{"id":16962,"date":"2012-09-24T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T19:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16962"},"modified":"2012-09-24T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:43:46","slug":"wrongly-convicted-man-gets-chance-to-play-in-ufl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16962","title":{"rendered":"Wrongly Convicted Man Gets Chance To Play In UFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who was exonerated after spending five years in prison for a rape he did not commit has another chance to pursue his dream of playing professional football.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Banks<\/strong>, a highly recruited standout football player at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, will play for the Las Vegas Locos of the United Football League this season. Since his release from prison, <strong>Banks<\/strong> has tried out for NFL teams, including the Seattle Seahawks and former USC coach <strong>Pete Carroll<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongrats to Brian Banks!,\u201d <strong>Carroll<\/strong> tweeted Wednesday. \u201cSigned by the UFL\u2019s Las Vegas club\u2026 we\u2019re fired up for him!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who was exonerated after spending five years in prison for a rape he did not commit has another chance to pursue his dream of playing professional football. Brian Banks, a highly recruited standout football player at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, will play for the Las Vegas Locos of the United Football League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}