MINNEAPOLIS -- As a kid, Kristen Mueller spent her summers playing baseball with friends at a park a couple of blocks away.

Harris Poll and national nonprofit find 68% of parents say they have seriously considered pulling their kids out. How can we ...

ESPN is investing money and resources to help make playing sports possible for kids across the country. Parents also have a ...

Excerpted from “Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania are Ruining Kids’ Sports — and Why It Matters” by Linda Flanagan. Published by Penguin Random House. There’s no ironclad proof that sports build ...

By now, lots of people know that private equity is changing everything about the world of youth sports, an arena where it’s ...

A sweeping study of U.S. youth sports participation over the past 60 years has found that there has been a significant increase over time in kids playing organized sports—but particularly among more ...

If you’ve got kids who participate in team sports, you probably know that team snacks after the game are a ...

DENVER — Vinny Amorosa’s rise as a budding wrestling star left his father, Joe, wrestling with his approach to youth sports. Vinny is already a multiple-time youth state champion at 10 years old, but ...

PARKER, Colo. — Every time I play wiffle ball with my son, I can’t help but think about what youth sports have become. On the wiffle ball field on our property, 10-year-old Jax’s love for the game ...