It’s what a Virginia Tech athletics equipment manager asked Stefan Duma, a faculty member at the university’s department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, in 2009. Duma’s team had been working ...

My family watches football all weekend long. We love everything about the sport, but my husband is concerned about injuries. Our younger kids play flag football, and we allowed our oldest to be the ...

TAMPA (BLOOM) – Dr. Thom Mayer, Medical Director for the NFL Player’s Association, joins Gayle Guyardo, host of the nationally syndicated health and wellness show, Bloom, to discuss keeping kids safe ...

Women’s football has always been sold as a more welcoming and inclusive space. It’s marketed as a ‘game for all’ and promotes a sense of community that sets it apart from the often more hostile, ...

SANANTONIO - This season, according to the Sports Concussion Institute, one out of every 10 high school football players will suffer a concussion, and 35 percentwill suffer more than one. While no ...

A concussion isn’t a knee injury or shoulder injury, in that it’s not always immediately obvious, and that the tendency among athletes, historically, has been to try to play through it. Playing ...

It's called Safe Football – a program developed and pioneered by former NFL lineman Scott Peters – that emphasizes techniques to improve players' balance and leverage while "taking the head out of the ...

PHOENIX — Denise Carroll said she was petrified when her son, Bobby Ciafullo, told her he wanted to play football for Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale. “You know, you hear all these things ...

As thousands of fans pour into Atlanta for Monday night’s college football championship game, city leaders say they are ready to make it a fun and safe weekend of events. After all, Atlanta has hosted ...

Let’s take a look at some of the players with the largest standard deviation between high and low expert ranks in FantasyPros’ expert consensus rankings (ECR). Which players are the safest starts, and ...