A trio of local girls flag football players received some of the highest honors for their performances on the gridiron during ...

Very few female athletes could have seen this coming when they entered high school in 2022. Flag football scholarships? Really? It would have been almost impossible for athletes in Illinois to think ...

Ms. Pilon is a documentary filmmaker and former New York Times sports reporter. Ms. Donovan is a photographer and professor based in Portland, Ore. Sept. 7, 2025 The N.F.L. has never been more ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Flag Football will debut as an Olympic sport when the games come to Los Angeles in 2028. But a local college will be one of the first to introduce the sport at the NCAA level.

Flag football is one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States, and an NFL legend continues to help that growth with an important partnership announced Tuesday. Drew Brees, the New Orleans ...

It shouldn’t be surprising that Round Lake’s Mya Hagi eventually found herself in a particular position during flag football’s first season as an official sport in Illinois last year. Already a point ...

Maine South junior wide receiver Emerson De La Cruz made countless big plays throughout the season. In Saturday night’s flag football state championship game at Willowbrook, De La Cruz saved her best ...

Clarksburg flag football players celebrate their victory over Boonsboro after the finals of Maryland's first girls flag football state championship, hosted by the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium.

There are no changes at the top, but there was some major shuffling in both AL.com flag football Top 10 polls for Week 4. Central-Phenix City, 6-0 this season and undefeated seemingly since Moses was ...

An NFL-owned professional flag football league is coming soon. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said today in London that a flag football league will be in place within the next couple years, which ...

Flag football has grown in popularity and will be introduced during the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles for men and women. Flag football is generally considered safer than traditional tackle ...

Flag football has grown considerably in recent years and its origin is one that involves the U.S. military. During World War II, flag football was born at Fort Meade, the Army base in Maryland, as ...