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Dolphins, Jets among Pick 6 of NFL teams that could use a jolt of Olympic champion Usain Bolt
• Now that the Olympics are over, there's one very fast young man looking at one very long layoff before resurfacing in Rio in four years.
• Hey, Usain Bolt! You want to play in the NFL?
• Bob Hayes, gold medal winner in the 100 meters at the 1964 Tokyo Games and dubbed world's fastest human, did it. So did Renaldo Nehemiah, world record-holder in the 110-meter hurdles who missed the 1980 Moscow Games because of a U.S. boycott.
• Sure, money would be an issue. And it's questionable whether you'd be willing to put on pads, practice every day, learn to catch footballs while running at world-record speed, and then deal with getting slammed to the ground by defenders.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Wednesday, Aug. 15, the 228th day of 2012. There are 138 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Aug. 15, 1483, the Sistine Chapel was consecrated by Pope Sixtus IV.
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• On this date:
• In 1057, Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain.
• In 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica.
• In 1812, the Battle of Fort Dearborn took place as Potawatomi warriors attacked a U.S. military garrison of about 100 people. (Most of the garrison was killed, while the remainder were taken prisoner.)
• In 1914, the Panama Canal opened to traffic.
• In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory.
• In 1945, in a radio address, Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced that his country had accepted terms of surrender for ending World War II.
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