{"id":300137,"date":"2017-03-06T11:17:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=300137"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:17:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:17:33","slug":"the-spoils-of-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/the-spoils-of-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"The spoils of speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-300139\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NutsandBolts3-6-17-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s rich. Then there&#8217;s own-your-own-island rich.<\/p>\n<p>Former Washington Huskies wide receiver John Ross is going to be rich in a few months, but he missed on the chance to be own-your-own-island rich right away.<\/p>\n<p>Ross set the official NFL combine record in the 40-yard dash <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2112821048\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday<\/span><\/span>, recording a time of 4.22 seconds. That beat the previous record of 4.24 set by Chris Johnson in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Adidas had offered any player at the combine his very own island if he broke the record while wearing Adidas shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Ross chose to wear Nike, in part because &#8220;I can&#8217;t swim that well. And I don&#8217;t own a boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t fret for Ross. After recording the blazing time, he immediately signed a shoe deal with Nike.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the record will always be in dispute. Bo Jackson reportedly ran a 4.13 in 1986, but that was before electronic timing and more accurate results.<\/p>\n<p>For Threaded Fasteners, I&#8217;m Randy Kennedy with Nuts and Bolts of the Game.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-300137-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NutsBolts030617.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NutsBolts030617.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NutsBolts030617.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>There&#8217;s rich. Then there&#8217;s own-your-own-island rich. Former Washington Huskies wide receiver John Ross is going to be rich in a few months, but he missed <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/the-spoils-of-speed\/\" title=\"The spoils of speed\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,117,161,106],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national-sports","7":"category-news","8":"category-nuts-and-bolts","9":"category-on-the-air"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300140,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300137\/revisions\/300140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}