Seventeen-year-old Arthur Mkoyan plans on studying medicine at California State. And as valedictorian, with a “grade-point average above 4.0″ at Bullard High School in Fresno, California, that should be no problem. Problem is, he’s being deported.

No, he’s not Mexican. He’s Armenian. According to CNN, before coming to the Untied States, his father reported being asked to register stolen vehicles at the Armenian DMV, and he was told to “not worry about it” by the chief of the DMV. In the months and years that followed, he was attacked and harassed repeatedly, just for being an honest man, and his family feared for their lives. Read more

The news of Sean Taylor’s death has rocked the sports world. But just when you start losing your faith in humanity (or whatever is bothering you at the moment) we get a small glimmer of hope like this.

Disability Week took place in August, and a man with autism was chosen to sing the national anthem. He got a case of the nervous giggles halfway through; but listen to what the Fenway crowd does to support him.

I’m a Yankees fan but I gotta give it up to Red Sox fans for being extra classy when it counts: