July 17, 1979: Pirates’ Dave Parker with the absolute rocket from right field to nail Angels’ Brian Downing at home after a great (then legal) play by catcher Gary Carter at the All-Star game.
A US senator killed a 28 year old woman, left her to drown, spent zero days in jail, and then served 40 more years in the Senate. 57 years ago tonight. Almost nobody remembers her name.
57 years ago tonight, July 18 1969, on a tiny island called Chappaquiddick that most Americans could not find on a map, the most infamous car accident in US history happened while the entire world was staring at the sky waiting for men to walk on the moon.
Senator Ted Kennedy left a cottage party for the "Boiler Room Girls," the young women who had worked themselves to exhaustion on his brother Bobby's campaign the year before Bobby was shot, and he drove off with 28 year old Mary Jo Kopechne around 11:15 pm. He said he was taking her to the ferry.
Instead the car went off the Dike Bridge, a narrow wooden bridge with no guardrail, and flipped upside down into the black tidal water of Poucha Pond. Kennedy got out. Mary Jo did not.
And here is the part history never forgave: he did not knock on the lit up house just yards away that had a phone, he did not call police, he walked back to the party and then he went to bed.
He reported it roughly 10 hours later, the next morning, only after two fishermen had already found the car and her body. The diver who pulled her out, John Farrar, said she had likely survived for a while inside an air pocket and might be alive today if anyone had simply called for help that night.
Two days later Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, and so the greatest achievement in human history shared the front page with a drowned woman and a senator who waited until sunrise.
The punishment for all of it: a guilty plea to leaving the scene, a two month suspended sentence, not a single day served. He kept his Senate seat for 40 more years until he died in 2009, one of the most powerful men in the country.
Strip away the famous last name and you are left with something painfully simple. A young woman trusted the wrong man to drive her home, and he chose himself.
Say her name tonight. Not his. Mary Jo Kopechne.
In the summer of 1916 an army took 700,000 prisoners in eleven weeks and broke a dynasty that had ruled central Europe since the thirteenth century. It was the most successful attack of the entire war. The army that won it was gone in eighteen months.
🚨#BREAKING: Two boys on paddle-boards are being praised as heroes after heartwarming footage emerged of them RESCUING A DROWNING RACCOON during the Texas storms.
The two boys, Tucker and Owen saw the raccoon being sucked under by the current, scooped it out of the water, saving it's life.
The animal crawled underneath Tucker's legs, hiding from the rain and the storm.
They paddled him all the way to shore through the storm and let him go.
Absolutely awesome!!!!!! ❤️
One of the most overlooked positions in football is the 6th offensive lineman
While the starting five receive the recognition, championship organizations understand that quality offensive line depth is essential over the course of a long NFL season
Injuries are inevitable, and the ability to insert a versatile, dependable lineman without changing the offensive game plan is a tremendous advantage
From a scouting perspective, the best sixth offensive linemen possess positional versatility, football intelligence, technical consistency, and the mental preparation to step into the lineup at a moment’s notice
Whether it’s playing multiple positions, communicating protections, handling stunts and blitzes, or contributing in heavy personnel packages, these players provide value far beyond being “just a backup.”
The role has become even more important in today’s NFL, where offenses frequently utilize six offensive linemen to strengthen the run game, improve pass protection, and create physical mismatches at the point of attack
Players like Patrick Mekari, Evan Brown, Josh Jones, and Joseph Noteboom demonstrate exactly what NFL personnel departments look for: versatility, reliability, professionalism, and the ability to keep an offense functioning at a high level regardless of where they’re needed
Great teams are built with quality depth, and few positions embody that philosophy more than the 6th offensive lineman
"Master of Puppets" is the title track from Metallica's 1986 album of the same name. This live performance in Manchester became especially memorable because the band played through a heavy rainstorm without stopping, the dramatic weather only added to the intensity of the performance.