At the other first-string inside spot will be Kavell Conner, a fast, fluid but finesse-oriented third-year pro who started 15 games on the outside last season.
Inside, spot-lit, suspended above an expanse of polished concrete floor, a single pale grey blade, with weights and cables attached to it, flexes slowly up and down, vast and stately as the tail of a whale.
The 31-year-old showed signs of decline in Dallas last season, but because the Texans only use one linebacker in virtually all of their passing down sub-packages, they don't need a dynamic athlete in the second inside spot.
With only nine horses in the field, it's possible the inside spot won't hurt Orb's chances in the 1 3/16-mile race.
Moreover, some observations of the isothermally crystallized samples showed that melting inside weak spots occurred at lower temperatures than melting of surrounding spherulites, which means that the matter inside these spots is less organized, with more defected crystals.
Dwayne Gordon, an eight-year pro, backs up both inside linebacker spots and is a run stopper who plays on first and second downs.
(In another effort to stay ahead of the style curve, scenes were filmed inside hot spots like the Westway, the former strip club near the West Side Highway, months before the club officially opened).
The conditions for cavitation inside weak spots are worse than those existing inside the spherulites.
Inside the spots and on the borders, more random orientation and less elongated voids are expected.
