To be getting squeezed out. Travel and club teams are eliminating the average little league player due to cost and commitment.

I also think the actual athletic competition is starting to take a back seat to the drama. The NBA is harder to watch than it was ten or twenty years ago. But it's gaining in popularity, mostly because of Twitter barbs and other nonsense. The NFL game product is getting worse, John Clayton says it's because of practice limitations, but it's still the king of sports.