Young football players put their hopes in Bishop Sycamore and ended up with nothing.
What to Read This Weekend |
 | | It didn't go well for Bishop Sycamore against IMG Academy.Jeff Lange/USA Today Network |
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A school called Bishop Sycamore played a televised game against the powerhouse IMG Academy in August and made a splash on ESPN for all the wrong reasons. |
The team, which had played a game only two days before, was pummeled, 58-0. Almost overnight, Bishop Sycamore became shorthand for sports factories that cynically masquerade as schools to produce elite, made-for-TV athletes. |
Yet less attention has been paid to the perspectives of the players who descended upon the school in Columbus, Ohio, and entrusted their futures to strangers. |
They came from as far away as Georgia and California. But few communities were better represented — or in the end, more disappointed — than two areas in the Bronx where football players, many of them Black and poor, grew up within blocks of one another. |
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What to Watch This Weekend |
 | | The joy of victory at the 2020 Boca Raton Bowl.Mark Brown/Getty Images |
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Ultimately, games like the New Mexico Bowl and the Boca Raton Bowl don't have an impact on the national championship. But I enjoy watching these quirky college football matchups anyway: Can Fresno State beat Texas-El Paso? Who is superior, Appalachian State or Western Kentucky? |
There are six bowl games on Saturday, two of which have teams ranked in the playoff Top 25. In the Independence Bowl, No. 13 Brigham Young takes on Alabama-Birmingham (Saturday, 3:30 p.m., ABC). In the New Orleans Bowl, No. 23 Louisiana-Lafayette meets Marshall (Saturday, 9:15 p.m., ESPN). |
Despite their 6-7 records, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Football Team are hanging in for a wild-card spot. But this week's game between them is crucial. The Times's Playoff Simulator estimates that a Team win would increase its chance of a berth to 53 percent, while an Eagles win would put them at 42 percent. The loser's chances will almost vanish. |
The N.C.A.A. women's volleyball tournament finishes up, with a final between 10th-seeded Nebraska and fourth-seeded Wisconsin, which is going for its first title (Saturday, 7:30 p.m., ESPN2). |
Some of the top swimmers in the world are competing at a world championship, but they are doing more flip turns. The short-course world championships in Abu Dhabi takes place in a 25-meter pool rather than an Olympic-size 50-meter pool (Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m., Olympic Channel). |
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