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 ...

San Francisco (CNN) — 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 ...

More than 100 Ohio schools have embraced flag football in recent years. It could become an officially sanctioned sport as ...

California's Makena Cook was extended a historic offer by Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule, marking the first-ever scholarship offer by a Power 4 conference for flag football. Nebraska football ...

CINCINNATI — Girls flag football is one of the fastest-growing high school sports in the country, and this spring it reaches a major milestone: it becomes an official varsity sport in Ohio. At the ...

Optimist Youth Football started the state's first girls flag football league in 2024. It just added teams for high school ...

Girls' flag football is one of the fastest-growing high school sports, now in its third season in Lee County. Coaches are running their flag football programs with the same intensity and standards as ...

PITTSFIELD — It was breaking news that Pittsfield High and Taconic would have a co-op football team in 2026. The expectation was that would be the case in the fall, however, the girls of the gridiron ...

Hundreds of girls across the Pittsburgh area came together Tuesday for a flag football event hosted by the Off the Field NFL ...