Former New York Times writer Harvey Araton's novel reveals a raucous life of a youth athlete, and lessons we can all learn ...

Parents are struggling to keep up as costs and options rise for kids to play ball. Investors see an opportunity. Lindsey ...

A growing body of research shows how pressure from overbearing coaches and parents is stunting children’s emotional ...

Many American kids are participating in multiple team sports today. Yet they're not only navigating packed daily schedules, they're dealing with high stress levels. While participation in team sports ...

While many kids dream of becoming a professional or Olympic athlete, there may be physical and emotional drawbacks to ...

A Jacksonville youth sports program will add softball this year and continue efforts to remove cost barriers that keep many ...

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. When Aly was a little kid, “sports” consisted of playing on a playground or ...

Long before the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, the U.S. was already in the throes of another very-bad-for-health epidemic—an epidemic of physical inactivity among kids. During the 2010s, ...

A Pennsylvania senator is pushing for youth sports to stay accessible for parents and children across the Commonwealth with a ...

The costs of participating in youth sports are keeping some kids away, according to one coach in the Las Vegas valley. A ...