Forget tradition. From parkour to pickleball, golf to 3v3 hoops, today’s breakout properties aren’t just updating the rules—they’re redefining what sport entertainment can be. Across the globe, a new ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. There was a time when youth sports were synonymous with kids picking dandelions in the outfield and Bad News Bears-style bumbling. Today ...

Billy Pinckney plays baseball, yes, but there is something about just being around the game that has always felt right to him. He was about 11 when he looked for a way to get closer to the players on ...

Youth sports has an attrition problem. "We do a tremendous job at getting kids involved," sport scientist Amanda Visek says. "We do a terrible job at keeping them." The absence of "fun" is often cited ...

It’s a cherished press conference ritual: the question from the kid reporter. Usually it plays out as a cute moment, the assembled gaggle cooing awwww at the exchange as the queried party answers far ...

Are youth sports a symptom of a serious, widespread social disease? Or are they the salvation of our youth? The answer is neither. No reasonable person can deny that important problems do exist in ...

Jonathan Bender is a writer who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of Cookies & Beer, and Stock, Broth & Bowl, and LEGO: A Love Story. You always hear that coach before you see them.