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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first all-girls tackle football team on P.E.I. is kicking off its inaugural season. (Cody McKay/ CBC - image credit) The first ...

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 ...

Arch Manning, Novig backpedal from the type of misogyny women athletes and fans expected to be eliminated years ago, Nancy Armour writes. USA TODAY Sports Broncos Star Talanoa Hufanga's Childhood ...

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 ...

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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 City. Other banged-up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's a long history of girls' sports being adapted to safeguard the "weaker sex." (Steve Galluzzo / For The Times) As summer ...