Five days to play three games across a seemingly endless sea of streamers and networks isn’t exactly the way baseball was meant to be staged.

But you made it. And Major League Baseball’s lovable slog should get more recognizable after this seemingly eternal opening weekend.

And while the sample produced was still remarkably small, there were still a few cogent data points, many of them apparently giving signal rather than noise.

With that, USA TODAY Sports takes a look at the winners and losers of opening weekend, with another week’s worth of oversized flags and home openers upon us already:

Winners

The youth brigade

And to think No. 1 prospect Konnor Griffin’s ticket to the minor leagues might have dimmed the start of the season for prospect heads.

Nope, the kids showed out beyond anyone’s wildest dreams right from the first pitches on Thursday – such as the one Kevin McGonigle smoked for a double seconds into his major league career, part of a four-hit debut for the Detroit Tigers.

Kevvy Mac (someone has to come up with a nickname, right?) added another hit and two more RBIs in his second game, starting at both third base and shortstop. An incredibly valuable piece already for the pennant-chasing Tigers.

And while he might make the most impact on the pennant race and, maybe, the playoffs, he was arguably not the most spectacular performer at their beautillion ball.

The dynamic JJ Wetherholt homered in his debut and notched a two-run walk-off hit in his second game and got another knock in his third as the rebuilding Cardinals took a series from Tampa Bay. The Mets’ Carson Benge homered on the first pitch he saw of his MLB debut.

And while Chase DeLauter technically got his feet wet with a wild card series cameo in 2025, he scorched four homers and broke up a no-hitter in his first four games for Cleveland. Same with Owen Caissie, who enjoyed a cortado-length stay with the Cubs last summer, got traded to the Marlins and hit a walk-off two-run homer to sweep the Rockies in his Miami debut.  

Konnor’s gonna have to play catch-up.

A Yankees-Blue Jays pennant race repeat

The death of the tiebreaker game can take some shine off a great divisional race. So it was last year when the Blue Jays and Yankees each won 94 games and Toronto won the division based on head-to-head record.

With the Blue Jays significantly altered yet also nursing a World Series hangover and the Yankees in apparent danger of run-it-back syndrome, it was unclear how the AL East beasts might break from the gate in 2026.

Turns out they missed nary a beat.

Both clubs registered convincing sweeps against decent but unproven opponents, as the Blue Jays got leadoff homers and walk-off hits and 21 combined punchouts from Kevin Gausman and Dylan Cease to sweep the A’s.

The Yankees, meanwhile, were in run-prevention mode in San Francisco, where the Giants are typically cooperative in such matters. Oh, Aaron Judge pounded a couple more home runs and Cam Schlittler looks very much like the playoff beast he was last year. Yeah – they’ll be fine ‘til Carlos Rodón and Gerrit Cole step back on the scene.

The Pirates, trying to win

Sometimes, fans and media alike can get a little too caught up in off-season transactions. Yet for Pittsburgh Pirates fans, screaming at management to “Do Anything” winter after winter almost always fell on deaf ears.

Finally, the Pirates did something this winter. And lo and behold, the product appears healthier!

Offseason trade acquisition Brandon Lowe pounded a pair of home runs in their opening series against a very good Mets team. Free agent signee Ryan O’Hearn – no, not a Kyle Schwarber splash but a very good acquisition – had three hits and drove in the winning run in the 10^th inning as they salvaged the final game of three.

Pittsburgh took New York to extra innings in Game 2, too, with Oneil Cruz’s sun-splashed outfield debacle the only element making them non-competitive all weekend. Not to say they can stay with the Brewers and Cubs all summer.

But trying really is a lot more fun.  

Japanese sluggers

They were the highest-profile hitters coming from foreign lands this winter, yet Kazuma Okamoto and Munetaka Murakami’s combined value of their contracts didn’t even reach $100 million. Contact concerns, and the worry that power in Japan would transfer to the big leagues.

Well, guess who’s trailing only DeLauter in major league home runs?

Murakami went deep thrice in Milwaukee, the bright spot in a Chicago White Sox sweep at the hands of the Brewers. Meanwhile, Okamoto had four hits in 12 at-bats, homered himself and posted a .429 OBP in his first three games for the Toronto Blue Jays.

Not a total endorsement just yet of the $60 million Toronto committed to Okamoto or the $34 million the White Sox are paying Murakami. Yet it’s a nice bit of relief for a pair of teams who rolled the dice and enjoyed positive first looks.

Losers

Rookie managers

Hey, not all of them. Beltways bros Craig Albernaz of Baltimore and Blake Butera of Washington each won their first two games, the Nationals startling the Cubs at windy Wrigley Field.

Yet it was two surprise hires – relative greenhorns – who had a rough go of it.

You’ve surely heard about Tony Vitello making the jump from collegiate ball to the majors. It’s a big deal and at the same time potentially not the big deal folks have made of it, so long as Tony V wins the usual 81 games near China Basin and doesn’t look too weird doing it.

Well, about that…

The Giants scored just one run in three games against the mighty Yankees, a series that featured a fiery pregame speech and then perhaps a little too much panic after their second shutout loss.

“We’re all major league players,” pitcher Robbie Ray said when asked whether Vitello got them too wound up. “We can handle the ups and downs.”

Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Angels’ latest see-if-this-sticks move was tossing Kurt Suzuki in the dugout after no on-field coaching experience. And giving him a one-year contract, perhaps the most cynical maneuver for an aimless franchise keeping one eye on a potential lockout.

Unlike Vitello, Suzuki’s weekend went south as a direct result of strategic button-pushing.

The Angels blew a six-run lead March 28 and a 6-4 lead a day later, his handling of starters Reid Detmers and Jack Kochanowicz and then the bullpen certainly questionable.

The Angels did come out of Houston with a split of four games. Yet this will still be a trial by fire for a guy who simply does not yet have the dugout reps.

NL West teams north and south of Vin Scully Way

They’re a combined 1-11.

The Arizona Diamondbacks suffered three particularly soul-crushing losses to the Los Angeles Dodgers, who wore their gold-lined championship togs all weekend and simply kept hitting balls over the fence, the last off Will Smith’s bat to cap the sweep.

The Giants were flattened. San Diego could not hang with the Tigers. And yes, the Rockies are winless, and it will only get more difficult for a 119-loss team that couldn’t ring in a new year with even one victory in Miami.

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No, ABS was not meant to humiliate. It just works out that way sometimes.

SACRAMENTO, CA — UCLA women’s basketball is still dancing in the 2026 Women’s NCAA Tournament, literally.

After No. 1 UCLA defeated No. 3 Duke 70-58 in the Elite Eight on Sunday, seniors Lauren Betts, Charlisse Leger-Walker and Gabriela Jaquez gave an encore performance of their choreographed dance in front of family and friends. There’s a lot to celebrate — UCLA is headed back to the Final Four for the second consecutive season.

“We did (the viral dance) in the locker room today, too,” said Lauren Betts, who finished with a 23-point, 10 rebound double-double. “I didn’t realize they were going to play (Tate McRae’s “Just Keep Watching”) on the court in front of everybody … then Gabs of course comes running over.”

Like the song name, fans get to keep watching UCLA as their March Madness run continues. And although the dance break marked a moment of pure jubilation for the Bruins, Betts experienced the opposite side of the spectrum just hours prior. “I was just pretty mad. I just didn’t like how that first half happened,” she said.

“This is the Elite Eight and my senior season is on the line,” Betts said.

The matchup between UCLA and Duke at the Golden 1 Center on Sunday was a tale of two halves. The Blue Devils led by as many as 10 points in the first half and the Bruins entered the locker room trailing for only the second time all season. UCLA completely flipped the script in the third quarter and went on to outscore Duke 39-19 in the second half to complete the comeback victory and keep their season alive.

But the Bruins didn’t need head coach Cori Close to muster up a motivational halftime speech to rally the troops. UCLA — made up of eight seniors, including all five of their starters — had already “taken care of things” and discussed adjustments long before Close stepped into the locker room. Experience was on their side.

“We could have gone into that locker room and just kept our head down and gotten mad at each other and been pissed off, but we want to win,” Betts, the Sacramento Regional 2’s most outstanding player, said. “I spoke to all the girls and held people accountable and I think I just came out with the mentality I’m just not going to lose. And so whether that’s me scoring or blocking shots or just getting extra rebounds, I was willing to do whatever the team needed.”

Senior forward Angela Dugalic, who was named to the Sacramento Regional 2 All-Tournament Team, said the team’s defensive effort was the first topic of conversation.

“We try to anchor ourselves on defense and we knew that wasn’t a great depiction of how we want to play defense, so I think that we just needed to adjust,” said Dugalic, who finished with 15 points, six rebounds and four assists off the bench. “I even told the guards I need you guys to get through the screen so we can properly help you guys and get back to our player. And then they had some things to say to us as well.”

Close has leaned on her team’s veteran leadership all season and trusts their instincts to get back to the fundamentals, although she joked she’d much rather have her players “listen to me before we went out and follow the game plan from the beginning.” Close said her main role at halftime was to bring a sense of calmness.

“I was going into the locker room talking to myself going, they’ve got this, be solid, stay really steady for them,” Close recalled. “When you have a mature group and when your culture is pretty intact in terms of the values, it’s better for me to be quick to listen and slow to speak so usually when I speak, I will have better things to say.”

UCLA will face the winner of No. 1 Texas vs. No. 2 Michigan at the Final Four in Phoenix on April 3.

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Last baseball season, torpedo bats (remember those?) stole the show on opening weekend. They were all anyone could talk about.

But time – and technology – marches on. So what do we have dominating the discourse after the first series of games in 2026? ABS challenges, of course!

If the idea is to get the important balls and strikes calls correct, we’re off to a good start. Except for Twins manager Derek Shelton, who was tossed from a game on Sunday, March 29, for arguing an overturned Ball 4.

That incident sparked a memorable call from Orioles TV announcer Kevin Brown, who exclaimed: “He’s arguing with the robots! You can’t defeat the robots!!”

Meanwhile, fantasy baseball managers are waging their own battles with technology as the season gets rolling.

Are my projections on target? Is this guy’s hot start a fact or fluke? Why didn’t the computer give my top waiver pickup?

In the search for just a fraction of the clarity ABS provides, it’s time to recognize how easy it is to overreact to the small samples of the early season.

Our annual Tuffy Awards shine a spotlight on the lesser-known players off to hot starts who will raise fantasy managers’ expectations, and then predictably return to a near-replacement level of production.

The inspiration for the awards is unheralded Chicago Cubs outfielder Karl “Tuffy” Rhodes, who hit three home runs off Dwight Gooden on opening day in 1994. Fantasy teams who grabbed Rhodes off the waiver wire saw him hit .234 with five home runs from that point forward.

So with a mix of caution and skepticism, we begin our quest to uncover this year’s Tuffy.

They might be legit

Not every unexpectedly fast start is necessarily a fluke. There are always a few early-season waiver wire pickups who remain productive all year. Here are a few worth taking seriously.

OF Chase DeLauter, Cleveland Guardians. The No. 16 overall pick in 2022 out of James Madison made his MLB debut during last year’s playoffs. Then in his first official at-bat with the Guardians, he took the Mariners’ Logan Gilbert deep – and seemingly never stopped slugging. After one series, DeLauter led the majors with four home runs.

The 24-year-old has always been a highly regarded prospect, but persistent foot injuries have kept him from playing more than 57 games in any of his three pro seasons. Through it all, he’s consistently posted excellent numbers. It’s time DeLauter takes a big step forward.

3B Munetaka Murakami, Chicago White Sox. There was plenty of skepticism this offseason that Murakami’s outrageous power numbers in Japan would translate to the majors, where he’d see many more power arms. The former Triple Crown winner and Japan Central League MVP seems to have adjusted pretty well though, with three solo homers in his first three games. There are still concerns about his contact rate and propensity to strike out, but he did have as many walks as strikeouts (four) in his opening series.

SP Jose Soriano, Los Angeles Angels. We all should know better than to get too excited about Angels pitchers, but Soriano thrived in his first opening day start. He averaged 99.1 mph on his fastball – up 1.2 mph from last year’s average – in tossing six scoreless innings against the Astros. He also allowed just two hits and struck out seven.

Near-Tuffys

SP Emerson Hancock, Seattle Mariners. In the final game of opening week, Hancock stopped the Guardians (including DeLauter) cold. Sure, the chilly temperatures may have helped, but he struck out nine and allowed just one walk in six no-hit innings before departing. This performance came out of nowhere after Hancock posted ERAs near 5.00 while bouncing between Seattle and the minors the past two seasons. The former first-round pick should make a few more starts before Bryce Miller is healthy, but it’s hard to see him doing this again.

SP Randy Vasquez, San Diego Padres. In his first two seasons with the Padres, Vasquez averaged fewer than six strikeouts per nine innings with swinging-strike rates below 8.5%. In his first start of 2026, he fanned eight Tigers in six frames with a 14.3% swinging-strike rate. Like Hancock, Vasquez did gain more than a tick on his fastball from last season, but let’s see if it sticks.

SP Eric Lauer, Toronto Blue Jays. After fellow starters Kevin Gausman and Dylan Cease combined for 11 ⅓ scoreless innings against the Athletics, Lauer followed with four more of his own before allowing a two-run homer in the fifth. What was most eye-opening though: nine strikeouts in 5 ⅓ innings (part of a major league record 50 strikeouts for Toronto pitchers in the season’s first three games).

Jumping on the Jays bandwagon is easy at this point, but Lauer’s time in the rotation will only last until Trey Yesavage returns from a shoulder strain in a couple weeks.

2B David Hamilton, Milwaukee Brewers. One glance at the half-week stolen base leaders reveals Hamilton ahead of everyone with three. (On pace to top 70!) But Hamilton had just four at-bats and eight plate appearances in the Brewers’ opening series while platooning with Luis Rengifo at third base. If you need speed only, he swiped a total of 55 over the past two seasons in part-time duty with the Red Sox. But he won’t give you anything else.

3B Ben Williamson, Tampa Bay Rays. Also getting off to a hot start with his new team, Williamson went 5-for-9 and scored four runs in his first three games. Known primarily for his glove, he’s part of a platoon at third and will only see part-time at-bats until Gavin Lux returns from the IL Williamson has just one home run in 286 career at-bats through Sunday.

And the 2026 Tuffy Award goes to …

OF Joey Wiemer, Washington Nationals. It’s hard to be any better than Wiemer was in going 6-for-6 with a couple of walks and two home runs to start the season. The 27-year-old journeyman is playing for his fourth major league team in four seasons. On a rebuilding Nationals squad, it’s no surprise he went undrafted in just about every fantasy league after hitting .150 this spring.

Wiemer’s roster rate will skyrocket this week after he homered on opening day and followed it up with three-run blast on Sunday. But those heroics came against a pair of left-handed Cubs starters. He isn’t going to take away playing time from a true young talent like Daylen Lile in right field or a defensive whiz like Jacob Young in center.  

Wiemer is a nice story, but one we’ve seen many times before at this time of year.

Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya expressed her disappointment Sunday with the International Olympic Committee and called out IOC president Kirsty Coventry following the IOC’s recent decision to ban transgender athletes from competing in the Games.

The decision also restricts female athletes such as Semenya with medical conditions known as differences in sex development, or DSD.

Semenya, of South Africa, said after a women’s race promoted to celebrate female strength, unity and community support that she expected more from Coventry, a native of Zimbabwe.

“Personally, for her as a leader, she’s an African, I’m sure she understands how, you know, we as Africans, we are coming from, as a global South, you know, you cannot control genetics,” Semenya said at a March 29 news conference in Cape Town.

The IOC issued the ban on March 26, reversing its 2004 decision to allow the participation of transgender women athletes.

To date, only one openly transgender woman has competed at the Olympics, a weightlifter from New Zealand who did not make it past her opening round of competition at the Tokyo Summer Games in 2021.

“(I)f the science is clear, show us who decided and don’t dress that as a lie because it’s a lie and we know because we’ve seen it,” Semenya said. “So if we were to answer or confront Kirsty, that’s how we (are) going to respond, and we’ll respond strong as we are because it affects women.”

Semenya is a two-time Olympic gold medalist in the 800 meters. She was assigned assigned female at birth but has testosterone levels higher than the typical female range. She has been banned from competing at major international meets because of her refusal to take medication to artificially reduce her testosterone levels.

The new eligibility policy, which the IOC says “protects fairness, safety and integrity in the female category,” will begin with the Los Angeles Olympics in July 2028.

It’s party time in Storrs, Connecticut.

March Madness is alive and well for UConn as both the men’s and women’s programs have advanced to the Final Four, an achievement that definitely earns the university its nickname as the “Basketball Capital of the World” after a perfect day on Sunday, March 29.

The undefeated women were the first one to punch their tickets, taking down Notre Dame to advance to their third straight Final Four. Later in the day, the men pulled off a miraculous comeback against top overall seed Duke, hitting a last-second 3-pointer for their third Final Four in the past four years.

It’s a magnificent achievement UConn knows plenty about, but how often has it happened? Here is the complete history of schools having men’s and women’s basketball in the Final Four at the same time.

How many times have men’s, women’s basketball made Final Four in same year?

The 2026 UConn teams make it the 15th time it’s happened. The Huskies are responsible for most of them, as this will be the sixth time they will experience it.

Men’s, women’s basketball teams in Final Four at same time history

• Georgia (1983)
• Duke (1999)
• Texas (2003)
• UConn (2004)
• Michigan State (2005)
• LSU (2006)
• UConn (2009)
• UConn (2011)
• Louisville (2013)
• UConn (2014)
• Syracuse (2016)
• South Carolina (2017)
• NC State (2024)
• UConn (2024)
• UConn (2026)

Have men’s, women’s basketball teams won championship same season?

Not only is UConn in the Final Four, the two teams will try to be the fourth one to each win it all.

To no surprise, it’s the only school to ever do it. The Huskies had double champions in 2004, 2011 and 2014.

Max Verstappen has made no secret how little he’s enjoying driving during the new Formula 1 season.

After finishing eighth in the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday, March 29, the four-time F1 champion let his discontent spill out, telling reporters he was “not even frustrated any more, I’m beyond that.”

Verstappen has been a consistent critic of the overhauled car designs for this season that he says aren’t fun to drive because they place more emphasis on electrical power than driver skill.

Taking that a step further in an interview with BBC Sport, the Red Bull driver was asked if it might cause him to walk away from the sport at the end of the season. Verstappen’s response: “That’s what I’m saying. I’m thinking about everything inside this paddock.”

Enduring a disappointing start to the new season in which he has failed to finish higher than sixth place in any race, Verstappen elaborated on his current mindset.

“Privately I’m very happy,” he told BBC Sport. “And then you just think about is it worth it? Or do I enjoy being more at home with my family? Seeing my friends more when you’re not enjoying your sport?”

Verstappen’s contract with Red Bull runs until 2028, but there are reports that he does have an escape clause that allows him to walk away if he’s not in the top two in the standings at a certain point in the season.

After the Japanese Grand Prix, he sits in ninth place − 60 points behind championship leader Kimi Antonelli.

CHICAGO – Dusty May had just called his star player immature in the nicest way possible, and Yaxel Lendeborg briefly leaned into the microphone inside the United Center to respond. Except the moderator didn’t notice, and the winning news conference moved on.

So, what did the oldest player left in the 2026 Men’s NCAA Tournament plan to say back to his coach?

“I was going to make a joke,” Lendeborg told USA TODAY Sports a few minutes later. “(May) told me at the beginning, ‘This isn’t going to be like a daddy day care.’”

The goofy 6-foot-8 late bloomer teammates have dubbed, “Dominican LeBron,” then let out another hearty laugh, basking in a Final Four berth Michigan wrapped up with plenty of time to celebrate by destroying No. 6 seed Tennessee, 95-62, in the Elite Eight on Sunday, March 29.

Lendeborg was the engine behind the blowout, igniting a 21-0 run with a ridiculous up-and-under 3-point play in the first half that left the Vols in the dust. He finished with 27 points to earn Midwest Region MVP honors, and cemented his status as perhaps the most irresistible character in Indianapolis next week. 

The Pennsauken, New Jersey, product went viral all season for TikTok livestreams with his teammates in their hotel rooms, went viral again when video of him trash talking Purdue at a bar got out and went viral once more when he initially giggled at a question last month asking if Duke’s Cameron Boozer was as good as advertised. 

Just this week, Lendeborg was filmed jamming to Katy Perry during warmups in Chicago and told reporters after the Sweet 16, when asked about a killer crossover to leave his defender on the floor, he was insulted that Alabama was using a freshman to guard him. 

That went viral, too. 

“We’ve challenged Yax to think about how he’s perceived,” May said. “You hate to be like that because he’s so authentic and he has such a big heart and you want that to shine.”

The story is a well-told one after the season Lendeborg has put together, and it will be told many more times in the lead-up to Michigan’s heavyweight bout against fellow No. 1 seed Arizona on Saturday night with a spot in the national championship game on the line. 

Six years ago, Lendeborg had barely played high school basketball, growing up outside Philadelphia in Pennsauken, New Jersey, because of bad grades. He instead had an affinity for all-day, all-night sessions playing video games and almost flunked out until his mother had something of an intervention. 

Then came three years of junior college, a two-year stop at UAB and finally he got to Michigan after eschewing the chance to be a first-round pick in last year’s NBA draft. He tried to keep his real emotions buried as the final minutes of Sunday’s game ticked away, to just be the class clown he was before the fame. 

He waved his arms along with the videoboard at the United Center as the “Wacky Wavy Tube Man” promotion played during a timeout. He figured out how to be taller than every player on Michigan during the celebratory team photo and posed making a funny face. He took photos holding the Midwest Region trophy like a baby and cuddled with it on the floor. He didn’t cry until somebody suggested he take a photo holding the trophy with his mom.

“It kind of ruined everything I had going on,” Lendeborg said. “It feels like I’m in a movie right now.”

The ending has been emotional. Lendeborg recently wrote a story for The Players Tribune titled, “How my mom saved my life,” and its meaning runs even deeper than basketball during this March Madness run. Yissel Raposo has cancer and scheduled her chemotherapy treatments around her son’s potential NCAA Tournament run.

That he’s now fulfilling this dream only because of her is not lost on anyone, and Raposo held her cell phone aloft with one hand and wiped tears from her eyes with the other as Lendeborg climbed a ladder and snipped a portion of the net. 

“I would work and she would be stuck with him and every day they were together,” Lendeborg’s father, Okary, told USA TODAY Sports through a translator. “That just became his role model.”

“I always believed in Yaxel. I always told him you have the potential, you have talent,” Raposo said.

Only when Lendeborg arrived on campus this past summer, May encountered a player who didn’t have great practice habits, who still wasn’t taking basketball seriously enough all the time. 

But May also said he made a conscious decision to not judge Lendeborg, to coach him as the player he was in order to unleash the player he is today, storming down the court like a freight train years in the making. 

“As humans we have personality flaws that we can get better at,” May explained. 

It was a nice way of saying Lendeborg needed to grow up. So, rather than make a joke, Lendeborg just nodded and let the next question come.

LAS VEGAS − There’s a new leader of “The Realm” on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Vegas Golden Knights announced the firing of coach Bruce Cassidy March 29, replacing their 2023 Stanley Cup-winning skipper with head coaching veteran John Tortorella.

“Bruce will forever be remembered with the utmost regard by our organization for what was accomplished here,” Golden Knights general manager Kelly McCrimmon said in a news release.

The dismissal comes with eight games left in the regular season for the Golden Knights, who sit in third in the Pacific Division. Vegas has lost six of its last seven games and only won five games since the league returned from the Olympic break.

The Golden Knights are on track to hit their lowest points percentage in the team’s nine-year history. They have only missed the playoffs once, in the 2021-22 season, leading to the ouster of then head coach Peter DeBoer and Cassidy’s installation.

The Strip dwellers lost to the Washington Capitals 5-4 in a shootout the night before the announcement.

“With the stretch run of the 2025-26 regular season upon us, we believe that a change is necessary for us to return to the level of play that is expected of our club,” McCrimmon said.

Tortorella’s 770 career wins rank second among U.S.-born coaches. He won a Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004 but has not coached in the playoffs since 2020, when his Columbus Blue Jackets were bounced from the first round.

His last NHL tenure ended abruptly, having been fired in 2025 by the Philadelphia Flyers with nine games left in the season. However, the team was already out of the playoff picture by the time he was relieved of his post on Broad Street.

Tortorella’s debut could come on March 30, when the Golden Knights host the Vancouver Canucks at T-Mobile Arena.

USA TODAY has reached out to the Golden Knights for further comment and to Tortorella through his Tortorella Family Foundation.