Former NFL wide receiver Henry Ruggs III has apologized to the family of the woman he killed in a fatal 2021 DUI crash on Tuesday.

In 2023, Ruggs was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from the crash that killed a 23-year-old woman, Tina Tintor, and her dog in November 2021.

Let out temporarily on special release, the 26-year-old spoke at Hope for Prisoners – an event for former and current prisoners – expressing his regret for what happened almost four years ago when asked what he would say to Tintor’s family.

“I wish I could turn back the hands of time,” Ruggs said, according to a video taken by Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Vincent Bonsignore. “I would love for them to meet the real Henry Ruggs and not the one that was escaping from something.

“I sincerely apologize for not only being a part of that situation, but the fact my face is always in the news, my face is always in the newspaper so they have to constantly be reminded of the situation, be reminded of me. Those memories have to continue to rise because of all the fame and notoriety that I have which I never asked for, I never liked.”

Ruggs was traveling more than 150 mph – his alcohol level more than twice the legal limit – before his car rear-ended another car, killing the driver, Tintor, prosecutors have said. Ruggs pleaded guilty to one count of driving while impaired, resulting in death, and one count of vehicular manslaughter.

Ruggs’ collison resulted in the death of a woman and her dog. Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Clark County District Judge Jennifer Schwartz sentenced Ruggs to a minimum of 36 months and a maximum of 120 months. He is eligible for parole in August 2026.

When Ruggs was sentenced to prison, Tintor’s parents said in a prepared statement: “We pray that we all take away the importance of looking out for one another, remembering everyone you meet is another human’s loved one. And we pray that we can all move forward in caring for each other with consideration, compassion, and love.”

Ruggs was a first-round draft pick by the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020 when they selected him with the 12th overall pick out of Alabama.

In his two seasons with the Raiders, he played in 20 games and had 921 receiving yards and four touchdowns.

According to his former Alabama and Raiders teammate Josh Jacobs, Ruggs still holds ambitions of returning to the NFL.

“Keeping up with him and hearing him talk, it brings me spirits because he’s always positive,” Jacobs said on “The Pivot Podcast” in April. “He’s positive about everything.

“He’s training. They let him train and things like that, so I’m like: ‘When you come out, man, I don’t know if you will get a chance.’ I’ve been talking to some people for him. They’ve been saying a couple of teams are willing to give him a chance. I’m like: ‘When you get that chance, man, you better not ever – don’t look back, and prove to yourself and prove to everybody that one decision don’t define you and who you are as a man.’”

Members of England’s women’s national soccer team say they will avoid social media during future major tournaments due to the “damaging” online abuse they can receive.

The England players spoke to the media as the Lionesses prepare to defend their Women’s Euros crown at the 2025 edition of the tournament which kicks off in Switzerland on July 2.

Striker Alessia Russo – who is coming off a Champions League-winning season with Arsenal – detailed the negative comments women’s soccer players can receive and how they can push them away from the platforms.

“I have faced it in the past and I think most players here have. When I was younger, I probably got sucked into it more,” the 26-year-old told reporters on Tuesday, per the BBC.

“I read it more than I should have and listened to it more than I should have. The only opinions that matter are (those of) my teammates, my coaches and my family. In my first Euros, I was on social media and I would have a look, have a scroll, and I got caught in a trap sometimes.

“Going into the World Cup (in 2023), I completely came off everything and I had people to run my Instagram. I just focused on the tournament. It’s personal preference and whatever works for the team. Staying away from it and staying focused as a team is what works for me.”

Arsenal forward Russo was one of just many England players who spoke about the impact social media abuse can have on their well-being.

Chelsea star Lauren James said “the abuse never really stops,” but that she has become adept at coping with it.

“You kind of just ignore it all. I guess when it’s your first time though, maybe it might touch someone,” James told reporters. “But I’m used to it now, so I kind of just brush it off my shoulder.”

James (second from right) says the online abuse “never really stops.” Nick Potts/PA/AP

The 23-year-old added: “I go through phases, sometimes I’m on (social media), sometimes I’m not. The abuse never really stops.

“Sometimes, it could be nothing to do with my playing or my performance, or win or lose. It could be someone, they’ve lost at FIFA (the video game now known as EA Sports FC) with my card or my card didn’t score or my card scored against them and they lost and then they’re sending me abuse.”

Increase in online abuse

The England women’s players’ comments come after England’s tennis star Katie Boulter detailed to the BBC the online abuse and death threats she has received in recent weeks, saying her family were sent threatening messages during her time at the French Open earlier this month.

There has been an uptick in abuse directed towards athletes in recent years, in particular in relation to online sports betting.

Earlier this month, three-time Olympic gold medalist Gabby Thomas was harrassed by a “grown man” at a Grand Slam Track event in relation to an online bet the man had made. He was later banned from that platform after bragging about his abuse and a subsequent won bets on X.

Gambling on sports is now legal in 39 US states, which experts warn has opened the floodgates for a torrent of abuse towards professional and collegiate leagues from bettors who blame them for their financial losses.

According to an analysis of abusive messages sent via social media to college athletes, coaches and officials during the Division I championships, 12% – some 740 messages – were related to sports betting, according to the NCAA.

Meanwhile, over 540 abusive betting-related messages – including death threats – were leveled at men’s and women’s basketball student-athletes and game officials during March Madness, a preliminary set of data trends found.

The United States appears to be moving closer to joining Israel’s conflict with Iran with a possible strike on the country’s key nuclear facilities – including the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, which is hidden deep inside a mountain.

Days into Israel’s attacks on Iran and its nuclear program, Israeli leaders are waiting to learn whether US President Donald Trump will help them finish the job.

Trump is increasingly warming to using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities and souring on the idea of a diplomatic solution to the crisis, two officials familiar with the ongoing discussions told CNN.

“I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do. I can tell you this, that Iran’s got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate. And I said, why didn’t you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday.

Iran experts warn that a US attack on Iran could draw it into a quagmire even more challenging than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – a drawn-out confrontation that could last the duration of Trump’s presidency and exact a heavy toll on American lives and resources at Israel’s behest.

“Any attack by the US will lead to full-scale attack by the Iranians against US bases in the region, and a full-scale war between the US and Iran,” Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute in Washington, DC, told CNN.

Tehran may not be able to sustain a long fight with the US, but it won’t be an easy war for Washington either, he said.

“Iran is a very large country, which means there would be a very large number of targets the United States would have to hit to take out Iran’s ability to strike back,” Parsi said, noting that this would be happening when there isn’t widespread support for a war with Iran in Trump’s own camp.

A US strike on Iran would open up a “Pandora’s box” and “most likely consume the rest of President Trump’s presidency,” Ellie Geranmayeh, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told CNN.

“Once you open up this Pandora’s box, we have no idea where things go,” Geranmayeh said. “Trump has, in the past, stepped back from the brink of war with Iran, he has the ability to do so again.”

Iran is ‘not one to surrender’

The Islamic Republic already sees the US as complicit in Israel’s attacks on Iran, saying the Israelis are attacking it with American weapons; and some Iranian officials have said that Tehran has already prepared itself for a “full-blown, drawn-out war.”

On Wednesday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran would not back down, a day after Trump called for “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” in a social media post.

“Let the Americans know that the Iranian nation is not one to surrender, and any military intervention on their part will undoubtedly result in irreparable damage,” Khamenei said in a national address.

Direct US involvement in the conflict could see Iran activate what remains of its proxies across Iraq, Yemen and Syria, which have previously launched attacks on American assets in the region.

Knowing that it can’t outright win a conflict against Israel and the US, experts say Tehran could seek to engage in a war of attrition, where it tries to exhaust its adversary’s will or capacity to fight in a drawn-out and damaging conflict, as it did during the decade-long war it fought with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in the 1980s.

“The Iranian strategy may end up being just to try to sustain themselves, strike back as much as they can, and hope that Trump eventually tries to cut the war short, as he did in Yemen,” Parsi said.

After months of strikes on Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, the US in May struck a ceasefire deal with the group, to Israel’s dismay.

“Here is how Tehran sees a chance of winning such a war of attrition,” Abdolrasool Divsallar, senior researcher at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research, wrote on X. “Benefiting in the long term from its offensive capabilities and exhausting US-Israel combined defense forces.”

“US entrance into this war is a bad and costly decision for everyone,” Divsallar added.

Not the end of the nuclear program

In a Persian language post directed at Trump on X, former Iranian nuclear negotiator Hossein Mousavian, who now lives in New Jersey, called on the president to be a “president of peace,” warning that a strike on Fordow would be both fruitless – as Iran has probably moved some of the advanced centrifuges to other locations – and likely to push Iran to a seek a nuclear bomb.

“With one wrong decision, you may not only be responsible for Iran’s decision to build a nuclear bomb, but also lead the United States into a war whose consequences for the American people will be far more damaging than the US attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq,” Mousavian wrote.

Parsi said if Iran’s nuclear program is destroyed, it could just be a matter of time to build a bomb should the government choose to do so.

“The Iranians have the knowhow and capacity to rebuild everything,” Parsi said. “All it (an attack) does is that it sets it back while dramatically increasing Iran’s motivation to build a nuclear weapon.”

Fordow is seen as the most difficult and sought-after target for Israel in its desire to destroy Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. But what exactly is inside the secretive facility is unclear, Parsi said.

“The main enrichment was taking place in Natanz (nuclear facility). Fordow was doing other things, more research,” he said, adding that it’s not entirely clear where Iran keeps its stockpile of enriched uranium.

Whether a US strike can successfully destroy the complex that is hidden deep in a mountain close to the holy city of Qom also remains unclear.

A close-up image shows buildings at Iran’s Natanz Nuclear Facility on June 14, 2025, after they sustained heavy damage from Israeli military strikes. Maxar Technologies

Fordow’s main halls are an estimated 80 to 90 meters (around 262 to 295 feet) underground – safe from any aerial bomb known to be possessed by Israel.

Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the US, has said that only the US Air Force has the weapon that can destroy the site. But analysts caution that there’s no guarantee that even America’s “bunker buster” bomb – the GBU-57/B, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator – could do the job.

Potential radioactive fallout?

Israel’s relentless bombing of Iran and its nuclear facilities has raised regional concern about potential radioactive fallout, which could spread far beyond Iran’s borders should a nuclear plant be struck.

Iran has only one nuclear power plant, located in the southeastern city of Bushehr – and Israel has not targeted it.

Bombing Fordow wouldn’t create the same risk as bombing a nuclear reactor, two experts told CNN.

Scott Roecker, the vice president for Nuclear Materials Security at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, said there wouldn’t be a major radiation dispersal risk at Fordow “because that enriched uranium is fresh, as we call it in the industry.”

“It’s not been run through a reactor, and so you wouldn’t have radiation spread out over a large area, like you would, for example, if they would bomb Bushehr, the operational nuclear power plant, that would result in the dispersal of a lot of radiation.”

“It’d be localized around the site, and because it’s buried underground too, I don’t know you know how much of that would even be released,” Roecker added.

Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior director at the Iran program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a Washington, DC-based pro-Israel think tank, described the potential damage as being a chemical problem – a different kind of fallout than bombing a nuclear reactor.

There would be some concern, he said, but noted the risk is not as large as hitting a live reactor.

Celebrities have long put their names on everything from shoes to cosmetics to snacks. Now, they’re attaching their brand to mobile phone networks.

Trump Mobile, announced on Monday, is the latest cellular service pegged to a high-profile figure, joining the likes of wireless services from actors such as Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds. Major carriers are no longer the only ones cashing in on the airwaves that power the devices in our pockets. Comedians, sports teams and retailers have launched their own mobile networks as the technology has become more accessible to companies outside the telecoms sp

Instead of building their own networks, these providers — known as mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) — lease spectrum from major carriers like Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. That makes it easier for anyone to launch their own network so long as they can buy the bandwidth to power it, while providing another way for major carriers to monetize their networks.

MVNO networks aren’t new; Virgin Group founder and entrepreneur Richard Branson launched Virgin Mobile – an MVNO – in 1999. But the recent wave of celebrity-fronted MVNOs likely stems from a couple of trends: a decrease in loyalty to major carriers; technology that facilitates business operations like customer support and billing; and the prevalence of electronic SIM cards that make it easier for consumers to switch plans and carrier services.

Consumers are more faithful to their phones than they are to their carriers, said Michael Levin, an analyst with Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, a firm that studies consumer behavior in the mobile carrier market. That could explain why customers are willing to ditch their legacy carrier for something new.

“The technology made it a little easier to switch. And at the same time, consumers became a lot more loyal to the phone manufacturer,” he said. “And then the carrier was kind of less important.”

Trump Mobile, like other MVNOs, is pitching itself as a more accessible alternative to the big three carriers, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. For $47.45 a month (plus applicable taxes and fees), subscribers get unlimited data, talk and texting, although data speeds are slowed after the first 20GB. Telehealth services and roadside assistance are also included.

“A big part of what we’ve done … has been focused on technology for people who have been underserved, whether that’s been in crypto or anything else, but one of the places where we felt there was lackluster performance was in the mobile industry,” Donald Trump Jr. said an event at Trump Tower in New York on Monday.

The launch comes after actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes last week launched a mobile service called SmartLess Mobile, named after the trio’s popular podcast. SmartLess Mobile is intended to provide cheap capped data plans for consumers, since many people spend most of their time on Wi-Fi networks, SmartLess Mobile CEO Paul McAleese previously told CNN.

“Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds purchased an ownership stake in MVNO Mint Mobile in 2019. He’s been the face of the network since then, even though T-Mobile bought the carrier for $1.35 billion in 2023.

While AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile are the dominant players in the US mobile market, there is some data to suggest MVNO networks are growing. Consultancy group Opensignal found that MVNOs are consistently gaining more bring-your-own-device subscribers than they lose, unlike traditional network providers.

Even though plans from MVNOs may not always be cheaper than those from mainstream carriers, they often offer compelling promotions.

“You get this very exciting offer, for example: three months at $15 a month. But thereafter then you go back to $45,” said Octavio Garcia, a senior research analyst at market research firm Forrester. “But when you are done with three months, there is a new offer that brings you down to $30, not $45.”

These kinds of mobile networks might feel like a relatively new trend in the United States, but they’re common abroad, according to Garcia and Runar Bjørhovde, an analyst at market research firm Canalys.

Walmart Mexico’s Bait MVNO network, for example, has 19.8 million users, according to the company’s first quarter results released in April. In Italy, there’s a mobile network branded after the AC Milan soccer team.

There’s also been a rise in “MVNO-in-a-box services,” or companies that provide a package of offerings like electronic SIM distribution, network access and billing to help clients set up their own MVNO networks. These types of services are growing, with Juniper Research estimating that global revenue from MVNO-in-a-box services will surpass $1 billion in 2029.

“To see that it’s easier to set up MVNO as a smaller company, I think it’s a sign of a telecom industry that’s moving in a certain direction,” said Bjørhovde.

The Indiana Fever reached the WNBA Commissioner’s Cup final with an 88-71 win over the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday, but it was a bad-tempered game that will likely be remembered for a few physical altercations between the players.

The main talking point came in the third quarter when Sun guard Jacy Sheldon jabbed Fever superstar Caitlin Clark in the eye while she was defending her. Clark then turned around and was bumped again by Sheldon before pushing her away.

Connecticut’s Marina Mabrey then came charging into the scuffle and bumped Clark hard to the ground. Mabrey wasn’t ejected but instead received a technical foul along with Clark and Sheldon, who was also given a flagrant 1.

After the game, Fever head coach Stephanie White said there “wasn’t an explanation for the tech” that Clark received.

“I think it was pretty obvious that stuff was brewing,” she added. “When the officials don’t get control of the ball game, when they allow that stuff to happen – and it’s been happening all season long, it’s not just this game – this is what happens.”

After hitting a dagger from deep to put the Fever up by 20 with 3:24 remaining in the contest, Clark turned to give Sheldon and the Sun bench an earful before running back onto the court to hype up the home crowd.

The tetchy affair then came to a head with just 46 seconds remaining when the Fever’s Sophie Cunningham fouled Sheldon hard as she drove to the basket, leading to a scuffle between both sets of players that had to be broken up by staff and security. Cunningham, Sheldon and her Sun teammate Lindsay Allen were ejected for the incident.

White added of the game’s incidents: “I started talking to the officials in the first quarter and we knew this was going to happen. You could tell it was going to happen. So they’ve got to get control of it, they’ve got to be better.

Clark was bumped to the ground by Marina Mabrey, who escaped ejection. Dylan Buell/Getty Images

“I’ve seen quite a few dustups in the league so far, so I think it’s a league-wide issue. Bad officiating is bad officiating. The game has changed so much; players are faster, they’re better, they’re bigger, they’re stronger. Everybody is getting better, except the officials.”

Clark finished with a joint game-high 20 points, including hitting four of six three-pointers, to go with six assists and two steals.

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Kelsey Mitchell added another 17 points for the Fever, Natasha Howard had 16 points and 12 rebounds and Damiris Dantas added 13 off the bench.

For the Sun, Tina Charles had 20 points and Olivia Nelson-Ododa had 14 points and eight rebounds.

The final of the Commissioner’s Cup – whose games, except for the final, also count towards the WNBA regular season standings – will take place on July 1 with the Minnesota Lynx hosting the Fever.