By:  Juan Ortiz, Host of Chicago Grit If you follow Angelo Perez on social media, you see a superhero. At 57 years old, he is tearing through life with a ferocity that puts men half his age to shame. In recent years, he has completed the Chicago Marathon, thrown himself out of a plane skydiving, and explored the ocean depths scuba diving in Mexico. My own kids have given him a nickname: "The Daredevil." It fits perfectly. He lives by a simple, thrill-seeking creed: "I always like to do things...

By Juan Ortiz | Host, Chicago Grit The squeak of tires. The clash of metal. The perfect swish  of a net. If you walked into the Broadway Armory last month, you didn’t just see a basketball tournament. You saw a movement. You saw thirteen youth teams from across the Midwest battling for every inch of the court. You saw parents cheering, coaches strategizing, and kids finding a version of themselves they didn’t know existed. This is the "Present" of Chicago Adaptive Sports (CAS). It is loud, it...

Introduction: More Than the Myth For decades,   Jorge Alfaro   has been the face on the posters for Chicago Adaptive Sports; the polished soundbite, the Hall of Fame legend. But the man is not a myth. Behind the public image is an unfiltered, unapologetic force of will, forged in a single moment that changed everything. His turning point came on his father’s birthday, July 2nd. He was ten years old. A group of kids, a discovered gun, and a moment of play ended in tragedy. A single bullet hit...