I spent my senior year at a north Houston high school taking AP English despite no interest whatsoever in the collegiate study of the language. However, I struggled through the course thanks to a Scottish professor I still feel is one of the most memorable I have learned from. Did he make the course come alive like a Glaswegian Jaime Escalante or Tom Schulman (Captain, my Captain!

"Where did this kid come from?"
More than a few American soccer fans asked that question last summer when then 18-year-old striker Conor Doyle signed a professional contract with English Championship side Derby County.
The questions continued as Doyle quickly saw time with the first team.

The upcoming Real Madrid defender David Mateos was banging heavily on hercules hurting FC Barcelona on the Saturday night. The truth was Hercules definitely tried, they played well, were very organised but this Barca side was too muchb for them to handle in the end. But the question in everybody's mind is whether the newly promoted recruit from Real Madrid B team was expecting too much from his senior side to keep on the tail of this exceptional Barcelona side.