Category: Sports

While overall participation is down, the survey found increased participation in a number of sports, with golf standing out as the only sport to see an increase among boys.

“Given what has occurred in our country the past three years, we believe a decline of only four percent in participation totals from 2018-19 is pretty remarkable,” said Karissa Niehoff, CEO of the NFHS. “We know some states that were able to complete surveys in 2020-21 reported participation increases this past year. So, we are very optimistic that the trend will continue in the years to come as schools fully recover from the effects of the 2020 shutdown.”

Here are a few key data points.

While participation in 11-player football was down three percent (1,006,013 to 973,792), there was a 12 percent increase in 6-, 8-,

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The outpouring of praise and admiration in the wake of Roger Federer’s retirement announcement is a testament to the Swiss tennis star’s remarkable impact and legacy in the world of tennis, sport and beyond.

Where Federer’s on-court achievements rank among the greats in the men’s game – though he is no doubt in the top three – will be up for debate, but there is no question he is the most transcendent tennis player to ever pick up a racket.

Nobody else in the sport has garnered the global adoration, the endorsements or become an icon quite like Federer.

Twenty two-time grand slam champion Rafael Nadal, whose career-long rivalry with Federer produced some of the most memorable matches in the sport’s history, called it an “honor and privilege” to compete against him.

“Dear Roger, my friend and rival,” Nadal wrote. “I wish this day would have never

By Pedro Moura
FOX Sports MLB Writer

Aaron Judge is producing prodigious statistics and a near-nightly show in pursuit of decades-old records, but to use his chase to diminish Shohei Ohtani’s accomplishments is to punish Ohtani for being exceptional.

In most seasons, Judge’s year would make him an MVP lock. But this is not the typical season. This season features the most dominant full-time, two-way season ever performed in Major League Baseball. So long as he can keep this up for a few final weeks, Ohtani is the rightful American League MVP.

For Judge, that’s a shame. He’s had one of the best offensive seasons this century. It looks like he will best the New York Yankees’ single-season home run record and fall not far short of the league mark he has pronounced the “real” record, Barry Bonds’ 73.

But Ohtani has no records in sight, no nightly chase to