Former NFL star

Tongan immigrant goes from NFL player to opera star

The 6-foot-5, 290-pound Ta'u Pupu'a played football and studied music at Weber State University, the Deseret News reported.

"I heard him singing in one of the practice rooms at Weber. I was walking down the hall and heard him sing and I thought, 'My, what a wonderful voice' and (I) knocked on the door," said Evelyn Harris, Pupu'a's college voice teacher. "We became acquainted and he became my student."

Pupu'a was known for playing football, Harris remembered, "but he also loved to sing."

O.J. Simpson granted parole

A four-person panel for Nevada Board of Prisons ruled unanimously on Thursday that former NFL star Simpson - who was famously acquitted of the 1994 double murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman - would receive parole for his 2008 conviction for armed robbery/kidnapping.

The parole hearing saw Simpson speak to the board, but more notably it saw his daughter, Arnelle Simpson, simply ask for her father back.