The Special Olympics are starting today (Saturday, July 25, 2015 ... check local television-listings) in Los Angeles, California. Besides being a good, fun competition to help us all forget our troubles, the Games also educate the players in ... the same virtues that non-'intellectually disabled' atheletes learn---teamwork, sportsmanship, persistence, character, determination & friendship. (I would've aimed to participate in the Games if I hadn't been on 'a music-nerd phase' when my Traumatic Brain-Injury locked me on the entertainers' path ) Log In shows several ways we can help support them.