WADING RIVER, N.Y. -- The death of a 16-year-old varsity high school football player after an on-the-field collision during a game was "a freak accident," the school's superintendent said at a news ...
Two recent tragedies in youth football — the sudden on-pitch deaths of 15-year-old Amelia Aplin and 17-year-old Adam Ankers — have intensified scrutiny over cardiac arrest response in sport. An ...
A leisure centre has been charged over the death of a footballer who was electrocuted during a five-a-side match in 2016. Albert Xhediku, 34, went to retrieve a ball which had gone over a fence during ...
(CNN) — This fall, more than a million kids, teens and young men will line up on the hash marks for another season of football. Millions more will watch, either as rabid fans or, increasingly, as ...
A now-deceased Australian rules football player became the first female athlete ever diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to the Concussion Legacy Foundation. Heather ...