1. The season is over for the Milwaukee Bucks. For the third straight season, the Bucks get bounced out during the first round of the playoffs. They lost in overtime last night to the Indiana Pacers: 119-118. It was a shocking loss in the end: The Bucks were up by seven points with just 40 seconds to go in overtime and they lost it. Right after the game, Giannis got into a verbal altercation with the father of Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton. John Haliburton ran onto the court and started yelling at Giannis.
2. According to figures from the Commerce Department, the economy is slowing. Gross domestic product, which measures all the goods and services produced in the economy, registered at an annualized rate of -0.3% in the first quarter. That's a sharp slowdown from the fourth quarter's 2.4% rate, and much worse than the 0.8% rate economists projected. Some contributing factors: Government spending is down about 5%. Some businesses chose to stockpile goods in Q4 given the uncertainty over Trump's tariff plan. A rule of thumb for defining a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP.
3. A country music star known for wearing his sunglasses inside is coming back to Brew City. Eric Church releases a new album on Friday. Then he's coming to Milwaukee in September to play the new hits! Mark it on your calendars, country fans. Eric Church brings his "Free the Machine Tour" to Fiserv Forum on Friday, September 26th. Marcus King Band will open. Tickets go on sale May 9th.