Keep Kids on the Field and Out of the Operating Room
Learn More from the STOP Sports Injuries Campaign During April's Youth Sports Safety Month ROSEMONT, Ill., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than five million kids under the age of 18 suffer a sports related injury each year with approximately half of these due to overuse, according to the CDC.

Youth soccer tourney successful despite bad weather
Despite a lack of cooperation from Mother Nature, the recent 35th annual Athens Invitational soccer tournament was judged a success by tournament director Lloyd White.

Blackmon: Youth sports aren't 'do-over' for parents
We spent a delightful few days over the weekend with our two grandsons (and their mother). They are 8 and 11, both good athletes, and are looking forward to the beginning of their fall sports. The elder will enter middle school, where he'll have the opportunity to play on a school team for the first time.

Police clear football players in taxi assault
University of Georgia football players were not involved in a recent assault inside a taxi, as two victims first believed, Athens-Clarke police said.