Tamara Taylor has played softball, volleyball and basketball, but tackle football hits different — literally. “I just like to hit people and have fun,” said Taylor, 31, defensive lineman for Denver’s ...

The Washington Prodigy, part of the Women’s National Football Conference, are helping break football’s traditional gender barriers. (Courtesy of the Washington Prodigy) Tamara Taylor has played ...

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 new ...

A women’s tackle football team from Oklahoma has punched its ticket to nationals. The undefeated “Oklahoma Rage” will leave next week for the D3 Women’s Football Alliance (WFA) National Championship ...

Women have been playing tackle football for decades, mostly under the radar, but two league commissioners believe it will be part of the next wave as interest in women's sports grows.

It’s mid-July, and we’re still several weeks away from high school and college football teams opening fall camp. But there’s one team out on the field now, grinding out practices in the summer ...

As summer turns to fall, roughly 1.2 million U.S. teens are suiting up to play high school football. But something is shifting in this annual autumn rite. Tens of thousands of those young athletes are ...

Women’s flag football is likely entering its salad days. Not that tackle football isn’t fully in its prime, contrary to the once popular prediction of its inevitable demise.