AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2025--
Texas Ranchers, the premier Major League Pickleball (“MLP”) team, announced today that it will host the highly anticipated MLP tour stop in America’s pickleball capital, Austin, on May 23-26. The four-day event is on pace to sell more than 10,000 tickets for fans to cheer on their favorite team at the Austin Pickle Ranch. Austin is the third stop in the 2025 MLP season, which features ten regular season events around the country, including an innovative Mid-Season Tournament. The home team, Texas Ranchers, will be competing for a position in the coveted MLP Playoffs, scheduled to take place in August.
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“Pickleball is now core to Austin’s culture. Alongside Austin’s leaders, we have worked hard to make Austin the Capital of Pickleball and are excited to host a Texas-sized party over Memorial Day Weekend, featuring the best players in the world at MLP Austin for the first time,” said Evan Floersch, Principal Owner of the Texas Ranchers.
Fans can expect a packed schedule of pivotal matchups as Premier level teams battle it out for points in a 16-team field—and a shot at the toughest championship title in all of professional pickleball, MLP’s Pritchard Cup.
Premier teams competing alongside the Texas Ranchers include Mark Cuban’s Dallas Flash, Patrick Mahomes’ Miami Pickleball Club, Gary Vaynerchuk’s New Jersey 5s, the Orlando Squeeze (DeVos Family), among others.
Admission to the MLP Austin ranges from a single-day Grounds pass starting at $25.00 and four-day pass discounted at $80.00, single-day Courtside passes starting at $40.00 and a four-day bundle priced at $130.00. There are also VIP-level tickets priced between $250.00 to $750.00. Additionally, fans can enjoy a family-friendly immersive sports village featuring great food and vendors, a bark park for dogs, an AVP beach volleyball tournament happening on-site Saturday-Sunday, private suites to play pickleball and live concerts in the evening.
“We want to do our part in making Austin one of the strongest sports and entertainment markets in the country, building on the incredible work done by Texas Athletics, Austin FC, COTA, and both the Austin Gamblers and Austin Rodeo organizations. When Texans look at their Memorial Day Weekend plans every year, we hope they choose to spend it watching their home team fight for a Championship and enjoy the best local food, drinks, and live entertainment Austin has to offer. Our goal in Year One is to wow everyone,” continued Floersch.
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ABOUT TEXAS RANCHERS
The Texas Ranchers are a premier Major League Pickleball team based in Austin, Texas–the Capital of Pickleball. The franchise is owned by an influential list of more than 40 individuals including professional athletes like Scottie Scheffler, Myles Garrett, Tim Tebow, Taylor Fritz, Micah Parsons, CJ Stroud, and Bijan Robinson, global artists like Lil Wayne, The Kid LAROI, and Zach Bryan, pop culture figures like Bobby Bones, business moguls and billionaires like Dennis Wong, Kendra Scott, and Todd Graves, entrepreneurs and investors. Helmed by 28-year-old serial entrepreneur, Evan Floersch, alongside Ted Moskovitz, Pierre Scholz, Alex Maxson, Ryan Dawidjan and Virginia Reyna, the Ranchers have quickly become the highest-grossing, most valuable franchise in the fastest-growing sport. They are committed to more than winning. They aim to redefine what sports ownership looks like and how sports franchises can leave a lasting, positive impact on the world and the countless communities pickleball touches. For more information, please visit www.ranchers.com. #RideTall
Texas Ranchers, the premier Major League Pickleball (“MLP”) team is hosting the highly anticipated MLP tour stop in America’s pickleball capital, Austin, on May 23-26. Admission to the MLP Austin ranges from a single-day Grounds pass starting at $25.00 up to VIP-level tickets. Fans can enjoy a family-friendly immersive sports village featuring great food and vendors, a bark park for dogs, an AVP beach volleyball tournament happening on-site Saturday-Sunday, private suites to play pickleball and live concerts in the evening.
U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea. The announcement was made Friday by the U.S. military. The Trump administration has been targeting sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela.
The pre-dawn action was carried out by U.S. Marines and Navy, taking part in the monthslong buildup of forces in the Caribbean, according to U.S. Southern Command, which declared “there is no safe haven for criminals” as it announced the seizure of the vessel called the Olina.
Navy officials couldn’t immediately provide details about whether the Coast Guard was part of the force that took control of the vessel as has been the case in the previous seizures. A spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard said there was no immediate comment on the seizure.
The Olina is the fifth tanker that has been seized by U.S. forces as part of a broader effort by Trump’s administration to control the distribution of Venezuela’s oil products globally following the U.S. ouster of President Nicolás Maduro in a surprise nighttime raid.
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Richard Grenell, president of the Kennedy Center, says a documentary film about first lady Melania Trump will make its premiere later this month, posting a trailer on X.
As the Trumps prepared to return to the White House last year, Amazon Prime Video announced a year ago that it had obtained exclusive licensing rights for a streaming and theatrical release directed by Brett Ratner.
Melania Trump also released a self-titled memoir in late 2024.
Some artists have canceled scheduled Kennedy Center performances after a newly installed board voted to add President Donald Trump’s to the facility, prompting Grenell to accuse the performers of making their decisions because of politics.
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum says that she has asked her foreign affairs secretary to reach out directly to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio or Trump regarding comments by the American leader that the U.S. cold begin ground attacks against drug cartels.
In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News aired Thursday night, Trump said, “We’ve knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by water and we are going to start now hitting land, with regard to the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico. It’s very sad to watch.”
As she has on previous occasions, Sheinbaum downplayed the remarks, saying “it is part of his way of communicating.” She said she asked her Foreign Affairs Secretary Juan Ramón de la Fuente to strengthen coordination with the U.S.
Sheinbaum has repeatedly rebuffed Trump’s offer to send U.S. troops after Mexican drug cartels. She emphasizes that there will be no violation of Mexico’s sovereignty, but the two governments will continue to collaborate closely.
Analysts do not see a U.S. incursion in Mexico as a real possibility, in part because Sheinbaum’s administration has been doing nearly everything Trump has asked and Mexico is a critical trade partner.
Trump says he wants to secure $100 billion to remake Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, a lofty goal going into a 2:30 meeting on Friday with executives from leading oil companies. His plan rides on oil producers being comfortable in making commitments in a country plagued by instability, inflation and uncertainty.
The president has said that the U.S. will control distribution worldwide of Venezuela’s oil and will share some of the proceeds with the country’s population from accounts that it controls.
“At least 100 Billion Dollars will be invested by BIG OIL, all of whom I will be meeting with today at The White House,” Trump said Friday in a pre-dawn social media post.
Trump is banking on the idea that he can tap more of Venezuela’s petroleum reserves to keep oil prices and gasoline costs low.
At a time when many Americans are concerned about affordability, the incursion in Venezuela melds Trump’s assertive use of presidential powers with an optical spectacle meant to convince Americans that he can bring down energy prices.
Trump is expected to meet with oil executives at the White House on Friday.
He hopes to secure $100 billion in investments to revive Venezuela’s oil industry. The goal rides on the executives’ comfort with investing in a country facing instability and inflation.
Since a U.S. military raid captured former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, Trump has said there’s a new opportunity to use the country’s oil to keep gasoline prices low.
The full list of executives invited to the meeting has not been disclosed, but Chevron, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips are expected to attend.
Attorneys general in five Democratic-led states have filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration after it said it would freeze money for several public benefit programs.
The Trump administration has cited concerns about fraud in the programs designed to help low-income families and their children. California, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois and New York states filed the lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The lawsuit asks the courts to order the administration to release the funds. The attorneys general have called the funding freeze an unconstitutional abuse of power.
Iran’s judiciary chief has vowed decisive punishment for protesters, signaling a coming crackdown against demonstrations.
Iranian state television reported the comments from Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei on Friday. They came after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticized Trump’s support for the protesters, calling Trump’s hands “stained with the blood of Iranians.”
The government has shut down the internet and is blocking international calls. State media has labeled the demonstrators as “terrorists.”
The protests began over Iran’s struggling economy and have become a significant challenge to the government. Violence has killed at least 50 people, and more than 2,270 have been detained.
Trump questions why a president’s party often loses in midterm elections and suggests voters “want, maybe a check or something”
Trump suggested voters want to check a president’s power and that’s why they often deliver wins for an opposing party in midterm elections, which he’s facing this year.
“There’s something down, deep psychologically with the voters that they want, maybe a check or something. I don’t know what it is, exactly,” he said.
He said that one would expect that after winning an election and having “a great, successful presidency, it would be an automatic win, but it’s never been a win.”
Hiring likely remained subdued last month as many companies have sought to avoid expanding their workforces, though the job gains may be enough to bring down the unemployment rate.
December’s jobs report, to be released Friday, is likely to show that employers added a modest 55,000 jobs, economists forecast. That figure would be below November’s 64,000 but an improvement after the economy lost jobs in October. The unemployment rate is expected to slip to 4.5%, according to data provider FactSet, from a four-year high of 4.6% in November.
The figures will be closely watched on Wall Street and in Washington because they will be the first clean readings on the labor market in three months. The government didn’t issue a report in October because of the six-week government shutdown, and November’s data was distorted by the closure, which lasted until Nov. 12.
FILE - President Donald Trump dances as he walks off stage after speaking to House Republican lawmakers during their annual policy retreat, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
