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Indianapolis Star
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- Indianapolis Star
'85 years of history': The Boston Crusaders win their first DCI World Championship
Lucas Oil Stadium echoed with applause on August 9 as announcers declared that the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps had been crowned the winners of the 2025 DCI World Championship — an achievement 85 years in the making. The Boston Crusaders, founded in 1940 and a founding member of Drum Corps International, have spent the 53 years since the competition began chasing the opportunity to be dubbed one of the best drum corps in the world. The closest the Boston Crusaders had ever come was in 2022 and 2024, coming in second behind the Blue Devils three years ago and the Bluecoats last year. 'Winning this World Championship is surreal,' said Boston Crusaders executive director Chris Holland in an interview with DCI. 'For the performers who made this happen, this is all about them. We're a proud organization with 85 years of history, but that 85 years is about creating an experience for them. What they did this summer, what they did in Indianapolis, is pretty incredible.' Many in the audience, on the field and in the announcer booth cheered loudly when the Crusaders were announced as this year' new champions. "I think that was the loudest crowd reaction to a show I've heard since Spartacus in 2008," said Dan Potter, one of the DCI announcers. Typically, the team that wins the General Effect and Visual award is dubbed the winner of the show, according to Steve Roinero, one of the announcers of this year's DCI World Championship. However, this year's General Effect and Visual award went to the Bluecoats from Canton, Ohio, who wound up losing the championship to the Boston Crusaders by 0.175 points. The Boston Crusaders also took home the awards for best color guard, best brass and best percussion. For the last two and a half decades, the Boston Crusaders had been within striking distance of earning a spot on the winners' podium, usually finishing somewhere in the top 12. But since 2022, the Boston Crusaders have shown why; they have the reputation of "the corps that would not die." "Part of our core song is 'We will never die,' and we try and portray that every single day," said Boston Crusaders drum major Wes Booker. "Every rehearsal, we push our best and every show we give everything we've got."
Geek Culture
27-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Culture
'Spartacus: House of Ashur' Is A "What If" Sequel Where The Romans Won, Coming This Winter
What if Ashur (Nick Emad Tarabay), hadn't died on Mount Vesuvius at the end of 2012's Spartacus: Vengeance and had been gifted the gladiator school once owned by Batiatus in return for aiding the Romans in killing Spartacus and putting an end to the slave rebellion? We end up with a history-bending, erotic, thrilling, 10-episode sequel series, Spartacus: House of Ashur , that builds on everything that made the original series a colossal hit. Based on the teaser trailer above, the sequel series will introduce Tenika Davis ( Wrong Turn ) as a formidable new gladiatrix (female gladiator), Achillia, whom Ashur introduces as 'a sight never before witnessed in the arena'. The only other cast member returning from the original series seems to be Lucy Lawless, who will reprise her role as Lucretia, who will also be resurrected in this upcoming alternate reality take on the franchise, where the Romans won. Spartacus: The House of Ashur arrives this winter, exclusively on Starz. Yonk is a geek who is fortunate enough to have an equally geeky Star Wars fan for a wife, who owns a LEGO Millennium Falcon encased in a glass coffee table as their home's centre-piece. Gladiator Spartacus starz
Yahoo
27-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Spartacus: House of Ashur' to premiere on Starz this winter
July 27 (UPI) -- Starz has narrowed the premiere window for Spartacus: House of Ashur to "this winter" and released a new teaser for the eagerly awaited period drama. Nick E. Tarabay will reprise his role of Ashur from 2010's Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Spartacus franchise creator Steven S. DeKnight is the showrunner for the latest chapter. "What if he lived, and the Romans rewarded his treachery with the gladiator school where he once bled? Welcome to the House of Ashur. No longer a slave, Ashur has clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him," a synopsis for the show said. "But ruling a band of merciless gladiators is child's play compared to surviving the savage world of Roman politics -- a cutthroat game in which betrayal isn't a sin, it's currency." The cast will also include Tenika Davis, Graham McTavish, Jamaica Vaughan, Jordi Webber and Jaime Slater.
UPI
27-07-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
'Spartacus: House of Ashur' to premiere on Starz this winter
Nick E. Tarabay's "Spartacus: House of Ashur" is set to premiere this winter on Starz. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo July 27 (UPI) -- Starz has narrowed the premiere window for Spartacus: House of Ashur to "this winter" and released a new teaser for the eagerly awaited period drama. Nick E. Tarabay will reprise his role of Ashur from 2010's Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Spartacus franchise creator Steven S. DeKnight is the showrunner for the latest chapter. "What if he lived, and the Romans rewarded his treachery with the gladiator school where he once bled? Welcome to the House of Ashur. No longer a slave, Ashur has clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him," a synopsis for the show said. "But ruling a band of merciless gladiators is child's play compared to surviving the savage world of Roman politics -- a cutthroat game in which betrayal isn't a sin, it's currency." The cast will also include Tenika Davis, Graham McTavish, Jamaica Vaughan, Jordi Webber and Jaime Slater.
Yahoo
27-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Spartacus: House of Ashur' Comic-Con trailer throws first female gladiator to the wolves
See Tenika Davis in action as Achillia, a gladiatrix. Welcome back to the arena. There have been some changes while you were gone. Spartacus: House of Ashur dropped its first trailer during Saturday's Comic-Con panel, showing off Nick E. Tarabay's return as Ashur and the introduction of the first female gladiator. Spartacus creator Steven DeKnight already gave Entertainment Weekly the inside scoop on how he settled on the concept for the show, which is a revisionist history that imagines what would've happened if Ashur didn't die on Mt. Vesuvius and instead took over the gladiator school from Batiatus (John Hannah). The trailer now shows Ashur, a former slave, struggling to be accepted by high society. So he decides to make his mark by introducing "a sight never before witnessed in the arena." Tenika Davis (Wrong Turn) debuts as Achillia, a gladiatrix, i.e. female gladiator. She becomes a spectacle in the gladiatorial matches, but first she, too, must fight for the respect of the male gladiators. The trailer shows her in action, performing acrobatic flips mid-air in the arena. "We wanted to bring in the female gladiators, but historically they didn't appear in ancient Rome until about 100 years later," DeKnight previously told EW. "This time around, Ashur upsets history and introduces the female gladiator 100 years early." On Achillia, the showrunner said, "She's just as driven, just as dangerous as the men. One of the things we wanted to do on this show is, of course, have all those great staples of the original — the sex, the intrigue, the violence, the complicated twists and turns — but also offering something new. One of those main pillars were the gladiatrices." The trailer also confirms Spartacus: House of Ashur will arrive on Starz this winter, though specific timing is still unknown. Tarabay, Davis, Graham McTavish (The Witcher), Jamaica Vaughan (Home and Away), Jordi Webber (Choose Love), and Jaime Slater (Jupiter's Legacy) all joined DeKnight for the Spartacus: House of Ashur Comic-Con panel. And although DeKnight told EW that Spartacus himself is still dead in the timeline of this successor show, Liam McIntyre, who played the role on the previous Vengeance and War of the Damned seasons of the original drama, returned to moderate the conversation. Watch the trailer above. Check out more of . Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
