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Curt Schilling is a nerd: and I should know. I play an online computer game with the Red Sox pitcher every night.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-AUG-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Curt Schilling is a nerd: and I should know. I play an online computer game with the Red Sox pitcher every night.(AS TOLD TO: Stories from Texans in their own words.)

Article Excerpt
I'm a senior at the University of Texas, studying to become a high school math teacher. But when my work is done, usually late at night, I play a computer game called EverQuest II. It's called a massively multiplayer online game; the point is social interaction. You have a character--mine is called an Erudite Coercer--and play with a bunch of other people to accomplish projects together. It's got a fantasy feel, sort of like The Lord of the Rings.

When EverQuest II launched last November, there was a group of about six of us who played together regularly. One of them was an Ogre Defiler, and I started to hear a...

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