“Present and future,” wrote Brighton and Hove Albion, posting a proud photograph on X of 17-year-old Harry Howell being congratulated by 39-year-old team-mate James Milner following his debut senior ...

BATON ROUGE – LSU practiced in full pads for the first time on Tuesday as the Tigers went through a 17-period workout here at the Charles McClendon Practice Facility. The workout included three ...

Conventional wisdom would seem to tell us that when it comes to safety and football padding, more is more. More padding would, in theory, offer more protection from injury. The IHSA, Illinois' ...

Football without pads and helmets would reduce injuries. I’ve been saying that in newspaper columns since 2004, before much of the debate about concussions and injuries grew so large. Generally, ...

LSU football practiced for the first time in shoulder pads on Wednesday. The five day acclimation period allows for the Tigers to spend the next two days in shells and a fifth day in full pads. Some ...

Today is a big day for the Los Angeles Rams. Matthew Stafford, unfortunately, isn’t returning to practice as expected, but they’ll welcome something else to their fifth session at Loyola Marymount ...

Nearly every North Jersey football program was missing equipment — helmets, some type of pads, jerseys or even footballs — when practices began Aug. 10, a survey of coaches conducted by the USA TODAY ...

A rugby player friend of mine says one reason for the serious injuries in American football is pads and helmets. He says players can hit harder because of protective equipment and do so knowing they ...

They stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the conviction that they have enhanced player safety in the NFL on down to the high school football level. With the NFL fixated on helmet innovation to reduce ...

DALLAS, Texas — An Oak Cliff pee wee football program needs help outfitting kids with gear, after losing about two-thirds of its equipment when a nearby community center stopped supporting youth ...