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Today, health and safety are the focus of NFL Youth Football Fund resources, driven by crisis.

Pop Warner will introduce new rules to limit contact drills to one-third of practice time, and ban full-speed head-on blocking and tackling drills in which players line up more than three yards apart.

In the wake of a new study, the national president of Pop Warner said he will propose a rule that, for the first time, would limit the amount of contact allowed in youth football practices.

An audio recording of Jim Tressel's five-hour interview with NCAA investigators before his forced resignation as Ohio State football coach highlights the fear and desperation heard in his voice.

Barack Obama has an opportunity to make an impact on the world of sports that only the likes of Dwight Eisenhower and Theodore Roosevelt have managed, writes ESPN's Tom Farrey.

In his book "Game On," Tom Farrey investigates one of the most compelling topics in sports today: the truth about the lives of child athletes, and the consequences of parents' attempts to get a winning edge.

Bill Belichick is ruthless, demanding and divisive -- no wonder he ticks off everyone outside of New England. But the man on the Pats' sideline is carrying on a star-spangled tradition that stretches back more than 100 years.

A pair of recent federal court decisions allow major college basketball and football players to pursue a class action lawsuit against the NCAA.

If HGH is seen as a recovery drug, the line between sports medicine and performance enhancement could be more blurry than we'd like to acknowledge, writes Tom Farrey.

Youngstown is where it all began for Jim Tressel and Maurice Clarett.

Before Ricky Williams, there was Shawn King, who says smoking marijuana isn't uncommon in NFL circles.

NFL debates ability of detox substances to mask marijuana use among league's players.

If Maurice Clarett enters the NFL draft this April, the suspended Ohio State tailback can expect to have his relationship to an admitted football gambler scrutinized by the league's security office in the coming months.

A close associate of Maurice Clarett made regular calls to a sportsbook during Ohio State's championship season, phone records show.

Ohio State coach Jim Tressel told ESPN.com that he wants Maurice Clarett to rejoin the Buckeyes program.

While still fighting vigorously to eliminate the NFL practice of keeping talented young college players from entering the league, Maurice Clarett has found another angle that could get him into the 2004 April draft: The league's own rule.