Luther College math professor courts controversy--by holding a Scrabble Tournament!

Luther College assistant professor of mathematics Mike Johnson is in charge of a Scrabble tournament in La Crosse on Saturday that will be the first of its kind in the country.

Johnson is the director of "New Words Nerds Across La Crosse," a tournament that gets its name from the fact that this will be the first Scrabble tournament in the nation using a somewhat controversial new Scrabble dictionary that has added 5,000 allowable words.

For more information about the tournament, visit http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/nerds-with-words-to-scramble-in-scrabble-tourney-in-la/article_d1e126c4-5e67-543e-9e9e-9f49e713c40d.html

For a profile about Johnson's love of Scrabble, click on the video posted above.