I learned the game of Chess at age 10. By Junior High I was playing in school tournaments. We would practice at lunch daily and the top player in my school was Gerard Evans. Each time we played he would beat me unmercifully, then laugh and brag about it. Rather than quit, I was determined to learn the game and beat him. My mother would get frustrated with me because I would carry my chess set and chess lessons home daily, but leave my homework in my locker. By eighth grad

I founded the Big City Football organization in 2005 because I did not like the culture of the local youth football programs. It began as a summer camp for youth ages 8-14. Parents liked what we were doing and asked if we would expand into teams and a league. I had no plan to go this far, but I had a vision of what this could become and began the process of building. I needed a field and there was an abandoned playground in the northeast area of Detroit where I planned to

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