The California legislature began debating a bill Wednesday that would ban youth tackle football for children under age 12. AB 734, introduced last year by Sacramento Assemblymember Kevin McCarty ...

Youth tackle football has been shown to increase risk of brain injury, trauma. The California legislature began debating a bill Wednesday that would ban youth tackle football for children under ...

“It don’t bother football people.” Two days earlier, a bill to ban tackle football for kids under 12 had passed out of the state legislature’s Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged Wednesday to hold the line against a proposed law that would ban youth tackle football in California, saying in a statement to The Times that he’d veto any such ...

Our younger kids play flag football, and we allowed our oldest to be the kicker on his tackle team. Fall weekends are my absolute favorite because of one thing: football. It starts with the Friday ...

No state has banned tackle football for kids, but there have been attempts to do so. Similar bills introduced previously in California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts and Maryland failed to pass.

Two California lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban organized tackle football before high school. The state legislature is expected to take up the "Safe Youth Football Act" in its ...