Corridor sports complexes serve up wins on and off the court

If you were a Midwest kid playing sports in the ‘80s or ‘90s, you can probably still smell it — the old, dusty rubber and plastic, years of baked-in sweat from previous kid athletes emanating from the sports equipment shed when the coach released the padlock. 

Your sport was seasonal, your athletic accoutrements hand-me-downs, and games were held in school gymnasiums or on dusty fields maintained by…