Good The Bad and The Goalie

Marcus Owen is preordained to follow in his parent’s footsteps by going on to a prestigious high school, ivy league university and then earning a Ph.D. At any moment, Margaret and Harold Owen — the professors — may spring a pop quiz on Marcus. He may have to ask for his morning cereal in Latin or recite the Fibonacci sequence to earn dessert.

Marcus is diminutive in size, looking more like nine tha...