Add two more reality-based shows, Nimrod Nation and Varsity, Inc., to the fairly recent and continuing explosion of airing high school athletics on television, though neither appear to be of the style of Two-A-Days, the former MTV show that kicked off this whole trend.

Nimrod Nation, which appears Mondays at 9 p.m. on the Sundance Channel, is an eight-part series that looks into the life and times of a boys basketball team at a school in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with the nickname "Nimrods." Oddly enough, the school and its fans were the subject of an ESPN commercial campaign.

That dovetails nicely into Varsity, Inc., a six-part series that looks at the goings-on surrounding a Louisiana high school football team. We'll try to get a look at the two this week and report back next week, but generally speaking, we really do have to reach a point where we stop using high school athletics as programming sources.