Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) will be the next NCAA president, the organization announced Thursday.
Why it matters: Baker will assume the role as the landscape of college athletics remains in flux, especially around players with name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.
Argentina and France will face off in the 2022 FIFA World Cup final, pitting the young French superstar Kylian Mbappé against Argentinian living legend Lionel Messi in the tournament finale.
The big picture: France has the chance to repeat as World Cup champions after winning in 2018 (the last team to repeat was Brazil in 1962). This may also be Messi's final World Cup and last chance to secure the trophy.
Grant Wahl, a highly revered soccer journalist, suddenly died last week while covering the FIFA World Cup in Qatar from a rupture in his aorta, the main blood vessel leading from the heart, his family said in a statement Wednesday.
The big picture: The family said Wahl's cause of death was determined through an autopsy performed by the New York City Medical Examiner's Office after his body was returned to the U.S. on Monday.
