It's kind of a normal rotation. Some of these beaten-up groups are getting some sponsorship.

I do not have verification that there were units or groups of the size that Newsday reports. But we do believe that there was some Russian participation.

I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.

Of course, we want to see Illinois. We haven't beaten them. They've kind of been a thorn in our side. We'd like to play them guys.

It's been kind of a normal injury pattern,

The baby was warm against my chest. I knew I was broken too. I wasn't like other people. I was scared and weird and anxious and sad lots of the time, and I didn't know why. My parents thought I was abnormal, I was pretty sure. They said I wasn't, but you don't get sent to a therapist if you're normal.

Sometimes we really aren't supposed to be the way we are. It's not good for us. And people don't like it. You've got to change. You've got to try harder and do deep breathing and maybe one day take pills and learn tricks so you can pretend to be more like other people. Normal people. But maybe Vanessa was right, and all those other people were broken too in their own ways. Maybe we all spent too much time pretending we weren't.