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What is Bryce Harper Up To These Days?

What exactly is the 16 year old baseball phenom Bryce Harper currently up to at the moment?

ESPN - Harper will be 17 years and almost eight months old on draft day, will take his GED, and leave high school after two years and enroll at the College of Southern Nevada this fall. This should make the Las Vegas High School catcher eligible for the 2010 Rule 4 draft, when he’d be the overwhelming favorite to be the No. 1 overall pick.

‘Duk @ Yahoo Sports - His father announced that Bryce will forgo his final two years of high school and use a GED to enroll in a community college this August. Though it more or less makes a mockery of our education system, the Harpers’ plan would make Bryce eligible for the 2010 draft, where he could conceivably be the Nationals’ No. 1 pick and eventually join forces with Stephen Strasburg to save Washington baseball from itself.

Max Prep - Still just 16 years of age, Harper made headlines earlier this summer when he announced that he would forgo his final two years of high school to enroll in Southern Nevada Community College with the intent of applying for the 2010 draft. Harper would be approximately 17 years and eight months when the draft will be held. How long it would take him to reach the Major Leagues is anyone’s guess, but Harper reportedly has the skills necessary to rise quickly through the minor leagues.

Las Vegas’ Bryce Harper to be featured on E:60

We haven't heard anything new from Bryce Harper for at least a week or two so thanks to ESPN for featuring him on E:60, the all-sports network's version of CBS' 60 Minutes, minus Andy Rooney's unkept eyebrows.

As such, there probably will be some tough questions, but none were included on the 3:31 preview clip that arrived in my e-mail box today.

The spot will air in its entirety at 4 p.m. Tuesday.

The only new stuff on the promotional clip consisted of big leaguers Andy Pettitte and Albert Pujols drooling over the Las Vegas High wunderkind.

Well, maybe not drooling. But Pujols did seem impressed when he was asked about Harper hitting a ball more than 500 feet off the back wall of the dome at Tropicana Field.

THEN

Whenever somebody asks why I like baseball better than football, and I can't log on to YouTube to find that clip of George Carlin explaining it better than I could, I usually say because whereas millions of Wiffle Balls have been sold, there is no such thing as a Wiffle Football.

Actually, I do member seeing a Wiffle Football once. It was half green and half gold and had holes all over. But you couldn't throw a screwball with it.

So there.

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