Caught up w/ 2026 OL Landen Von Seggern this morning about receiving an offer from Iowa after a stellar camp showing. A big fan of OL coach George Barnett, Von Seggern is looking forward to getting back on campus in just over a week.

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Ichiro should be a unanimous first ballot lock. C.C. Sabathia might get in this time, and certainly after a year or two if not this time.

The Iowa City VA Health Care System in Iowa City is adding clinical space that will include a new Women’s Health Clinic.



Ground was broken last week for the $16 million, 27,500-square-foot expansion of Specialty Care Services. Completion of the addition is set for the fall of 2026.


The current clinic served more than 4,900 women veterans in fiscal 2024, with that number expected to grow by 160 percent over the next 10 years, the VA said in a news release.




The expansion adds two floors to an existing building on the southeast portion of the hospital property, with the Women’s Clinic on the top floor.


Moving the clinic to the new building will give women veterans larger, more modern spaces, and “appropriate separation from other areas, leading to more privacy and increased efficiency and satisfaction for veteran patients and staff,” the news release stated.


The Women’s Clinic will have four exam rooms, each with a private bathroom, a waiting room with an area for children and a procedure room for ultrasound-guided IUD placement, colposcopy and endocervical biopsy, the VA said.


“Providing essential health care and well-being services to our women veterans remains our highest priority,” said Bonnie Konkowski, manager of the Women’s Clinic. “Our new space will greatly enhance our patient’s experience.





“I am especially thrilled with the new layout and a lovely waiting room that will feel warm and welcoming.”


The clinic also will include controlled access to clinical areas, space for telehealth and private spaces for mental health and social work needs.


A new multipurpose room will host events such as the Women’s Clinic annual baby shower, breast Cancer Awareness events and other well-being activities.


Other services offered in the new space include comprehensive women’s and gender-diverse primary and preventive care, gynecology and urgent care.


“I am thankful to our executive leadership as they continue to recognize and prioritize women veterans’ health,” Konkowski said.


Valhalla Engineering designed the addition. Covenant Construction is the contractor.

We are looking for a couch for the game room. We still have a lot of little kids at the house, so the wife wants something easy to clean, utilitarian, but comfortable. She also likes the ability to design the sectional to fit the rather odd shaped room. The market for midlevel furniture is not great and the online reviews of Lovesac are all over the board.

New York National Guard troops and New York State Police troopers will be deployed into the subway system to help riders feel safe after a spike in transit crime, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday.

Now that official visit hullabaloo has settled down a little bit, I'm able to return to some 26/27 recruits.

Caught up with Trae Taylor after he picked up an offer from Iowa a couple weeks ago. He talks Tim Lester's new offense, an hour-long meeting with KF, his wild camp tour this summer and more.


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Caught up with Sutter early this afternoon. He's an Iowa priority and he's high on the Hawkeyes. Interesting tidbits about his dad being coached by Ferentz when he was with the Browns, too.

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First offer in the 2027 class for Iowa. He visited for the Michigan State game.

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The latest case tied to false claims made on cable news about the 2020 U.S. presidential election is headed to trial.
On Thursday, jury selection is set to begin in a defamation case brought against the right-wing news channel Newsmax by Smartmatic, an election technology company. The case mirrors the blockbuster Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News lawsuit, which was settled last year for $787.5 million minutes before opening statements were to begin.
Smartmatic, which was little known before 2020, provided voting services in just one county in California during the election. But it, along with Dominion, was pulled into a cascade of conspiracy theories about election fraud promoted by supporters of President Donald J. Trump on cable networks and elsewhere as they tried to cast doubt over the election results.
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In a lawsuit filed in Delaware Superior Court in 2021, Smartmatic accused Newsmax, a pro-Trump cable channel based in Boca Raton, Fla., of trying to entice viewers from its rival, Fox News, by airing reports linking Smartmatic to baseless conspiracy theories that it had helped swing that election for Joseph R. Biden Jr. by switching votes.
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Newsmax has said that it was merely covering allegations made by Mr. Trump and his allies over the election results and that the lawsuit “threatens freedom of speech and freedom of press.”
A Smartmatic spokesman, Tom Becker, said in a statement that Newsmax’s “repeated lies” were the central issue of the lawsuit.
“We look forward to presenting evidence of its wrongdoing, questioning top Newsmax executives about its coverage, and ask the jury to hold them liable using whatever remedies are allowed by law,” Mr. Becker said.
The case is the latest legal test over how accountable media outlets should be when knowingly spreading falsehoods. A similar Smartmatic lawsuit against Fox News is expected to go to trial in New York in 2025, and the election company settled a separate claim against One America News Network in April.
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Likewise, Dominion has pending cases against Newsmax and One America News Network, as well as Mike Lindell, the My Pillow founder and election denier; Sidney Powell, a former lawyer for Mr. Trump; and the former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who advised Mr. Trump.
In the Newsmax case, Smartmatic must convince a jury that the cable channel acted with actual malice — that is, either by knowingly allowing false claims about Smartmatic’s role in the election to be aired in multiple reports in November and December 2020 or by recklessly disregarding the facts.
Smartmatic has pointed to claims made by Newsmax hosts, including Chris Salcedo, who told his audience that “they’ve got a backdoor software built in,” and Michelle Malkin, who claimed that Smartmatic was linked to Dominion through “a labyrinth of shell companies.” Smartmatic said Newsmax had also republished falsehoods that Mr. Trump’s allies stated on Fox News, including Ms. Powell’s claim that Smartmatic was created in Venezuela “at the direction of Hugo Chávez.”
The same judge in the Fox-Dominion case, Eric Davis, is overseeing the Smartmatic trial in Wilmington, Del. Opening statements are set to begin on Monday, and the trial is expected to last up to four weeks. Witnesses are expected to include Christopher Ruddy, the chief executive of Newsmax, and Sean Spicer, Mr. Trump’s former White House press secretary, who hosted a talk show on the channel.
On Monday, Judge Davis dealt a blow to Smartmatic by ruling that the company could not pursue punitive damages if a jury found in its favor. (Mr. Becker, the spokesman, has declined to specify how much Smartmatic is seeking in damages.) The judge rejected the company’s claim that Newsmax had acted with “express malice,” or with a deliberate intent for harm, toward it.