Two of the best high school football teams in the nation played last weekend in front of 31,896 at SMU's Ford Field in Dallas.  Hooray – a high school football post!  I know, I know, but what made this game interesting were the differences between these 2 schools:

The [Northwestern (Miami, FL)] Bulls were greeted in their hotels, by D — a Dallas-area glossy magazine with Dragons quarterback Dodge on the cover, highlighting a story that explains why the affluent Dallas-Fort Worth suburb Southlake is "Perfect City, USA" — and by a front page story in the USA Today examining the discrepancies between the schools. According to the article, Carroll receives high academic ratings and has a student body that's 89 percent white, with just one percent of its students receiving free or reduced-price lunches; Northwestern, in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, gets an "F" rating from the state of Florida and is 93 percent black, with two-thirds of its students eligible for free or reduced lunch.

Yes, drastic inequality in our public education system is a very serious problem.  Anyway, just as Hollywood has taught us, the poor inner-city school defeated the rich suburban school 29-21.  Every sports film devotee knows that the inner-city school will only lose if it plays a small school from an Indiana farm town.  Thank God for Hollywood because I would never know how to bet on these games.  Not that I bet on high school football.  I think that would be a definite sign you have a gambling problem.  Unless you're good at it. -KD