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Lacrosse is among the nation's fastest-growing youth sports, especially among boys whose parents are looking for a safer alternative to football. But the sport found itself in the continuing conversation [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDA new policy adopted by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Pa., which requires that boys on its school wrestling teams forfeit matches against female opponents, comes at a [...]

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania has adopted a policy requiring boys on its school wrestling teams to forfeit matches against female opponents, school officials said Tuesday. The [...]

At 9 years old, J. C. Roddick, the nephew of Andy Roddick, was forging a path of his own in tennis. After years of showing promise in lessons at home [...]

A senior executive at the company that oversees drug testing for the N.C.A.A., the N.F.L., the N.B.A., Major League Baseball and several other top sports organizations claimed in a lawsuit [...]

Byline: MARY PILON Maybe you and your friends have made Free Parking more like a winning lottery ticket by adding the proceeds from taxes and fees. Or you've started your [...]

Maybe you and your friends have made Free Parking more like a winning lottery ticket by adding the proceeds from taxes and fees. Or you've started your own stimulus program [...]

LAS VEGAS -- The curling stones were aligned, brooms were in hand, and the three ice sheets were spritzed with deionized water. Forty-eight curlers were set to compete in the [...]

In a reversal, Competitor Group, the organizer of dozens of high-profile running events around the world, said it would immediately reinstate appearance fees for elite athletes. Race fees are a [...]

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. -- Lawrenceville School students trickled out of the brick buildings of the campus on a recent afternoon to begin their activities of dance, soccer and community service. But [...]

As she approached the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center Monday morning, Sandra Walden of the Bronx, a longtime attendee of the United States Open, made an astute observation. ''The [...]

ALBANY -- Last year, the state attorney general's office sued an animal hospice center in Delaware County that had been accused of neglect for failing to file required financial reports. [...]

When he woke up Friday, Zachary Yoshor, 17, a senior at the Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston and a star player on the school's basketball team, said he was [...]

In theory, at least, IGF-1 seems almost too good to be true. It can, at least in animals, heal tendon injuries and build muscles. Available at anti-aging clinics, IGF-1, or [...]

The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights clarified legal obligations Friday for school districts in providing access to sports for students with disabilities. The guidance concerns Section 504 of the [...]

Some young disabled athletes are having their own Oscar Pistorius moments -- not by breaking barriers in the Olympics, but by battling sports officials over whether and how they should [...]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- As dozens of marquee athletes were involved in doping scandals over the past decade, concern about the use of performance-enhancing drugs reached the parents and coaches [...]

MILFORD, Pa. -- As a 12-year-old seventh grader, Glenn and Kathy Kiederer's older daughter wanted to play sports at Delaware Valley Middle School here. She also wanted to join the [...]

The Olympic sprinter Sanya Richards-Ross was at BET's Midtown studios last Wednesday for an appearance on the hip-hop show ''106 & Park.'' Before stepping in front of the raucous studio [...]

LONDON -- A triple jump athlete was removed from Greece's Olympic team Wednesday for posting a comment on Twitter that was disparaging of African immigrants in Greece. Paraskevi Papahristou, 23, [...]

A fight surrounding women's participation in canoeing has moved to the British court system. Competitive canoeist Samantha Rippington filed a challenge Thursday against the London Organizing Committee claiming that the [...]

EUGENE, Ore. -- United States track officials had devised an unprecedented method to resolve an extraordinary situation. After Jeneba Tarmoh and Allyson Felix finished in a dead heat in the [...]

Saudi Arabia, a monarchy with severe restrictions on women in daily life, will allow female athletes to compete in the Olympics for the first time this summer if they qualify, [...]

International Olympic Committee officials have opened an investigation in response to allegations that officials violated the committee's rules about ticket sales to the London Games. Using undercover reporters, the British [...]

Houston's Robert M. Beren Academy, which successfully appealed a scheduling conflict that nearly forced it to forfeit its place in a Texas basketball tournament this week, lost to Abilene Christian, [...]

The Robert M. Beren Academy, an Orthodox Jewish day school in Houston, won its regional championship to advance to the boys basketball state semifinals this weekend in Dallas. But the [...]

Swiss bank US AG had agreed to provide the United States Internal Revenue Service with the names 4,450 Americans who have bank accounts there as the IRS pursues tax evasion investigations. That agreement was given legal footing with the approval a bill by Switzerland's Parliament that will let the government provide the names.

The article reports that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service will impose new regulations on tax-preparation firms. Employees of such outfits as H&R Block Inc. and Jackson Hewitt Tax Service will be required to pass an exam and complete 15 hours of training annually. Implementation is set to begin in 2011.