine balanced by plush fruit and a juiciness that has a long finish leaving espresso notes in one's head.
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Commentary: Trump promised lower food prices immediately, but I gave him six weeks. Here's my grocery bill
On Jan.19, the last day of the Joe Biden presidency, I went to my neighborhood supermarket and priced 28 items, including milk, eggs, bacon and potatoes. Six weeks into the second Donald Trump presidency, I went back to the same store and priced the same items. Why? Because during the last presidential election, voters repeatedly complained about the economy and singled out the high cost of groceries. With good reason. Inflation is a killer, and anybody who's gone shopping in recent years is well aware that in a supermarket, your money doesn't go as far as it once did. Breakfast, lunch and dinner all cost more than they used to. Trump smartly hammered away at that reality as a candidate. 'A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper,' he said on the campaign trail. And how long did he say it would take to turn things around? Read more: Stay in Altadena? 'We're torn, because we love this neighborhood and we love all these people.' 'When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day 1,' Trump promised. You didn't need a doctorate in economics to know that was unlikely to happen. Markets are more complicated than that, and prices can swing on multiple factors beyond the control of an elected official. But it wasn't uncommon to hear voters cite the price of groceries as a pivotal issue for them, and among those who said inflation in general was the most important issue, two-thirds voted for Trump, according to one survey. Trump began backpedaling as soon as he won the election. He said in December that he still believed that solving supply chain issues and drilling on American soil, to bring down energy costs, would lower food prices. But he yanked his Day 1 promise and pointed a finger, saying Biden had driven prices sky high, and, 'It's hard to bring things down once they're up… It's very hard.' If you're feeling a sense of deja vu, it might be because after promising in his first term to immediately deliver cheaper and better healthcare for everyone — a vow Trump ultimately struck out on despite Republican control of Congress — he said, 'Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.' On grocery prices, Trump's take was about as simplistic as that of Democratic opponent Kamala Harris, who promised to crack down on price gouging. Generally speaking, supermarkets operate on slim profit margins, and pricing is a byzantine calculus, says U.C. Davis professor Daniel A. Sumner, who served on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers and in the U.S. Department of Agriculture under President George H.W. Bush. If stores are forced to raise egg prices because of wholesale costs, Sumner said, they might reduce the price of other items on the theory that shoppers have only so much money to spend. If stores keep eggs priced at $5 a dozen even when that means taking a loss, they're likely to raise prices on other items to make up the difference. As much as possible, though, they like to keep prices fixed on most items. 'The best thing to do is raise consumer incomes,' Sumner said, because the problem 'is not food prices, it's food prices relative to people's incomes.' I'm willing to concede that despite Trump's blown promise of lower prices on Day 1, it's possible some of his policies might have a role in lowering prices in coming months and years. Read more: Bass fires the L.A. fire chief, but her own smoldering political crisis is far from over Or raising them. So I'll check back periodically. Michigan State professor David L. Ortega, a food economist, said a U.S. president has little direct control over grocery prices, 'especially in the short term.' 'The reason there's been such a sharp rise over the past four years is that a convergence of factors impacted supply and demand, including COVID, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, significant drought, and bird flu outbreaks,' Ortega said, adding that climate change has also had a significant impact on food production. One way a president can influence prices is to create more stability, Ortega said. But the opposite is happening, with Trump rolling out tariffs, deportations and cuts to federal agencies that monitor food safety and the spread of viruses. 'Even the threat of some of these policies' can be inflationary, Ortega said, 'because companies are scrambling, trying to come up with contingency plans for where they might source produces or find labor.' Now let's get back to my shopping spree at a Vons in Eagle Rock. On the campaign trail last August, Trump used groceries as props to make his point about inflation. The items included Cheerios, Land O'Lakes butter, Gold Medal flour, eggs, bacon, bagels, bread, sausage and fruit. I priced many of those products, and a lot of others. My list included Thomas' bagels, Dave's 21-grain bread, Farmer John bacon, Breyers ice cream, Campbell's chicken soup, Mott's apple juice, Triscuits, Cheez-Itz, Oreo cookies, Gold Medal flour, C&H sugar, Skippy peanut butter, Classico pasta sauce, Barilla pasta, Lucerne milk, Lay's potato chips, Lucerne cheddar cheese, Ben's rice, navel oranges, bananas, iceberg lettuce, and russet potatoes. Of the 28 items, 24 were the same price, to the penny, on Jan. 19 and March 3. (And by the way, on each visit, I recorded the regular prices rather than the discounted member prices, because the latter did not apply to every item and not everyone is a member). Four items had different prices. The Thomas' bagels, six to a bag, went from $5.79 to $5.89. A dozen Lucerne Grade AA large eggs went from $7.49 to $9.99. An 8.9-ounce box of Cheerios went from $5.99 to $5.29. And navel oranges went from $1.29 a pound to $.99. The total tab when Biden was president – $146.03. The Trump total – $147.63. Makes you want to throw eggs, but they're too expensive. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
06-03-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
Trump promised lower food prices immediately, but I gave him six weeks. Here's my grocery bill
On Jan.19, the last day of the Joe Biden presidency, I went to my neighborhood supermarket and priced 28 items, including milk, eggs, bacon and potatoes. Six weeks into the second Donald Trump presidency, I went back to the same store and priced the same items. Why? Because during the last presidential election, voters repeatedly complained about the economy and singled out the high cost of groceries. With good reason. Inflation is a killer, and anybody who's gone shopping in recent years is well aware that in a supermarket, your money doesn't go as far as it once did. Breakfast, lunch and dinner all cost more than they used to. Trump smartly hammered away at that reality as a candidate. 'A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper,' he said on the campaign trail. And how long did he say it would take to turn things around? 'When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day 1,' Trump promised. You didn't need a doctorate in economics to know that was unlikely to happen. Markets are more complicated than that, and prices can swing on multiple factors beyond the control of an elected official. But it wasn't uncommon to hear voters cite the price of groceries as a pivotal issue for them, and among those who said inflation in general was the most important issue, two-thirds voted for Trump, according to one survey. Trump began backpedaling as soon as he won the election. He said in December that he still believed that solving supply chain issues and drilling on American soil, to bring down energy costs, would lower food prices. But he yanked his Day 1 promise and pointed a finger, saying Biden had driven prices sky high, and, 'It's hard to bring things down once they're up… It's very hard.' If you're feeling a sense of deja vu, it might be because after promising in his first term to immediately deliver cheaper and better healthcare for everyone — a vow Trump ultimately struck out on despite Republican control of Congress — he said, 'Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.' On grocery prices, Trump's take was about as simplistic as that of Democratic opponent Kamala Harris, who promised to crack down on price gouging. Generally speaking, supermarkets operate on slim profit margins, and pricing is a byzantine calculus, says U.C. Davis professor Daniel A. Sumner, who served on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers and in the U.S. Department of Agriculture under President George H.W. Bush. If stores are forced to raise egg prices because of wholesale costs, Sumner said, they might reduce the price of other items on the theory that shoppers have only so much money to spend. If stores keep eggs priced at $5 a dozen even when that means taking a loss, they're likely to raise prices on other items to make up the difference. As much as possible, though, they like to keep prices fixed on most items. 'The best thing to do is raise consumer incomes,' Sumner said, because the problem 'is not food prices, it's food prices relative to people's incomes.' I'm willing to concede that despite Trump's blown promise of lower prices on Day 1, it's possible some of his policies might have a role in lowering prices in coming months and years. Or raising them. So I'll check back periodically. Michigan State professor David L. Ortega, a food economist, said a U.S. president has little direct control over grocery prices, 'especially in the short term.' 'The reason there's been such a sharp rise over the past four years is that a convergence of factors impacted supply and demand, including COVID, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, significant drought, and bird flu outbreaks,' Ortega said, adding that climate change has also had a significant impact on food production. One way a president can influence prices is to create more stability, Ortega said. But the opposite is happening, with Trump rolling out tariffs, deportations and cuts to federal agencies that monitor food safety and the spread of viruses. 'Even the threat of some of these policies' can be inflationary, Ortega said, 'because companies are scrambling, trying to come up with contingency plans for where they might source produces or find labor.' Now let's get back to my shopping spree at a Vons in Eagle Rock. On the campaign trail last August, Trump used groceries as props to make his point about inflation. The items included Cheerios, Land O'Lakes butter, Gold Medal flour, eggs, bacon, bagels, bread, sausage and fruit. I priced many of those products, and a lot of others. My list included Thomas' bagels, Dave's 21-grain bread, Farmer John bacon, Breyers ice cream, Campbell's chicken soup, Mott's apple juice, Triscuits, Cheez-Itz, Oreo cookies, Gold Medal flour, C&H sugar, Skippy peanut butter, Classico pasta sauce, Barilla pasta, Lucerne milk, Lay's potato chips, Lucerne cheddar cheese, Ben's rice, navel oranges, bananas, iceberg lettuce, and russet potatoes. Of the 28 items, 24 were the same price, to the penny, on Jan. 19 and March 3. (And by the way, on each visit, I recorded the regular prices rather than the discounted member prices, because the latter did not apply to every item and not everyone is a member). Four items had different prices. The Thomas' bagels, six to a bag, went from $5.79 to $5.89. A dozen Lucerne Grade AA large eggs went from $7.49 to $9.99. An 8.9-ounce box of Cheerios went from $5.99 to $5.29. And navel oranges went from $1.29 a pound to $.99. The total tab when Biden was president – $146.03. The Trump total – $147.63. Makes you want to throw eggs, but they're too expensive.
