Terralyn Henry thought she was raising a basketball player.
Then one day, a seven-year-old Jabari Henry walked through the door of his home, looked at his mom and said he wanted to play baseball. Basketball was no
longer a passion of his.
Mike Martinez finally got his happy meal.
It should come as no surprise that the final regular-season game of FIU was cancelled because of rain. In a twisted way, it is a metaphor for a season where all expectations were washed away from day one.
After the game on April 20, you would not have guessed that it was University of Little Rock Arkansas leading the Sun Belt Conference in runs, home runs, RBIs, hits, slugging percentage, on-base percentage and batting average.
When it was brought up last week that FIU had won six consecutive games, Mike Martinez, the team’s third baseman, waved his hand as he shook his head.
The ninth inning on March 28 was a game of inches.
Despite issuing three walks, being the victims of a controversial call at third base and almost giving up a bases-clearing double, FIU managed to escape game one against last-place University of Louisiana-Monroe with a 4-3 win.
On December 31, 2011, as President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law, America experienced a collective deja vu; an overreaching, unconstitutional piece of legislation was being enacted a la Bush circa 2001. Our current President, whose ideology during election time seemed almost antithetical to that of former President George W. Bush’s, signed a law that not only has the potential to threaten constitutional rights, but actively disregards them entirely.
