The Sports and Society Initiative will host a day of discussion around, "The Costs of Professionalization of Youth Sports," April 19 at the Ohio Union. Here are a selection of materials that will help lead the discussion and debate:

ARTICLES

• A sign that youth sports often forget what’s important about the games by Fred Bowen, December 20, 2017, Washington Post
• NCAA VPs Say Colleges Need to Help Repair ‘Broken’ Youth Sports Model by Oliver Luck and Brian Hainline, The Aspen Institute, Dec. 10, 2017
• Youth sports tourism: Build it here and families will come by Jerry Davich, Sept. 15, 2017, Chicago Tribune
• How Kids’ Sports Became a $15 Billion Industry by Sean Gregory, August 24, 2017, Time Magazine
• Does your kid play sports? Chances are, you're shelling out big bucks to travel by Langston Wertz Jr., August 25, 2017, Miami Herald
• Money Has Ruined Youth Sports, by Douglas Brunt, May 3, 2017, Time Magazine
• Want an Olympic legacy? Get primary school children trying out a range of different sports by James Rudd, Liverpool John Moores University and Colum Cronin, Liverpool John Moores University, Sept. 15, 2016
• Collective study of economic impact would benefit youth sports by Glen Gray, August 8, 2016, Sports Business Journal
• The troubling price of playing youth sports by Mark Hyman, George Washington University, June 3, 2015
• 7 Charts that Show the Until It Hurts: America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our KidsState of Youth Sports in the US and Why it Matters by Alice Lee, The Aspen Institute, Feb. 24, 2015
• The Adultification of Youth Sports by John Sullivan, March 17, 2015, Changing the Game Project
• The Rising Costs of Youth Sports, in Money and Emotion by Paul Sullivan, Jan. 16. 2015, New York Times

• Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our Children by Tom Farrey
• The Most Expensive Game in Town: The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Families by Mark Hyman
• Until It Hurts: America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids by Mark Hyman
• The Pay-to-Play Pipeline by Rick Eckstein 
• Alternative Models of Sports Development in America By B. David Ridpath (Foreword by Tom Farrey)

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