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USC's Caleb Williams, UCLA's Laiatu Latu are top pick and top defender taken in draft
First offensive player selected in the NFL draft: USC. First defensive player: UCLA. But how could we have guessed there would be so many picks between Trojans quarterback Caleb Williams going No. 1 to Chicago and Bruins edge rusher Laiatu Latu going 15th to Indianapolis? Williams, the 2022 Heisman Trophy winner, has clear goals in the coming weeks and months: “Learn all my teammates’ names, their families, learn the playbook and get ready to go win games.” Chicago had the opening selection for...
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‘Ours was a love story, not an attempted murder story’: Rachel Eliza Griffiths on the day her husband, Salman Rushdie, was stabbed
They had only been married for 11 months when the world-famous novelist was attacked by a frenzied knifeman. His wife remembers the intense drama of hearing the news, and the traumatic aftermathI woke early and alone on the sunny morning of Friday 12 August 2022. I was having coffee at the moment my husband, the Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, was nearly killed in a stabbing on stage in Chautauqua, New York.This was the last morning, innocent and ordinary, before my life was shattered by the 27...
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Photographer on snapping Jamal Murray's game winner: 'This is definitely one of the top, top moments of my career'
When Denver Nuggets star Jamal Murray hit a game-winning jump shot at the buzzer in Game 2 of the NBA playoffs against the Lakers,...