Reply With QuoteParnelli Jones, an auto racing legend, dies at 90. He could drive, and win, in anything it seemed. Indy 500, Trans Am, Baja 1000, NASCAR, team owner, he did it all.
https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/n...ones/10619886/
The NBA adapted the 3-point line in 1979, but college hoops didn't do it until 1986, and the three didn't really take off until this millennium, although I would argue that the first NBA championship team to lean significantly on the three was the 1993-95 Rockets, who won back-to-back titles while leading the league in 3-point attempts -- Houston's offense basically consisted of Hakeem going to the hoop or kicking it out to the perimeter.Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
Leaving out the Houston anomaly, I suspect the three-pointer would have taken off sooner if not for Phil Jackson winning 11 championships with the triangle offense. Still, per-game averages for 3-point attempts rose steadily throughout the 1990s and this century, with the biggest increase in 3-point attempts coming in the 2015-2017 period (thank Golden State for that).
Parnelli Jones, an auto racing legend, dies at 90. He could drive, and win, in anything it seemed. Indy 500, Trans Am, Baja 1000, NASCAR, team owner, he did it all.
https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/n...ones/10619886/
'This world may be another planet's hell.'{Aldous Huxley}
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'{Aldous Huxley}
The NBA has lost its logo:
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/j...ion-executive/
Willie Mays, 93
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/h...ry-was-93/amp/
Today we sail
On the Solar Rail
For there's much we just don't know
So farewell with a kiss
Then it's fast for the mist
Till we're sleeping in the cold below
I've said before on this board that Mays is one of the two best position players of all time, and I'd still say that now. He's the five-tool god of baseball.
Kiefer’s dad did well in a whole lotta roles, some of which he carried above the material:
https://deadline.com/2024/06/donald-...ad-1235978933/
But I'm going to drop in his appearance in the music video for one of the great underrated songs of the '80s:
Which more people know because of the later song that sampled from it:
United States of America, natural causes - 247 years, 362 days old.
Long live the King.
oof.
Natural causes. Why don't i believe that. Is there a toxicology report?
I think too much orange dye was swallowed by too many.
'This world may be another planet's hell.'{Aldous Huxley}
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'{Aldous Huxley}
Shelley Duvall, 75, complications from diabetes.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...151701442.html
Orange Dye 45. the FDA should have banned it but sadly, Lobbyists.
Today we sail
On the Solar Rail
For there's much we just don't know
So farewell with a kiss
Then it's fast for the mist
Till we're sleeping in the cold below
Nope. Not today, Satan.
He was too busy trying to process Richard Simmons and Dr. Ruth.
Shannen Doherty, 53, cancer.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...122152819.html
Edit: Nevermind, not the right thread for it.
Last edited by Wool; July 14th, 2024 at 07:56 AM.
The guy in line in front of me said the wildest thing imagineable:
"That was the first time, I ever wished a Republican would lean more right."
She was so cute as Brenda in 90210, and also in Mallrats.
Big heart throb of mine growing up. She just didn't go as many places, artistically, as some might have thought, but I know she was very difficult to wok with in some creative places.
James B. Sikking, 90, dementia.
https://deadline.com/2024/07/james-b...or-1236010148/
(Doogie Howser's dad, Star Trek III's Captain Styles of the USS Excelsior, others)
Bob Newhart, 94
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/bob...an-1236077300/
I loved his dry sense of humor from the first time I saw Newhart
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