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...just a game. This is the basis for so many fan complaints about exorbitant salaries, increased commercialization, and deteriorating moral standards in today’s sporting world. But if professional sports was “just a game” as they say, then big conference colleges and prep high schools wouldn’t be sending scouts to under-15 basketball games, and 13-year-olds wouldn’t be getting offered professional contracts in soccer...
...Vocational students like Ramsey, however, face an extra hurdle in the already competitive college application process: they often find themselves without the college-prep programs that students in strictly academic high schools have at their fingertips...
...Belz added that the SATs are the biggest hurdle for his students, since they do not take prep classes...
...turned out as the investigation got under way, Nava himself had been found guilty of fabricating hate speech against himself while at prep school at Groton. That past record would help undo him. But it was not discovered until the hoax had roiled the entire Princeton campus...
...Still, Hankerson acknowledges that the U.S. has "lost perspective about what sports should be at this age." Northwestern is hardly the only prep football powerhouse to face embarrassment of late. Nor are such problems confined to poor minority schools. An investigation recently found that staff at Hoover High School in affluent, mostly white Hoover, Ala., had changed grades for football players. So, while the Northwestern Bulls handily won their second consecutive state championship in last Saturday's final, to Hankerson, "our true state championship comes in March, when our students take the FCAT." His goal: to raise Northwestern's grade...