As I watch a hungover puppet plunge a grim toilet, my brain tries to make sense of what I'm seeing. It's not the utter absurdity of a disheveled, post-divorce Elmo-like character trying to jam a day's ...

The vision started far from the bright lights of boxing. In a living room amongst pizza boxes late one night, Ash Habib had a conversation with his older brother during a video game session. "We were ...