Here are the groups for pool play at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Three days of group play will first be contested before the single-elimination bracket is set. The Round of 16 and quarterfinals are scheduled for Saturday while the semifinals and finals are slated for Sunday. There is no consolation match; instead, there will be a nine-hole, two-man team scramble showcasing NFL players, played ahead of the final match.

For group play, players will play each of the other members of their group in 18-hole matches, with wins being worth one point and ties a half-point. The player with the most points advances to the Round of 16. In the case of a tie, a stroke-play, hole-by-hole playoff determines the group winner. Click here for the full bracket and click here for TV times.

Group 1

Lilia Vu (1): 1-0-0
Nanna Koerstz Madsen (32): 0-1-0
Albane Valenzuela (33): 1-0-0
Lauren Hartlage (64): 0-1-0

Group 2

Brooke Henderson (2): 1-0-0
Jeongeun Lee6 (31): 0-0-1
Sophia Schubert (34): 0-0-1
Yaeeun Hong (63): 0-1-0

Group 3

Celine Boutier (3): 1-0-0
Paula Reto (30): 1-0-0
Sarah Schmelzel (35): 0-1-0
Min Lee (62): 0-1-0

Group 4

Xiyu Lin (4): 0-1-0
Mina Harigae (29): 0-1-0
Pajaree Anannarukarn (36): 1-0-0
Karis Davidson (61): 1-0-0

Group 5

Danielle Kang (5): 0-1-0
Alison Lee (28): 0-0-1
Maria Fassi (37): 0-0-1
Muni He (60): 1-0-0

Group 6

Ayaka Furue (6): 1-0-0
Gemma Dryburgh (27): 0-1-0
Stacy Lewis (38): 1-0-0
Celine Borge (59): 0-1-0

Group 7

Leona Maguire (7): 1-0-0
Narin An (26): 0-1-0
Jenny Shin (39): 1-0-0
Linnea Strom (58): 0-1-0

Group 8

Linn Grant (8): 0-0-1
Eun-Hee Ji (25): 1-0-0
Matilda Castren (40): 0-1-0
Maddie Szeryk (57): 0-0-1

Group 9

Allisen Corpuz (9): 0-1-0
Marina Alex (24): 1-0-0
Lucy Li (41): 0-1-0
Daniela Darquea (56): 1-0-0

Group 10

Jennifer Kupcho (10): 0-1-0
Aditi Ashok (23): 0-1-0
Perrine Delacour (42): 1-0-0
Caroline Inglis (55): 1-0-0

Group 11

Maja Stark (11): 1-0-0
Jodi Ewart Shadoff (22): 0-1-0
Yu Liu (43): 1-0-0
Emma Talley (54): 0-1-0

Group 12

Carlota Ciganda (12): 1-0-0
Gaby Lopez (21): 0-1-0
Pornanong Phatlum (44): 1-0-0
Amanda Doherty (52): 0-1-0

Group 13

Sei Young Kim (13): 0-1-0
Cheyenne Knight (20): 1-0-0
Sarah Kemp (45): 0-1-0
Peiyun Chien (52): 1-0-0

Group 14

Ally Ewing (14): 1-0-0
Angel Yin (19): 1-0-0
Jaravee Boonchant (46): 0-1-0
Esther Henseleit (51): 0-1-0

Group 15

Hae Ran Ryu (15): 0-1-0
A Lim Kim (18): 0-1-0
Frida Kinhult (47): 1-0-0
Lindsey Weaver-Wright (50): 1-0-0

Group 16

Anna Nordqvist (16): 1-0-0
Andrea Lee (17): 0-1-0
Lauren Coughlin (48): 1-0-0
Elizabeth Szokol (49): 0-1-0

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Lilia Vu and Brooke Henderson, the only players from the top 10 in women’s golf to enter the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play, both delivered victories Wednesday at Shadow Creek in the opening session of pool play.

Vu never trailed in a 4-and-3 victory over Lauren Hartlage, winning two holes early and closing her out by winning four straight holes at the end.

Henderson took the lead for good with a birdie on the par-5 ninth and relied on mistakes by Yaeeun Hong and won, 3 and 2.

Vu reached the semifinals a year ago during her rookie season on the LPGA, a tournament that sparked confidence in her the rest of the season. She returns as the No. 1 seed with two victories this year, becoming a major champion last month at the Chevron Championship.

“I think deep down I believed that I could get to this point, but I always tend to get in my own way,” Vu said. “I did that at the end of last season, which was a big lesson for me, which is really good now. Because if I fall into that and I feel myself putting a lot of pressure on myself, I know, like, ‘Hey, you’re not going to play good golf if you keep doing this.’

“I’m able to flip a switch and go back to free golf.”

Danielle Kang is a member at Shadow Creek with plenty of match play experience from the Solheim Cup and the recent International Crown. That didn’t help her Wednesday, falling to Muni He in 17 holes

He birdied the ninth hole and never trailed again in a 2-and-1 win.

“Going up against Danielle, a great friend of mine, a great player, and also with this being her home course it was kind of like, ‘Well, you know, go out there, play your best golf, and just see what happens.’”

Her next match in group play is against Alison Lee, another Shadow Creek member.

Lee had control of her match against Maria Fassi of Mexico when she birdied the 12th to go 3 up with six holes to play. Lee was still 2 up through 15 holes until she bogeyed the 16th and 18th holes to halve the match.

Henderson made only two birdies, both on par 5s, and her score was the equivalent of 4 over. That wasn’t unusual on a difficult course in hot weather.

“This is a really tough golf course,” Henderson said. “Sometimes par is good and you’re going to win with par. Sometimes you have to remind yourself of that, because sometimes the holes will really sneak up and bite you if you’re not paying attention.”

Janet Lin, another top seed in her pool, was 2 up over Karis Davidson of Australia until making bogeys on six of her next 10 holes. Davidson won, 5 and 4.

Jennifer Kupcho, who won the final version of the Chevron Championship last year in the California desert, lost 4 and 3 to Carolina Inglis.

There are three days of round-robin play until the winner from each of the 16 groups advance to the knockout stage on the weekend.

Among the top seeds who won opening matches were Maja Stark of Sweden, who was 4 up through 10 holes only to lose the next four holes against Emma Talley. Stark went back ahead with a par to win the 15th and held on for a 2-up victory.

Celine Boutier, the No. 3 seed, was taken to 18 holes and won when Min Lee took double bogey on the 18th. It was among 13 of the 32 matches that ended on the 18th hole.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Lauren Walsh closed out her match against Brianna Navarrosa with a conceded par on the 16th hole and Wake Forest won its first women’s golf championship by beating Southern California 3-1 on Wednesday.

Wake Forest lost to Duke in the 2019 national final and had a school-record five tournament wins this season with a veteran-led team.

The Demon Deacons had USC on the ropes early at Grayhawk Golf Club, jumping out to big leads in two matches.

Two-time ACC player of the year Rachel Kuehn, who won twice during the regular season, beat Amari Avery, 6 and 4. Emilia Migliaccio then closed out Cindy Kou, 4 and 2, leaving the stage to Walsh.

The senior from Ireland had a 4-up lead through five holes and hit her tee shot to about 20 feet on No. 16 after Navarrosa rallied to within 3 down. Navarrosa chipped it close for par and Walsh hit her putt just past the hole, sending the Demon Deacons rushing onto the green after Navarrosa conceded.

Mimi Rhodes rallied from an early 2-down deficit by winning five of six holes and had a birdie putt on the 17th green with a 2-up lead over Christine Wang when Walsh clinched it.

Catherine Park, the co-runner-up in the individual championship, beat Carolina Lopez-Chacarra, 3 and 1, in USC’s lone bright spot as its bid for a fourth national title came up short. The Trojans finished as the national runner-up for the sixth time, a day after knocking off reigning champion Stanford in the semifinals.

Navarrosa played in the anchor match in Tuesday’s semifinals against Stanford and hit one clutch shot after another to beat Rose Zhang, the top-ranked amateur in the world.

Navarrosa was in trouble from the start against Walsh, losing the opening hole with a bogey. Walsh won three straight holes starting on No. 3 and went 5 up with a birdie on the par-5 seventh.

Navarrosa won consecutive holes to cut the lead to 3 down through 13 holes, but Walsh saved par on 15 with a nifty chip shot and closed it out with a solid tee shot on No. 16.

Kuehn won three straight holes for a 3-up lead at the turn, won the 11th with a birdie and went to 5 up with a par on No. 13. Kuehn closed out Avery with a birdie on the par-4 14th for Wake Forest’s first point.

Migliaccio led 2 up after a birdie at No. 11, only to give it back with a double bogey on No. 12. The sixth-year senior pushed it back to 2 up with a birdie on the par-4 14th, pumping her fist as the putt dropped.

Migliaccio followed with another birdie after nearly holing out on 15 and won her match with a par on the next hole.

Erik ten Hag has warned prospective new owners of Manchester United that investment in the squad will be meaningless if there is no strategy behind it.

British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Qatari businessman Sheikh Jassim are waiting to hear whether their bids to buy the club have been successful.

Both have suggested they are willing to invest in new players if they take over at Old Trafford, but Ten Hag has insisted any recruitment drive needs to be meticulously planned.

United face Chelsea on Thursday, with the London club set to finish in the bottom half of the Premier League table despite owner Todd Boehly splashing close to £600 million on 16 new players since his takeover at Stamford Bridge last summer.

"There is a centralisation of good players, of the best managers, also of the money, and it is all here in the UK," Ten Hag said at a news conference on Wednesday. "That makes a great competition, but also a tough and a hard competition.

"And you have to do the right things and you can have money, but you have to do it and spend it in a smart way. And also you need a strategy behind it, because otherwise, the money doesn't work."

Despite the uncertainty surrounding the club's ownership, United are working on a plan to make at least two first-team signings during the summer transfer window. Ten Hag is keen to bring in a striker and a central midfielder with Harry Kane and Mason Mount among the targets.

"I think we are in a good direction, but also we can learn from this season," Ten Hag added. "We have to evaluate that after the season and make the right conclusions for the future and that is what we will definitely do after the season.

"I want to have players with the right characters, personalities, who are outstanding and contribute on the highest levels, that is what we want and what we have to work for."

United need a point from their final two games against Chelsea and Fulham to guarantee a place in the top four and qualify for the Champions League. Ten Hag is hopeful of having forward Marcus Rashford available against Chelsea after he returned to training on Tuesday.

When it comes to sports, this is the circle of life. The biggest clubs spend big on other teams' burgeoning stars so they can win trophies, or at least signal to their fans that they're trying to. Others make a living off of those transfer fees, happily sending their stars to said clubs so they can procure their next round of stars (and eventually send those guys away too).

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Of course, big transfer spending doesn't correlate as well to success as it perhaps should -- over the past year, we've seen some crystal clear examples of how inefficient this market remains -- but whatever your strategy, if you nail a given set of windows, it can transform your club. Just ask Napoli and Chelsea.

Napoli brought in more money from transfer fees than they spent last summer and, in effect, used the proceeds from the exit of veteran defender Kalidou Koulibaly to Chelsea (€38 million) to add what are now regarded as two of the best players in Europe -- winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (€11.5m) and defender Kim Min-jae (€18.1m). That helped transform them into a squad capable of running away with the Serie A title, which they did. Chelsea, meanwhile, became addicted to writing checks instead of actually building a team, spent more than €600m on talent acquisitions, and might end up with their worst Premier League finish in 29 years.

The 2022-23 season is almost in the books, and the engine of the next transfer season is revving up loudly in the background. Now is a good time to reflect. Who actually benefited from spending big? Who nailed a thriftier approach?

To look at this past year's winners and losers, let's break teams into four quadrants: two good and two bad. Among the teams in Europe's Big Five leagues, who spent big (in terms of transfer fee balance) and who didn't? Who actually got better and who didn't?

Obviously, the transfer fee is only one of two numbers that matter -- the other being the salaries that teams are paying -- and not every move is made to pay off immediately. Plenty of clubs build for the future. But with the urgency and non-stop nature of the Transfer Industrial Complex, looking at immediate returns is relevant, especially considering how one great or terrible window can define your fortune for years to come.

(Note: All transfer figures come from Transfermarkt.)

Big spending, big improvement

Newcastle United

Spending: €185.4m
Biggest arrivals: FW Alexander Isak (Real Sociedad, €70m), MF Anthony Gordon (Everton, €45.6m), DF Sven Botman (Lille, €37m)
Income: €13.3m
Biggest exits: MF Jonjo Shelvey (Nottingham Forest, €6.5m)
Balance: -€172.1m
Change in performance: +0.59 points per game (to 1.89, third place)

Before adding Isak in late August, Newcastle's spending had basically been that of the average Premier League team despite the general wealth of their new Saudi Arabia-backed owners. And even now, you can't really say they have been outspending the field. Regardless, Isak and other newcomers such as Botman and goalkeeper Nick Pope have been key to Newcastle's rise from 11th place in 2021-22 to Champions League qualification in 2022-23.

Barcelona

Spending: €158m
Biggest arrivals: FW Raphinha (Leeds United, €58m), DF Jules Kounde (Sevilla, €50m), Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich, €45m)
Income: €39.5m
Biggest exits: MF Philippe Coutinho (Aston Villa, €20m), FW Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Chelsea, €12m)
Balance: -€118.5m
Change: +0.51 points per game (to 2.43, first place)

Pulling the various financial levers to raise funds amid their immense debt certainly didn't help Barcelona avoid another dud in European competitions, but it made a massive difference domestically. In 2021-22, they recorded their lowest LaLiga points total in 18 years; in 2022-23, newcomers Lewandowski and Raphinha combined for 42 goals and assists, Kounde helped to completely transform the defense and Barca rolled to an easy league title.

Manchester United

Spending: €243.3m
Biggest arrivals: FW Antony (Ajax, €95m), MF Casemiro (Real Madrid, €70m), DF Lisandro Martinez (Ajax, €57.4m)
Income: €13.3m
Biggest exits: MF Andreas Pereira (Fulham, €9.5m)
Balance: -€230.0m
Change: +0.39 points per game (to 1.92, fourth place)

The transfers themselves were a mixed bag this season -- Casemiro was transformative and Martinez quickly became a defensive stalwart, only for Antony to deliver just four goals and two assists despite his huge transfer fee -- but there's no question that the team took a step forward this season under new manager Erik ten Hag. United have already topped last season's point total by 11 and still have two matches left.

Arsenal

Spending: €192.4m
Biggest arrivals: FW Gabriel Jesus (Man City, €53.2m), DF Oleksandr Zinchenko (Man City, €35m), MF Fabio Vieira (Porto, €35m)
Income: €23.8m
Biggest exits: MF Matteo Guendouzi (Marseille, €11m)
Balance: -€168.6m
Change: +0.37 points per game (to 2.19, second place)

Arsenal lured Jesus and Zinchenko from Manchester to London and, combined with further development from an exciting young roster core, it paid off. The Gunners still didn't have enough juice to maintain a title push for nine full months, but after finishing 24 points behind Manchester City last season, they'll likely finish only eight to 10 points behind this time around. They'll also play in the Champions League next season for the first time since 2016-17.

Marseille

Spending: €115.4m
Biggest arrivals: FW Vitinha (Braga, €32m), GK Pau Lopez (Roma, €12m), MF Matteo Guendouzi (Arsenal, €11m)
Income: €37.5m
Biggest exits: MF Gerson (Flamengo, €15m), DF Duje Caleta-Car (Southampton, €8m)
Balance: -€77.9m
Change: +0.16 points per game (to 2.03, third place)

After last season's second-place finish, Marseille tried, on a couple of occasions, to make the most of the newfound Champions League cash and close the gap on PSG. They'd already spent big before adding Vitinha in late January, and it has sort of paid off. After finishing with 71 points last season, they're up to 73 with two games to play, but they've also fallen into third place behind a surging Lens

Big spending, big regression

Chelsea

Spending: €611.5m
Biggest arrivals: MF Enzo Fernandez (Benfica, €121m), DF Wesley Fofana (Leicester City, €80.4m), DF/MF Mykhailo Mudryk (Shakhtar Donetsk, €70m), DF Marc Cucurella (Brighton, €65.3m), Raheem Sterling (Man City, €56.2m)
Income: €67.8m
Biggest exits: FW Timo Werner (RB Leipzig, €20m), DF Emerson (West Ham, €15.4m), MF Jorginho (Arsenal, €11.3m)
Balance: -€543.7m
Change: -0.76 points per game (to 1.19, 12th place)

One of Europe's biggest collapses came from Europe's biggest-spending team. Chelsea attempted win-now signings (Koulibaly, Sterling) in July and August, then win-later youth signings (Fernandez, Mudryk and many others) in January. Maybe they will indeed win later, but their 2022-23 campaign has been an absolute disaster.

The big spending has put them on the verge of potential financial fair play issues -- something a lack of Champions League revenue could further complicate -- but if recent transfer rumors turn out to be true, their solution to this season's problems appears to be ... more big spending. It could work out well for the teams depositing their big checks, anyway.

West Ham

Spending: €194m
Biggest arrivals: MF Lucas Paqueta (Lyon, €43m), FW Gianluca Scamacca (Sassuolo, €36m, DF Nayef Aguerd (Rennes, €35m)
Income: €21.6m
Biggest exits: DF Issa Diop (Fulham, €17.8m)
Balance: -€172.4m
Change: -0.40 points per game (to 1.08, 14th place)

It has turned out to be a pretty good bad season for the Hammers, who have reached the final of the Europa Conference League -- a win would give them their first European trophy since the 1965 Cup Winners' Cup -- and have rallied to 14th place in the Premier League after flirting with relegation. That has distracted from the fact that, aside from perhaps Paqueta and Aguerd, most of the team's newcomers have failed to make any significant impact in 2022-23 and, at best, West Ham will finish with 13 fewer points than they had last season.

Southampton

Spending: €143.7m
Biggest arrivals: FW Kamaldeen Sulemana (Rennes, €25m), FW Paul Onuachu (Genk, €18m), GK Gavin Bazunu (Man City, €14m), MF Carlos Alcaraz (Racing Club, €13.7m)
Income: €5.5m
Biggest exits: MF Oriol Romeu (Girona, €5.5m)
Balance: -€138.2m
Change: -0.41 points per game (to 0.65, last place)

After back-to-back 15th place finishes in the Premier League, one of the most successful developmental clubs in Europe attempted to solve their problems by signing players instead of letting them go in 2022-23. The result: a pair of increasingly desperate managerial changes and a last-place finish.

Tottenham

Spending: €177.9m
Biggest arrivals: FW Richarlison (Everton, €58m), DF Cristian Romero (Atalanta, €50m), MF Yves Bissouma (Brighton, €29.2m)
Income: €38.8m
Biggest exits: FW Steven Bergwijn (Ajax, €31.3m)
Balance: -€139.1m
Change: -0.33 points per game (to 1.54, eighth place)

Almost no team in Europe spends more time trying to look like a big, serious club instead of actually performing like one. That goes mostly for Spurs' weird stylistic shifts in managerial hires, but it also applies to recent transfers.

Flush with Champions League cash after a couple of seasons away, Spurs spent a lot to sign six players (Destiny Udogie and Djed Spence went out on loan) and only one of them (Romero) topped 1,000 league minutes in 2022-23.

Bayern Munich

Spending: €145.5m
Biggest arrivals: DF Matthijs de Ligt (Juventus, €67m), FW Sadio Mane (Liverpool, €32m), FW Mathys Tel (Rennes, €20m)
Income: €104.1m
Biggest exits: FW Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona, €45m), DF Tanguy Nianzou (Sevilla, €16m)
Balance: -€41.4m
Change: -0.20 points per game (to 2.06, second place)

Technically, Liverpool -- yet another big-spending Premier League team -- should probably fit here, since they had both a larger negative balance and worse per-game regression. But for variety's sake, we'll briefly leave England to include the German giants, who are on the verge of finishing second in the Bundesliga for the first time in 11 years.

Their attack is still good, but replacing Lewandowski (35 league goals and three assists last season) with Mane and Tel (combined: 12 and 5 this season) has not immediately paid off.

Thrifty spending, big Improvement

First, a quick acknowledgment of the work of Manchester City. They are no one's idea of a "thrifty club," but thanks to moves like Arsenal's (for Jesus and Zinchenko) and Chelsea's (for Sterling), they actually ended up with a net profit in transfer fees, bringing in €162.2m and sending out €150.5m, while adding Erling Haaland (€60m) and Julian Alvarez (€21m), among others. They don't make the "big improvement" list because they were already the best team in Europe, but that's obviously pretty good business.

Now to the improved teams.

Napoli

Spending: €76.1m
Biggest arrivals: DF Kim Min-jae (Fenerbahce, €18.1m), DF Mathias Olivera (Getafe, €16.5m), MF Frank Anguissa (Fulham, €16m), MF Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Dinamo Batumi, €11.5m)
Income: €80.5m
Biggest exits: DF Kalidou Koulibaly (Chelsea, €38m), MF Fabian Ruiz (PSG, €23m), FW Arkadiusz Milik (Marseille, €8m)
Balance: +€4.4m
Change: +0.31 points per game (to 2.39, first place)

In Kim, Olivera, Anguissa and Kvaratskhelia, the club added four players who have combined for 9,794 minutes -- plus 19 goals and 19 assists -- for the best and most successful Napoli team in a generation. All for less money than Chelsea paid to sign Marc Cucurella (€65.3m.)

Brighton

Spending: €55.7m
Biggest arrivals: DF Pervis Estupinan (Villarreal, €17.8m), FW Julio Enciso (Libertad, €11.6m)
Income: €137.9m
Biggest exits: DF Marc Cucurella (Chelsea, €65.3m), MF Yves Bissouma (Tottenham Hotspur, €28.2m), FW Leandro Trossard (Arsenal, €24m)
Balance: +€82.2m
Change: +0.35 points per game (to 1.69, sixth place)

Among the Premier League's 20 teams, Brighton generated the second-highest income total from transfer fees (only Man City, of all teams, generated more) and spent the fourth-lowest amount, ahead of only Brentford (€51.5m), Leicester City (€48m) and Crystal Palace (€46.6m.) Their transfer balance was by far the biggest in the league; while everyone around them was bringing in player, they were moving them on.

Now they're set to play in Europe next season for the first time ever. Aside from Napoli, no one aced the transfer market more than the Seagulls. And their reward will be more transfers and the need to keep on acing the market.

Lille

Spending: €26m
Biggest arrivals: FW Mohamed Bayo (Clermont, €14m)
Income: €101.5m
Biggest exits: DF Sven Botman (Newcastle, €37m), MF Amadou Onana (Everton, €35m), MF Renato Sanches (Paris Saint-Germain, €15m)
Balance: +€75.5m
Change: +0.30 points per game (to 1.75, fifth place)

After winning Ligue 1 in 2021, Lille lost manager Christophe Galtier and a number of key contributors. They stumbled to 10th in the league, then lost even more key players and began 2022-23 with just 13 points in their first nine games, basically the same per-game pace as last season.

Since early-October, however, they've had the third-best record in the league. Manager Paulo Fonseca handed the reins to a young core and has been rewarded for it. (Of course, that young core will likely get picked apart soon, too.)

Lens

Spending: €38.4m
Biggest arrivals: FW Lois Openda (Club Brugge, €9.8m), FW Adam Buksa (New England Revolution, €6m)
Income: €51.6m
Biggest exits: MF Cheick Doucoure (Crystal Palace, €22.6m), DF Christopher Wooh (Rennes, €9m)
Balance: +€13.2m
Change: +0.54 points per game (to 2.17, second place)

Ligue 1's most exciting story of 2022-23. Lens haven't finished in Ligue 1's top four since 2006 and only recently emerged from the second division. But after losing Doucoure and others from last season's seventh-place squad, Les Sang et Or made one of the season's most inspired additions (Openda) and lost only one of their first 20 league matches. They have all but clinched second in the league.

Real Sociedad

Spending: €53m
Biggest arrivals: FW Umar Sadiq (Almeria, €20m), MF Brais Mendez (Celta Vigo, €14m)
Income: €80.5m
Biggest exits: FW Alexander Isak (Newcastle, €70m)
Balance: +€27.5m
Change: +0.23 points per game (to 1.86, fourth place)

La Real enjoyed back-to-back top-six finishes in 2021 and 2022 but hadn't been able to end a nearly 10-year Champions League absence. And it didn't seem this would be the year when they lost Isak in late-August. But a pair of astute deals -- adding Real Madrid's Takefusa Kubo (eight league goals and four assists this season) for just €6.5m, then bringing in RB Leipzig's Alexander Sorloth (11 and two, respectively) on loan -- helped to bring more juice to their attack. And now they've all but locked up a fourth-place finish.

Thrifty spending, big regression

Angers SCO

Spending: €6m
Biggest arrivals: DF Ousmane Camara (Paris FC, €2.2m), DF Cedric Hountondji (Clermont, €2m)
Income: €37m
Biggest exits: FW Momo Cho (Real Sociedad, €11m), MF Azzedine Ounahi (Marseille, €8m)
Balance: +€31m
Change: -0.66 points per game (to 0.42, last place)

Angers have managed to remain in the French top division since 2015, but that run is coming to an end after a dire 2022-23 campaign. And it gets even worse: While they didn't bring in nearly enough talent of late, one of the players they did bring in, Ilyes Chetti, earned them a two-window transfer ban.

Leicester City

Spending: €48m
Biggest arrivals: DF Wout Faes (Reims, €17m), DF Harry Souttar (Stoke City, €17m)
Income: €81m
Biggest exits: DF Wesley Fofana (Chelsea, €80.4m)
Balance: +€33.4m
Change: -0.53 points per game (to 0.84, 19th place)

For years, Leicester pulled off a nice balance, losing star players to big teams -- Riyad Mahrez in 2019, Harry Maguire in 2020, Ben Chilwell in 2021 -- but keeping others in tow and making a series of strong signings. But that fortune appears to have worn out. The roster grew stale, the club kept players like Youri Tielemens for too long, and the Foxes will need some good fortune on the Premier League's final matchday to avoid relegation.

Sevilla

Spending: €29.4m
Biggest arrivals: DF Tanguy Nianzou (Bayern Munich, €16m), DF Marcao (Galatasaray, €12m)
Income: €91.5m
Biggest exits: DF Jules Kounde (Barcelona, €50m), DF Diego Carlos (Aston Villa, €31m)
Balance: +€62.1m
Change: -0.47 points per game (to 1.37, ninth place)

As with West Ham, this has turned out to be a pretty good terrible season. Sevilla have once again reached the Europa League final (their fifth in 10 years), and after a dreadful start -- they were one point outside of the relegation zone as late as March -- they have charged back to ninth under recent hire Jose Luis Mendilibar. But things were dire for a bit, and exits like Kounde and Carlos did little to help.

Sampdoria

Spending: €6m
Biggest arrivals: FW Francesco Caputo (Sassuolo, €3.5m)
Income: €35.6m
Biggest exits: MF Mikkel Damsgaard (Brentford, €15m), FW Gianluca Caprari (Hellas Verona, €5m), FW Federico Bonazzoli (Salernitana, €5m)
Balance: +€29.6m
Change: -0.44 points per game (to 0.50, last place)

Financial problems overwhelmed Sampdoria this season, and that was reflected in a shell of a squad that featured only five of the primary 14 players from their ninth-place finish in 2020-21. Barring a quick change in ownership, their issues might follow them to second division next year, too.

Bayer Leverkusen

Spending: €15.1m
Biggest arrivals: FW Adam Hlozek (Sparta Prague, €13m)
Income: €9.5m
Biggest exits: FW Lucas Alario (Eintracht Frankfurt, €6m)
Balance: -€5.6m
Change: -0.36 points per game (to 1.52, sixth place)

Bayer Leverkusen kept the band together... and it didn't work. After jumping to third place in the Bundesliga in 2021-22, the club warded off potential suitors to maintain an exciting, young roster core -- attackers Moussa Diaby, Florian Wirtz and Patrik Schick, wing-backs Jeremie Frimpong and Mitchell Bakker, etc. But they won only two of their first 12 league matches, plus three of their first four Champions League matches, and fired manager Gerardo Seoane in October.

Xabi Alonso has been able to engineer a new-year rebound, but their dreadful start means they will miss next year's Champions League.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The New England Patriots are losing two days of organized team activities due to a violation of offseason rules, league sources told ESPN.

The team had been scheduled for an OTA on Thursday, the first to be attended by reporters this offseason, but the club announced Wednesday that it had been canceled.

Thursday's OTA, in addition to another next week, were taken away as part of the violation, according to sources. It wasn't immediately known what the specific violation was.

This week marks the start of the third and final phase of the Patriots' offseason program, which allows the team a total of 10 OTAs. There is no live contact permitted in OTAs, among other rules as part of Article 21 of the collective bargaining agreement.

The NFL Players Association monitors teams across the NFL for potential violations as part of its standard operating procedure.

The Patriots declined to comment.

In recent seasons, the Cowboys (2021, 2022), Bears (2022), Commanders (2022), Texans (2022), 49ers (2021), Jaguars (2021), Ravens (2018) and Seahawks (2016) have been penalized for violations of offseason rules.

LA Clippers general manager Michael Winger has agreed to become the president of Monumental Basketball, which delivers him full leadership of the Washington Wizards, sources told ESPN on Wednesday.

Winger will also oversee the WNBA Mystics and the G-League Go-Go, sources said.

Winger had become the increasing focus of Monumental owner Ted Leonsis' search for a top executive and takes over the Wizards with a reputation as a keen strategist, dealmaker and relationship builder.

After arriving from the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2017, Winger played an integral part in reshaping the Clippers' franchise under president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank and owner Steve Ballmer. Winger spent considerable time weighing the prospects of leaving the Clippers for Monumental Sports, sources said, but ultimately made the move for a chance to lead Leonsis's franchises.

Winger inherits a Wizards franchise that has missed the playoffs in four of five seasons, one that needs to build out a new infrastructure and manage difficult payroll decisions on a roster that could need significant overhaul. With All-Star guard Bradley Beal under contract for four years, $200 million-plus, the Wizards have to make choices on re-signing Kristaps Porzingis and Kyle Kuzma to contract extensions.

Beal holds a full no-trade clause in his contract, which means the organization would have to work with him on a landing spot should the sides eventually decide to make him available in trade talks.

New Orleans GM Trajan Langdon was a prominent part in the Wizards' search, too, sources said. Winger and Langdon were the two executives known to have had substantial in-person meetings with Leonsis and organizational leadership, sources said.

The Wizards had been conducting a methodical month-plus-long search for a new top basketball executive to replace Tommy Sheppard, who was dismissed in April.

Winger has previously spurned overtures to remain with the Clippers where he has worked with Frank and Ballmer. The Clippers reached the Western Conference Finals for the first time in history in 2021.

Before his seven years working as an executive with the Thunder and president Sam Presti, Winger was an executive with the Cleveland Cavaliers under GM Danny Ferry from 2005 to 2010.

NEW YORK -- Former Seattle Mariners Harold Reynolds and Raul Ibañez will be the managers for the All-Star Futures Game at Seattle's T-Mobile Park on July 8.

Reynolds, an MLB Network analyst, will manage the AL team. Ibañez, Major League Baseball's vice president of on-field operations, will manage the NL, the commissioner's office said Wednesday.

Reynolds, 62, was a two-time All-Star second baseman who played for the Mariners from 1982 to 1992.

Ibañez, who turns 51 on June 2, played for Seattle from 1996 to 2000, again from 2004 to 2008 and a third time in 2013. He was an All-Star with Philadelphia in 2009.

PHILADELPHIA -- Trea Turner had a good reason to be able to handle the Philly boos aimed at the scuffling shortstop after chasing two balls in the dirt and striking out in the seventh inning.

Philly fans can't bring the heat like mom can from home.

"She told me today she was booing me," Turner said with a laugh.

Donna Turner might fit in faster among Phillies fans than Turner has with the team in his first season in the Philadelphia lineup.

Turner eventually made mom proud when he tied Wednesday's game with a two-run homer in the ninth inning, and Alec Bohm hit the winning single in the 10th to rally the Phillies from five runs down in a 6-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Turner delivered his first highlight-reel hit for the Phillies when he connected to left field off reliever Jose Ruiz (1-1) with two outs, tying the game at 5. Turner has been mired in a brutal slump that forced the $300 million shortstop to say this week: "I've sucked."

Phillies fans booed Turner off the field in the seventh inning after a particularly ugly at-bat in which he wasn't even close to connecting on two swings on balls in the dirt. He struck out and was 0-for-4 -- and 2-for-20 on the homestand.

"She texted me and said good game except for that fourth at-bat," Turner said.

All was forgiven in the ninth.

Bryson Stott hit a two-out single to center off Ruiz that set the stage for Turner to deliver his biggest blast for his new team. In March, Turner hit a go-ahead grand slam that lifted the United States over Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic semifinals and only raised expectations in Philly after he signed as a free agent. Instead, it has been two months of anemic swings and stats, such as the 0-for-22 skid with runners in scoring position he snapped Monday.

"Obviously, I'm a better player than I've played the last little bit," Turner said.

Ruiz stayed in the game for the 10th and walked two to load the bases with the automatic runner. Bohm lofted one to right that landed on the warning track and scored Dalton Guthrie, helping the Phillies avoid a three-game sweep.

Craig Kimbrel (3-1) worked the 10th for the win.

Evan Longoria hit a two-run homer and Emmanuel Rivera drove in three runs for the Diamondbacks.

"This game will rip your heart out," Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said.

The NL champion Phillies have won only three of 10 games as they head into a pivotal stretch of the season. Philadelphia improved to 23-27, and only the Washington Nationals have a worse record in the NL East.

The Phillies start a four-game series Thursday at NL East-leading Atlanta and then play three at Citi Field against the second-place Mets. The Phillies suddenly need to win those series if they want to make a serious run at the division.

Oddly enough, the Phillies have yet to play either the Mets or Braves.

Getting some decent starting pitching would help against their rivals.

Ranger Suárez was hit hard in his third straight start since returning from a strained left elbow. His ERA is a gnarly 9.82, and he has yet to pitch beyond the fifth inning.

Getting Turner to finally come alive at the plate could help even more.

The two-time All-Star hit .300 with 192 steals in six-plus seasons with the Nationals, winning the World Series in 2019. He won a batting title after he was traded to the Dodgers in 2021 and hit .298 with 21 homers, 101 runs and a career-high 100 RBIs last year in Los Angeles. He posted all the numbers needed for the Phillies to sign him to the 11-year, $300 million deal.

The Phillies had only seen glimpses of the All-Star-caliber form.

"Maybe that's his signature moment that gets him going here," manger Rob Thomson said. "Sometimes it's tough for guys to come in, big contract, try to impress his teammates, fan base. He just keeps grinding, keeps working at it."