Children under age 12 would no longer be able to play tackle football under legislation introduced this week by Albany Democrats ahead of Super Bowl Sunday. Football ought to follow the lead of soccer ...

As sign-ups for youth football get underway this spring, a new study reveals that Americans may love their football, but half now believe that kids should not play the tackle version of the game. The ...

A series of recent kids’ sports injuries, some fatal, have reignited a question for many families: Is my child safe playing sports? At least three student football players in the US have died since ...

A bill that would have made California the first state in the country to ban tackle football for young children was abruptly derailed last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he would veto the ...

Even as excitement builds for the men’s FIFA World Cup 2026 coming to North America, U.S. youth organizations are seeing a ...

When Matt Crocker landed in America, as U.S. Soccer’s second-ever sporting director, he plunged into a few urgent tasks. In 2023, he had a men’s national team coach to hire and, soon, a USWNT coach to ...

Delegates from FIFA yesterday toured Loudoun Soccer Park to highlight a new partnership designed to expand access to soccer ...

The panicked voices crackled through Zoom well past 10 p.m. on the night the girls soccer pipeline crumbled. They’d been primed by swirling questions about the future of the Development Academy, a ...

Think about those words and what they mean to you. They probably tell you how much the American version of the sport captivates the country every weekend of the fall. But consider the source of these ...

Michael Strahan, Jerome Bettis, Jerry Rice, Warren Sapp, and Tom Brady all have something in common. It’s not their Super Bowl wins or NFL legend status. It’s that none of these athletes played tackle ...

Drinking a lot of water. Stretching daily. Sitting in an ice bath. Visiting the trainer regularly. Taking some ibuprofen. Those are among the things that Wheeler’s Tyne Vettickal does in order to ...