Sports in America Increasingly Becoming Child's Play (NPR)

From NPR News:

by Frank Deford
Morning Edition, March 19, 2008

"...We have always had a passion for high school sports. It's no different from why we Americans alone emphasize college sports. Athletics gives glamour and identity to a college or to a town's school...."

".....But what has changed is that it's a national show now. Isn't it enough for a team to win the county championship, a kid to make all-city? No longer. Now school teams travel the land, modern day vaudevillians, playing one-night stands that are hundreds and even thousands of miles away from home. There are all sorts of national post-season all-star games, even high school football bowl games...."

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