We're joined this week by Michael O'Connell Jr., a math teacher from Loudoun County, VA, who also does a bit of blogging, podcasting, authoring, and parenting to his 9-year-old son. (All but the parenting are linked at the bottom;-)
Michael's also an avid sports fan. So much so that he regularly embeds as much sports as he can in his math instruction which is music to this educator's ears.
We learn about his sports fan origin story (1989 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Game), his early years in greater New York City, his family's connection to Binghamton, NY, and the Yankees' Binghamton Triplets where Whitey Ford and Thurman Munson once played, and the town's long-defunct Broome Dusters minor league hockey team that played a role in inspiring the film "Slapshot."
There's quite a lot of Syracuse and Carrier Dome talk - including a wild 1991 game against Notre Dame in which the Irish won, 101-98, on a buzzer-beating triple by Elmer Bennett - as well as all that there is to offer sports fan in the Beltway these days.
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