Frontline Season 2 · Episode 10

Chasing the Basketball Dream

23rd April 1984 Season 2 Episode 10

Charlie Cobb looks at young men who make it big playing basketball, and many who will not. College recruiters promise an education in exchange for play, but 75% of players never obtain a degree. Are colleges too busy with their big-time sports programs to be concerned with educating their players?

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Season 2 · Episode 11

The Other Side of the Track

An insider's look at the 'sport of kings' focused on tracks at Belmont, NY, where the rich indulge their interest in horse-racing, and at Great Barrington in Massachusetts where infirm horses run for purses that can barely pay the feed bill. This is America's number one spectator sport, in which tens of millions wager tens of billions every year.

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Will Lyman

Self - Narrator (voice)