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Latest / The Faceoff Podcast | Youth Sports Business

Episode 0: Start Here

No guest. Just me — who I am, why this show exists, what you're going to get, and who you're going to hear from. Then I get out of the way.

I coach youth travel hockey and I don't have kids of my own, which makes me the only person at the rink at six in the morning with nothing to gain from telling you your kid is good. If I say it, it's true. If I don't, that's also information.

The numbers in this episode, and their sources:

American families spend about $40 billion a year on youth sports — Aspen Institute Project Play

$1,016 per child, per year, on one sport — up 46% in five years, roughly…

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