Neil Freiman

GoFundMe said that competitive travel was the top sports fundraising cause in 2025.

And a New York Life survey found that one in five parents said money concerns caused them to reduce or drop their child's participation in

in sports.

Toby, many blame the entrance of Wall Street for turning what used to be the domain of local rec leagues and volunteer coaches into a private equity-backed, pay-to-play, profit-hungry behemoth.

Yeah, I'm going to go watch Little Giants now as an antidote for what's happened to youth sports.

We need to go back to that purity.

Okay, my final number goes out to all the millennials.

Remember RuneScape, the browser game you used to play endlessly on your basement computer?

Well, it's more popular than ever.

In 2025, RuneScape grew its paid members to well over 1 million, a jump of 30% from the start of the year.

It also, at one point, had 240,000 people logging in at the same time,

a record number of simultaneous players in its history.

According to the studio head, it's the fastest growing massively multiplayer online game in the world.

And that's remarkable longevity for a game that turned 25 years old earlier this week.

The spike in interest is driven by nostalgia, of course, but also because RuneScape has been smart about not straying from its roots, what made it a huge hit in the first place.

These days, RuneScape is actually two different games.

One is a modern take called

RuneScape.

The other is called Old School RuneScape, which adheres closely to the original.

RuneScape is no longer the top of the food chain when it comes to these kinds of games, which bring together tons of people into a virtual world where they can complete tasks, communicate, or even wage battle.