Trending today: Michael Koh breaks down trends in youth football participation over the last two decades – which are hard to explain, with some states on the rise and others on the decline, and no obvious reason why. (One thing’s definitely true, though: overall, at least, youth football does not seem to be on the decline, conventional wisdom to the contrary.)

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