Lifestyle
Former Ravens and Seahawks Running Back Alex Collins Dead at 28
Alex Collins, a running back who played five seasons in the National Football League, is dead.
The Baltimore Ravens, one of Alex’s former NFL teams, announced his death Monday … it’s unclear when he died, ditto for the cause of death.
Alex had his two best NFL seasons with the Ravens in 2017 and 2018, and the team is remembering him “for the light and love he brought to so many people in his life.”
TMZSports.com
The Ravens say Alex was “quick to greet everyone with a smile, a genuinely kind person who carried a special joy and passion wherever he went.”
The Seattle Seahawks, the team that selected Alex in the 2016 NFL Draft out of Arkansas, says the franchise is “absolutely heartbroken” by his death.
Alex had two stints with the Seahawks … he played with Seattle as a rookie in 2016 and then returned to the club for the 2020 and 2021 NFL seasons.
Overall, Alex played in 50 NFL games … racking up 1,997 rushing yards, 467 receiving yards and 19 total touchdowns.
Alex was out of pro football altogether in 2022 before signing this year with the Memphis Showboats of the United States Football League, ending the season on injured reserve.
He was 28.
RIP
Lifestyle
'Brotherless Night,' an ambitious novel about Sri Lankan civil war, wins $150K prize
The writer V. V. Ganeshananthan has won this year’s Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, for her novel Brotherless Night. This is the second year of the prize, which awards English-language writing by women and nonbinary authors. Winners of the award receive $150,000.
Brotherless Night centers on a young woman named Sashi, in 1981, who wants to become a doctor. But her dreams get upended as her family gets swept up in the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the minority insurgent group known as the Tamil Tigers. “I was interested in writing about the gray space between militarized societies and questions of choice and coercion,” Ganeshananthan told WBUR’s Here & Now in a 2023 interview.
In a statement announcing the win, the prize jury called the book “ambitious and beautifully written,” and praised Ganeshananthan’s characters for asking readers to “consider how history is told, whom it serves, and the many truths it leaves out.”
The prize is named after Canadian Pulitzer-Prize winning author Carol Shields, who died in 2003. The first novel awarded last year was When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar. The money awarded is higher than most literary prizes. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize, for instance, receive $15,000. On top of the money, winners of the Carol Shields prize win a residency at the Fogo Island Inn, on the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The shortlisted books include Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, Daughter by Claudia Dey, Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote, and A History of Burning by Janika Oza. Finalists will receive $12,500.
Lifestyle
Space Taxi Ready for Takeoff As Dream Chaser Prepares for Launch
Lifestyle
A High Stakes Obstacle Course, for Dogs
The dogs in the event, which has typically been dominated by Border collies, are grouped by height rather than breed, creating a more chaotic vibe than the rehearsed perfection of the regular dog show.
-
Politics1 week ago
Australian lawmakers send letter urging Biden to drop case against Julian Assange on World Press Freedom Day
-
World1 week ago
Brussels, my love? Champage cracked open to celebrate the Big Bang
-
News1 week ago
A group of Republicans has united to defend the legitimacy of US elections and those who run them
-
Politics1 week ago
House Dems seeking re-election seemingly reverse course, call on Biden to 'bring order to the southern border'
-
World1 week ago
‘It’s going to be worse’: Brazil braces for more pain amid record flooding
-
Politics1 week ago
'Stop the invasion': Migrant flights in battleground state ignite bipartisan backlash from lawmakers
-
World1 week ago
German socialist candidate attacked before EU elections
-
World1 week ago
Spain and Argentina trade jibes in row before visit by President Milei