Expensive travel leagues have supplanted simple extracurricular sports. Leagues are catering to the kids (and their parents) who want them to be among the 7 percent of teenage athletes who will advance to the collegiate level of their sport, bringing in some scholarship money. One effect is that the amount of money spent on youth sports has exploded, jumping from $10 billion in 2010 to an estimated $40 billion in 2024.
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