Initial starting lineup:
Olsen
McCabe
Affolter
Stuelke
O'Grady

Feuerbach/Mallegni/Heiden & Guyton get bench minutes (assuming no setbacks in her recovery)...maybe Stremlow impresses while Guyton is working her way back?

One of the schools he attended was the U of Iowa.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
DAVID SANBORN (saxophone) has released 25 albums, won six Grammy
Awards, and has had eight Gold albums and one Platinum album. Having
inspired countless other musicians, Sanborn has worked in many genres
which typically blend instrumental pop, R&B, and lately, more and more
traditional jazz. He released his first solo album, Taking Off, in 1975, but has
been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school when he was
inspired by the great Chicago blues artists near his hometown of St. Louis.
Having contracted polio at the age of three, Sanborn was introduced to the
saxophone as part of his treatment therapy. By the age of 14, he was able
to play with legends such as Albert King and Little Milton. Sanborn went
on to study music at Northwestern University before transferring to the
University of Iowa where he played and studied with the great saxophonist
JR Monterose.
Later traveling to California on the advice of a friend, he joined the Butterfield
Blues Band and played Woodstock with Paul Butterfield. Following that,
Sanborn toured with Stevie Wonder and recorded for Wonder’s Talking
Book album, played with The Rolling Stones, and toured with David Bowie
with whom he recorded the famous solo heard on “Young Americans.” At
the same time, Sanborn was touring and recording with the great Gil Evans,
dividing his time between the two. After moving to New York City and
studying with George Coleman, Sanborn started his solo career where he
later collaborated with such artists as Paul Simon and James Taylor.
Sanborn’s solo release of Taking Off in 1975—still considered a classic—
further solidified his career. His 1979 release of Hideaway became a popular
hit and further propelled Sanborn’s ascent with the single “Seduction” being
featured in the movie American Gigolo. Veteran bassist and composer
Marcus Miller joined Sanborn on the 1981 album Voyeur. The single “All I
Need Is You” won Sanborn his first Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental
Performance. In 1983, Sanborn released the hit album Backstreet that
included Luther Vandross as a featured guest vocalist. Later albums have
included guest artists such as Jack DeJohnette, Bill Frisell, Charlie Hayden,
Wallace Roney, Kenny Barron, Christian McBride, and Eric Clapton.
Moving onto television, Sanborn hosted the show Night Music from 1988 to
1990. Produced by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, the show
featured films of jazz legends like Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, and Billie
Holiday, as well as banter and memorable music jams by a remarkable list of
musicians including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Joe Sample, Pharoah Sanders,
and many others. Additionally, Sanborn has regularly hosted the After New
Year’s Eve TV special on ABC. During the 1980s and 1990s, Sanborn hosted
a syndicated radio program, The Jazz Show with David Sanborn. Sanborn
has also recorded many shows’ theme songs as well as several other songs
for The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder.
Sanborn’s most recent album is 2015’s Time and the River.
In his four decade career, Sanborn has been an artist who pushes the limits
and continues to make music that challenges the mind and connects to the
heart.



KIRKWOOD, Mo. — David Sanborn, a Grammy Award-winning saxophonist raised in Kirkwood, died on Sunday after an extended battle with prostate cancer, according to a social media post published on the musician's account on Monday. He was 78.

"Mr. Sanborn had been dealing with prostate cancer since 2018, but had been able to maintain his normal schedule of concerts until just recently," the social media post said. "Indeed he already had concerts scheduled into 2025."

https://hancher.uiowa.edu/sites/hancher.uiowa.edu/files/davidsanborn_playbill_05_web.pdf



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Some of you really need to watch his show.

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lol. Is he going D3 where he belongs?

If Hy-Vee has a corporate heart, you’ll find it in the frozen foods section. Somewhere between the fish sticks and Tater Tots.



Coldhearted is a good way to describe the grocery chain’s announcement it will be closing its store on First Avenue in Cedar Rapids’ core, serving the Wellington Heights and Mound View neighborhoods. The doors will close for good on June 23.


But fear not. Hy-Vee communications VP Tina Potthoff said people in those neighborhoods can still order groceries online and have them delivered. All they need to do is make a minimum of order of $24.95 and fork over a delivery charge of $9.95.




Hy-Vee’s belief everyone in these generally low-income neighborhoods can whip out their laptops and credit cards to spend $35 shows how out of touch the company has become. So far out of touch this weak response sounds like it’s being beamed from another planet.


This is no ordinary Hy-Vee store. In 2002, the city offered the company $915,000 to help buy the land, tear down an older, smaller store and build a new one. The grocery store was seen as a linchpin in efforts to stabilize and revitalize the neighborhoods.


Yes, Hy-Vee is in the business of making profits, with 285 stores in eight states and $13 billion in annual sales, according to its website. The First Avenue store has been missing sales goals. But how much is community good will and the company’s reputation worth? Both are now damaged.


“The grocery business is a hard business, we get that,” said City Council member Dale Todd in an email Friday morning. Todd was a key player in getting the store built in 2002.





“But it takes two willing partners to make a development deal happen. At the city we have tools and the willingness to find a way to make things happen. Regretfully Hy-Vee appears to not be interested and instead talks to us through their lobbyist and corporate communications spokesperson. “


Congratulations, Hy-Vee executives. You’ve created a food desert in Iowa’s second-largest city. Instead of a helpful smile, residents who depended on having a store close by are getting a cold shrug.


A food desert is an area where people face barriers to buying healthy food. Barriers like access to transportation. Food deserts in rural areas have gotten a lot of attention in Iowa. But in urban areas there also are grocery gaps hampering access to good food, not to mention access to prescription drugs. It’s all bad news for folks without reliable transportation.


The nearest full-service grocery store to the existing Hy-Vee site is the Hy-Vee on Oakland Road, which is 1.8 miles away, according to Google. That’s a 40-minute walk one way.


The Fareway store on First Avenue is 2.4 miles away, or a 53-minute walk. Then there’s the Aldi on Collins which is 3.6 miles away and would take more than an hour to reach on foot.


There is public bus service. But lining up your grocery buying time with bus schedules can be a challenge. Maybe a friend can give you a lift, or maybe not. Other local programs are working to fill transportation needs, which is great.


But the more you complicate a trip to the store, the more likely it is residents will fill the gap with food purchased at convenience stores. Unhealthy foods exacerbate health problems already plaguing lowans — obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other ailments. Also, convenience foods often cost more.


Grocery chains prefer to put stores in more affluent areas, compounding a history of housing redlining, discrimination and structural inequality in neighborhoods they abandon. As Mayor Tiffany O’Donnell said Thursday, the affected neighborhoods have been improving, thanks, in part, to public investments. Losing the store is clearly a setback.


Todd said in May 2023, a Hy-Vee regional manager informed the city the store would close.


“The mayor, city manager and I basically said no way in hell,” Todd said.


The lease on the land was set to expire and, at some point, the land had been sold.


“The fact that somewhere along the line they had sold the land was news to us, so we tracked down the owners and stressed to them the importance of this store and they soon informed us that a new lease had been signed for a five-year term,” Todd said. “Anything Hy-Vee says today to the contrary is gobbledygook.


“The way Hy-Vee announced their decision was purposeful and done in a manner that puts the city at a disadvantage. It was a betrayal of trust and a mutual working relationship that I thought we had developed throughout the years. To simply suggest that current shoppers can walk to other stores is a callous disregard of reality. This is a stain on their brand and on those that made this decision,” Todd said.


So, what now? It will take considerable work to replant the food desert. It’s likely government investments will be needed again.


The state could help. Rep. Brian Lohse, R-Bondurant, filed legislation this year that would have set up a $2 million fund to help pay for grocery store projects in underserved communities. It passed a House committee but died without further action.


Local stakeholders can be recruited. Plans must be made, and partnerships formed. It’s a difficult situation, but not hopeless.


Waterloo is a good example of what can be done. Hy-Vee also announced it is closing a Waterloo store next month. But the good news is All-In Grocery, a community-supported store, is open. It took seven years for city leaders and residents of the Walnut neighborhood to make it happen.


All-In is more than a grocery store. It offers after-school programs through the 1619 Freedom School, a community center and a reentry program for residents who have been incarcerated, according to Iowa Public Radio.


“We shouldn’t have to have a celebration for the opening of a grocery store in our own community,” said Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Waterloo native and Pulitzer Price-winning founder of the 1619 project. “It just shows that we have so many obstacles to overcome for things that other communities can do normally.”


We also shouldn’t have to have a wake for the loss of a grocery store. A city that overcame floods and a derecho can surely figure out a way to put healthy food back on the table.


(319) 398-8262; todd.dorman@thegazette.com

Opinion: Hy-Vee, where there’s a cold corporate shrug in every aisle

Coldhearted is a good way to describe the closing of its store on First Avenue in Cedar Rapids’ core

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Took a bit of a beating today in Chapel Hill, NC.

Is the tide turning against this irrational insanity?

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Marty Kotis is vice chair of the board’s budget and finance committee, which initially introduced and passed the “flex cut amendment.” Without citing specific examples, he called DEI programs “discriminatory and divisive.”

“I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination,” Kotis said. “We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”

Wildfires in Canada have roared back to life, sending harmful smoke into the northern United States — an unwelcome reminder of last summer’s historic fire season that also repeatedly sent plumes of noxious haze southward.

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Almost a year to the date from the explosive start to the 2023 fire season, hundreds of fires have erupted in Canada, including a dozen major and out-of-control blazes. At least 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) of land have burned so far, much of it in recent days.

Smoke from the blazes has led to air quality alerts for much of Alberta and its surrounding provinces, as well as Minnesota and Wisconsin. Edmonton was subjected to red-tinged skies and hazardous air quality over the weekend because of wildfires to its north.


International Falls, Minn., awoke Monday to air quality alerts, which expanded to cover a large portion of Minnesota and Wisconsin, including Minneapolis and Green Bay.

Wildfires roar to life​

Even during winter, numerous blazes in Canada — known as “zombie fires” — smoldered beneath the snow. The combination of a warm and very dry winter set the stage for flames to quickly expand this spring.
Belts of extreme to exceptional drought are draped across the zone from central British Columbia to northern Alberta, where many of the worst fires rage. The majority of provincial land from Canada’s west coast to Ontario is experiencing at least moderate drought.


More than 100 fires were burning in British Columbia on Monday morning, and just shy of four dozen in Alberta. Other large blazes were scorching provinces to the east.



The largest uncontrolled fire was burning in the mining region of Manitoba near the border with Saskatchewan, about 400 miles north of the North Dakota border. It had grown to at least 86,000 acres (35,000 hectares) by early Sunday since igniting three days earlier. The fire led to evacuations in the town of Flin Flon and power cuts across the region.
Farther west, a blaze near Fort McMurray in Alberta’s wooded north was also out of control. The fire, about 225 miles from Edmonton, more than tripled in size from over the weekend, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. An evacuation alert was in effect there for residents to be prepared to leave if necessary.
In adjacent eastern British Columbia, another out-of-control fire was threatening Fort Nelson in the Canadian Rockies about 650 miles north of Vancouver. Some residents of that area have also been urged to evacuate.

Smoky skies return downwind into United States​

The worst of the smoke from these fires has been near the source in southwestern Canada. The air quality reached Code Purple — the most hazardous level — over the weekend in an area along the British Columbia-Alberta border region, according to the U.S. government’s AirNow pollution monitoring website.
Parts of northwest Minnesota saw air quality decline to Code Red on Sunday, signifying unhealthy levels of smoke pollution; this area even briefly experienced Code Purple conditions. Much of the northern Plains and the Upper Midwest, as well as adjacent Canadian prairies, have experienced at least Code Red levels.






Over the next two to three days, hazy skies and the acrid smell of smoke should continue to spread across portions of Canada, the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes. It may sink southward into the eastern Plains and Midwest at times on Tuesday.

Fires in Mexico also send smoke into the United States​

It’s not just Canada that is sending smoke into the United States. Mexico is also contributing to hazy conditions because of rapidly spreading fires fueled by excessive heat and drought.
A large plume of smoke from Mexico is poised to spread over far-southern Texas, the southern Gulf states and Florida in the days to come.

Like Canada, large parts of Mexico are covered by the two most extreme levels of drought. Its drought has intensified extraordinary and persistent heat, as high as 123 degrees (51 Celsius) in recent days — the hottest ever observed in May in the Northern Hemisphere, according to weather historian Maximiliano Herrera.



Human-caused climate change intensifies heat, droughts and fire intensity.

What’s next?​

Unusually warm and dry conditions are predicted in British Columbia and Alberta into June, leading officials to warn of an elevated fire risk. A developing La Niña climate pattern may eventually offer more consistent rains late summer or fall reducing the threat somewhat.
More broadly, human-caused climate change will continue to elevate the fire risk in Canada because temperatures are climbing so fast in the region. The warming dries out the land surface and makes it more combustible.

Louisiana could become the first state in the country to categorize mifepristone and misoprostol — the drugs used to induce an abortion — as controlled dangerous substances, threatening incarceration and fines if an individual possesses the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice.

Legislators in Baton Rouge added the provision as a last-minute amendment to a Senate bill that would criminalize an abortion if someone gives a pregnant woman the pills without her consent, a scenario of “coerced criminal abortion” that nearly occurred with one senator’s sister.

A pregnant woman obtaining the two drugs “for her own consumption” would not be at risk of prosecution. But, with the exception of a health-care practitioner, a person helping her get the pills would be.

Louisiana already bans both medication and surgical abortions except to save a patient’s life or because a pregnancy is “medically futile.” Lawmakers just rejected adding exceptions for teenagers under 17 who become pregnant through rape or incest.


The amendment would list mifepristone and misoprostol under the state’s Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act, which regulates depressants, opioids and other sometimes highly addictive drugs. It elicited a strong reaction from more than 240 Louisiana doctors, who called it “not scientifically based.”
“Adding a safe, medically indicated drug for miscarriage management … creates the false perception that these are dangerous drugs that require additional regulation,” they wrote in a letter sent last week to the bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen. Thomas Pressly. They noted misoprostol’s other critical uses, including to prevent gastrointestinal ulcers and to aid in labor and delivery.

“Given its historically poor maternal health outcomes, Louisiana should prioritize safe and evidence-based care for pregnant women,” they urged.


The amendment, written with guidance from Louisiana Right to Life, was added after the Senate unanimously passed S.B. 276 in mid-April. The measure is awaiting a final vote in the House before the session ends June 3, with little opposition expected.
“As Senator Pressly has stated, the medical community regularly uses controlled substances in a myriad of medical situations, including emergencies,” said Sarah Zagorski, communications director for the antiabortion organization. “The use of these drugs for legitimate health care needs will still be available, just like all other controlled substances are still available for legitimate uses.”

The pending language appears to open yet another front in the country’s bitter battle over if and how women can obtain an abortion. Attempts to curtail medication abortions — which now constitute more than half of all abortions in the United States — are part of legislative agendas not just in deep-red Louisiana but in many Republican-controlled statehouses. And in March, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case brought against the Food and Drug Administration by a group of antiabortion doctors seeking to limit access to mifepristone.



Pressly did not return repeated requests for comment, but in a statement released by his office, he explained that he was seeking to “control the rampant illegal distribution of abortion-inducing drugs” in Louisiana. He said abortion medication “is frequently abused and is a risk to the health of citizens.” By including the drugs on the controlled substances list, he added, “we will assist law enforcement in protecting vulnerable women and unborn babies.”
His connection to the issue is in part personal. During public testimony in April before the Senate Judiciary Committee, his sister recounted how her then-husband surreptitiously gave her an abortion drug in 2022 when he brought her breakfast for St. Patrick’s Day. They were separated, but Catherine Pressly Herring said she had learned she was pregnant with their third child and he had agreed to marriage counseling.

After she noticed him serving her “cloudy water,” she said she started having “intense cramping.” Doctors were able to stop the process so that the pregnancy could continue. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail. Under Pressly’s bill, a perpetrator would face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $75,000 fine.


“Through our knowledge of other stories, and from the testimony of local centers in Louisiana caring for women in these situations, the abuse of abortion pills is not isolated to Herring’s situation,” Zagorski said Saturday. “It is very simple for a man to pose as a women to order these pills online without a prescription, even for a minor, and then to pressure a woman to take the pills.”
While doctors say Herring’s experience is deeply troubling, they remain concerned that her brother’s proposed solution would make mifepristone and misoprostol even harder for Louisianans to get for reasons having nothing to do with abortion. Misoprostol is prescribed for treatment after a miscarriage, for example, and to help stop postpartum hemorrhage, one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in the state.

“To OB/GYNs, this is very worrisome,” said Neelima Sukhavasi, an OB/GYN in Baton Rouge and a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health. “There’s no one that would endorse what happened to his sister. But this is a safe medication that has many important lifesaving uses. It’s not addictive.”


Misoprostol is also taken to soften the cervix during labor, biopsies for cancer and placement of IUDs. Sukhavasi said she is concerned that Pressly wrote the amendment without consulting physicians or enforcement agencies.

Nimra Chowdhry, senior state legislative counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, echoed those concerns but in harsher terms. She accused abortion opponents in Louisiana of misrepresenting the safety and efficacy of the two drugs — a manipulation “in pursuit of blocking people from care.”

This ultimately “turns back the clock on modern medicine,” she said.
Abby LeDoux, vice president of communications at Planned Parenthood Gulf States, is worrying about the “far-reaching” consequences because of the drugs’ other uses.
There are “real questions,” she said, “about what it would mean in practice to open the controlled substances list like this, including what aspects of state law legislatures think manufacturers would follow, even locally.”

Link: D1Baseball

1. Tennessee (42-10)
2. Kentucky (37-11)
3. Arkansas (42-10)
4. Clemson (37-13)
5. Texas A&M (42-10)
6. Oregon State (39-12)
7. North Carolina (39-11)
8. Wake Forest (36-16)
9. Georgia (38-12)
10. Florida State (37-12)
11. Duke (34-16)
12. Oklahoma (32-17)
13. East Carolina (37-13)
14. Arizona (32-18)
15. UC-Irvine (38-10)
16. Mississippi State (33-18)
17. North Carolina State (29-19)
18. Virginia (37-14)
19. Oklahoma State (34-16)
20. Indiana State (36-11)
21. Louisiana-Lafayette (38-15)
22. UC-Santa Barbara (35-12)
23. Oregon (34-16)
24. South Carolina (33-18)
25. Texas (32-20)

Dropped Out
Troy (#21)

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Link: Baseball America

1. Tennessee (42-10)
2. Kentucky (37-11)
3. Arkansas (42-10)
4. North Carolina (39-11)
5. Texas A&M (42-10)
6. Georgia (38-12)
7. Wake Forest (36-16)
8. Oregon State (39-12)
9. North Carolina State (29-19)
10. Clemson (37-13)
11. Florida State (37-12)
12. East Carolina (37-13)
13. Duke (34-16)
14. Virginia (36-14)
15. Mississippi State (33-18)
16. Oklahoma (32-17)
17. UC-Irvine (38-10)
18. UC-Santa Barbara (35-12)
19. Oklahoma State (34-16)
20. Oregon (34-16)
21. Arizona (32-18)
22. Louisiana-Lafayette (38-15)
23. Indiana State (36-11)
24. Texas (32-20)
25. Southern Mississippi (34-17)

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Link: Perfect Game

1. Tennessee (42-10)
2. Kentucky (37-11)
3. Arkansas (42-10)
4. Oregon State (39-12)
5. Georgia (38-12)
6. North Carolina (39-11)
7. Wake Forest (36-16)
8. Texas A&M (42-10)
9. Clemson (37-13)
10. UC-Santa Barbara (35-12)
11. Florida State (37-12)
12. UC-Irvine (38-10)
13. Duke (34-16)
14. Indiana State (36-11)
15. Virginia (37-14)
16. East Carolina (37-13)
17. San Diego (37-13)
18. Texas (32-20)
19. Oklahoma State (34-16)
20. Oklahoma (32-17)
21. Alabama (32-19)
22. North Carolina State (29-19)
23. Mississippi State (33-18)
24. North Carolina-Wilmington (35-17)
25. Dallas Baptist (38-12)

Dropped Out
South Carolina, Troy

Also Considered
Arizona, Louisiana-Lafayette, Nebraska, Oregon, Southern Mississippi

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Link: USA Today

1. Tennessee (29) (42-10)
2. Arkansas (42-10)
3. Kentucky (1) (37-11)
4. Texas A&M (1) (42-10)
5. North Carolina (39-11)
6. Oregon State (39-12)
7. Clemson (37-13)
8. Georgia (38-12)
9. Wake Forest (36-16)
10. Florida State (37-12)
11. Duke (34-16)
12. East Carolina (37-13)
13. UC-Irvine (38-10)
14. Virginia (37-14)
15. Oklahoma (32-17)
16. Mississippi State (33-18)
17. Oklahoma State (34-16)
18. North Carolina State (29-19)
19. Arizona (32-18)
20. Indiana State (36-11)
21. UC-Santa Barbara (35-12)
22. Louisiana-Lafayette (38-15)
23. South Carolina (33-18)
24. Oregon (34-16)
25. Alabama (32-19)

Dropped Out
Troy (#22)

Others Receiving Votes
Texas, Dallas Baptist, Vanderbilt, San Diego, North Carolina-Wilmington, Nebraska, Louisiana Tech, College of Charleston, Troy, Southern Mississippi, Lamar, West Virginia, Mississippi, LSU, Kansas

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Link: NCBWA

1. Tennessee (42-10)
2. Arkansas (42-10)
3. Kentucky (37-11)
4. Texas A&M (42-10)
5. North Carolina (39-11)
6. Oregon State (39-12)
7. Clemson (37-13)
8. Wake Forest (36-16)
9. Georgia (38-12)
10. Florida State (37-12)
11. Duke (34-16)
12. Virginia (37-14)
13. UC-Irvine (38-10)
14. East Carolina (37-13)
15. Oklahoma (32-17)
16. Arizona (31-18)
17. Indiana State (36-11)
18. Mississippi State (33-18)
19. UC-Santa Barbara (35-12)
20. Oklahoma State (34-16)
21. North Carolina State (29-19)
22. Louisiana-Lafayette (34-15)
23. Oregon (34-16)
24. South Carolina (32-18)
25. Alabama (32-19)

Dropped Out
Troy (#24), Vanderbilt (#25)

Others Receiving Votes (listed alphabetically)
Austin Peay, Bethune-Cookman, Cal Poly, California, Central Florida, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, Creighton, Dallas Baptist, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Jackson State, Lamar, Louisiana Tech, Louisville, LSU, Maryland, Nebraska, North Carolina-Wilmington, Samford, San Diego, Southern Mississippi, St. John's, Texas, Troy, UC-San Diego, Utah, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, West Virginia

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NCAA RPI (5/13)

Link: https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/rpi

1. Kentucky
2. Texas A&M
3. Georgia
4. Arkansas
5. North Carolina
6. Tennessee
7. Clemson
8. Florida State
9. Wake Forest
10. Indiana State
11. Alabama
12. East Carolina
13. Virginia
14. Oregon State
15. Oklahoma
16. Mississippi State
17. Oklahoma State
18. UC-Santa Barbara
19. South Carolina
20. North Carolina State
21. Dallas Baptist
22. Duke
23. UC-Irvine
24. Mississippi
25. San Diego
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30. Nebraska
35. Maryland
56. Indiana
58. Illinois
66. Rutgers
68. Purdue
73. Ohio State
87. Michigan
92. Iowa
105. Michigan State
118. Minnesota
135. Northwestern
143. Penn State

Glad to see Jensen believes in Jada so much that she’ll mention her in an interview like this. I’ve been patiently waiting for her to get a turn. I mentioned this in another thread but there is an ex-Iowa football player on Reddit who claims to have a few connections within the program, and he recently said that he hears the Wbb staff is pretty high on her heading into next year.

You bunch of degenerates!

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Iowa women’s gymnastics coach Larissa Libby has resigned, the athletics department said Monday in a news release, more than a month after being placed on paid administrative leave.



The university hired the Boston-based Education and Sports Law Group to conduct an independent review of the program in March after “members of the team and staff brought forward concerns regarding the head coach, related to the environment within the program.” The review has been completed, an Iowa Athletics spokesman confirmed to The Gazette.


Libby said in a statement released by the athletics department that her time at Iowa was a “tremendous journey.”




“I am very proud of all of our accomplishments both in the classroom and in the competitive arena,” Libby said. “I am grateful for the amazing Iowa community and the many people who dedicated themselves to supporting the team.”


Libby has been at Iowa since 2000, including as head coach since 2005. The three-time Big Ten Coach of the Year helped the Hawkeyes reach NCAA Regionals — either as a team or individually — in 24 consecutive seasons. She also led the program to its first Big Ten regular-season title in 2021.


Libby received a base salary of $173,349 and total income (including bonuses) of $206,900 in the 2022-23 fiscal year, according to the state salary book.


Her resignation was effective May 10. Jessa Hansen Parker, an assistant coach on Libby’s staff and a former Hawkeye gymnast, will serve as the interim head coach while Iowa Athletics completes a national search.





It will be Beth Goetz’s first head coaching hire since being named Iowa’s permanent athletics director in January.

Tik tok is a sewer. 52 to 1 pro Hamas to pro Israel videos on there.

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Goddamn Deep State!!!

Congratulations to Kate "Money" Martin as the Aces coach refers to her for making the opening day roster.

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It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

I'm assuming they will do better in the coming days/weeks.

Today's Cedar Rapids Gazette celebrated one of its own becoming an olympian by running the "story" in a small corner of the "News Notes" section on page 3 of the sports section. Made me sad.

Congrats, Spencer...you are main story page front page for a lot of us (I'm assuming the Gazette will give him more space leading up to Paris...)

The Biden administration on Monday announced new rules intended to protect the privacy of patients seeking abortions, and the health workers who may have provided them, from Republican prosecutors who have threatened to crack down on the procedure.

The rules strengthen a nearly 30-year-old health privacy law — known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA — to offer more robust legal protections to those who obtain or provide reproductive health care in a state where it is legal to do so. The final policy prohibits physicians, insurers and other health-care organizations from disclosing health information to state officials for the purposes of conducting an investigation, filing a lawsuit or prosecuting a patient or provider. It covers women who cross state lines to legally terminate a pregnancy and those who qualify for an exception to their state’s abortion ban, such as in cases of rape, incest or a medical emergency.

Under previous rules, organizations were allowed to disclose private medical information to law enforcement in certain cases, such as a criminal investigation. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services said they had heard from patients and providers who were confused about their legal risks or had even deferred care amid GOP threats in the nearly two dozen states with abortion restrictions.



“People feel scared to confide in their providers. People are worried in this new climate about how their medical information might be used,” said Melanie Fontes Rainer, director of the civil rights office at HHS, which revamped the rules. “The goal here is to reinstate trust into the provider medical relationship. … The goal here is that people don’t stay home if they’re too scared to get care.”
Monday’s announcement is the latest effort by the Biden administration intended to safeguard reproductive health care, a central element of President Biden’s reelection bid. However, the swell of criminal prosecutions that many abortion rights advocates and Democrats feared hasn’t materialized since the Supreme Court’s ruling nearly two years ago in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to abortion. State abortion bans explicitly exempt those seeking abortions from prosecution.
But doctors can face steep fines and jail time, and many health workers have said they are confused about the current legal landscape governing abortion access, such as whether a federal emergency care law takes priority over state abortion bans, as the Biden administration has argued. HHS and reproductive rights advocates have also cited cases such as the arrest of Brittany Watts as examples of the need for stronger privacy protections. Watts, an Ohio medical receptionist, has said she miscarried at home last year and told a nurse, who then reported the situation to police.



Some GOP leaders have insisted they need access to patients’ reproductive health information to ensure that their states’ abortion restrictions are effective. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) this month said his state’s terminated-pregnancy reports, which offer some identifying information about individual abortions, should be released as public records.
Nineteen Republican attorneys general last year bashed the Biden administration’s efforts to overhaul HIPAA as unnecessary and unconstitutional.
Biden officials have “pushed a false narrative that States are seeking to treat pregnant women as criminals or punish medical personnel who provide lifesaving care,” the attorneys general wrote in a June 2023 letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “Based on this lie, the Administration has sought to wrest control over abortion back from the people in defiance of the Constitution and Dobbs.”



The White House has countered that federal privacy laws were insufficient for a post-Roe world.
Under new state abortion restrictions, “it’s going to be a crime, which means that it is very likely if law enforcement requests your personal and private medical records, they may be entitled to receive them,” Vice President Harris said at an administration meeting on reproductive health care last year. “Part of the conversation that we are having today is what we can do … to reinforce protections for patients’ privacy.”

Fontes Rainer said the effort is personal to her. The HHS civil rights official said she was pregnant last year with twins before miscarrying and needing an abortion.

“It is my absolute duty to share my story, and to do everything I can to [help] the millions of women across the country who don’t have a voice,” Fontes Rainer said in an interview Sunday, adding that her office worked “pretty quickly” to overhaul the federal health privacy rules.
“We heard of a problem that was happening. … And we wrote this rule in a way that allows for lawful reproductive health care,” she said

This is sad. Someone must help them! They're like the McDLT. Hot and Cold at the same time. Why do we let this happen to the smartest people among us? Let them eat!

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