Over the past decade — and especially since the COVID-19 pandemic — participation in organized youth sports has been steadily declining. Experts cite numerous reasons for this trend — the most ...

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

Sport or study? It is a perennial debate – and a false one. Rather than playing more sport being the enemy of a child’s performance in the classroom, more physical activity actually helps children to ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Weeks before my first day of ninth grade, I got a phone call. It was an incoming senior at Revere High School, checking to see if I planned to go out for the tennis team. I must have ...

ANOTHER WAY? IT’S THURSDAY NIGHT AT LAWRENCE PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL AND THE ENERGY IS ELECTRIC. PATHOM IS TAKING ON GUILMETTE SIMULTANEOUS BOYS AND GIRLS BASKETBALL GAMES. THIS ISN’T A CLUB PROGRAM. THIS ...

From the WNBA All-Star Game to the British Open Championship, sports fans had ample opportunities to see elite athletes in action this past weekend. Many of those watching are children with dreams of ...

Youth sports are adult organized and controlled athletic programs for young people in the 6-to-18-year-old age range. The participants are formally organized into teams and leagues, and practices and ...

BERKELEY, CA – If you saw Antonio Davis on the court, you remember a fierce power forward and rebounder. As he played, he saw failure as something he couldn’t afford. “If you would have taken sport ...

MANKATO — Not everyone’s part-time high school gig turns out to be their dream job. But for lifelong Mankatoan Andy Oberle, Play It Again Sports has always been where it’s at. “I was 16 when I started ...

Never mind the popular image of Americans as sedentary, housebound, and living on the couch. It turns out a whopping 80% of us are physically active, according to a new report from the Sports and ...

We live in the greatest era of sports TV play-by-play voices. The ability to describe what we see in front of us, coupled with advances in technology that allow for deeper insight into a sport, has ...