{"id":140942,"date":"2026-02-21T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140942\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:06:07","slug":"binghamton-university-to-add-womens-flag-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140942\/","title":{"rendered":"Binghamton University to add women&#8217;s flag football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Binghamton University is adding women&#8217;s flag football to its list of athletic offerings.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as the NCAA has recognized women&#8217;s flag football as an emerging sport for women.<\/p>\n<p>BU officials say this now means there are 11 men&#8217;s and 11 women&#8217;s sports on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Its first season is set for the spring 2028 semester.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This allows young women in high school or even growing up in elementary school to now strive to come to Binghamton to compete on a college level playing women&#8217;s flag football,&#8221; said Eugene Marshall Jr., director of Binghamton University Athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Binghamton University is adding women&#8217;s flag football to its list of athletic offerings. It comes as the NCAA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11101,257,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,17969,380,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-140942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-central-ny","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-new-york-state","14":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-state-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-southern-tier","18":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}