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The DC Defenders will face the Arlington Renegades in Week 3 of the UFL season on Saturday, April 13, 2024 (04/13/24) at Choctaw Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

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What: UFL, Week 3

WHO: DC Defenders vs. Arlington Renegade

When: Saturday, April 13, 2024

Where: Choctaw Stadium

Time: 1 p.m. ET

TV: ESPN

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AP story:

LAS VEGAS (AP) — OJ Simpson, the soccer star and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges of killing his former wife and her friend in a trial that captivated the public and exposed divisions over race and policing in America have died. He was 76.

The family announced this on Simpson's official X account that he died of prostate cancer on Wednesday. He died in Las Vegas, officials there said on Thursday.

Simpson gained fame, fortune and admiration through football and show business, but his legacy was forever changed by the June 1994 stabbing murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles. He was later found responsible for the deaths in a separate civil case and subsequently served nine years in prison on unrelated charges.

The live television broadcast of his arrest after a famous slow-speed car chase marked a stunning comedown.

He seemed to transcend racial barriers as a star for the Trojans in the late 1960s, as a tailback for college football's powerful University of Southern California, as a rental car tout rushing through airports in the late 1970s, and as the husband of a blonde and blue woman. eyed high school homecoming queen in the 1980s.

“I’m not black, I’m OJ,” he liked to tell his friends.

His trial captured America's attention on live television. The case sparked debates about race, gender, domestic violence, celebrity justice and police misconduct.

The evidence found at the crime scene seemed overwhelmingly against Simpson. There were drops of blood, bloody footprints and a glove. Another blood-stained glove was found in his home.

Simpson did not testify, but prosecutors asked him to try on the gloves in court. He struggled to squeeze them into his hands and spoke his only three words of the trial: “They're too small.”

His attorney, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., told the jury, “If it doesn't fit, you have to acquit.”

Jurors found him not guilty of murder in 1995, but a separate civil trial jury found him liable for the deaths in 1997 and ordered him to pay $33.5 million to relatives of Brown and Goldman.

A decade later, still under the shadow of California's wrongful death ruling, Simpson led five men he barely knew into a confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers in a cramped Las Vegas hotel room. Two men at Simpson's house had guns. A jury convicted Simpson of armed robbery and other crimes.

Imprisoned at 61, he served nine years in a remote Nevada prison, including a stint as a janitor at a gym. He was not contrite when he was released on parole in October 2017. The parole board heard him insist again that he was only trying to retrieve memorabilia and heirlooms that were stolen from him after his criminal trial in Los Angeles.

“I've basically lived a conflict-free life, you know,” said Simpson, whose parole ended at the end of 2021.

The public fascination with Simpson never waned. Many debated whether he had been punished in Las Vegas for his acquittal in Los Angeles. In 2016, he was the subject of an FX miniseries and a five-part ESPN documentary.

“I don't think most people in America believe I did it,” Simpson told the New York Times in 1995, a week after a jury decided he did not kill Brown and Goldman. “I have received thousands of letters and telegrams from people supporting me.”

Twelve years later, Rupert Murdoch canceled a planned book by News Corp after an outpouring of public outrage. HarperCollins newspaper, in which Simpson presented his hypothetical account of the murders. It should be titled “If I Did It.”

Goldman's family, still stubbornly pursuing the multimillion-dollar wrongful death verdict, gained control of the manuscript. They gave the book a new title: “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.”

“It's all blood money, and unfortunately I had to join the jackals,” Simpson told The Associated Press at the time. He raised $880,000 up front for the book and paid for it through a third party.

“It helped me get out of debt and secure my home,” he said.

Less than two months after losing rights to the book, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas.

David Cook, an attorney who has been trying to obtain the civil judgment in the Goldman case since 2008, said he spoke with Ron's father, Fred, about Simpson's death on Thursday. Cook declined to say what Fred Goldman said or where he was.

“He died unrepentant,” Cook said of Simpson. “We don’t know what he has, where it is or who is in control. We’re going to pick up where we are and keep going.”

Simpson played 11 NFL seasons, nine of them with the Buffalo Bills, where he became known as “The Juice” and ran behind an offensive line called “The Electric Company.” He won four NFL rushing titles, rushed for 11,236 career yards, scored 76 touchdowns and played in five Pro Bowls. His best season was 1973, when he ran for 2,003 yards – the first running back to break the 2,000-yard rushing mark.

“I was part of the history of the game,” he said years later. “If I had done nothing else in my life, I would have made a name for myself.”

Simpson's football rise coincided with a television career. The night he won the Heisman Trophy in 1968, he signed with ABC Sports. That same year, he appeared in the NBC series “Dragnet” and “Ironside.” During his professional career, Simpson was a color commentator for ABC for a decade, followed by a stint at NBC. In 1983, he joined ABC's “Monday Night Football.”

Simpson became a charismatic pitcher. In 1975, Hertz made him the first black person to be hired for a national corporate advertising campaign. In the commercials, Simpson runs through airports to the Hertz counter and young girls shouting “Go OJ, go!” were omnipresent.

Simpson made his film debut in 1974 in The Klansman, an exploitation film in which he starred alongside Lee Marvin and Richard Burton. The film flopped, but Simpson later appeared in several dozen films and television series, including 1974's “The Towering Inferno,” 1976's “The Cassandra Crossing,” 1977's “Roots,” and 1977's “Capricorn One.”

Perhaps most notable was 1988's The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad and two sequels. Simpson played Detective Nordberg alongside Leslie Nielsen in the slapstick films.

Of course, Simpson gained other fame.

One of the artifacts from his murder trial, the tailored tan suit he wore at his acquittal, was donated and displayed at the Newseum in Washington. Simpson had been told the suit would be in the hotel room in Las Vegas, but it wasn't there.

Orenthal James Simpson was born on July 9, 1947 in San Francisco, where he grew up in government-subsidized housing.

After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the City College of San Francisco for a year and a half before transferring to the University of Southern California for the spring semester of 1967.

On June 24, 1967, he married his first wife, Marguerite Whitley, and moved with her to Los Angeles the next day so he could begin preparations for his first season at USC – which that year, thanks largely to Simpson, was the won national championship.

On the day he accepted the Heisman Trophy, his first child, Arnelle, was born.

With his first wife he had two sons, Jason and Aaren; One of these boys, Aaren, drowned as a toddler in a swimming pool accident in 1979, the same year he and Whitley divorced.

Simpson and Brown married in 1985. They had two children, Justin and Sydney, and divorced in 1992. Two years later, Nicole Brown Simpson was found dead.

“We don’t have to go back and relive the worst day of our lives,” he told the AP 25 years after the double murders. “The topic of the moment is the topic I will never return to again. My family and I have moved into what we call the “no negativity zone.” We focus on the positive.”

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Cayden Steele can be reached at [email protected]