Often in opposite dugouts during the spring high school season, the Ohio Diamond Hawks come together to play the game they love as the boys of summer. The Hawks -- a collection of players from Anthony Wayne, Findlay, Millbury Lake and Oregon Clay -- teamed up again in the Best of Midwest tournament at Newton High School on Friday.

The path may have been cleared for college athletes to benefit financially from their name and stardom, but the pitfalls and realities of how to do it limit those that will to a particular few.  Here's why.

We celebrate your independence as Americans this weekend - all of us - but only a few actually appreciate (and remember) the cost of what it took to be what we are.  I would suggest that those who do not remember take time to figure it out...and soon.