(Kevin D. Liles | The New York Times file photo) People walk through the LakePoint Sporting Community for the Perfect Game World Series in Emerson, Ga., July 25, 2018. Before the spread of the coronavirus, youth sports generated more than $15 billion annually and created the "tourna-cation circuit," as it is known, by becoming like a cruise ship for sporting families with all-inclusive offerings, but now there has been an enormous reckoning, one that has evaporated tens of millions of dollars and is getting worse daily as events and camps are canceled into the summer.
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