After KPRC 2’s investigation into Katy American Little League, families across the Houston area are raising similar concerns, highlighting a lack of oversight in youth sports — and what parents can do to protect their money and their kids.

Little League runs World Series tournaments for baseball and softball, and girls are attracting more attention at both this year.

At least a couple of offshore bookmakers are offering odds on games at the Little League World Series.

A 12-year-old Little Leaguer who faced suspension from his team’s first state tournament game for flipping his bat after hitting a home run was allowed to play Thursday night.

Teams that stay in the Williamsport complex for the Little League World Series will continue to sleep in single beds in the wake of last year’s incident where a boy seriously injured his head when he fell out of his top bunk.

A Utah boy who suffered a serious head injury after falling from a bunk bed during last month’s Little League World Series has returned home from the hospital and his family is suing the league and the company that made the bed.

Little League International says participation in its baseball and softball leagues was up this season, and team managers are optimistic about another bump next year coming off the first full-scale Little League World Series since the pandemic.

A perhaps unforeseen opponent got in the way of Needville’s dreams of making the Little League World Series.

The Little League World Series is planning to return in 2021 after last year's edition was canceled due to the COVID-19. A year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Little League World Series to be canceled, organizers are hopeful the late-summer Classic will return this August. The World Series is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. To that end, both the Little League World Series and the Little League Softball World Series in Greenville, North Carolina, will be adding teams in 2022. “Every 11-12 year-old kid playing Little League this year thinks about ending their summer in Williamsport.”___More AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports

Just 60 miles east of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, one Little League director is sending a clear message to his 4,000 players about the Houston Astros and their sign-stealing scam. “Right now, in our leagues, the Astros are suspended,” said Bob Bertoni, head of District 16/31 Little League. Little League heads from around the country are set to meet in Hartford in two weeks, and Bertoni anticipates the Astros will be a top talking point. Little League International, the Williamsport-based governing body for baseball and softball leagues around the world, said in a statement it won’t restrict districts or leagues from barring the Astros name. “Local Little League programs have long used Major League Baseball club names for their local teams," it said.