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The Washington Times stories: Football

16 April 2024

• The Chiefs' Rashee Rice, facing charges from Texas car crash, will participate in offseason work
  Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Monday that wide receiver Rashee Rice, who is facing charges that include aggravated assault as a result of a sports car crash in Texas, would participate in the team's voluntary offseason program beginning this week.
• Diggs gives Stroud, Texans another playmaker and vaults them into Super Bowl conversation
  C.J. Stroud was still asleep in Los Angeles when the news broke that the Houston Texans were trading for star receiver Stefon Diggs.
• Top QB prospects visit Commanders Park as NFL draft nears
  The Washington Commanders are hosting several quarterback prospects on pre-draft visits this week. The NFL draft is over a week away, but the team's decision-makers are already on the clock when it comes to picking their quarterback of the future.
• If O.J. Simpson's assets go to court, Goldman and Brown families could be first in line
  O.J. Simpson died Wednesday without having paid the lion's share of the $33.5 million judgment a California civil jury awarded to the families of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
• In death, 3 decades after his trial verdict, OJ Simpson still reflects America's racial divides
  For many people old enough to remember O.J. Simpson's murder trial, his 1995 exoneration was a defining moment in their understanding of race, policing and justice. Nearly three decades later, it still reflects the different realities of white and Black Americans.
• 3 decades on, the O.J. Simpson saga remains a unique American moment
  A dog's plaintive wail. A courtroom couplet-turned-cultural catchphrase about gloves. A judge and attorneys who became media darlings and villains. A slightly bewildered houseguest elevated, briefly, into a slightly bewildered celebrity. Troubling questions about race that echo still. The beginning of the Kardashian dynasty. An epic slow-motion highway chase. And, lest we forget, two people whose lives ended brutally.
• Before murder charges tarnished his legacy, O.J. Simpson was one of the NFL's greatest running backs
  Long before the Bronco chase gripped a national television audience and the "Trial of the Century" captivated the country, O.J. Simpson was making his mark on the football field.
• Legendary athlete, actor and millionaire: O.J. Simpson's murder trial lost him the American dream
  For a long time, O.J. Simpson was the man who had it all.
• USC remains silent on O.J. Simpson's death, underscoring complicated connections to football star
  A copy of O.J. Simpson's Heisman Trophy still sits in Heritage Hall on the campus of the University of Southern California, at least when it isn't being displayed elsewhere along with the rest of the school's large collection.
• If O.J. Simpson's assets go to court, Goldman, Brown families could be first in line
  O.J. Simpson died Thursday without having paid the lion's share of the $33.5 million judgment a California civil jury awarded to the families of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.