While many concerned parents will prevent their children from playing football because the injury risk is too high, many others say injuries are just part of the game. But, that doesn’t mean steps can’t still be taken to make it a safer game.

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The one-day event held at Menard Park's Scoggins-Stiglich Tennis Courts raised more than 40 toys for the Ronald McDonald House of Galveston.

Six-year-old Monaco Jones’ parents actually didn’t know much about the sport of BMX when they decided to take their son to bike parks in the area for him focus on his newfound passion, but it didn’t take long for onlookers who were familiar with BMX to take notice

The basketball curriculum on display — featuring drills focused on shooting, dribbling, footwork and agility — was personally developed by former Houston Rocket Matt Bullard, who was in attendance Thursday to lead the clinics along with other team personnel.

Nick Voris, whose long and storied football coaching career includes one of the most memorable playoff runs in Ball High program history, was recently inducted into the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association’s Athletic Hall of Fame as part of its class of 2022.

League City Post 554 reached the American Legion Baseball World Series by defeating Petaluma, California, 3-2, in a dramatic come-from-behind Western regional championship game Sunday night.

The local young athletes in question train with one of three youth track and field clubs based in the county: Texas Fusion, the Mainland Jaguars and Next Generation.

Training out of the humble abodes of the Gator Boxing Gym in Dickinson, two Galveston County natives recently picked up benchmark victories in their still young professional boxing careers.

Among the programs Title IX addressed were collegiate and high school athletics, which opened up venues for young women and girls to not only compete but to gain the life lessons taught through sports that were previously only afforded to their male counterparts.

Less than two years after longtime Santa Fe youth basketball coach Dean Butler came up with the notion to save a roughly 80-year-old basketball gym from a state of disrepair, Santa Fe’s Original Gym has been fully restored to its former glory.

Nine different doubles champions in three playing levels were crowned at the fifth annual Clear Creek Education Foundation Tennis Tournament held at The Fitness Center at South Shore Harbour.

The 126th Boston Marathon returned to its traditional date April 18, and the defending women’s handcycle champion Wendy Larsen of League City proved her Boston debut last fall was no one-time fluke.

Whether it was coaching 10- through 12-year-old Plummer Termites ballplayers or some of those same youngsters a few years later in high school and on American Legion Post 20, Frank Giusti Sr. passed on his know-how of America's pastime with devoted love and passion for the game.