Study participants with a history of repetitive head impacts and traumatic brain injury reported greater depression symptoms later than those who didn't.

A small change to the starting stance offensive linemen use could avoid the effects of repeated head impacts, which include brain damage.

COVID-19 has shut down professional and college sports. An expert explains why teams aren't playing and how that helps fight the pandemic's spread.

Animal bones in a tomb provide the first physical evidence of donkey polo in Imperial China, researchers report.

With safer tackles and padded helmets, no youth football players got concussions in a 20-practice, seven-game season, a new study shows.

Delaying treatment after suffering a concussion can mean a slower recovery, experts warn.

Check out this video to see kids with and without disabilities on the same court competing against each other in a new game called iGYM.

Lots of hype about your opponent, and their "status momentum," can affect how well you compete, research finds. Here's how to approach the mental game.

There's a strong link between playing football and CTE, researchers find. After just under 3 years of play, athletes' risk for CTE doubles.

Kids who play just one sport tend to practice harder and more often. That may sound like a good way to succeed, but it can put them at risk for injury.