How did a sport codified in England end up with a nickname that divides the Anglophone world? The surprising history of "soccer" starts in the British school system ...

American Football is one of the more popular sports in the states, but why isn’t it considered an Olympic Sport? American Football has grown into one of the more popular sports in the United States.

I teach a course on the intersection of sports and religion in North America, and I ask students whether there is something about American society that draws us to the violence of football. Why, for ...

Another day and another set of national high school football powers have been announced squaring off in this fall’s Broward County Classic High School Football Showcase. On Thursday night, the Broward ...

Editor’s note: Throughout the offseason, The Athletic is celebrating the 150th anniversary of college football, one decade at a time. For more on the 1880s, read Matt Brown on the best players, teams ...

Jeremy Brown is an Emmy winning news producer who has worked for 4 stations since 2006. He writes for several websites including GameRant, What's On Disney Plus, and Fantom Sports Industries. He is ...

The name of the first professional football player seems too perfect to be true. Pudge Heffelfinger sounds like a mythical Midwestern gridiron god more than a living, breathing human being.