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Byline: Dave Hyde
FORT LAUDERDALE _ Whenever I read, hear, watch, discuss, follow or especially consider writing about LeBron James, I feel greasy.
I hate this story. I hate how adults have acted around a high school kid. I hate how a teenager has become a financial mosh pit of greed, opportunism and skewed values.
Is this where sports are going?
And is there any way out?
Here was the latest scene across America's breakfast table this week: Deion Sanders, CBS's answer to a pilot fish, nodded, smiled and maybe even listened as James explained how, yes, he had received two jerseys worth $845 for a sports-store appearance, but, "If I'd known I was jeopardizing (high school…
Source: HighBeam Research, Sleazy does it: not even high school sports are immune anymore.