A pay-to-play, travel team model has overtaken youth sports. Kids are starting Colorado travel sports younger, and it’s become a big money-maker for club organizations, training facilities and trainers, a Project Play survey shows.
The cost of youth sports is skyrocketing. For Colorado families who can afford travel sports or clubs like Arapahoe Youth League, Gameday Baseball or USA Prime Colorado, the payoff can be worth it.
Former priest John Geoghan (GAY’-gun), the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide, died after another inmate attacked him in a Massachusetts prison.
As youth sports has evolved into a $40 billion annual industry, some fear that across all sports, the “rec center superstars” who come from lower-income families or rural communities are going to get permanently left behind.
The Denver Post’s investigates the cost of youth sports, travel teams and club fees in Colorado and the rest of the U.S. in this four-part special report by Kyle Newman.
A man arrested in a suspected vandalism in western Colorado was hospitalized after a confrontation with Mesa County sheriff’s deputies early Saturday.
Nearly 200 swimmers participated in the 9th annual Swim Across America – Denver Open Water Swim on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, at Chatfield Reservoir in Littleton, Colo.
NB Federal Boulevard was closed in north metro Denver after a motorcycle crash that seriously injured on person, Westminster police said.
A pedestrian was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash near Denver’s Chaffee Park neighborhood early Saturday, police officials said.
Most people have trouble sleeping for the first time in a new place. The phenomenon is known as the first-night effect.