Faith had stopped crying by the time she reached the training room. A talented young soccer player and part of the backbone of her team, she had spent the last year rehabilitating a tear of the major stabilizing ligament of the knee. Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) was torn in drills early in the season, a huge loss for us and for her. ...more

November 29, 2008

Last weekend, Terrapins, Trojans, Mustangs and more took to the gridiron, kicking off the college football season. It was also the start of a new era in college football, one in which fantasy leagues run by commercial entities exploit college players as their virtual game pieces. ...more

September 5, 2008

Considering that a quarter of Florida State's football team has been suspended for cheating in an online music-history class, it seems ironic that the Seminoles are playing today in, of all things, the Music City Bowl in Nashville. ...more

December 31, 2007

The benching of a teenage Muslim athlete from a soccer match in Palm Harbor is one in a series of local incidents in which female athletes were prohibited from playing sports in traditional Islamic dress. ...more

October 16, 2007