NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league's support of girls' flag football is a long-term investment in making football ...

Not that long ago, the idea of girls playing football - actual football, not powderpuff - felt like a novelty at best and a punchline at worst. Now? It's one of the fastest-growing sports in the ...

Elena Easley, an 8-year-old spitfire of a second-grader in Minnesota, had a very bad day last week. She loves football. Loves to watch the Kansas City Chiefs on TV. Loves to play. She plays football ...

When Austin Sheepo first told his girlfriend that he plays on his high school flag football team, she was a little confused. “Isn’t that a girls’ sport?” she asked. They attend different high schools, ...

For Alicia and Taylor Jones, whether they would play football in high school was never really a question. When the identical twins stepped foot onto the football field as freshmen in 2023, they became ...

SACRAMENTO STANDOUT BEFORE THE GAME. GIRLS FLAG FOOTBALL IS GROWING EXPONENTIALLY HERE IN CALIFORNIA AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY. ACCORDING TO USA FOOTBALL, MORE THAN 200,000 GIRLS AGES 6 TO 17 PLAYED FLAG ...

The boy looked at me like I was crazy. There I was, standing on a Manhattan Beach field full of girls playing flag football, while he — a 12-year-old practicing alongside them with a cohort of about a ...

KSHSAA voted 61-1 to sanction girls flag football as an official high school sport. Sanctioning creates a path for school-sponsored teams and KSHSAA postseason play. Wichita leaders and the Greater ...