For years here in Fairfield County, Connecticut, we have produced unemployable citizens, and we may continue to do so. Yesterday's Supreme Court decision, which gave back the school system's reins to a Board of Education that was failing its students for the past seven years, says it best:...

I spent this past weekend in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on a research and basketball clinic visit. The daily murder rate has decreased to something around six. It was at 15 or so the first time I went in 2009.

I followed my usual routine by flying into El...

Note: I wrote the following entry, as well as some of the next few entries of this blog, between September 1st, 2011 and November 27th, 2011. From here on out, I will continue to write current entries as I also post related stories from the past three months.

Police in Northern Ireland have made three arrests in connection to the death of a Northern Ireland police officer last month.

To most of the Americans I have spoken with about Northern Ireland, the situation in Belfast is an example for the world to follow in terms of...

It is so unlikely that we will ever see a dramatic halt to the violence and bloodshed in Northern Mexico that it will likely come to be seen as a Darfur-like situation; a conflict of closer geographical proximity yet remaining to be just as untenable. Here's why:

Reason #1: Negative...

Social barriers are broken within sporting events quite often. It is not so often, however, that those occurrences go unnoticed.

This past weekend, the Latino community of America shared a proud moment in the wide world of sports. The man who was at center stage, a passionate, well rounded guru...

A large majority of Belfast is sick. No, not from tainted eggs from the United States, but from a petty, chauvinistic, force-you-to-roll-your-eyes, want-to-be legitimate conflict that is run by the city's confused twenty-somethings and supported by few.

Let's take a quick look back at what was the "real" conflict in...

"They killed someone at my brother's football game. It was the father of one of the boys who was playing. The game stopped for twenty minutes, the ambulance came, and the man was put into a bag and taken away. Then the game resumed. It's crazy here."

The voice of...

The violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico is not the result of unintelligent US or Mexican policy. It's the result of a lack of opportunity for what were once vulnerable Mexican youth. When these adults were young, they found their opportunity in the drug game, but not just in its quick...

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico seemed like the victim of American media hype from the minute I crossed over the US border from El Paso, Texas on Saturday morning. Yes, there were the run-down stores, the empty or closed restaurants and soldiers patrolling the streets, armed with heavy weaponry. But after reading...