The cost of many youth sports leagues has skyrocketed in recent years. There was a time when signing your kid up for soccer ...

A growing body of research shows how pressure from overbearing coaches and parents is stunting children’s emotional ...

Children under age 12 would no longer be able to play tackle football under legislation introduced this week by Albany Democrats ahead of Super Bowl Sunday. Football ought to follow the lead of soccer ...

Nearly 60 kids attended FC Naples’ first soccer camp in Collier County, with one parent traveling from Canada.

A series of recent kids’ sports injuries, some fatal, have reignited a question for many families: Is my child safe playing sports? At least three student football players in the US have died since ...

When Matt Crocker landed in America, as U.S. Soccer’s second-ever sporting director, he plunged into a few urgent tasks. In 2023, he had a men’s national team coach to hire and, soon, a USWNT coach to ...

The panicked voices crackled through Zoom well past 10 p.m. on the night the girls soccer pipeline crumbled. They’d been primed by swirling questions about the future of the Development Academy, a ...

U.S. Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker's grand plan for a "U.S. Way" sounds at first like talking down from the top. In fact, there's a lot less of it than there used to be.

Chelsea professional football player Raheem Sterling helps Philadelphia kids learn how to play soccer at the Chelsea Foundation’s Football Festival at Cristo Rey High School on July 24, 2023.