Club Crazy:Camps offer exposure, but scholarships scarce

Every year, parents drop hundreds or even thousands of dollars to pay for sports camps and travel teams for their children, ostensibly investing in the chance that the exposure will someday help their kids earn an athletic scholarship.

As the cost of a college education soars into the stratosphere, anything that can help defray those costs seems worth it, but the numbers don't necessarily reflect that.

According to statistics on the NCAA Web site, an estimated 3 percent of male high school basketball players advance to compete at the collegiate level. For women's basketball, that number is slightly higher (3.3 percent) while...