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Buddy Holly, an adorably whiskered Vendean Basset Griffon, won the title at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Tuesday night, beating other champions, including last year’s French Bulldog Winston, who came in second.

“I’ve been dreaming about this since I was 9 years old,” said Buddy Holly owner and trainer Janice Hayes. She called the dog, full name CH Soletrader Buddy Holly, “the epitome of a show dog; nothing bothers him.”

Tuesday night was Hayes’ third attempt at Westminster, which she said she had watched with her father since childhood. Hayes said that she was most impressed with Buddy Holly’s performance because “he did exactly what I wanted him to do”.

Hayes now said she’s thrilled that Buddy Holly is back to being a regular dog and hanging out with “his girlfriends.”

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Prosecutors said Matt Araiza was not present when the alleged gang rape of a minor occurred at an October 2021 party, according to witness testimony included in evidence that prompted the San Diego district attorney not to file criminal charges against the former Buffalo Bills player.

Araiza, a former player at San Diego State, was also not seen in any of the footage recovered from that night, according to an audio recording of a meeting between San Diego Deputy District Attorney Trisha Amador and the woman who last filed the civil lawsuit. a year against Araiza and two of his former Aztecs teammates.

ESPN received and viewed over 1 hour and 41 minutes of audio from the December concert. January 7, 2022, meeting attended by Amador, a woman, the woman’s lawyer, District Attorney Investigator Ted Mansour, and the victim’s attorney of her choice.

The purpose of the meeting was mainly for Amador to explain why a criminal case could not be initiated based on what could be proven and to answer any questions the woman and her representative might have. The San Diego Police Department completed its investigation in August 2022.

According to a witness, Amador told the woman that Araiza left the off-campus party about an hour before the alleged gang rape.

Amador said Araiza “allegedly left the party at 12:30 p.m.” and “wasn’t even at the party anymore” when some of the alleged gang rapes occurred at 1:30 a.m. discovered by the District Attorney.

Amador also told the woman that no one outside her office, including the witness who testified about Araiza’s departure from the party, was aware of the specific timestamps of the footage retrieved from the party.

“There is a witness who has no reason to say what time the suspect Araiza left the party, because no one knows about the timestamps – that he should have left the party before [a video being filmed]”Amador told the woman, according to the audio recording.

The Bills released Araiza on August 27, two days after a lawsuit was filed accusing him of having sex with a then 17-year-old girl who was under the age of consent in California.

The lawsuit alleges that Araiza, who was 21 at the time, took the girl to the wall of the house and told her to perform oral sex on him before they had sexual intercourse. According to the lawsuit, Araiza then took her to a house where at least three other men were, including two other defendants named in the lawsuit — former Aztec teammates Xavier Leonard and Nowlin Evaliko — and that she had been repeatedly raped. for approximately 1½ hours.

The next day, the girl reported the alleged rape to the San Diego Police Department, which investigated the allegations for nine months before turning the investigation over to prosecutors on August 5, 2022.

According to the transcript of the prepositional telephone conversation between Araiza and the girl, recorded on October 10. On February 27, 2021, Araiza said that after he and the girl “hooked” he stayed outside “until the end of the party”.

A pretext phone call is a recorded telephone conversation between a person reporting a crime and a suspect, usually under the supervision of law enforcement.

Videos recorded from the party were described as taking place inside the house in two separate rooms, with approximately nine short “viewpoint video” clips taken from the perspectives of those involved in the activities, reconstructed from multiple devices. Some of them are in Snapchat format.

“I didn’t see you again, but I remember someone saying it like you were yelling at someone or angry,” Araiza told the girl, according to the transcript. “And like then the party was supposed to end or something. I think that was the reason the party ended.”

In April, the judge agreed to open the videos but not release them. That order is still pending and could be delayed by a judge for a couple of weeks, Araiza’s lawyer Kristen Bush told ESPN Tuesday.

The district attorney’s office was also unable to prove what was known about the age of the 17-year-old girl or the degree of her intoxication. At least two witnesses at the party allegedly heard the girl say she was 18, while others said they didn’t remember how her age approached.

“The DA’s Office of Sexual Crime and Human Trafficking has a team of Deputy DAs, DA Investigators and Victim Advocates who are trained on how to be trauma aware when interacting with victims.” — Tanya Sierra, Assistant Director of Communications for This is stated in the message of the San Diego County Attorney’s Office. “It is a priority for our office that we treat victims with dignity, respect, courtesy and sensitivity.

“Even in cases where we are unable to file charges because we cannot prove the crime beyond reasonable doubt, we contact the victims so they can meet with us so we can explain why a case cannot be filed and respond to their questions. We also offer them trauma awareness services through our Victim Assistance Unit and in one safe place: the North County Family Justice Center.”

Araiza has filed a lawsuit against San Diego State University for damage to its reputation, according to a document reviewed by ESPN.

The state of San Diego said in a statement to ESPN that the university student’s investigation is “ongoing” and “a completion date has yet to be confirmed.”

The investigation was continued in July 2022 after police informed the university that it would not jeopardize the criminal investigation.

Football player on vintage cover of Sports Illustrated looks broken.

It is created from the chest up, no. 11 on his wrinkled purple Minnesota Vikings jersey, barely visible. The sky behind him is blue, but the midday sun beats down on his face. The player squints, has sweaty, shaggy hair with a couple of gray strands, and his mouth is open and gasping. Scars adorn his chin.

Beat, but stand still. Still looking for a chance to win.

“Toughest Chicano: Viking Defender Joe Capp” is on the cover of the July 20, 1970 issue. Nothing more.

I first saw him in the late 1990s while trying to learn more about Kappa, who died Monday at age 85 after a 15-year battle with dementia. Even then, I knew my place in the sport: on the sidelines. While my beloved cousins ​​Vic and Plas and our best friend Art ran the neighborhood pigskin and Madden games, my noodle hand and butterfly fingers read books and articles about the sport’s past.

One of them must have mentioned Kapp, because the brief sketches of his career that I came across stuck with me. His short, edgy name, of course. The general impression is that I got the impression that although he was not the most talented player, he remained a tough opponent. Kapp’s signature move that seemed to turn on all the reviews: While most quarterbacks of his era tried to dodge the invaders, as they clambered a few yards, he dropped his shoulder and slammed into them—and always got the upper hand.

Once the Internet became a thing, I decided to see what else I could learn about it. That’s how I came across the cover of Kapp’s Coolest Chicano.

I was already politically awakened, but still trying to figure out where my place was in Southern California. Calling myself a Chicano didn’t fit with my libertarian ranch spirit, which felt the term was outdated and used only by the left.

The Kapp cover almost changed everything. If a Super Bowl quarterback like him could embrace the term, why couldn’t I?

But I also felt bewildered. None of the articles I read about Kappa, who I quickly learned was the son of a Mexican-American woman and a German father, ever mentioned his ethnicity. Why? And if the history books didn’t say anything like that, what else did they hide?

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Joe Kapp is lifted high into the air by the Green Bay Packers’ Lee Roy Cuffey (60) after he passed a ball on Dec. 10. December 3, 1967 in Minneapolis.

(Robert Walsh/Associated Press)

This simple cover opened up a world of pride and passion for the search for truth that continues to this day.

Twenty years after I first saw it, I still think “Coolest Chicano” is one of the most daring magazine covers ever. As Hispanics continue to struggle for prominence in popular culture and especially in the media, having one of the most famous publications in the United States use such a meaningful term—it was the “Hispanic” of its day, kids—remains a landmark achievement. It also shows how ridiculously simple representation can be.

I mean, if fucking Sports Illustrated can do it, then anyone can.

The SI’s use of “Chicano” might impress today, but in 1970 it was downright radical. The Chicano movement was in full force and disrupted the status quo. Earlier that year, the La Raza Unida party was formed and disrupted elections in Texas and Los Angeles through voting. About a week after the cover appeared, the United Farm Workers signed contracts with vine growers that had been boycotted for years. A month later, an anti-Vietnam War protest in East Los Angeles ended in violence: deputies beat protesters and killed three people, including pioneering Chicano journalist Ruben Salazar.

At a time when headlines about Mexican Americans depicted us as criminals, immigrants, or activists, Sports Illustrated portrayed Kappa and the Chicanos as admirable. We can disrupt the status quo. We might as well go to the Super Bowl.

The Toughest Chicano cover was so iconic that it became a title Biography of Capps 2019 and is mentioned in all the memoirs about him published now. But what the Sport Illustrated dedication and accompanying article did not hint at was that Capp would exemplify the spiritual and mental resilience that all outstanding Mexican-Americans must maintain.

Kapp is out of the running for the NFL Hall of Fame, but his resume remains impressive. He was the leader of the last Cal Bears to make it to the Rose Bowl and one of the first college Hispanics. Kapp remains one of only two quarterbacks to have led teams to both the Gray Cup and the Canadian Football League Super Bowl (the other being Joe Theismann). He was Cal’s head coach during the infamous 1982 “The Play” faceoff against the Stanford Cardinal, which ended in an incredible last-second victory for the Bears.

However, Kapp’s career may have been more significant off the pitch.

He filed a groundbreaking antitrust lawsuit against the NFL when no football team hired him during the off-season following his Super Bowl run. After his playing career ended, he became a motivational speaker for youth, set up a scholarship fund in his own name, and spoke out against the anti-Hispanic racism he faced throughout his career and continued long after.

Kapp also spoke publicly about the mental issues that plagued him later in life, which suggested that his family originated from the many hits their patriarch received on the pitch. Kapp joined a 2017 class-action lawsuit against the NFL alleging that the league’s long-term neglect of concussions and hard hitting resulted in brain damage to former players.

In the end, Kapp won, damn it.

“I’m aware of my reputation and enjoy it,” he told Sports Illustrated in a first-person narration that accompanied his 1970 cover. “I was called halfway in the collision to look for another.”

“The coolest Chicano”, indeed. Joe Cap, ¡introduce!