By Thom Chalfan
| Saturday, January 5, 2008, 02:53 PM
Before coming to work today, I caught the first quarter of the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Unlike the other bowl games, this is a high school all-star game, during which several of the players make their committments to colleges to play football. I think it just shows how far sports zealotry has gone and how much it has affected the games themselves. I can see a high school all-star game on national TV, but it seems like every week there is some channel with a regular season high school game during football and basketball seasons. Between that and the broadcasting of all of the games of the Little League World Series and some of the regional championships as well, I think broadcasters are going just a bit too far in shining a glaring national spotlight on youth sports.
