What’s Brewing With Jen Includes Chess Champions And Huge Waves
See what was brewing with Jen Scordo today. Every day on The Best Show Ever? Jen Scordo shares a few recent weird and interesting news stories. Today that includes a chess world record and surfing a 100-foot wave… Here are her stories from today.
60-Hour Marathon Chess World Record Broken
A Nigerian chess champion has broken a Guinness World Record with a 60-hour chess match. Or marathon. 60 hours is definitely a marathon chess situation… Tunde Onakoya played against the U.S. chess champion Shawn Martinez in Times Square recently. They played for two and a half straight days only breaking for 5 minutes each hour. The previous record for chess playing was set at 56 hours, 9 minutes and 37 seconds. That was set by two Norwegian players back in 2018. Guinness has not confirmed the record yet, but it seems primed to stand. Onakoya was raising money for educational charities in Africa.
[Source – Pennlive.com]
German surfer Sebastian Steudtner just demolished his own record for surfing the biggest wave ever. Sebastian was in Nazare, Portugal and grabbed a wave that measured 93.72 feet. That’s an almost 100-foot wave. Geez. Nazare is in a unique location and evidently attracts surfers from around the globe. The waves surge in Nazare’s canyon-like area. Sebastian actually smashed the previous record of surfing a 86 foot wave, set by himself. Back in 2020 in the same spot. He shared video of the waves in Nazare and the footage is unbelievable. I’m scared just looking at this guy’s Instagram page. I can’t imagine actually trying to ride one of these waves. He has teamed up with tech companies to find where the big waves will be in the world at any one time and also how best to actually ride the waves.
[Source – CNN.com]
view of a chess board
The Eagles Mock Draft Roundup, Who Every Expert Has Them Picking at 22
Just a few more days until the NFL Draft. Who will the Eagles pick at 22? Will they go with a cornerback for the first time in 20 years? Will Howie stick with an offensive lineman? Or maybe an edge rusher to replace Haason Reddick? What do the “experts” think the Eagles will do? Let’s do an Eagles Mock Draft Roundup to find out which way the Eagles might go.
Mock drafts often vary in accuracy. Predicting specific players to specific teams is very difficult. But what the best guys do usually get right is the type of player or the position a team will target. Looking at every mock draft might not get you the exact player, but it may hint at which direction a team is going to go.
Last year, late in the process, we did actually start to see Jalen Carter show up a lot in Eagles mock drafts. The year before Jordan Davis was a popular pick as well. There is some method to the madness with Mocks, even if most get it wrong.
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- Tyrone Johnson Mock Draft 3.0- Howie Sticks To What He Knows
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Here is (nearly) every mock draft from a major outlet, and who they have the Eagles picking at 22. Some have the Eagles trading up, and a few have them trading down.
Shoutout to Brendan Gunn who did the legwork for this. I came into work fully prepared to go through dozens of Eagles mock drafts. But by the time I got in, BGunn had already done that for me as a reference to help Andrew Salciunas and John Kincade in the mornings. So I borrowed his hard work to make my job a little bit easier.
Here is your Eagles Mock Draft Roundup:
