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USA Today
3 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Iowa baseball utility player enters transfer portal
Iowa baseball utility player enters transfer portal After Iowa baseball lost Sam Hart to the transfer portal on Thursday, the Hawkeyes will have to endure another departure as junior utility player Andrew Holub entered his name into the portal on Friday. Holub joined the Hawkeyes program this past season after two years in the junior college level at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, NC. While with the Eagles, he finished his two seasons with a combined batting average of .393, an on-base percentage of .472, and a slugging percentage of .607, to go along with 101 runs (86 RBIs) and 11 home runs on 118 hits through 300 at-bats in 84 games played. He also recorded 39 stolen bases while only getting caught three times. The 6-foot-3, Bronxville, NY, native did not play a single game for the Hawkeyes during his tenure in Iowa City as an injury sidelined him for the entire 2025 campaign. Due to the season-long injury, Holub utilized a medical redshirt to preserve his two remaining years of NCAA eligibility. While he was a promising addition to the Hwkeyes roster given his JUCO statistics, the loss of Holub to the portal is not much of a concern, as his tangible value was never truly witnessed due to the season-ending injury. As for Iowa, head coach Rick Heller and the Hawkeyes will need to search for more depth pieces to add in addition to positions of need during the offseason as they retool ahead of the 2026 season. Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes, and opinions. Follow Scout on X: @SpringgateNews
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
About 300 protesters participate in ‘No Kings' protest at Capitol in Bismarck
Protesters display signs and wave at passing vehicles along Boulevard Avenue, near the North Dakota Capitol in Bismarck, as part of the national No Kings protests on April 19, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor) About 300 protesters lined Boulevard Avenue near the Capitol Saturday displaying signs and waving at passing vehicles as part of the nationwide 'No Kings' protests. The protests coincided with the 250th anniversary of the first battles of the Revolutionary War and were part of the '50501' protest movement, which stands for 50 protests, 50 states and one movement. Joy Jochim of Mandan displayed a sign calling for the protection of transgender rights. She said she is against many of the initiatives President Donald Trump's administration is carrying out in its first months of work, such as cuts to the Social Security Administration and proposed cuts to Medicaid. 'I'm glad people are coming out and protesting,' Jochim said. Sharon Korsmo of Bismarck said a person's 'day in court' is fundamental and expressed concerns about the Trump administration's deportations of hundreds of people to an El Salvador prison without the chance to challenge their cases in court. 'How do we know who he's going to turn on next?' Korsmo said. Kori Holub, an occupational therapist in Dickinson, said she's already noticing the children with disabilities she treats on the Medicaid program are unable to get 'medical necessity' services at their homes based on her recommendations. She said those kids won't have access at home to equipment such as a disability swing or support vests. Holub also volunteers with the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic, which helps veterans with traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and other injuries participate in adaptive sports. During the clinic over the winter, Holub said some Department of Veterans Affairs employees received notices for layoffs, which worried her because those federal workers are a large part of the program. 'I don't expect this (the winter sports clinic) to happen this year,' she said. 'We'll see.' SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Actor knocks 'Fantastic 4' hero as 'womanizing' guy, says his portrayal in new film will be different
Film actor Joseph Quinn claims in a new interview that his portrayal of The Human Torch in Marvel's reboot of the "Fantastic Four" franchise will be a departure from the past. Marvel Studios is working on a reboot of one of the oldest teams of superheroes in the genre. The new version of the series, with an entirely new cast, will be set in a retro-futuristic, alternative-history version of the 1960s. Entertainment Weekly writer Christian Holub, who got a behind-the-scenes look at the film in production, noted "these classic characters are headed back to the big screen to see if they can inspire the same kind of wonder they did when they debuted in the '60s — and in the process, save not just their fictional world but also the struggling Marvel Cinematic Universe." Chris Hemsworth Detests When Other Marvel Actors 'Bash' Superhero Franchise After A Flop One of the actors, Joseph Quinn, who will be playing Johnny Storm, a.k.a. Human Torch, spoke with the magazine about how he hopes to put a new spin on the character. "Johnny is Marvel's archetype of a 'hothead' teenager, but what exactly that means has been open to interpretation over the years," Holub observed. "In the 2005 and 2007 Fantastic Four movies, for instance, Chris Evans played the character as a skirt-chasing scallywag. Quinn wanted to do something different." Read On The Fox News App "He's a man that leads with a lot of bravado, which can be an affront sometimes. But also he's funny," Quinn told the magazine. "Myself and [Marvel Studios boss] Kevin [Feige] were speaking about previous iterations of him and where we are culturally. He was branded as this womanizing, devil-may-care guy, but is that sexy these days? I don't think so. This version of Johnny is less callous with other people's feelings, and hopefully there's a self-awareness about what's driving that attention-seeking behavior." Holub also wrote about how Sue Storm, better known as the "Invisible Woman" and portrayed by Vanessa Kirby, will have a political aspect to her character. Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture "Sue has accomplished just as much in the political realm. As head of the Future Foundation (a concept taken from writer Jonathan Hickman's 21st-century Fantastic Four comics, one of the successor stories that is as beloved by fans as Lee and Kirby's originals), she has helped achieve global demilitarization and peace," Holub wrote. "When Shakman and his collaborators say the dreams of the '60s have been made real in this movie, they don't just mean rocketships."Original article source: Actor knocks 'Fantastic 4' hero as 'womanizing' guy, says his portrayal in new film will be different
Fox News
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Actor knocks 'Fantastic 4' hero as 'womanizing' guy, says his portrayal in new film will be different
Film actor Joseph Quinn claims in a new interview that his portrayal of The Human Torch in Marvel's reboot of the "Fantastic Four" franchise will be a departure from the past. Marvel Studios is working on a reboot of one of the oldest teams of superheroes in the genre. The new version of the series, with an entirely new cast, will be set in a retro-futuristic, alternative-history version of the 1960s. Entertainment Weekly writer Christian Holub, who got a behind-the-scenes look at the film in production, noted "these classic characters are headed back to the big screen to see if they can inspire the same kind of wonder they did when they debuted in the '60s — and in the process, save not just their fictional world but also the struggling Marvel Cinematic Universe." One of the actors, Joseph Quinn, who will be playing Johnny Storm, a.k.a. Human Torch, spoke with the magazine about how he hopes to put a new spin on the character. "Johnny is Marvel's archetype of a 'hothead' teenager, but what exactly that means has been open to interpretation over the years," Holub observed. "In the 2005 and 2007 Fantastic Four movies, for instance, Chris Evans played the character as a skirt-chasing scallywag. Quinn wanted to do something different." "He's a man that leads with a lot of bravado, which can be an affront sometimes. But also he's funny," Quinn told the magazine. "Myself and [Marvel Studios boss] Kevin [Feige] were speaking about previous iterations of him and where we are culturally. He was branded as this womanizing, devil-may-care guy, but is that sexy these days? I don't think so. This version of Johnny is less callous with other people's feelings, and hopefully there's a self-awareness about what's driving that attention-seeking behavior." Holub also wrote about how Sue Storm, better known as the "Invisible Woman" and portrayed by Vanessa Kirby, will have a political aspect to her character. "Sue has accomplished just as much in the political realm. As head of the Future Foundation (a concept taken from writer Jonathan Hickman's 21st-century Fantastic Four comics, one of the successor stories that is as beloved by fans as Lee and Kirby's originals), she has helped achieve global demilitarization and peace," Holub wrote. "When Shakman and his collaborators say the dreams of the '60s have been made real in this movie, they don't just mean rocketships."
New York Times
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
When Every Funeral Is the Most Important
Three gunshots rang out as an honor guard fired into the air over the snow-covered cemetery. Soldiers lifted a Ukrainian flag from a coffin and handed it to family members. Then a trumpet, accompanied by a drum, bid farewell to the fallen soldier. After playing a Ukrainian version of taps, the two musicians from the military band walked slowly away, leaving the mourners to grieve. 'Unfortunately, we cannot raise them from their graves, but we can play taps,' Maj. Oleksandr Holub said of the daily visits that members of the band he conducts make to the cemetery, where hundreds of new graves have been dug for Ukrainian soldiers. Over the three years since Russia's full-scale invasion began, Ukraine has experienced tremendous losses. In an interview published last month, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that at least 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the war and that more than 350,000 had been wounded, figures that are widely seen as underestimates. For the past year, the Russian Army has been on the offensive, capturing Ukrainian territory regularly and killing Ukrainian soldiers in increasing numbers. Then comes the work of the band of the 101st Separate Guard Brigade of the General Staff. 'We treat every funeral like it's our most important concert, as we are saying farewell to those because of whom we are still here,' said Pvt. Lev Remenev, a song writer in civilian life who volunteered to fight in the army but instead wound up in the 101st Separate Guard band, where he plays the piano. The mission of the band's 21 members is to show two sides of Ukraine's struggle three years into the war: acknowledging the unbearable toll and keeping up the spirits of those who press ahead with the fighting. They support soldiers and civilians by playing uplifting concerts in schools and at universities and rehabilitation centers. But the tune they play most frequently is a version of taps, to honor their fallen comrades. The musicians say it is often difficult to transition to the cheerful mood of a concert for schoolchildren or for soldiers in hospitals right after playing at a funeral. 'If you did not manage to switch, and go on being grim, kids feel it,' said Major Holub, 45, the conductor, who has been with the band for 18 years. 'Kids are the easiest audience, and it is very easy to get them to have fun,' he said. 'Soldiers are the hardest.' But for the musicians, funerals are the hardest. They played a version of taps at funerals before the war, too, but mostly for retired soldiers who died of old age, Major Holub said. It became harder in 2014, when Russia invaded the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and soldiers were killed in battle. It has become much harder since the full-scale invasion, he said. He recalls the funeral that affected him the most: 'I will always remember a young boy called Andriy, from our brigade,' he said. 'He wanted us to play at his wedding, and in summer 2023, we played at his wedding. And then a year later, in summer 2024, we played at his funeral.' He added: 'I will say honestly that when I see mothers burying their sons, I have tears coming up — it is very hard.' Private Remenev joined the army in 2022 and was sent to the Donbas region to fight. That July, he was assigned to join the band. He still writes songs and his comrades have asked him to write an anthem to celebrate victory, he said. 'This is a very high bar,' Private Remenev said of the expectations for an anthem, adding that he had yet to produce one. 'The main thing is for the victory to actually come, and then I will write better normal songs,' he said. 'People do not listen to anthems; people like normal songs.' Since joining the army, he has played more than 200 concerts in hospitals and schools and at other events. But like the others in the band, he has played at even more funerals. 'I always feel gratitude first of all, and then the grief, and then the pain that boys and girls are dying — that our nation is dying,' he said. He, like his colleagues, says it is hard to be in good spirits after the funerals. At concerts, they need to raise morale. 'We are no different from the entire country in this,' he said. 'All people who live in war have to force themselves to switch to a false good mood. This ability comes with practice.' Sometimes, the military band members chat on the bus to the cemetery, giving one another moral support. Sometimes, they say, it is just too sad, and they drive in silence. Pvt. Oleksiy Prykhodko, 29, has been performing in the band for five years, but he only starting playing regularly at funerals after the full-scale invasion in 2022. 'It is possible to adapt to everything,' he said. 'But it is very hard to see the tears of relatives who lost their loved ones.' The first funeral he played at stuck in his memory. 'We went to the cemetery, but there were no relatives,' he said. 'It was the very beginning of the war, and the mother of the fallen soldier had evacuated and could not make it back in time.' She had fled and was a refugee. 'One woman called her,' he said. 'And she was saying goodbye to her dead son over the phone.' He added: 'I have no answers as to how to cope, but somehow I go on.' Every morning, he goes out to a parade ground at the base in Kyiv, the capital, at 9 a.m. with his trumpet and plays a version of taps for soldiers at the base. Most days, he plays the music again at a funeral, he said. On one such day in December, there was a power cut from Russian missile attacks on power plants in the middle of a funeral, he said. The church went dark, and mourners were asked to switch on the flashlight on their phones to find the coffin inside the dark room and bid farewell to the fallen soldier. Then Private Prykhodko played a version of taps. 'Relatives never say anything to us — they do not think about us at that moment,' he said. 'When their loved one dies, we are the last thing on their minds, but we still come and play taps,' he said. 'It is a ritual, and it is important.'
