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USA Today
6 hours ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Minnesota Vikings joint practices confirmed ahead of training camp
The Minnesota Vikings will be hosting joint practices at TCO Performance Center this year, and there will be some interesting storylines that come with them. The New England Patriots, led by Mike Vrabel, will come to town. It will be Vrabel's first year as the Patriots' head coach, returning to the place where he won three Super Bowls as a linebacker from 2001-08. Vrabel served as a consultant with the Cleveland Browns in 2024 after being fired from the Tennessee Titans following the 2023 season. Vrabel and Kevin O'Connell's careers overlapped in 2008, O'Connell's first and only season with the Patriots after being drafted in the third round. Brian Flores was on the staff from 2004-18, also overlapping with Vrabel. We also get to see J.J. McCarthy face off with fellow 2024 first-round quarterback Drake Maye, the third-overall pick. The Vikings had a serious interest in Maye going into the draft, seeking a trade to the top of the draft. Can McCarthy show that they came away with the right quarterback? The joint practices are set for Aug. 13 and 14 at 2:30 PM CST. The two teams will then play at U.S. Bank Stadium for their second preseason game on Aug. 16 at Noon CST.
Yahoo
13 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
McCarthy, Jacobs finish construction on $373M hospital tower
This story was originally published on Construction Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Construction Dive newsletter. A team of McCarthy Building Cos. and Jacobs completed construction on the Children's Hospital of Orange County's Southwest Tower in Orange, California, according to a June 16 news release from CannonDesign, the New York City-based engineer on the project. McCarthy acted as the general contractor, with Dallas-based Jacobs as the construction manager. St. Louis-based McCarthy broke ground on the nine-story, 300,000-square-foot facility in 2022. The cost of the project was estimated to be around $373 million in 2023, according to the Orange County Business Journal. It was designed to complement the hospital's Bill Holmes Tower, which McCarthy completed in 2012 with CannonDesign as architect. 'This facility enables McCarthy Building Companies to leverage our deep well of expertise in the healthcare sector that will have a positive impact well beyond the scope of this project,' said Jim Madrid, president of the Southern Pacific region for McCarthy, in the groundbreaking news release. The new tower houses a number of pediatric outpatient services that include, according to the news release: Five floors of specialty clinics. A research institute for clinical trials and pediatric research. Oncology infusion services. A comprehensive imaging center. Craig Cherf, a senior preconstruction director who worked on both the Southwest and the Bill Holmes towers, has a personal connection to the hospital. Cherf's son Jackson, then 4, was diagnosed with and treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the hospital's Hyundai Cancer Institute, according to a blog post from the hospital. Jackson is now cancer-free. 'I love working on children's hospitals,' Cherf said in the 2024 blog post. 'It's my favorite thing to do.' Alongside the opening of the outpatient tower, CHOC opened a 24-bed cardiovascular intensive care unit and a 28-bed neuroscience unit within the Bill Holmes Tower to meet increased demand for these high-acuity services, according to CannonDesign. Recommended Reading Building team selected for $895M Portland, Oregon, span
Boston Globe
a day ago
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Judge that restored NIH grants after Trump order echoed famous McCarthy-era lawyer from Boston
McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, smeared people left and right, using innuendo instead of evidence, acting — as Erwin Griswold, a former Republican solicitor general and dean of Harvard Law School put it — as 'judge, jury, prosecutor, castigator, and press agent, all in one.' Welch was a partner at the Boston firm of Hale & Dorr and lived in Walpole. In the spring of 1954, McCarthy went after the Army, accusing it of lax security, leaving it open to communist infiltration. Welch took on McCarthy for the Army. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up For 30 days, Welch appeared before McCarthy's committee, making the Army's case, systematically showing that McCarthy's claims about the Army being soft on communism were unfounded. Advertisement Frustrated by Welch's ability to show the paucity of McCarthy's claims, McCarthy waved one of his distractions, asserting that Fred Fischer, a junior associate in Welch's law firm, while a student at Harvard Law School had been a member of the National Lawyers Guild, which McCarthy called the legal arm of the Communist Party. This violated an agreement that Welch and Cohn had made before the hearings, that Welch would not bring up Cohn's ability to avoid the draft in the Korean War, and the committee would not bring up Fischer having been associated with a legal organization that represented accused communists while in law school. Advertisement Welch's response to McCarthy would go down in history as 'Until this moment, Senator,' Welch said, 'I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.' When McCarthy tried to interrupt, Welch added this dagger: 'Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?' Fast forward to another June, 71 years after Welch spoke those immortal lines, when US District Judge William G. Young, sitting in federal court in Boston, On Monday, Young accused the Trump administration of discriminating against minorities and members of the LGBTQ+ community and ordered the National Institutes of Health to restore hundreds of research grants that the Trump administration had dismissed as DEI-inspired 'woke' nonsense. 'I've sat on this bench now for 40 years. I've never seen government racial discrimination like this,' Young said. 'Is it true of our society as a whole? Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?' 'Have we no shame' sounds an awful lot like, 'Have you no sense of decency?' Young said the cuts to grants that funded research into racial disparities in health care were 'arbitrary and capricious,' that they were based not on reasoned policy, but on pure bias. The White House fired back, accusing Young of being, well, biased. Advertisement 'It is appalling that a federal judge would use court proceedings to express his political views and preferences,' White House spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement. 'How is a judge going to deliver an impartial decision when he explicitly stated his biased opinion that the Administration's retraction of illegal DEI funding is racist and anti-LGBTQ?' Casting Young as some lefty activist jurist is a stretch. Early in his career, he served as chief counsel to Massachusetts Governor Frank Sargent, a Republican. Young was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan, the patron saint of modern conservatism. Having watched Young in action for 40 years, I'd say he's biased mostly toward the Constitution. Brittany Charlton, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and one of the plaintiffs that challenged the Trump administration's cuts, said the administration was accusing the judge of the very bias it showed in making the cuts in the first place. She said Young's decision 'is an important step in protecting public health and allowing critical research to continue. Research that helps us understand and treat serious diseases should be based on science, not politics.' In his ruling, Young made it clear that he believed the Trump administration's rationale for cutting research about racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people was unsupported by facts. Welch said the same thing about McCarthy's claims about the Army being soft on communists. 'This court finds and rules that the explanations are bereft of reasoning virtually in their entirety,' Young said. 'These edicts are nothing more than conclusory, unsupported by factual development.' Young asked the Department of Justice attorney representing the Trump administration to explain how funding research related to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion led to 'unlawful discrimination.' Advertisement 'Where's the support for that? Any support? Any rational explanation?' Young said. 'I see no evidence of that. Point me to any particular grant or group of grants being used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race. From what I can see, it's the reverse.' Young said the government was guilty of the very thing it claimed the research causes. 'I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it, that this represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America's LGBTQ community,' Young said. 'That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out.' Like Welch, Young is a Harvard grad. Maybe the Trump administration can chalk all this up to Harvard's revenge. Young's comments were not nationally televised, and they have not ignited the backlash against the Trump administration that Welch's remarks did against McCarthy. Still, as Martin Luther King Jr. observed, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Justice is inevitable. But it takes time. Five years after dressing McCarthy down, Welch played a judge in Otto Preminger's film, 'Anatomy of a Murder.' His portrayal won him a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actor. But his best performance was on June 9, 1954, when he exposed a bully for what he was, inspiring a nation to do the same. Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at
USA Today
2 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Minnesota Vikings listed among the most improved teams after NFL offseason
Minnesota Vikings listed among the most improved teams after NFL offseason Since becoming the Vikings' general manager in 2022, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah has worked like a man possessed. He made overhauling the roster a top priority, and the team has gone from too much spending to being smart with it and also utilizing the NFL draft to add key players at certain positions. NFL Media recently looked back on the 2025 offseason and which teams made the most improvements. While they highlighted the NFC North basement dwelling Chicago Bears, they also mentioned the Minnesota Vikings after they were very active for a second straight year. They wrote, "Many analysts (including this one) panned Minnesota for the absence of a clear plan under center and a perceived lack of talent heading into what many deemed to be a transitional year in 2024. Boy, were we wrong. Instead, the Vikings won 14 games while looking like a legitimate Super Bowl contender. . .the cast around McCarthy has undoubtedly improved, especially in the trenches, where the Vikings added Ryan Kelly at center. At guard, veteran Will Fries and first-round pick Donovan Jackson are on board, while tackles Jonathan Allen and Javon Hargrave joined up on D. . ." The interior of the offensive line needed to be revamped after the aforementioned playoff collapse. They were dominated in the trenches by the Rams in their game, resulting in the entire group being replaced. Now, in 2025, with so many new pieces, there may not be a better offensive line in the entire NFL. Add in the skill players they have, as well as the depth they have at running back. This offense, paired with an already top-tier defense, will be a roster ready to contend for a Super Bowl once again.
USA Today
2 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Anonymous NFL coordinator praises Vikings draft selection as '10-year starter'
Anonymous NFL coordinator praises Vikings draft selection as '10-year starter' Whenever an offensive lineman is drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft, it can be met with a yawn from fans. However, when the teams and the front offices look at them, they are seen as building blocks towards the bigger picture. That bigger picture includes running lanes and keeping a quarterback's jersey clean, like infrastructure spending. The Vikings made a pick like that in April when they selected Donovan Jackson, the Ohio State guard, with the 24th overall pick. Other players on the board could have been more exciting, but Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and Kevin O'Connell knew they wanted J.J. McCarthy to have every reason to succeed. ESPN's Jeremy Fowler recently reported it wasn't just people within the Vikings facility who were fans of the pick, but also people outside of it. He revealed when speaking with an anonymous NFL coordinator that he described Jackson as, "You know why I really like this pick? He's going to be a solid 10-year starter. Not sure he's elite, but he will make a few Pro Bowls and be a really good player for a long time." Jackson joins Ryan Kelly and Will Fries as new starters within the interior of the Vikings' offensive line in 2024. Jackson's projection as a 10-year starter fits in with the Vikings' view of McCarthy as their long-term quarterback answer. We rarely see Buckeyes and Wolverines work well together, but these two will put those allegiances aside for their Super Bowl aspirations.
