Isn’t this a crazy story?

Long story short: student multi-sport athlete has one too many concussions, is hospitalized and told to give up contact sports. After recovering, it’s revealed that he’s now a musical savant and can pretty much play any instrument.

You know something, in a way, this is almost not fair. Injury and concussions are sort of supposed to ruin lives, not keep them on the same track, or possibly make them better. I speak partially in jest, because obviously I don’t want to necessarily hear of people I don’t know lives getting ruined by injury, but the other part of me would be lying if I didn’t say that I was jealous of this kid’s fortuitous “brain re-wiring.”

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College football chaos ensues!

Normally, I don’t post on weekends, because I think that there’s an even lesser chance that my six readers will actually read what I post, since it’s the weekend, and we all undoubtedly have something better to be doing than reading someone else’s brog. But something(s) have occurred that have piqued my interest and inspired me to do some writing about it.

This past Saturday marked the end of regulation for college football that actually matters. Frankly, I don’t think it’s possible for one single day to have had so many sports things happen that impacted so many other sports things I’ve seen in my entire life.

First, there was the unprecedented culmination of the success of the Duke football program, where they squeaked out a win against North Carolina to end the season as winners of the ACC Coastal division, and punched their ticket to Charlotte, where they’ll play Florida State for the conference championship.

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