And I canât be the only one. The length of major league games is growing at a time when Americaâs collective attention span is contracting. According to an article by James Wagner in The Washington Post this past week, the average game 40 years ago was 2 hours 30 minutes.
On 5 October 2017, a false story announcing actor Morgan Freeman had died at the age of 80 began spreading on Facebook and Twitter: legendary actor morgan freeman dead at age 80 Morgan Freeman passed away in his Charleston, Mississippi home early this morning, according to his representatives. An investigation is underway, however the coroner stated his death was likely of ânatural causes.â
Clay McFerrin, editor of Sun Sentinel in Charleston, said he arrived at the accident scene on Mississippi Highway 32 soon after it happened about 4 miles west of Charleston, not far from where Freeman owns a home with his wife. McFerrin said it appeared that Freeman's car was airborne went it left the highway and landed in a ditch. The WREG-TV Web site reported Freeman may have fallen asleep at the wheel. They had to use the jaws of life to extract him from the vehicle, McFerrin said. He was lucid, conscious.