My theory (as a former WR) is that all these guys who *BLAZE* have always - at every level (prior to the NFL) - been able to win on speed alone and therefore never HAD to develop the requisite technical skills at the position. WR might be the most technical and nuanced position.
June 6, 2001: Allen Iverson finishes with 48 PTS/6 AST/5 STL in Philadelphia's 107-101 (OT) win over the Lakers in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
Also for the Sixers, Dikembe Mutombo had 13 PTS/16 REB/5 BLK. Shaquille O'Neal led Los Angeles with 44 PTS/20 REB/5 AST.
Hunters in Alaska found a whale with a harpoon fired more than a century earlier.
Bowhead whales are the longest-living mammals on Earth, some survive more than two centuries. But in 2007, hunters in Alaska uncovered proof of just how long these giants endure.
Inside a whale’s flesh, researchers discovered fragments of a 19th-century exploding harpoon, the kind used when New Bedford, Massachusetts was the whaling capital of the world. The weapon dated to between 1885 and 1895. The whale had been alive with it embedded in its body for more than a hundred years, making it at least 115 years old.
Bowheads (Balaena mysticetus) were once nearly driven to extinction by commercial whaling. By 1921, only a few thousand were left. Today, thanks to protections, their population has rebounded to somewhere between 10,000 and 23,000. Subsistence hunts by Inuit communities in Alaska, who have depended on these whales for millennia, continue under long-held traditions, and it was during one such hunt that the historic harpoon was found.
Scientists confirm the whales’ ages in another way: through their eyes. The proteins in a whale’s eye lens slowly change shape over time, like a molecular clock. By measuring those changes, researchers estimate bowheads can live more than 200 years, surviving Arctic winters, shifting sea ice, and even century-old wounds.
The whale with the harpoon is gone now, but its story lingers as proof of resilience, and a reminder of how long life can last in the icy waters of the Arctic.
@MannyAdjei@BrettKollmann I’ll believe it when it’s official but not til then. All of these statement releases are drenched in coded language - which almost always signifies a bluff.
@Rob_Shenanigans It’s just them floating coded language to the media (who they know will run with it) in a desperate attempt to gain leverage thru public outcry. This isn’t real. (I don’t *think*)
@CobyBeavers@BrettKollmann What makes you think that?
This is clearly VERY careful, coded language they’re using in the statement releases. If that doesn’t scream leverage-play idk what does
@GBpickem It’s not “news” tho. It’s just them floating coded language to the media (who they know will run with it) in a desperate attempt to gain leverage thru public outcry. This isn’t real. (I don’t *think*)
This is the part where dad actually starts turning the car around, before the kids in a desperate panic promise to behave — and dad turns back again to head toward the restaurant.