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 ...

When a carpenter is striving to build a better chair, she practices by building chairs. When a painter is trying to perfect his art, he spends hours putting brush to canvas. And when an NFL defender ...

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 ...