An NFL ad during the Super Bowl promoted girls varsity flag football. NPR speaks with NYU adjunct professor and sports writer Jane McManus about why the NFL is promoting the sport now.

The league will have a two-minute spot after the halftime show directed by Peter Berg and starring Pat McAfee, Justin Jefferson and other stars, calling for girls flag football to become a varsity ...

The NFL has used the Super Bowl to advertise flag football in recent years and is back in 2025 with a commercial calling to make girls flag football a varsity sport in all 50 states.

Three Guilford High School seniors represented the Bears in an NFC versus AFC matchup during the inaugural NFL Flag High ...

Led by sophomores Tehani Shigematsu and Manahere Peters, the Pine Crest Sloan Canyon girls flag football team moved on to the ...

She said it would mean the world to win a state championship with it being her first year playing out of Kamehameha. Like most teams, the Kamehameha Girls Flag Football team will range from very ...

Camille's mum Aimée Little, 50, says that both girls are still playing football which is "very courageous" but feel like they are more anxious before playing a match. She said: "Both girls are ...

Days after opposition from religious groups disrupted two women's football matches in northern Bangladesh, another inter-district girls' football ... at the venue to play, were forced to leave.

A girls' football match was cancelled in Rangpur's Taraganj upazila yesterday, just days after one was obstructed in Joypurhat. The local administration had to impose section 144 around the venue ...