Norway's youth sports model is super unique:
• No scorekeeping until age 13
• Participation trophies for everyone
• No travel teams or national championships
• No online publishing of scores or athlete rankings
• Parents typically spend less than $1,000 per child per year
The result?
A 93% participation rate — 40 points higher than the U.S. — and more Winter Olympic medals than any other country in history, despite Norway having a population comparable to the Philadelphia metro area (5.6 million).
And it's not just winter sports...
Norway now produces some of the world’s best summer sport athletes, including Erling Haaland (soccer), Casper Ruud (tennis), Viktor Hovland (golf), and Jakob Ingebrigtsen (track and field).
So if you want to learn more about how Norway's youth sports system actually works (and what other countries can learn from it), here's an essay I recently wrote during the Winter Olympics that breaks it all down.
READ: https://t.co/PeD07abUY3
@amerr4r@BudElliott3@Fantrax How long? Always had the goal of extending our college league to our pro dynasty league but can’t ever get the ownership to fully match.
@CharlesTXPolicy@38Godfrey Peacock has at least some built in soccer fan base too given you gotta have it if you want to watch all EPL games. From a subscriber paying for the crappy catalog - ha.
Texas Tech QB B.J. Symons set the Big 12 single season passing TD record in 2003 with 52 passing touchdowns. That record still stands today.
College football is back in 52 days!
LCRA will test a newly installed floodgate at Wirtz Dam Tuesday morning.
The test will include sounding the siren before opening the gate for about 15 minutes. Flows downstream of the dam will be temporarily higher and faster than usual.
More info: https://t.co/1QLctFOLYm
Haven’t seen anyone suggest this, but it might be an option for Brendan Sorsby to transfer to Blinn for 2026, win a National Championship, transfer to Auburn for 2027, win another National Championship, and then go to the NFL.