Last week Jonathan Martin, an offensive lineman for the Miami Dolphins, unexpectedly left his team. It appears that Martin was being bullied by one of his teammates, Richie Incognito. Transcripts of texts and voicemails left for Martin by Incognito contain a number of racial slurs and profanities. The messages also contain violent and threatening language.Read more
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I’m a prideful person. In Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis wrote this about pride: Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer,Read more
The NFL season kicked off last night and I couldn’t be more excited. Actually, if I had Peyton Manning and his seven touchdowns on any of my fantasy teams I would be more excited. I always feel like my nerd credibility takes a hit during the NFL season. While I still have my favorite nerdclinations,Read more
It is fantasy football time again. As I’ve already confessed, in spite of my tremendous nerdiness, I love sports. I love watching sports, I love playing some sports and I love fantasy football. I’ve already had one draft and I have three more coming up this weekend. I know a lot of nerds don’t likeRead more
I’ve written before that baseball is the perfect sport for nerds. Nerds need something over which to obsess and baseball more than fills that need. With all of its history, statistics and sabermetrics, baseball provides everything a nerd needs to form an obsession. My baseball nerdom started in high school. Since I was born inRead more
Childhood cancer is one of the surest signs that the world is not as it should be. Almost everyone’s life has been impacted by cancer in some way. Unfortunately a lot of children have been personally impacted by cancer as the disease has ravaged their bodies. When faced with something as awful as childhood cancerRead more