For most high school girls, the prospect of playing football has always seemed out of reach. While Title IX guarantees girls the right to try out for tackle football when no girls team exists, the ...

As summer turns to fall, roughly 1.2 million U.S. teens are suiting up to play high school football. But something is shifting in this annual autumn rite. Tens of thousands of those young athletes are ...

The Jersey Shore Wave women's tackle football team's second season in Paterson ended with a 1-5 record. They still hope to ...

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Football players were running, throwing, catching, blocking and tackling — with a steady stream of trash talk between whistles — as the sun set on a recent night in the Motor ...

Ohio crowned its first girls flag football champion this month. The inaugural state title game signaled a new era for girls ...

No. 43 careened forward, trailed by long, curly hair, which spilled out over the two digits that came to distinguish one of the most dangerous players in football. Hall of Fame safety Troy Polamalu ...

Faced with a split-second decision that could mean the difference between an Ontario championship or a gut-wrenching defeat, Nikita Thamby made the biggest play of her football career. With a pass ...