(Radio Iowa) – Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz believes additional compensation for college players is a positive development, even though he is not sure how the changes will effect the Hawkeye program. The U.S. Supreme Court handed athletes a victory by overturning a NCAA rule limiting education-related compensation for college players. Name, image and likeness legislation has already been approved in several states which allows athletes to make money off their name.
Ferentz says there have been positive changes for players in recent years.
Ferentz says the changes are coming quickly and it will force programs to adjust.
Wednesday’s Scores
Vanderbilt 6, Stanford 5- Vanderbilt got a walk off run in unusual fashion. Stanford pitcher Brendan Beck sailed a wild pitch high to the backstop, allowing Spencer Jones to score from third and end the Cardinal season. Enrique Bradfield Jr. had just drove in the tying run in the bottom of the 9th after the Commodores played from behind all night. Stanford had a 4-0 advantage early in the game but did leave a total of 11 runners stranded, including bases-loaded leaves in the fourth and eighth. The reigning National Champion Commodores survive to face NC State in the Semifinals on Friday.
Thursday’s Schedule
Game 10 (Elimination Game): Texas vs. Virginia | 7 p.m. | ESPN2
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Attorney General’s Office has released its report on clergy sex abuse within the Catholic Church. Attorney General spokesperson, Lynn Hicks, says the office started gathering information in 2018, and examined the records of 70 priests and 50 complaints. The statute of limitations has expired for all the cases reviewed. “Despite the fact that they fall outside the statute of limitations — we still think this was a good thing,” Hicks says. Hicks says the process led to 17 people who had never before reported allegations coming forward. “We think it was valuable even in that respect to allow people to come forward and tell their story,” Hicks says. “In many cases they were able to talk to a crime victims advocate in our office and we could offer them resources to see what they wanted to do going forward.”
The report also indicates that the four Catholic Diocese in Iowa have taken steps to address the issue. “Since 2002 — that’s when the U-S Conference of Bishops adopted the Charter for the Protection of Children — there’s been very few, only about five reports since then involving Iowa priests,” Hicks says. “We note in our report that the diocese has become more responsive to victims and now reports all accusations to law enforcement authorities.” He says the changes put in place on give victims a chance to be heard. He says some of the diocese continue to get complaints and continue to investigate. “And we encourage people to come forward — even if a priest is no longer active, is deceased. We think that all of this is a good process and we hope brings healing to the victims,” Hicks says.
Hicks says they hope that victims will now know they will be heard. “We did hear that from some of the victims who came forward to us and said they felt they couldn’t come forward. They couldn’t trust the process,” he says. The four Catholic Bishops released a statement says the Attorney General’s review of cases will be studied for suggestions on how the efforts of the Catholic Church might be improved. It says the “Catholic Church is committed to do all that is humanly possible to protect minors from the sin and crime of clergy sexual abuse, and to promote healing.” The Catholic bishops of Iowa are Bishop Thomas Zinkula of Davenport, Bishop William Joensen of Des Moines, Archbishop Michael Jackels of Dubuque, and Bishop R. Walker Nickless of Sioux City.
A traffic stop at around 5-p.m. Wednesday in Montgomery County, resulted in the arrest of a man from Stanton. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 19-year-old Lucas Swanson was taken into custody for OWI/1st offense. He was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and recorded a .125 Blood Alcohol Test. Swanson was held on $1,000 bond and cited for Possession of alcohol by a person under the legal age.
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Sioux City East 6, Harlan 3
Underwood 17, Shenandoah 7
Western Iowa Conference
Tri-Center 14. Treynor 2
Rolling Valley Conference
Boyer Valley 7, IKM-Manning 6 (8 inn)
CAM 14, Glidden-Ralston 0
Coon Rapids-Bayard 8, Woodbine 3
Exira-EHK 10, Ar-We-Va 8
West Harrison 11, Whiting 0
Pride of Iowa Conference
Central Decatur 13, Melcher-Dallas 2
Lenox 9, Fremont-Mills 0
Martensdale-St. Marys 8 Southeast Warren 3
Mount Ayr 10, Earlham 0
Nodaway Valley 23, Orient-Macksburg 4
Today: Cloudy to Partly Cloudy skies w/showers & thunderstorms this morning. Scattered showers & tstorms will redevelop later this afternoon. High 86. S/SE winds @ 10-20 shifting to the north late in the day.
Tonight: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. Low 65.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. shwrs & tstorms mid-to-late afternoon. High 86.
Saturday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. shwrs & tstrms. High around 80.
Sunday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. showers. High around 80.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 89. Our Low was 68. Overnight rainfall (as of 7-a.m./24-hrs) at KJAN, was .56″. Last year on this date, the High was 84 and the Low was 51. The Record High was 105 in 1937. The Record Low was 41 in 1961.
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic 10, Denison-Schleswig 0 (5 inn)
Creston 11, Shenandoah 2
Harlan 12, CB Abraham Lincoln 1
Underwood 2, St. Albert 0
Western Iowa Conference
Riverside 13, East Mills 8
Treynor 2, Tri-Center 1
Rolling Valley Conference
Boyer Valley 15, IKM-Manning 8
CAM 14, Glidden-Ralston 3
Exira-EHK 7, Ar-We-Va 3
Woodbine 4, Coon Rapids-Bayard 1
West Harrison 7, Whiting 0
Pride of Iowa Conference
Chariton 9, Central Decatur 6
Lenox 6, Fremont-Mills 0
Martensdale-St. Marys 1, Southeast Warren 0
Nodaway Valley 10, Orient-Macksburg 0
Other Scores
ACGC 10, Southwest Valley 1
(Radio Iowa) – A year ago in the midst of the pandemic, the price spread between packers and cattle producers rose to 1500 percent and John Tupper, vice president of the U-S Cattlemen’s Association, says the four big meat packers still are making significant profits. “Packers have enjoyed unbelievable profits,” Tupper said, “harvesting around 120,000 head per day while cattle producers go out of business and consumers pay double or even triple at the meat counter.”
Tupper, an auctioneer and cow-calf operator from South Dakota, testified during a U-S Senate Ag Committee hearing Wednesday afternoon. Farm state lawmakers are considering bills that would give independent livestock operators more information about prices, as many cattle sales are now private. “There is a crisis in rural America. We are losing our producers at an alarming rate,” Tupper says, “all the while watching big corporate feeders, packers make record profits with the threat of verticle integration hanging over our head.”
There were about three-point-six MILLION head of cattle and calves in Iowa on January 1st, down more than 200-thousand from the previous year. Tupper says a steer is worth about 16-hundred dollars today. “Packers could buy that steer and sell it for beef alone, not counting byproducts, for over $2800 a head today,” he says, “for a gross profit margin of over 80%.”
The North American Meat Institute, a trade group representing meat packers, says prices are following market trends as supply for meat struggles to keep pace with demand. Iowa now ranks eighth among the states in cattle production.
215 AM CDT THU JUN 24 2021 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 308 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS…IOWA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ADAIR ADAMS AUDUBON BOONE CARROLL CASS CLARKE CRAWFORD DALLAS DECATUR GREENE GUTHRIE MADISON MONTGOMERY PAGE POLK RINGGOLD STORY TAYLOR UNION and WARREN.
* Primary threats include… Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 75 mph possible Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible
REMEMBER…A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are favorable for severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible warnings. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce tornadoes.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 307 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING IOWA COUNTIES: INCLUDED ARE: FREMONT HARRISON MILLS MONONA POTTAWATTAMIE WOODBURY AND SHELBY.
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