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Indianapolis Star
a day ago
- Sport
- Indianapolis Star
Rebuilt Indiana basketball roster one Darian DeVries likes 'the way pieces will all connect'
The Indiana basketball roster under first-year coach Darian DeVries was released Monday, and two notable names weren't on it. But that is not to say that Luke Goode nor Anthony Leal have heard a decision on their NCAA eligibility waivers, IndyStar understands. DeVries said last week that the amount of waivers filed to the NCAA created "a little bit of a backlog" and that "we don't have a lot of clarity on when those decisions will be made." Speaking with reporters prior to Indiana's annual booster dinner at Huber's Orchard and Winery in southern Indiana, DeVries did note that the roster as it stands is not final and contingency plans are in place should Goode and/or Leal get denied an extra season of eligibility sought. 'We still have a couple open spots we're actively recruiting, to see if there's something that fits and makes sense,' DeVries said. 'We can kind of go in a lot of different directions with that, as the roster stands today.' His first tasks as IU coach were to build a roster that became increasingly barren as the transfer portal opened. It left him with no players on a roster while also trying to assemble a staff to coach any players he did land. The roster stands with 10 transfers, one freshman and two walk-ons retained from last season's roster. 'We like the way the roster came together,' DeVries said Monday. 'We added a lot of quality shooters, which is a priority for us. We were also able to bring in good positional size and great depth. We like the way the pieces will all connect and the versatility we will be able to play with. They can complement each other on the floor.' IU was rated 10th by 247Sports' transfer portal rankings and 18th in On3's transfer portal rankings. Our book on legendary IU coach Bob Knight would make a great Father's Day gift! Here's the roster.
Boston Globe
5 days ago
- Health
- Boston Globe
Robert Jarvik, 79, dies; a designer of the first permanent artificial heart
Clark at first declined to receive the Jarvik-7, DeVries was quoted as saying in a 2012 university retrospective, but he changed his mind on Thanksgiving after he had to be carried by a son to the dinner table. Clark's chronic heart disease had left him weeks from death. If the surgery didn't work for him, he told doctors, maybe it would help others. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up During the seven-hour surgery, according to the retrospective, Clark's heart muscle tore like tissue paper as it was removed after so many years of being treated with steroids. Advertisement Upon awakening, DeVries said, Clark told his wife, Una Loy Clark, 'I want to tell you even though I have no heart, I still love you.' Clark survived for 112 days, attached to a 400-pound air compressor, roughly the size of a dishwasher, that helped the Jarvik-7 pump blood through his body. But he never left the hospital, and he experienced seizures, kidney failure, and a broken valve on the heart that needed replacing. Advertisement DeVries said in 2012 that Clark had probably received too many antibiotics, which can make it more difficult to fight off infections. He died March 23, 1983, from complications related to a bacterial infection of the colon. William J. Schroeder, 52, a retired federal worker who was the second patient to receive the experimental Jarvik-7 artificial heart, lived for 620 days before dying in 1986. Another early recipient of the Jarvik-7, Murray P. Haydon, lived for 488 days before dying at 59. Their survival demonstrated that people 'could live long term on the plastic and metal device,' The New York Times reported upon Schroeder's death. But the newspaper added that strokes and other complications that recipients suffered 'impaired the quality of their lives and blunted initial enthusiasm for the heart.' Dozens -- by some accounts hundreds -- of reporters showed up at the University of Utah hospital to cover Clark's surgery. Some celebrated the news, comparing the breakthrough to man's first walk on the moon. Others, however, criticized what they called the 'Frankenstein'-like aspects of the Jarvik-7 and asked whether the medical team was trying to play God by deciding who received the artificial heart. By the mid-1980s, medical ethicists and theologians were debating whether artificial hearts improved life or extended a painful decline toward death. At a 1985 symposium of religious figures and doctors in Louisville, Ky., a Jesuit theologian noted that in the Christian view, 'life is a basic good but not an absolute good,' adding, 'There is a limit on what we may do to preserve our lives.' Advertisement After five patients received the Jarvik-7 as a permanent artificial heart, Dr. Jarvik said, the device was used hundreds of times as a temporary implant for patients until they could receive a donor heart. One such patient lived 11 years after receiving his donor heart, he said; another lived 14. In January 1990, the FDA withdrew its approval of the Jarvik-7, citing concerns about the manufacturer's quality control. In a 1989 interview with Syracuse University Magazine, Dr. Jarvik admitted that his belief the Jarvik-7 was advanced enough to be used widely on a permanent basis was 'probably the biggest mistake I have ever made.' Still, he defended his work. Of the five recipients of the permanent Jarvik-7, he told the magazine, 'These were people who I view as having had their lives prolonged,' adding that they survived nine months on average when some had been expected to live 'no more than a week.' 'I don't think that kind of thing makes a person in medicine want to stop,' he said. 'It just makes you all the more interested in working it through so it can be better.' Robert Koffler Jarvik was born May 11, 1946, in Midland, Mich., and grew up in Stamford, Conn. His father, Norman, was a physician with a family practice. His mother, Edythe (Koffler) Jarvik, handled scheduling for the practice and later taught typing. From an early age, Robert was a tinkerer. As a teenager, he made his own hockey mask and began developing a surgical stapler. He attended Syracuse University from 1964 until 1968, intending to study architecture, but his interest turned to medicine after his father survived an aortic aneurysm, and he received a degree in zoology. Norman Jarvik died in 1976 after a second aneurysm. Advertisement 'I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him,' Robert Jarvik once said. 'I was too late.' He studied medicine at the University of Bologna in Italy for two years and received a master's degree in occupational biomechanics from New York University before moving to the University of Utah in 1971. He received his medical degree there in 1976, but he did not follow the traditional career path of internship and residency. He was more interested in developing an artificial heart. Working with Dr. Willem J. Kolff, director of the university's Division of Artificial Organs, Dr. Jarvik designed a series of mechanical hearts. One of them, according to an article in the Times in 1982, was implanted in a cow named Alfred Lord Tennyson, who survived for 268 days, a record for an animal. In 1985, Dr. Jarvik married Vos Savant, who was listed in Guinness World Records in the 1980s as having the highest recorded IQ (228). In addition to his wife, Dr. Jarvik leaves his daughter, Kate Jarvik Birch, and his son, Tyler Jarvik, from his marriage to Elaine Levin, whom he married in 1968 and divorced in 1985; Vos Savant's two children, Mary (Younglove) Blinder and Dennis Younglove, from a previous relationship; a sister, Barbara, and a brother, Jonathan; and five grandchildren. In the late 1980s, his company, Jarvik Heart Inc., began developing smaller, less obtrusive implements, known as ventricular assist devices. Unlike the Jarvik-7, these devices do not replace a diseased heart but assist in pumping blood from the lower chambers of the heart to the rest of the body. One such device, the Jarvik 2000, is about the size of a C battery. A pediatric version, called the Jarvik 2015, is roughly the size of an AA battery. Advertisement According to a 2023 study of the artificial heart market, a descendant of the original Jarvik-7, now owned by another company, is called the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart. It is designed primarily for temporary use in patients who face imminent death while awaiting transplants. The study found that the device had been implanted in more than 1,700 patients worldwide. This article originally appeared in
USA Today
19-05-2025
- USA Today
This Michigan golf course feels like a time warp back to Jurassic era
This Michigan golf course feels like a time warp back to Jurassic era It looks like no terrain you have ever seen before on a golf course — like you've been transported into an Ansel Adams landscape portrait. That's the grounds of Greywalls at Marquette Golf Club in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, with Lake Superior shimmering in the distance. The aptly named Greywalls was sculpted out of breathtaking, tumbling land featuring granite walls and outcrops scattered throughout the fairways and greens — it feels straight out of the Jurassic era. It makes for a gnarly one-of-a-kind ride through the wilderness, with stunning views and elevation changes, never-seen-before fairway impediments and numerous holes that would qualify as the signature on most courses. More: Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play 2024: Top 100 U.S. public-access layouts, ranked Greywalls was created by Saginaw native Mike DeVries — who, a few years earlier, completed the acclaimed private Kingsley Club in Grand Traverse County — after Marquette Golf Club saw its original 1929 course, The Heritage, being overrun. DeVries, who earned his Masters in landscape architecture in 1994 from Michigan, has created well-regarded courses in west Michigan, including Pierson's Pilgrim's Run, Grand Rapids' The Mines and Hamilton's Diamond Springs. Greywalls, opened in 2005, continually ranks inside the top 50 public-access courses in America, as judged by Golfweek: It was No. 40 nationally in 2024, and No. 2 in Michigan. How DeVries had the vision to carve out Greywalls from a rugged forest is jaw-dropping, both to the architectural expert and the untrained eye. Right away, you know you're in for something different. The par-5 first hole tees from a high point to boldly sloping turf with rock outcroppings on each side. The par-4 second fairway has severe peaks and valleys as it winds and tumbles to a green site sticking out of the forest. The par-4 fourth features a giant mound of fairway on the left with a small patch of moss and fescue on top of another jutting rock that drops off to a valley of fairway on the right. The green is protected on the left by a giant overgrown rock wall standing a few stories high. The sixth might be the best of them all: a rare uphill par-3. But, boy, is it intimidating, hitting over a rock outcropping with a green sitting on a plateau surrounded by more rock. I'm surely one of thousands to bang it off the rock face guarding the right side of the green. And the par-4 seventh? Don't even get me started on that extreme roller coaster of a fairway with random jagged rocks splattered across it. Just making it through the hole with the same ball you teed off with — and without a sprained ankle — is an accomplishment. The par-4 11th makes you feel like you're on the only golf hole in the world, beautifully framed by bunkers crisscrossing the fairway from every angle with the dense forest behind the green. \Virtually every hole offers something unique, including tightly mown areas around the fast greens, which allow imaginative ways to get the ball rolling toward the cup. It's a design feature not seen enough at most courses. The journey ends on the downhill par-5 18th with a tee shot down a chute framed by more rock outcroppings, with Lake Superior beckoning beyond the horizon. Greywalls has earned even more positive publicity over the past few years from two leaders of new-age golf media platforms. The website Fried Egg Golf spotlighted the course and featured a short video on No. 7 among its "Great Golf Holes" series. "Mike DeVries created one of the most memorable holes in golf simply by letting the jaw-dropping terrain be the star," Fried Egg founder Andy Johnson says in the clip. No Laying Up played its final match of its "Tourist Sauce (Michigan)" series in 2021, showcasing the entire course intertwined with commentary from DeVries. Greywalls is the type of experience where, after you finish the round, you have to take a seat to talk through and digest the nigh-indescribable nature of what you just witnessed. And though you might need a day to recover, you want to get out and play it again to see what kind of breaks you might get the second time around. It is a course every golfer from below the Mackinac Bridge should try to play at least once, and more than worth the half-day drive from southeast Michigan. Marlowe Alter is an assistant sports editor at the Detroit Free Press and a spraying golf aficionado. You can reach him by email: malter@
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Greywalls golf course in Marquette feels like a time warp back to Jurassic era
It looks like no terrain you have ever seen before on a golf course — like you've been transported into an Ansel Adams landscape portrait. That's the grounds of Greywalls at Marquette Golf Club in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, with Lake Superior shimmering in the distance. Advertisement The aptly named Greywalls was sculpted out of breathtaking, tumbling land featuring granite walls and outcrops scattered throughout the fairways and greens — it feels straight out of the Jurassic era. It makes for a gnarly one-of-a-kind ride through the wilderness, with stunning views and elevation changes, never-seen-before fairway impediments and numerous holes that would qualify as the signature on most courses. Greywalls was created by Saginaw native Mike DeVries — who a few years earlier completed the acclaimed private Kingsley Club in Grand Traverse County — after Marquette Golf Club saw its original 1929 course, The Heritage, being overrun. DeVries, who earned his Masters in landscape architecture in 1994 from Michigan, has created well-regarded courses in west Michigan, including Pierson's Pilgrim's Run, Grand Rapids' The Mines and Hamilton's Diamond Springs. Advertisement Greywalls, opened in 2005, continually ranks inside the top 50 public-access courses in America, as judged by Golfweek: It was No. 40 nationally in 2024, and No. 2 in Michigan. How DeVries had the vision to carve out Greywalls from a rugged forest is jaw-dropping, both to the architectural expert and the untrained eye. Right away, you know you're in for something different. IN THE LOWER PENINSULA ... Nightmare green at Eagle Crest causes chaos at national championship The par-5 first hole tees from a high point to boldly sloping turf with rock outcroppings on each side. The par-4 second fairway has severe peaks and valleys as it winds and tumbles to a green site sticking out of the forest. A look from the bounding par-4 second fairway to the green at Greywalls at Marquette Golf Club in Marquette, Michigan near Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula, June 26, 2024. The par-4 fourth features a giant mound of fairway on the left with a small patch of moss and fescue on top of another jutting rock that drops off to a valley of fairway on the right. The green is protected on the left by a giant overgrown rock wall standing a few stories high. A rock wall closely guards the left side of the par-4 fourth green at Greywalls at Marquette Golf Club in Marquette, Michigan near Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula, June 26, 2024. The sixth might be the best of them all: a rare uphill par-3. But, boy, is it intimidating, hitting over a rock outcropping with a green sitting on a plateau surrounded by more rock. I'm surely one of thousands to bang it off the rock face guarding the right side of the green. The famed uphill par-3 sixth hole at Greywalls at Marquette Golf Club in Marquette, Michigan near Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula, June 26, 2024. And the par-4 seventh? Don't even get me started on that extreme roller coaster of a fairway with random jagged rocks splattered across it. Just making it through the hole with the same ball you teed off with — and without a sprained ankle — is an accomplishment. The par-4 seventh hole at Greywalls tees off from a high point on top of rock and features a cliff bisecting the middle of the fairway at Marquette Golf Club in Marquette, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula, June 26, 2024. Lake Superior is seen in the distance. The par-4 11th makes you feel like you're on the only golf hole in the world, beautifully framed by bunkers crisscrossing the fairway from every angle with the dense forest behind the green. View from the tee on the par-4 11th hole at Greywalls at Marquette Golf Club in Marquette, Michigan near Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula, June 26, 2024. Virtually every hole offers something unique, including tightly mown areas around the fast greens, which allow imaginative ways to get the ball rolling toward the cup. It's a design feature not seen enough at most courses. Advertisement The journey ends on the downhill par-5 18th with a tee shot down a chute framed by more rock outcroppings, with Lake Superior beckoning beyond the horizon. The view from the 18th green looking back up to the fairway at Greywalls at Marquette Golf Club in Marquette, Michigan near Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula, June 26, 2024. Greywalls has earned even more positive publicity over the past few years from two leaders of new-age golf media platforms. The website Fried Egg Golf spotlighted the course and featured a short video on No. 7 among its "Great Golf Holes" series. "Mike DeVries created one of the most memorable holes in golf simply by letting the jaw-dropping terrain be the star," Fried Egg founder Andy Johnson says in the clip. No Laying Up played its final match of its "Tourist Sauce (Michigan)" series in 2021 showcasing the entire course intertwined with commentary from DeVries. Greywalls is the type of experience where after you finish the round, you have to take a seat to talk through and digest the nigh-indescribable nature of what you just witnessed. Advertisement TRENDING: 5 public golf courses in Michigan I can't wait to play for first time in 2025 And though you might need a day to recover, you want to get out and play it again to see what kind of breaks you might get the second time around. It is a course every golfer from below the Mackinac Bridge should try to play at least once, and more than worth the half-day drive from southeast Michigan. Marlowe Alter is an assistant sports editor at the Detroit Free Press and a spraying golf aficionado. You can reach him by email: malter@ Follow the Detroit Free Press on Instagram (@detroitfreepress), TikTok (@detroitfreepress), YouTube (@DetroitFreePress), X (@freep), and LinkedIn, and like us on Facebook (@detroitfreepress). Advertisement Stay connected and stay informed. Become a Detroit Free Press subscriber. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Greywalls golf course in Michigan's Upper Peninsula lives up to hype
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Padres' 18-Year-Old Prospect Is Turning Heads at a National Level
San Diego Padres president of baseball operations and general manager A.J. Preller has built his team into a World Series contender in recent years. And although the Padres' farm system ranked 25th in the MLB in March, that's mostly because Preller has flipped a lot of his prospects for win-now veterans. Advertisement Yes, the ability to identify young talent will always be paramount in a sport like baseball. Preller and his staff have shown that they can do that, and their current No. 1 prospect is living up to the hype so far in 2025. San Diego Padres general manager A.J. Preller (right) and manager Mike Shildt (left) chat before Opening Day at Petco Poroy-Imagn Images During a leaguewide article on April 30, MLB Pipeline writers Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra and Jonathan Mayo highlighted the "hottest hitting prospect" from each MLB organization. Their Padres choice was easy, as they selected San Diego's top-rated minor leaguer, shortstop Leo De Vries. "The 18-year-old was the youngest player on a High-A Opening Day roster in 2025, but he sure isn't playing like it," the MLB Pipeline team wrote. Advertisement Continuing: "A five-hit, two-homer cycle on April 22 was his biggest highlight of the season so far for Fort Wayne, but he hasn't stopped there, going 3-for-3 with a homer and a double Tuesday [April 29]. De Vries leads the Midwest League with a .609 slugging percentage over 18 games and ranks second with a .968 OPS, despite being more than four years younger than the average hitter on the circuit." De Vries' national recognition didn't end there, as the MLB's official X account shouted him out for a ridiculous defensive play on May 2. As noted above, De Vries is the No. 1-ranked prospect within the Padres' farm system, but he's also ranked No. 16 for the entire MLB. Advertisement Per his bio, De Vries is a switch-hitter who flaunts an "exquisite knowledge of the [strike] zone." His high expectations aren't anything new, as the native of the Dominican Republic was 2024's "No. 1-ranked talent" on the international market. Related: Long-Time Red Sox Starter Turning Heads With New Team: 'Breakout Ace' Related: Padres Send Direct Message on Struggling $191 Million Veteran
