| NYT article about sports scholarships
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/sports/10scholarships.html
" March 10, 2008
The Scholarship Divide
Expectations Lose to Reality of Sports Scholarships
By BILL PENNINGTON
At youth sporting events, the sidelines have become the ritual community meeting place, where families sit in rows of folding chairs aligned like church pews. These congregations are diverse in spirit but unified by one gospel: heaven is your child receiving a college athletic scholarship.
Parents sacrifice weekends and vacations to tournaments and specialty camps, spending thousands each year in this quest for the holy grail." | 
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