Internationale Funkausstellung, or IFA, is Europe’s largest trade show for consumer electronics that takes place from Aug. 31 to Sept. 5 in Berlin. And it’s going to be a little different this year.
IFA is not really about phones — it never was. The big phone show is Mobile World Congress in February, and there are tons of brand-specific events throughout the year. But a few major phone makers, including Samsung, LG, and Huawei, often launch big-name phones at IFA, stealing the headlines from the TVs, computers, wearables and tons of other gadgets unveiled there.
Not this year. Samsung already launched its Galaxy Note 9; Huawei will likely launch a new Mate smartphone in October, and word on the street is LG won’t launch a phone at the show, either.
And all of that is A-OK. IFA phone launches always seemed a bit forced anyway — as if the manufacturers don’t really like the late August/early September time slot and have to grumpily adjust their schedule to make those launches happen on time. Let’s face it: New iPhones are probably just weeks away, and no phone maker wants to be eclipsed by that. I’m not surprised we’ve finally reached the point where basically all major manufacturers have removed their phone launches to either a month ahead or a month after IFA.
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve got nothing against phones, especially if they’re of the innovative variety, like the Asus ROG phone (which we hope to get a glimpse of at IFA this year). But IFA is just too much fun (legions of air purifiers and washing machines aside) to be eclipsed by a couple of phone launches.
No phones, lots of fun
In 2016, the hottest exhibit at the show was LG’s booth itself.
Image: MICHAEL RATHMAYR/MASHABLE
So what can we expect this year? Well, Asus, Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Bang & Olufsen and Beyerdynamic all have events at this year’s show, and that means tons of TVs, monitors, laptops, desktop PCs, speakers, and headphones. LG and Samsung will also have a presence at IFA, and I don’t doubt the two Korean giants will try to outshine one another with ginormous TVs as they do nearly ever year. Panasonic also typically has a huge, exciting booth, and Philips will likely have something to show as well.
Fitbit announced its new Charge 3 fitness tracker just days ago, ruining the surprise, but other wearables makers, including Casio, will have a presence at the show, so we might see a cool new smartwatch (or three) at the show as well.
Finally, though we can’t go into specifics, through the grapevine we heard there will be new robots, self-driving tech, and cool AR/VR stuff at the show as well. And let’s not forget that every year, some unknown Chinese manufacturer brings a totally crazygadget that ends up being a star.
We probably won’t see too many Pokemon Go-related gadgets this year. But there will surely be another fad.
Image: Michael Rathmayr/Mashable
Of course, IFA won’t be completely absent of phones this year: Huawei’s sub-brand Honor will likely launch a new phone, and Sony and HTC might (key word is might) have something to show as well.
Still, with no flagship phone from a major brand (last year there was just one, the LG V30), this year’s IFA will be a bit different than usual. And if fun and crazy gadgets take the center stage instead of (often boring) phones, well, I wouldn’t mind that at all.
Heavy clashes between armed groups have erupted in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, since Sunday evening, officials said.
Two people were reportedly killed while several others were wounded in the clashes on Monday, as the health ministry declared a state of emergency in the capital, according to local media.
It remains unclear who the armed groups are affiliated to.
The National Committee for Human Rights in Libya said in a statement on Monday that it was deeply concerned over the outbreak of the violence, Libya News reported.
The statement called on all parties to the conflict to put down their arms and cease fighting immediately.
The incident follows a deadly attack last week on a checkpoint in western Libya, in which six soldiers loyal the Government of National Accord (GNA) were killed.
On Saturday, an affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group claimed responsibility for the attack in Zliten, a town that lies 170km from the capital.
Libyan authorities announced the arrest of the suspected perpetrators.
“Soldiers of the caliphate assaulted the ‘Wadi Kaam’ gate, on the Zliten-Khoms road two days ago, targeting a gathering of apostate security elements” loyal to Libya’s UN-backed unity government, the armed group said via its Amaq media arm.
In an interview on Saturday with Libya’s private al-Ahrar broadcaster, the unity government’s Interior Minister Abdelsalam Ashour said “the perpetrators of the attack were apprehended”, without specifying how many people were arrested.
Seven years after the 2011 NATO-backed ouster of Muammar Ghaddafi, Libya remains divided between the UN-backed GNA in Tripoli and a rival administration in the east, backed by military leader Khalifa Haftar.
A myriad of armed groups and people traffickers have taken advantage of the chaos to gain a foothold in the North African country.
“Concern” was the word Lewis Hamilton used to describe his feelings about the rest of the season after his title rival Sebastian Vettel’s dominant victory in the Belgian Grand Prix.
Vettel did in his Ferrari what he should already have done in the previous two races in Germany and Hungary, but let slip through his fingers.
Although Hamilton took a superb pole position in wet conditions, the pre-race fears of Mercedes came true within 25 seconds of the start. Vettel used his car’s superior traction out of the slow first corner and greater straight-line speed to drag past on the straight.
After a brief fright when it looked like Force India’s Esteban Ocon might try a move down the inside into the Les Combes chicane as four cars headed side-by-side towards the corner, Vettel swept into the lead. And like that, he was gone.
Hamilton still leads the championship by 17 points but the message from the classic Spa-Francorchamps track was loud and clear – Ferrari have the fastest car in Formula 1.
The size of Mercedes’ task
It took seconds for Vettel wrestle the lead from Hamilton
“They’ve had the upper hand on us for some time,” Hamilton pointed out afterwards.
Vettel crashed out of the lead in a late-race rain shower at Hockenheim, and rain again came to the rescue in Hungary. Ferrari had been the faster car all weekend but in a downpour in qualifying, Hamilton excelled as usual. Vettel was only fourth and finished the race second.
Hamilton spent summer jetting around Europe, America and the Caribbean, and Vettel spent the break at home in Switzerland, and when they reconvened in Belgium, little had changed about the competitive picture, despite both teams introducing engine upgrades.
But again there was rain, and again Hamilton took a stunning pole – by more than 0.7secs from Vettel, whose Ferrari team had a kind of collective meltdown in the chaos brought on the by the weather.
The rain came as all the drivers took to the track at the start of final qualifying. The front-runners all returned to the pits for treaded tyres, but Ferrari were not ready. There were no tyres. Vettel was left sitting in the pit-lane as mechanics ran around in a flap, and he swore at the team over the radio as they tried to wheel him back into the garage, warning them not to damage the car.
Fernando Alonso has had easier days, hurtling through traffic after being shunted by Nico Hulkenberg
“We had a wobble, obviously,” Vettel said afterwards.
Not on Sunday this time, though.
The race went exactly to plan for Vettel. Once past Hamilton, a safety car for the massive first-corner pile-up gave him some fresh concerns but he handled the re-start well, helped by what Hamilton said was his car’s biggest deficit in Spa – poor traction.
That meant Hamilton could not stay close enough to Vettel at the re-start to do what the German had done to him earlier, and the Ferrari disappeared into the distance.
Its advantage was not huge – Vettel had pulled a gap of just under four seconds before Hamilton came back at him a little before the first stops – but it was more than enough to control the race.
Vettel described it as “a great weekend”. On the championship, his mantra all season has been that Ferrari simply need to focus on keeping up in the development race and improving the car. “The key will be to be fast, to have the speed,” he says.
How big a worry is it for Hamilton?
The crowd cheer and chant for the Ferrari drivers just as they always have in Monza
Spa raises genuine concerns for Mercedes. It is a power track and Ferrari were the quickest team. The next race, Ferrari’s home event in Monza, is also a power track. And while the one after that, Singapore, is not, it is something of a bête noir for Mercedes, and they are already expecting a difficult weekend there.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said he saw “many deficits that are obvious, which caused us not to perform as we expect”.
Asked what these were, he pointed to traction and Mercedes over-use of their tyres, the latter something of an occasionally recurring theme for the team.
Ferrari’s apparent engine advantage was also a subject for discussion.
Hamilton referred to it afterwards, saying: “He drove past me like I wasn’t even there on the straights” and adding that Ferrari had “a few trick things going on in the car”.
Inevitably this was leapt on as a potential implication that he thought Ferrari might be doing something underhand – not least because governing body the FIA was asking questions about the same thing back in May, only to eventually give the all-clear.
But Hamilton said that was not what he meant.
“We all have trick things on our cars,” he said. “Trick is just a word for something special, I guess.
“I’m not saying that there’s anything illegal on it. I’m just saying we all have something trick. Trick is just something that helps you bring that extra bit of performance. That’s all I mean.
“I don’t mean anything to it so please don’t read into it and please don’t twist my words and say that I say they’re doing anything illegal because they’re not.
“They just outperformed us today and we’ve got to work harder, but there are things that they have on the car that we might not have on the car and vice versa and we’ve got to try and find out what and improve on that. That’s it.”
Do Ferrari actually have an engine advantage?
There is no doubt that Ferrari were quicker on the straights. But that is not necessarily down to an engine advantage.
Mercedes were running more downforce on their car. They were marginally quicker in the middle sector of the lap, where the majority of the corners are, through practice and qualifying.
The downforce would help with tyre usage – but also slows the car on the straights. Poor traction out of slow corners also affects straight-line speed.
Wolff insisted that the Ferrari engine also had an advantage.
“They have a power advantage,” he said. “We have seen that yesterday in qualifying. It is at various parts of the straight, even if the exits are worse than ours, they keep pulling.”
But he also mentioned poor traction – and Hamilton said that coming out of the two slow corners at Bus Stop and La Source was “where we lose a lot of time, most of our time to be honest”.
Hamilton also returned to the issue of over-use of tyres. “He didn’t have to do any management, he was flat chat on the tyres, but I did.”
If Mercedes’ biggest loss in Spa was out of the slow corners, it gives Hamilton some hope for Monza this weekend.
“Luckily, there, apart from Turn One, it is not that slow, the chicanes,” he said.” So I am hoping the traction loss we are having in these super-slow corners won’t be as bad there.”
Vettel claimed his 52nd career victory, and his fifth this season
Last year, Hamilton won in Spa, but only after fending off Vettel’s faster car all race. But a week later Mercedes dominated at Monza.
Wolff said: “Spa was always a bit of a tricky one for us in the past as well. Monza was a good one, so I am very curious to see how it is going to go in Monza.
“Last year we were very much in control of the whole weekend. Ferrari had their worst weekend of the whole season performance-wise.
“I am not worried. I think we should still address the opportunities that exist within our car where we need to optimise and only that will make us win the championship.”
Hamilton said: “I truly trust and believe in my guys but these next string of races are going to be really telling. The next two or three races will show if they are going to sustain this high performance or it is going to be more tooth and nail.
“This is definitely the hardest season and it is going to continue to get harder and harder throughout. It is going to take the whole package being 100% to out-perform them. Sebastian did a great job today and didn’t make any mistakes. We just have to keep applying the pressure to him.”
Still freaking out over Sharp Objects? HBO has already moved on!
In a trailer that aired during Sharp Objects‘ finale, HBO showed a compilation clip for all the cool projects they have coming up in 2019 — and it included the very first Game of Thrones Season 8 footage.
Yes, yes, it’s only about a two-second clip. But the footage of an unhappy Sansa hugging a morose Jon is sure to keep fans speculating.
Game of Thrones is set to return for the final six episodes in the first half of 2019. We’ll be analyzing every second of footage in the meantime.
Iran’s top defence official has met Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and the country’s defence minister in Damascus, pledging to contribute to the war-torn country’s reconstruction.
Tehran has provided steady political, financial and military backing to Assad during the civil war which is in its eighth year.
On Sunday, Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami met his Syrian counterpart Ali Abdullah Ayyoub as well as Assad and said it was agreed with Syria that Iran would have “presence, participation and assistance” in reconstruction “and no third party will be influential in this issue”.
“Syria is at a very, very important juncture. It is passing through the critical stage and it is entering the very important stage of reconstruction,” said Hatami, in comments carried by Iranian state broadcaster IRIB.
Since it erupted in 2011, Syria’s war has cost it approximately $388bn, according to the United Nations’ Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.
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Last month, President Assad said reconstruction was his “top priority” in Syria, where more than 350,000 people have been killed and millions forced to flee their homes.
World powers, who long called for Assad’s removal, insist reconstruction aid should only come with political transition, but fellow regime ally Russia is pressing them to provide support.
According to comments carried by the state media, Assad told Hatami that Damascus and Tehran should set “long-term cooperation plans”.
Minister Ayoub also championed the two countries’ special relationship, saying that “Syrian-Iranian relations are a model for bilateral ties between independent and sovereign nations”.
The two countries have had strong ties for years – Iran has dispatched military forces to Syria but insists they are advisors, not fighters.
Iran-backed armed groups, including the powerful Lebanese Hezbollah movement, have also backed Assad’s troops.
With help from them and Russian warplanes, Assad has recaptured around two-thirds of the country and is now eyeing the northwest province of Idlib.
“Idlib will return to the nation’s bosom, and all Syrian soil will be cleansed of terrorism, either through reconciliation or ground operations,” said Ayoub who also slammed the US, which has established military bases in Syria to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group.
“The Americans are looking for a way to stay east of the Euphrates River to lock in their presence in this region,” said Ayoub.
The comments came a day after a senior US diplomat, ambassador William Roebuck, visited territory around those bases and said the US was “prepared to stay” in Syria to defeat ISIL, but was also “focused” on ousting Iran.
David Katz, who is believed to be the suspect in the Jacksonville, Florida, video game tournament shooting, was 24 years old and from Baltimore.
He had come to Florida to participate in the Madden NFL 19 competition at the Jacksonville Landing entertainment complex, which was live streamed on Twitch, where the shooting can be heard. The competition was held in a gaming bar that shares space with a pizzeria. Viewers can watch the games online and see the players.
Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said authorities believe Katz carried out the attack using at least one handgun. Williams said the suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot, adding authorities were still making final confirmation of his identity with the FBI assisting them in Baltimore. Two other people died and nine were injured.
Katz allegedly got upset about losing the game, according to some media reports.
The game’s maker, EA Sports, lists a David Katz as a 2017 championship winner.
Katz was active in eSports, tournaments where video game players compete, and get seen on social media playing. He was believed to be known as “Bread” and won the February 2017 Buffalo Bills tournament of the Madden NFL football game.
Myanmar’s senior military officials must be prosecuted for genocide and war crimes against the Rohingya Muslims and other ethnic minorities, a UN fact-finding mission has urged.
The mission, which was established by the UN Human Rights Council in March 2017, found that Myanmar’s armed forces had taken actions that “undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law”.
Speaking in Geneva on Monday, Marzuki Darusman, the chairman of the investigative mission said that his researchers had amassed a vast amount of primary informations, based on 875 interviews with witnesses and victims, satellite imagery, and verified photos and videos.
Marzuki said the victim accounts were “amongst the most shocking human rights violations” he had come across and that they would “leave a mark on all of us for the rest of our lives.”
One year since Myanmar army crackdown, Rohingya seek justice (2:44)
He described Myanmar’s military as having showed a “flagrant disregard for lives” and displayed “extreme levels of brutality”.
“The Rohingya are in a continuing situation of severe systemic and institutionalised oppression from birth to death,” Marzuki said.
The UN report said that military generals, including Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, must face investigation and prosecution for genocide in north Rakhine state, as well as crimes against humanity and other war crimes in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine states.
The report singles out Myanmar’s military, which is known as the Tatmadaw, but adds that other Myanmar security agencies were also involved in the abuses.
“Military necessity would never justify killing indiscriminately, gang-raping women, assaulting children, and burning entire villages,” the report said.
“The Tatmadaw’s tactics are consistently and grossly disproportionate to actual security threats, especially in Rakhine State, but also in northern Myanmar.
“The Tatmadaw’s contempt for human life, integrity and freedom, and for international law generally, should be a cause of concern for the entire population.”
Myanmar’s military is accused of involvement in murder, false imprisonment, torture, sexual slavery, and rape.
In Rakhine state, there was evidence of extermination and deportation, the report added.
“The crimes in Rakhine State, and the manner in which they were perpetrated, are similar in nature, gravity and scope to those that have allowed genocidal intent to be established in other contexts,” the mission concluded, adding there was “sufficient information” to prosecute the Tatmadaw’s chain of command.
Christopher Sidoti, a member of the investigatory committee, urged the UN Security Council and General Assembly to act on the findings of the report.
“We are convinced the international community holds the key to dismantling the destructive veil of impunity in Myanmar,” he said.
A Rohingya family in Balukhali camp [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
Criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi
A list of suspects, which included Min Aung Hlaing and other military commanders, was drawn up by the investigators.
The mission said a full list of suspects will be made available to any credible body pursuing accountability, adding that the case should be referred to the International Criminal Court, or an ad-hoc criminal tribunal.
Myanmar’s civilian leadership also drew criticism for its failure to prevent the abuses.
“The State Counsellor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has not used her de facto position as Head of Government, nor her moral authority, to stem or prevent the unfolding events in Rakhine State,” the report said.
The Government and the Tatmadaw have fostered a climate in which hate speech thrives, human rights violations are legitimized, and incitement to discrimination and violence facilitated.
UN report
The Nobel Peace Prize winner has been criticised internationally for her failure to speak out against abuses in Rakhine state and has had several human-rights awards rescinded for her stance.
The Rohingya: Silent Abuse – Al Jazeera World
In August 2017, Myanmar’s armed forces launched a campaign ostensibly against Rohingya armed groups in Rakhine state.
Investigators documented mass killings, the destruction of Rohingya dwellings, and “large-scale” gang rape by Myanmar soldiers.
“The Government and the Tatmadaw have fostered a climate in which hate speech thrives, human rights violations are legitimized, and incitement to discrimination and violence facilitated,” the report said.
The assault in Rakhine created a large humanitarian crisis in neighbouring Bangladesh, with more than 700,000 people crossing the border to flee the violence.
Myanmar’s army is also fighting predominantly Christian separatists in northern Kachin state, and several other armed groups with ethnic, religious, or political grievances across the country.
Chelsea enjoyed 81% of possession in their 2-1 Premier League win over Newcastle at St James’ Park.
Blues midfielder Jorginho completed more passes – 158 – than the whole of the Newcastle team combined.
But for all that time on the ball, Chelsea did not do very much. They managed only three shots on target – one more than Newcastle – and ultimately needed a fortunate own goal to take three points.
Chelsea must do more – especially, considering Liverpool and Manchester City’s impressive starts, if they want to be involved at the top of the table for the long haul.
Full-backs fail to pick Newcastle’s padlock
Chelsea’s starting XI against Newcastle
It might seem counter-intuitive considering left-back Marcos Alonso was key to both Chelsea goals on Sunday, but Maurizio Sarri’s full-backs are not as effective an attacking threat as their Liverpool and City counterparts.
When a side sit deep, it is very difficult to unpick them by playing narrow and in front of them.
For City, full-back Benjamin Mendy’s delivery from the left has given them a new dimension this season. Against Huddersfield last weekend, he delivered 12 open-play crosses, more than any other City player since the start of last season.
Against Brighton on Saturday, Liverpool’s Andrew Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold were dynamic and dangerous, overlapping at pace to get in positions close to the byeline from where they could get in telling crosses and cut-backs.
Andrew Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold’s combined touchmap shows how they repeatedly got into dangerous positions behind the Brighton defence
I just do not think Alonso and Cesar Azpilicueta are those sort of players.
Alonso is more like a midfielder – very elegant on the ball, clever with how he uses space and angles – but he does not have the pace to unsettle a defence.
Azpilicueta played for much of last season as one of previous boss Antonio Conte’s three centre-halves.
The demands on a full-back nowadays are totally different; it is a lot of running at high intensity.
Playing against a deep, well-organised defence, you have to get crosses in.
Marcos Alonso and Cesar Azpilicueta were kept wider and deeper by the Newcastle defence
It creates some chaos, an element of chance, in a defence. It gives the strikers something to attack and run on to rather than playing with their back to goal all the time.
Chelsea have some great headers of the ball up front in Olivier Giroud and Alvaro Morata. Why not use them?
It was crucial that Chelsea kept hold of the Belgian.
Hazard had five shots – the most of any Chelsea player – and regularly took on the Newcastle defence, with successful and unsuccessful dribbles shown as green and red triangles respectively
Without him it is going to be very difficult for them. He is the one player who poses a consistent threat.
On Sunday he was fouled five time – more than twice as much as any other player on the pitch – and Newcastle constantly had four or five defenders around him in an attempt to nullify his threat.
He is world-class but it would be interesting to see how Chelsea cope without him.
Against a defence as drilled and tightly packed as Newcastle’s, if you cannot get crosses in from good positions, Hazard is the only one who can unlock things with a piece of skill.
Weighing up midfield balance
Jorginho is the man Sarri has brought with him from Napoli to channel Chelsea’s play through.
He was heavily involved at St James’ Park but, in a game like this, that is an easier job to do, popping the ball around without being pressed.
Generally in England, though, he will be asked to play at a higher pace and make quicker decisions.
You do not get any chance of easy build-up, like you would in Italy. So far he has been OK, but let us see how it goes for the rest of the season.
Most completed passes in a Premier League game
1. Ilkay Gundogan (Man City)
v Chelsea (2017-18)
167 passes
2. Jorginho (Chelsea)
v Newcastle (2018-19)
158
3. Yaya Toure (Man City)
v Stoke (2011-12)
157
=4. Santi Carzorla (Arsenal)
v Sunderland (2014-15)
154
=4. Joel Matip (Liverpool)
v Huddersfield (2017-18)
154
One of the knock-on effects of Jorginho coming in is N’Golo Kante’s move into a more advanced role.
It is a little bit strange. He is not a goalscorer. He has got one this season, but it was more by accident.
He is a world champion and I like him more in the holding role he played for France.
Imparting ideas takes time
Sarri knows he needs to improve, that the system is not yet working as he would want.
When I took charge of Chelsea in 1996, it was half a season.
At the beginning the fans did not like the way we were keeping the ball. They wanted to have the ball forward.
It took us a couple of months to communicate to the fans what we were trying to do with more possession.
Graeme le Saux re-signed for Chelsea for £5m from Blackburn in 1997
I brought full-back Graeme le Saux back to Chelsea from Blackburn and in the first training session he was opening up on his left foot and hitting the ball long.
I had to tell him that that was not how we do it, that I wanted him to play through the midfield. He did it immediately.
He was a fast learner and a good player.
Newcastle’s approach leaves them vulnerable
Newcastle boss Rafael Benitez’s tactics – with a five-man defence and no real ambition to get forward – was criticised by some.
If, as a team, you believe you can match up against the opposition and hold your own, you will hate playing that system.
Missing players were injured – Benitez
You can only get that buy-in from your players if they understand that the opposition is so much better individually, that they have to really scrap and fight to take even a point.
Given the circumstances, with Newcastle missing key players like Jonjo Shelvey and Jamaal Lascelles, it was a legitimate tactic.
But, giving up that much possession and position on the pitch, you leave yourself at the mercy of a marginal call like the penalty or a slice of luck like DeAndre Yedlin’s late own goal.
Only two of Newcastle’s players had an average position inside the opposition half. Chelsea, by contrast, had eight players in the opposition half
Ruud Gullit was speaking to BBC Sport’s Mike Henson.
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JT Daniels named USC’s starting QB, replacing first-round NFL draft pick Sam Darnold
JT Daniels should be a high school senior. Instead, he enrolled early at USC and has earned the Trojans’ starting QB spot as Sam Darnold’s successor.
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JT Daniels should be a high school senior.
Instead, after reclassifying and enrolling at University of Southern California early, he’ll be under center against UNLV when the No. 15-ranked Trojans open their season on Sept. 1.
Head coach Clay Helton named Daniels the starting QB after he beat out redshirt sophomore Matt Fink and redshirt freshman Jack Sears. Daniels — who will become the second true freshman to start a season for USC (Matt Barkley, 2009) — has the unenviable task of replacing Sam Darnold, who led the Trojans to 11 wins last season and is now fighting for the New York Jets’ starting job. Only three true freshmen have ever started a game at quarterback for the Trojans: Barkley, Heisman Trophy winner Carson Palmer (1998) and Rob Johnson (1991).
Daniels, the 2017-2018 Gatorade High School Male Athlete of the Year, graduated early from Mater Dei High (Calif.) to enroll early.
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“As you can imagine, JT was excited when we let him know,” Helton said, per USC. “We were very transparent from the beginning of camp by sitting down with all the quarterbacks and explaining the criteria on which we would base our decision. … I thought the quarterback competition was very competitive and fair and I am satisfied with how our staff handled the process.”
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