Leading off today: Mike Waters of
The Post-Standard looked over the weekend at the subject of
early commitments by basketball recruits, noting that the trend now is for many top players to make their final decisions -- or what they think will be their final decisions -- as high school freshmen or sophomores.
Waters' lead drew me right into the story:
"Dion Waiters doesn't have a driver's license," he wrote. "He won't attend his junior prom for another two years. He hasn't played his first high school basketball game. But last week, Waiters, a rising high school sophomore from Philadelphia, decided to accept a scholarship offer from Syracuse University."
According to Clark Francis of HoopScooponline.com, Waiters is at least the 13th player in the Class of 2010 to commit to a school. As Francis told Waters, it was rare to have that many seniors committed by this time of year a decade or so ago.
NFL policy stirs protests: The Newspaper Association of America has sent a letter to the National Football League offering cooperation and assistance if the sports organization decides to re-evaluate strict new rules for web-site content.
The issue has been out there for a month and has caused concern for newspaper publishers and editors because the NFL is seeking to limit web sites to 45 seconds per day of audio and video shot on NFL property.
