High School Basketball Player Ruled Eligible by Judge

By Caroline G. Fletcher & Michael S. Carroll   There’s nothing quite like the sound of basketball shoes squeaking on the hardwood, or the pure sound of a screwball hitting the catcher’s glove just right on a strikeout.   Before the pressure of competing for a national championship or playing professionally for money, there was the purity of playing in front of your high school classmates, taking instruction from a coach who doubles as the history teacher. But those four years of el