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  Dismissed by the Jaguars in November 2020,  after seven seasons , Caldwell was hired by Philadelphia in May 2021, and helps assist in the draft process, roster makeup and talent evaluation. Three months after the Eagles hired Caldwell, he was a sounding board for Philly’s front office in acquiring Jaguars backup Gardner Minshew, who knew there was no chance of him legitimately competing with No. 1 overall draft pick Lawrence for a starting job. Caldwell, who earned a Super Bowl ring in 2006 as a national scout with the Indianapolis Colts, has turned down requests for media interviews this week. As disastrous as some of Caldwell’s moves were during his time in Jacksonville, there are still 10 players on the roster he brought aboard that were part of a successful 2022 season, including Josh Allen, DaVon Hamilton, Jawaan Taylor and Logan Cooke. Let’s also not forget Caldwell hired Trent Baalke, who took over as interim GM when he got fired and now holds that position. Baalke ac...

  Kenyan paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey dies at age 77 Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, whose surname is tantamount to the origins of mankind, has died Sunday at his native Nairobi, it was announced. He was 77. “I have this afternoon... received with deep sorrow the sad news of the passing away of Dr Richard Erskine Frere Leakey,” President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a statement late Sunday. The globally famous conservationist gained worldwide notoriety alongside other members of his family for groundbreaking discoveries since the early 1970s of skeletons deemed to belong to what could be referred to as “the missing link,” which were believed to prove humankind evolved in Africa.