When the former head of the NFL Players Association says that he wouldn’t allow his own kid to play tackle football, it’s really saying something about the dangers of the sport. “We’ll see,” said ...

Trista Thompson worries that once she graduates from high school her football career might end. Thompson is a Grade 12 student at St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School in Sudbury, Ont. and plays as a ...

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The first all-girls tackle football team on Prince Edward Island is kicking off its first season, and players taking to the field say — it's been a long time coming. "For there to finally be a girls ...

On a beautiful fall night at SMF Field, Casey Lundquist tucked a football under her arm and found open space. “It’s still unbelievable that I’m able to play here, and I wouldn’t have been, so many ...

A group of Ontario high school girls may have made history when they took to the field in Toronto on Thursday to play a series of exhibition tackle football games. The new all-girls tackle football ...

After throwing characters from Marvel and Toy Story into its ongoing battle to lure young viewers to its increasingly expensive sports telecasts, Disney’s ESPN is really bringing in the big guns.

Flag football will become an Olympic sport for the first time in 2028, and Jim Mullin can see a day when the tackle game follows suit. The International Olympic Committee included flag football as one ...

It’s affordable, it’s accessible and, most of all, it’s fun. It’s Six-A-Side youth football, and thanks to a new partnership between the Canadian Football League and Football Canada, it may be coming ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers who want to ban tackle football for kids under 12 to reduce brain injuries gained ground Wednesday in the Legislature but still face a very long field ...

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 ...