Chasing the Basketball Dream

April 23, 1984

Season 1984: Episode 10

Many young men, especially many poor blacks in the nation’s cities, dream of making it big by playing basketball. Charlie Cobb looks at some who make it-and many who will not-and at many of the issues in high school and college sports today. College recruiters seek the best of them, promising an educations in exchange for play. But 75% never get a college degree because, as this film suggests, colleges are too busy with their big-time sports programs to be concerned with educating their players.

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