Alt Text: This episode examines “The Business of Youth Sports: A Critical View,” which critiques the growing commercialization of youth athletics. The episode explores how coaching has become laced with trendy buzzwords, often masking a lack of true teaching and turning athletes into commodities. It highlights how the rise of analytics in college and professional sports—while useful—can reduce player development to a numbers game, prioritizing profit and team success over ind

Alt Text: This episode explores themes from “The Deceptive Allure of Performance Enhancement Drugs,” which argues that the misuse of PEDs stems from a failure in proper athletic instruction. It claims that when athletes aren’t taught how to succeed naturally, they turn to artificial shortcuts—often encouraged by systemic pressure and coaching deficiencies. The episode examines how this breakdown in theory, knowledge consumption, and real application transforms sports from a p