NPR's Juana Summers talks with Olivia Kuan about her documentary, The Herricanes, about her mom's professional football career and the National Women's Football League.

The debate over youth tackle football has become an extension of the country's polarized politics, replete with references to the nanny state and charges of corporate negligence.

VideoThe Lawrenceville School, an elite prep school in New Jersey, in 2011 featured a video on its YouTube page promoting its intramural House Football League, the longest-running tackle football ...

The new Ontario Women's Football League has both U19 and U16 divisions. (David Rodenhiser) For the first time, a tackle football league for girls and women is up and running in Ontario.

When Dan Anderson of Holmen heard about a youth tackle football league in Sparta last fall, he thought it was something he would like to see in Holmen. Little at the time did Anderson know where ...

Girls who grew up wishing they could play tackle football could soon get that opportunity. Shawn Smith, of the Her Game Sports ownership group, announced this week that Joplin will be part of the ...

The first known all-girls tackle football league in the country kicked off over the weekend. And the league already has one celebrity player.

The league did give women's tackle football a platform at halftime of the Pro Bowl in 2020, when 22 players from the Utah Girls Football League were featured in a scrimmage.

This year marks the first time the Etobicoke Eagles are participating in the OWFL, the first team from Toronto to play in the league that gives U-19 girls a chance to play competitive tackle football.