1.   Soccer always has been a game played enthusiastically in youth leagues around the country.

2.   Although Iginla recounted no such experiences in the NHL, there were a few, he said, in youth leagues.

3.   And they are starting to produce home-grown talent through youth soccer leagues.

4.   And youth street hockey leagues already outdraw Little League sign-ups in some Southern California cities, where there has been a surge in rink construction.

5.   A few youth leagues have banned the bats.

6.   A youth league spawned by the Atlanta- based U.S. national team concluded earlier this month in Marietta, and there are plans to start another in the fall.

7.   Afterward he is scheduled to join Joe Smith and assistant coach Rod Higgins in kicking off a drug-free youth basketball league in Oakland.

8.   But for four weeks, Roberts volunteered to coach in a youth league.

9.   But U.S. Soccer has historically done a poor job of recruiting Hispanic players into its youth leagues.

10.   Could it also happen to a youngster playing on a school team, in a youth league, in a boarding school, on a tennis circuit?