Baseball: Bryce Harper decides to skip two years of high school

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How this for stunning news? Bryce Harper, the 16-year-old high school baseball player from Las Vegas who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, will skip his final two years of high school, enroll in a community college this fall and make himself available for the 2010 or 2011 amateur draft, according to USA Today.

This is bound to create some interesting scenarios. Already, there has been growing interest in high school players skipping their senior year to enroll early in college, but passing up two years of high school to try to get into the baseball draft opens up some new issues.

-- Eric Sondheimer