Of those 269 girls, 124 are playing football in Section XI — the designation for Suffolk public high school athletics. Nassau, or Section VIII, boasts the next-highest total, at 57. Central New ...

New York may order high schools to let boys play girls-only sports and compete against girls for spots on those teams under a ...

The Roman Catholic church in Philadelphia doesn't need another public relations headache after years of priest-abuse and school-closure headlines, but it's got one in the form of a pony-tailed 11 ...

The Nazareth area has three girls among the 160 boys. A couple girls who played in the Wilson area moved up to ... That organization has tracked a 10-year decline for girls playing tackle football.

There were 1,992 girls playing football nationwide, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations. That's about one girl for every 532 boys among the 1.06 million who ...

GREELEY — It isn’t smart to tell Greeley’s Sunshine Hubbard that she can’t dish out the hits on the football field just as well as the boys.Just ask one of her opponents last season after he told ...

For Women's History Month, writer Tasha Turner on why her 10-year-old cousin, Olivia Kelly Taylor, is tackling stereotypes.

"I want to show the boys how it's done," Olivia Kelly-Taylor said. "I like to play tackle, and when I'm on the football field, I can tackle and won't get in trouble. After all, I've been tackling ...