Injury Prevention

The AYSO Region 55 (Huntington Beach) girls' soccer under-10 team, Black Out White Out, won its division at both the All-Star and All-Star Sectionals tournaments in February. Black Out White Out will compete in March at the state championship tournament...

The Blue Crushers, a girls' under-10 team from AYSO Region 55 (Huntington Beach), took third place Sunday at the Section 11 tournament at Chapman Sports Park in Garden Grove. The Blue Crushers are division champions in both Region 55 and Area K....

Thomas Roberts of Huntington Beach is one of 52 Major League Baseball fans trying to become a "Cave Dweller" in the 2013 MLB Fan Cave. Thomas, whose favorite team is the Los Angeles Dodgers, has his contest video posted at http://www.MLBFanCave.com,...

Bret Bonanni of Huntington Beach, a freshman student/athlete at Stanford University, was named to the USA Water Polo Men's Senior National Team. The team started play Wednesday at the UANA World Aquatic Championships Qualification Tournament at Calgary,...

A six-month Youth Strength and Speed Camp is underway at Marina High. The camp started Monday and runs through June 6 at the school's track. Sessions are from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. Monday through Thursday until June 6. The session are open to youth in...

Registration for the District 62 Challenger Division will take place Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at Grace Lutheran Church in Huntington Beach. The Challenger Division includes mentally or physically disabled children with special needs, ages 4 1/2-18...

In Chicago, certain names have become synonymous with a specific type of tragedy for girls, which can be recalled with bleak and brief synopsis: Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old majorette, shot in the back after coming home from President Obama's...

Dr. Mark Cucuzzella conducts monthly Running Clinics at The Wellness Center at City Hospital. Cucuzzella, distance runner, local physician and founder and organizer of Freedom's Run and the new Two Rivers Heritage Half Marathon, promotes proper form,...

Nothing ruins a skiing or snowboarding weekend like having to hitchhike down the hill in a ski patroller's sled — or in an ambulance. Fortunately, the overall rate of skiing injuries has declined by 50% since the 1970s, according to the National Ski...

When most people think of SportsFest, they think of a variety of tournament-styled events unfolding at Cedar Beach and other nearby venues. And, the high school boys and girls basketball tournaments, which feature close to 100 teams between them, are...

DUNBLANE, Scotland (AP) — If there's anywhere that understands the pain of Newtown, it's Dunblane, the town whose grief became a catalyst for changes to Britain's gun laws. In March 1996, a 43-year-old man named Thomas Hamilton walked into a...

One week after 20-year-old Adam Lanza used guns to kill 20 first-graders and seven adults before shooting himself, two physicians published a Viewpoint article in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. asking what the medical and public health...