SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - Ten schools and more than 160 swimmers converged on the pool deck at San Marcos High School for the Tri County Invite.

The Royals were the host with the most winning both the overall girls and boys team competition.

San Marcos girls beat second place Dos Pueblos 522-439.50 and San Marcos boys defeated second place Cate 466.50 -333.50.

In combined scores San Marcos beat Dos Pueblos 988.50 -764.50 with Cate third at 646.50.

Race results can be found here: file:///Users/news.user/Downloads/Tri%20County%20Invite%202026%20Results%20(1).pdf

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By Sylvie Zhuang, CNN

Chinese leader Xi Jinping invoked ongoing global conflicts and the need for peace during a landmark meeting with the leader of Taiwan’s opposition on Friday and reiterated Beijing’s opposition to the independence of the self-ruled island.

The visit to Beijing by Cheng Li-wun, the leader of Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT), was the first such meeting in a decade and comes weeks before US President Donald Trump is set to visit China for talks with Xi where Taiwan is expected to be high on the agenda.

“Today’s world is far from peaceful, and peace is all the more precious.” said Xi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Beijing refuses to talk to the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which has governed Taiwan for the past decade. China claims the island as its own and has not ruled out using force to take it one day. In recent years it has ramped up pressure and military drills around Taiwan, raising concerns tensions could escalate into geopolitical conflict.

“Compatriots on both sides of the strait are Chinese people and one family,” Xi said, adding Beijing was willing to work with political parties in Taiwan “on the common political basis of… opposing Taiwan independence.”

Cheng said she hoped that “through the tireless efforts of our two parties, the Taiwan Strait will no longer be a focal point of potential conflict, nor will it become a chessboard for external intervention.”

Her visit to China comes with Taiwan’s ruling party under pressure from both Beijing, which has ramped up military pressure on the island, and Washington, which is pushing it to pass a stalled $40 billion defense spending plan.

Cheng’s KMT favors warmer ties with Beijing and has been blocking the defense spending bill in Taiwan’s parliament.

It also comes as analysts say Beijing is pushing to capitalize on fears among some in Taiwan that Trump sees the island as little more than a pawn in the wider US-China spat and is not interested in its long-term future.

Along with tensions over trade and technology, Taiwan is expected to be a main talking point during Xi’s expected summit with Trump in May.

Beijing has long seen Taiwan as the most sensitive aspect of its ties with the US and slammed the announcement in December of an US$11 billion arms deal between the US and Taiwan – one of the biggest arms deals on record.

Taiwan’s US worries

Cheng billed her trip to China as a “historic journey for peace.”

One stop on her itinerary was Nanjing, which once served as the capital of the KMT-run Republic of China. In 1949 the KMT was ousted from mainland China by Mao Zedong’s Communist forces and fled to Taiwan.

Some in Taiwan are wary of what a transactional and America-focused second Trump term may mean for their future.

Washington maintains close unofficial ties with Taiwan and is bound by law to sell arms to the island for its self-defense.

But on the campaign trail for his second term, Trump said Taiwan should pay the US more for “protection” and also claimed it had “stolen” America’s chip business.

Later comments from members of his administration that Taiwan should shift half of its production of advanced chips to the US were rebuffed by Taipe – and slammed by some KMT lawmakers. But Washington and Taipei reached a deal in February, opening the door for additional Taiwan investments in semiconductor production in the US.

And, amid global energy chaos triggered by Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, Beijing in March offered what it said would be energy stability to Taiwan if it agreed to its rule. Taiwanese officials called the move “cognitive warfare” that undermines confidence in energy security.

The DPP rejects China’s sovereign claim

Steve Salter, CNN

(CNN) — Over the next few days, something unusual will be happening across Spanish soccer. Nearly 40 men’s professional clubs in La Liga’s top two divisions will take to the field wearing retro-looking uniforms inspired by their respective histories. The kits were first unveiled at Madrid Fashion Week and are part of a campaign celebrating the country’s love for the sport. It is a fitting prelude.

Ten weeks later, the largest World Cup in history will be held across the US, Canada and Mexico — 48 teams, 104 matches, the most expansive commercial stage the sport has ever assembled. And many players will be wearing nostalgia-laden gear: Adidas recently unveiled new away kits embracing a “90s aesthetic” but designed in a “modern, contemporary way.” They will also bear the brand’s famous trefoil motif — for the first time in more than three decades.

The past is no longer just being collected, but worn, remade and reimagined.

The shirts that changed everything

To understand how soccer arrived here, you have to go further back than expected. “Proper fan replica shirts weren’t widely available until the 1970s,” said Alex Ireland, author of “Pretty Poly: The History of the Football Shirt.” “It was really only in the nineties where they became more broadly acceptable to go to the pub in.”

Umbro’s England away shirt for Euro 96 arguably led the shift from uniform to everyday wear. The two-tone blue striped shirt was designed to pair with jeans — an early acknowledgement that the its life extended beyond the pitch. Technology did the rest. Advances in fabric printing allowed designers to embed complex graphics directly onto material, turning shirts into moving canvases. The result was the most visually inventive decade in the sport’s sartorial history.

“Everyone remembers their first World Cup,” said Sam Handy, General Manager of Football at Adidas. “Those kits get embedded in your memory structures — this is what football looks like.”

Mine was Italia 90 and the West Germany home shirt (pictured at the top) — black, red and gold geometric abstraction across the chest — what remains the holy grail among collectors. Norwegian collector Even Nesset describes something close to involuntary recall: “That shirt gives me a kind of false memory of 1990 — from seeing it, from watching YouTube clips of it being worn on the pitch.” England’s third shirt from the same year — sky blue with distinct geometric patterns, and inseparable from New Order’s hit song “World in Motion” — is listed on Cult Kits’ for $480.

While England didn’t wear the shirt on the pitch itself, its fan favorite status and the team’s semi-final run and subsequent penalty shootout defeat to West Germany, who would go on to win the World Cup, helped ensured its legacy, alongside the more classic white home shirt.

“When a brand takes risks in design and embeds it with a decent run for the team, you have a chance of creating something very visually sticky,” said Handy. Nesset distills it further, classifying “the crazy shirts, bold enough to seem wrong at first (USA 1994, Jamaica 1998, Mexico 1998), and the beautiful shirts, quietly perfect (Colombia 1990, Italy 1994).”

Those shirts spent decades in the margins — traded through flea markets and early eBay. Then, over the past two decades, something structural happened. Dedicated platforms — Classic Football Shirts, Cult Kits, Vintage Football Shirts, Saturdays Football and others — transformed an informal network into a scaled, trusted, global market. Founded by fans who couldn’t find the s

Por Lex Harvey, CNN

La vida de millones de personas en todo Medio Oriente, y el destino de la economía mundial, dependerán del resultado de las cruciales conversaciones que mantendrán este fin de semana Estados Unidos e Irán en Pakistán.

Las calles de la capital, Islamabad, han quedado desiertas debido a un repentino feriado público de dos días, declarado para reforzar la seguridad ante la llegada de las delegaciones estadounidense e iraní para sus primeras negociaciones desde el comienzo de la guerra.

El frágil alto el fuego de dos semanas que allanó el camino para las conversaciones se mantiene por ahora. Sin embargo, el masivo y letal bombardeo israelí contra Hezbollah y los desacuerdos sobre la inclusión del Líbano en la tregua aún podrían hacer fracasar las reuniones.

Esto es lo que sabemos:

Según la Casa Blanca, las conversaciones entre Irán y Estados Unidos comenzarán el sábado por la mañana, hora local de Islamabad.

La delegación estadounidense estará encabezada por el vicepresidente J.D. Vance, el enviado especial Steve Witkoff y Jared Kushner, yerno del presidente Donald Trump.

Teherán no ha anunciado oficialmente su delegación, pero algunos medios locales informan que estará encabezada por el presidente del Parlamento iraní, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

Ghalibaf, un miembro influyente del régimen con fama de reprimir la disidencia, se ha convertido en un interlocutor clave para la administración Trump durante la guerra. Muchos líderes iraníes han muerto en ataques conjuntos entre Estados Unidos e Israel en las últimas semanas.

Dado a que ambas partes no parecen ponerse de acuerdo sobre el contenido del alto el fuego, lograr un consenso sobre la agenda de las conversaciones podría resultar complicado.

Trump ha citado “una propuesta de 10 puntos de Irán”, que calificó de “una base viable sobre la cual negociar”.

Pero entonces Irán comenzó a difundir una lista de diez puntos que incluía exigencias que Estados Unidos jamás podría aceptar, como el reconocimiento de su control sobre el estrecho de Ormuz, reparaciones por los daños de guerra y el levantamiento de todas las sanciones.

Otras versiones publicadas en los medios estatales también incluían el reconocimiento del derecho del país al enriquecimiento nuclear.

La secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, Karoline Leavitt, declaró que Trump se refería a un plan diferente de 10 puntos que era “más razonable”.

Mientras tanto, Trump y su equipo tienen su propia propuesta de 15 puntos.

Dicho plan no se ha revelado en su totalidad, pero se dice que incluye el compromiso de Irán de no poseer armas nucleares, la entrega de su uranio altamente enriquecido, la limitación de las capacidades de defensa de Teherán y la reapertura del estrecho de Ormuz.

Una cuestión clave ahora es si las conversaciones darán lugar a algún tipo de punto intermedio, o si fracasarán y reiniciarán una guerra que ya ha causado destrucción en partes de Medio Oriente y ha desencadenado una crisis petrolera mundial histórica.

La inclusión del Líbano en el alto el fuego es un tema de controversia constante que también corre el riesgo de desbaratar las conversaciones del fin de semana.

Irán ha afirmado repetidamente que el alto el fuego abarca los ataques contra Hezbollah, su aliado con sede en el Líbano, haciéndose eco de la postura de Pakistán, que ayudó a negociar el acuerdo. Sin embargo, Israel y Estados Unidos han declarado que el alto el fuego no incluye al Líbano.

El miércoles, apenas unas horas después de que entrara en vigor el alto el fuego, Israel lanzó s

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - The rain might wreak havoc across the Central Coast this weekend, but the best ticket in town just might be a place where you don’t have to dodge raindrops, but instead watch it raining threes.

The Oakland Soldiers basketball organization — which launched a Central Coast chapter in 2025 — returns to Santa Barbara on Sunday for its annual Soldier Showcase, which will include the jersey retirement of projected No. 1 NBA Draft pick AJ Dybantsa.

The All-American at BYU played for the Soldiers in 2024, the latest in elite players that have come through the organization, including LeBron James, Aaron Gordon, Gabe Vincent, Kendrick Perkins and dozens of other professional players.

On Sunday, AJ will share the spotlight with a high-flying dunk contest that will feature legendary Southern California dunker Christon Staples; a 3-point contest with former UCSB star Aidan Mahaney; and the spectacle that is playing 1-on-1 against Jerome Randle in a King of the Court competition.

Local families wanting to learn more about grassroots basketball; how the Soldiers address the complex world of youth athletics through their non-profit, the FAM Foundation; and how the organization sets families up for success on and off the court, this event will cater to those looking to be inspired, educated and empowered to take the next step.

Tickets are still available, and you can find them at https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/soldiers-showcase

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