Youth Sports
Technically Economics by Cassidy Shubatt and Dominic Russel
S1 · E4
Sep 22, 2025
45:33
Episode notes
Dominic tries to convince Cassidy that youth sports are technically economics.
Special thanks to Karl, Coly, and Toren for consulting on this episode, and to Conrad for the topic idea.
Ideas for future episodes? Email technicallyeconomics@gmail.com.
Mentioned:
- “How Kids’ Sports Became a $15 Billion Industry” by Sean Gregory
- “Why Have We Allowed Money to Ruin Youth Sports?” by Jessica Grose
- “Project Play survey: Family spending on youth sports rises 46% over five years” by Jon Solomon
- “The Rug Rat Race” by Garey Ramey and Valerie A. Ramey
- “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?” by Kalhan Rosenblatt
- Baby Gronk + Sydney Smith TikTok
Intro Music: Sound-logo-KOED.MP3 by Boryslaw_Kozielski -- https://freesound.org/s/246349/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Outro Music: Electronic music intro by frankum --https://freesound.org/s/268798/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Keywords
economics
sports
youth sports