The final vote on whether wrestling will remain an Olympic sport takes place this weekend in Argentina. So will the sport many connect with the original Olympics be ousted? The “Iowa Nice Guy”, aka Des Moines actor and filmmaker, Scott Siepker has surfaced again, this time to support wrestling’s bid to regain its Olympic spot for 2020 and ’24. We talk with him in the first half hour.
Before that, we find out about new rules curtailing doctors’ ability to dispense abortion-inducing pills via a video-conferencing system
Then, we begin our series of conversations with Iowa college and university presidents at the start of the academic year. University of Iowa President Sally Mason joins us live.