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Chicago Tribune
4 days ago
- Sport
- Chicago Tribune
Carson Holmes, whose older brother played for Libertyville, is ‘a big part of it now.' And he has a big swing.
For as long as anyone can remember, when Libertyville's Carson Holmes has held a baseball bat, good things have happened. That hasn't changed in Holmes' first full varsity season. He has settled into the cleanup spot in the Wildcats' lineup and has launched a home run in each of Libertyville's two playoff wins. 'I like fielding,' Holmes said. 'But more importantly, I just like to hit. That's why I play baseball.' Holmes, a junior who has been a dependable outfielder but was the designated hitter on Saturday, blasted a two-run homer as second-seeded Libertyville beat seventh-seeded Highland Park 5-2 in the Class 4A Hoffman Estates Regional championship game. Holmes' fifth home run of the season came with two outs in the bottom of the fifth and gave the Wildcats (32-4), who will play sixth-seeded Prospect in the Stevenson Sectional semifinals at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, a 5-0 lead. It scored senior first baseman Joshua Holst, an Air Force recruit who had singled right before Holmes and hit a solo shot two innings earlier. Holmes' long ball provided two important insurance runs for junior pitcher Chase Lockwood, who went the distance. The Giants (24-11-1) scored two unearned runs in the top of the seventh. 'The previous at-bat, I swung and whiffed at a curveball, so I just sat curveball the next time up,' Holmes said. 'He threw me one, and I took it deep. The one before was a really bad swing, so I made the adjustment.' Holmes takes a measured approach at the plate. 'The thing with Carson is that he takes a nice, smooth swing,' Libertyville coach Matt Thompson said. 'He's never trying to jack the ball. He just gets the barrel to the ball really well, and obviously you see the results. 'He's always been confident in himself as a hitter, and he's built on it this year.' Holmes, who went 2-for-2 and was hit by a pitch on Saturday, is hitting .426 with a .543 on-base percentage, a 1.330 OPS and 21 RBIs. 'I've been seeing him swing the bat since we were 8, and he's always been hitting bombs,' Libertyville junior second baseman Trevor Wallace said. 'He has a great swing. The whole year, he's been pretty hot. It's been fun to see.' Holmes' older brother Dylan, a 2022 Libertyville graduate, plays for NJCAA Division III World Series qualifier Oakton Community College. The two spend ample time analyzing Holmes' swing, making adjustments when things go awry and having a devoted plan day in and day out. 'He's been a big influence on how I play this game, especially hitting the ball,' Holmes said. 'I'll send him videos, and he'll help me with my swing to this day. So he deserves credit for that.' Holmes pointed to one change in particular this season. 'We made some adjustments in my swing, and ever since, I've been hitting the ball really well,' Holmes said. 'I was upper-cutting it too much, and I need to stay more downhill to the ball, having a shorter path — be short to it, not long.' Holmes, who got a taste of varsity baseball as a late-season call-up in 2024, has longed for this opportunity, having watched Libertyville teams of the past. 'It's been a lot different but a lot of fun actually being a big part of it now,' he said. 'It's kind of my job to hit, and I pride myself on doing that, and this is a really good team to be a part of. We all connect, and this is our year to do some damage.'
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Yahoo
Fentanyl overdose in Searcy bowling alley leads to two arrests
SEARCY, Ark. – Officials with the Searcy Police Department said an overdose at a Searcy bowling alley led to the arrest of two men on drug charges. Officials said police and the Central Arkansas Drug Task Force responded to a call at a bowling alley on Main Street in the city about a drug overdose on April 17. Arriving officials found a 32-year-old man had overdosed on fentanyl while at the bowling alley. Little Rock man sentenced to 30 years for fentanyl, meth charges Officials said police called an ambulance and the man was taken to the hospital, where he was treated and survived the overdose. Officers at the scene found a powdery substance that they determined was fentanyl. The subsequent investigation led to the April 25 arrest of James Preston Tarkington and John Sterling Holmes, both 32 years old and both from Searcy. AG Tim Griffin among 25 attorney generals urging US Senate to pass 'HALT Fentanyl Act' Police also executed a search warrant on Holmes' vehicle and the bowling alley. Investigators said they found fentanyl in Holmes' vehicle and fentanyl paraphernalia in the bowling alley. Tarkington is facing charges of felony fentanyl possession and misdemeanor drug paraphernalia possession. He is being held in the White County Detention Center with no bond listed and a July 8 court date. Sentinel Project to help detect dangerous drugs in Arkansas Sterling is facing charges of felony fentanyl delivery and felony fentanyl trafficking. He is being held in the White County Detention Center with a $150,000 bond listed and a June 3 court date. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
In-game adjustments help Clay Holmes overcome weather, Marlins to pick up first win as Mets starter
Clay Holmes was the Mets' biggest experiment entering the 2025 season. The All-Star closer signed a multi-year deal with the Mets to be a starter, and while there are plenty of examples of successful transitions, it was unclear how Holmes would handle it. And despite an excellent spring, his first two starts this season were adequate. But Tuesday was the best start of Holmes' career. The right-hander struck out 10 batters in 5.1 innings in the Mets' 10-5 win over the Marlins. Although he allowed four runs on five hits and three walks, Holmes was better than that line says. Outside of the first inning, where walks and the wind aided the Marlins in getting out to a 2-0 lead, and the sixth where Huascar Brazoban allowed Holmes' runners to score, Tuesday's starter dominated. Advertisement Among his 10 strikeouts, Holmes struck out five straight batters including the side in the fourth inning on just 10 pitches -- one pitch short of an immaculate inning. "I thought he was really good. Better than the linescore to be honest with you," manager Carlos Mendoza said after the game. "He wound up striking out 10 on a day where the conditions were really really tough and for a guy whose pitches move so much. How windy it was - that first inning, the walks... He found a way and he made it look easy and I didn't think it was that easy. "I have to give him credit, For him to go out in the sixth after what we saw in the first, in conditions like this, I thought he did a helluva job." "The dry weather, it was tough, especially with the wind," Holmes said of pitching in Tuesday's weather. "We all have to pitch with it. I think after that first, I was in the mode of 'just make one pitch at a time' and got through a better outing. It was definitely an adjustment after the first inning." Advertisement So, what was that adjustment? Going away from his sinker and leaning on his four-seam fastball. "Went to the four-seam, put me in better counts," Holmes explained. "It was the pitch I had the most feel for. Got me in the zone, opened some things up." So far this season, Holmes throws his sinker at a 37.4 percent rate -- the lowest he's thrown his signature pitch in five years -- and his four-seamer just 3.4 percent. On Tuesday, the sinker was thrown just 14 percent while the fastball was thrown 18 percent of the time, according to Baseball Savant. As Holmes said, the four-seamer allowed him to get ahead in counts against a young, inexperienced Marlins team and away from walks. It also helps that Holmes has added more pitches to his mix, which was essential to his transition. Last season, as the Yankees' closer, he threw only four types of pitches. that has increased to six in his first season in Queens. Advertisement "Part of [the adjustment] is having the arsenal and the awareness to pivot instead of forcing the sinker on a day like today," Holmes said. Tuesday was Holmes' first as a starter with the Mets and the first of his career as a starter in seven seasons, when he was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Mets hope this is just the beginning of a new chapter in Holmes' career.
Los Angeles Times
24-02-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
Elizabeth Holmes' fraud conviction upheld by appeals court
Elizabeth Holmes lost her last-ditch effort to overturn her 2022 fraud conviction when a federal appeals court on Monday upheld the judgment against the disgraced Theranos Inc. founder. A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco also upheld the conviction of her former business and romantic partner Ramesh 'Sunny' Balwani. The ruling bookends a years-long Silicon Valley drama over the blood testing startup that took the industry by storm with Holmes' celebrity appeal and $9-billion valuation. The company collapsed after its testing technology was exposed as a failure, a scandal that inspired books, films and podcasts. Holmes was convicted in 2022 on four courts of wire fraud relating to false claims she made to investors after a jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She is serving an 11-year sentence in a minimum security prison in Texas. The case has resurfaced in recent weeks in the lead-up to the trial of another young tech founder, Charlie Javice, who faces charges she defrauded JPMorgan Chase & Co. into acquiring her startup. Earlier this month, in a court filing prosecutors disclosed text messages in which Javice criticized Holmes' conviction at the time as 'ridiculous' and cast blame on Theranos Inc. investors instead. 'Investors should be blamed on letting a 19 year old go rogue,' she wrote in one text. Holmes was 19 when she founded Theranos in 2003. In a subsequent text, Javice suggested Holmes' 'sophisticated' investors were at fault. Javice's lawyers have at times used similar language about JPMorgan. 'How could one of the most powerful and sophisticated companies in the world fall for such an alleged scam?' her lawyers said in a filing responding to a civil suit JPMorgan brought against her. The bank sued Javice in December 2022, shortly after firing her for the alleged fraud. Criminal charges followed in April 2023. Holmes asked the 9th Circuit to toss out her conviction and grant a new trial, arguing that prosecutors presented key testimony during the four-month trial from Theranos' final lab director that was 'infected with error.' Prosecutors used the lab director, Kingshuk Das, as a scientific expert on Theranos' blood testing device called the Edison, but Holmes' attorneys argued that he was never properly vetted by the judge as an expert. The Justice Department countered that Das wasn't providing an expert opinion, but rather testifying about what he saw at Theranos while he worked there and what he told Holmes at the time. And even if Holmes had won her argument, she hadn't challenged volumes of other evidence that pointed to her guilt, including her lies about Theranos' financial health, work with the military, and partnership with Walgreens Co., prosecutors argued. Poritz writes for Bloomberg. Bloomberg reporter Jazper Lu contributed to this report.
The Guardian
24-02-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
US court upholds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' conviction
A US court upheld the conviction of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars while operating her failed blood testing startup, once valued at $9bn, rejecting her multi-year appeal. The court also upheld the conviction of Ramesh 'Sunny' Balwani, once Holmes' romantic partner and president of Theranos. A three-judge panel for the 9th US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco rejected claims of legal errors at their separate trials held in 2022. Holmes, 41, who started Theranos as a college student and became its public face, was indicted alongside Balwani in 2018. The two were tried separately and sentenced in 2022 to 11 years and three months, and 12 years and 11 months, respectively. Holmes was ordered to pay $452m in restitution to investors, but a judge placed the penalty on hold due to her limited financial resources. Holmes' sentence has been reduced by more than two years for good behavior while incarcerated, and she is expected to be released in 2032, having served a nine-year sentence. Sign up to TechScape A weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives after newsletter promotion Holmes' lawyers, who filed the appeal in April 2023, alleged that her trial had featured improper procedures and evidence. A US attorney disagreed and in an initial hearing on the appeal in 2024, said that 'it was not really contested that the device did not work,' referring to Theranos' Edison error-prone blood testing machine. Holmes claimed that the Edison could perform a wide swath of medical tests with a single drop of a patient's blood, which would have represented a significant advance in biotechnology. Her invention never lived up to her promises. In advance of the ruling on her appeal, Holmes appeared on the cover of People magazine earlier this month for her first interview since being locked up. She described federal prison as 'hell and torture' and said she was 'not the same person I was back then'. 'The people I love the most have to walk away as I stand here, a prisoner, and my reality sinks in,' she said of her two young children and her husband.
