Interesting post on why US athletes don't win as much

[brewens]

4. I'm 62 and when I was in grade school, all kinds of kids rode their bikes to school with their

baseball "mitt" on their handlebars. If you drove by any school Saturday morning, there was a game going on. Baseball, football or basketball in season. You had to wait for a court for tennis or if you were old enough, drive to the next court and do the same thing. In a small city in Idaho.

I can't remember seeing what I could tell was a pickup baseball game and the nearby tennis courts are never busy. Same with the outdoor basketball courts. I walk by three schools on a regular basis, and it is nothing like we grew up. That has to show up somewhere.