From the "I wish I would have written this" files comes a great review of Michael Lewis's The Blind Side:
Beneath that cinderfella story, though, we learn that his foster family hired tutoring galore for him, and that even after the tutors worked with him for several years, his reading comprehension and concentration were so low that he had to have major works of literature read aloud to him and explained to him so he (or a tutor?) could write out short essays about them. We learn that he was given a driver's license because he was a football player, even though he apparently failed the exam. We learn that even though his tested I.Q. score increased after a few years, his ACT score was still sufficiently low that he needed to take some remedial courses online (and get very high grades in them) to qualify for admission to university. We learn that his private tutors, despite all their time and effort in high school, had to go to university with him to help him maintain his eligibility there. We learn that he had several people working specially with him to teach him the playbook - that he didn't seem to be able to learn it on his own. And we learn that his rich step-father bailed him out of a difficult assault situation during his first year in university.
How many times has Michael Oher been given the message that because he might become an NFL left tackle, people will bend or break the rules for him. What message does this send to him and to others in a similar situation?
King has more comments here. If you haven't read The Blind Side or Moneyball (I read it after reading The Blind Side), I recommend them both.