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The state of high school sports

By Chris Lawlor
ESPNRISE.com

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

In today's hard times, high school sports are a welcome diversion. For parents, there is nothing so pure and simple as watching sons and daughters on the playing field, competing in games far removed from the maddening issues in today's pro sports. Yet even high school sports have not been spared in this tough economy. Bob Kanaby, the executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations, is painfully aware each day as he watches the same scene played out in school dis ...

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