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Journalist Michael Powell's book is about basketball the same way that Buzz Bissinger's Friday Night Lights is about football — sports are the ostensible focus, but the real interest is the community.
College and professional sports have a way of dominating the national headlines. But in some parts of America, high school athletics have become local obsessions.
In Pennsylvania, fans flock to school wrestling matches, while in Texas, high school football teams routinely sell out some of the state's biggest stadiums.
In many parts of the western U.S., though, it's the game of "rez ball" that has sports fans enchanted. As Michael Powell writes in his wonderful new book, , rez ball
