High school sports face many obstacles as school year nears

More than 13,000 districts, some of them resource-rich, many of them not, are trying to figure how to safely stage sports for some 8 million participants, nearly all of them minors.

Student athletes anxiously await return of high school football

The pandemic halted school athletics earlier this year and parents and students everywhere want to know if this year’s high school football season might also be a bust.