Has high school sporting culture become the main mission of high school? Should schools do away with competitive sports entirely?

Coach Martin Jacobson kicked his heroin habit and managed to stay off by playing soccer. It changed his life, he says, and now he's helping young New Yorkers to stay on track in school.

The dream of a successful career in high school athletics is often the mixed dreams of an innocent child eager to please a parent who never made it to the pros. 

Over 100,000 student athletes at the youth, high school, and college levels are homeless. Sports Illustrated spent six months investigating their stories.

New Rochelle High School, the alma mater of former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice, is teaching students about domestic and dating violence in the wake of Rice's abuses.