By Ken Reed

There were a couple incidents from this past week’s football action that have garnered a lot of media and fan attention: Myles Garrett’s bonehead use of Mason Rudolph’s helmet as a weapon, and the terrible hip injury to Alabama’s star quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.

First, the Garrett situation. Twitterverse is afire with […]

Trey Johnson Claims NCAA Violates Minimum-Wage Laws

By Ken Reed

Trey Johnson, a former defensive back at Villanova and now a Canadian Football League player, has filed a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA, accusing the organization of violating minimum-wage laws by refusing to pay athletes like employees.

Johnson’s lawsuit claims athletes’ hours are tracked […]

By Ken Reed

Alberto Salazar is a former world-class distance runner and coach.

If the allegations brought by multiple female athletes claiming he physically, mentally and emotionally abused them while under his direction are true, he’s also a pig.

Thanks to the courage of elite athletes (and whistleblowers) Kara Goucher and Mary Cain, Salazar and […]

By Ken Reed

T.J. Abraham worked hard at football while an offensive lineman at Duquense University. He worked so hard that he got his “bell rung” upwards of 70 times.

After his football career ended, he worked hard at being an obstetrics & gynecology doctor, sometimes putting in 100-hour work weeks.

Today, the now 42-year-old […]

By Ken Reed

The NCAA’s PR machine had a victory this week.

The college sports behemoth’s Board of Governors announced that it is going to relax its restrictions regarding a college athlete’s ability to earn money from his/her name, image and likeness (NIL).

Members of the media around the country ate it up. […]

Baseball is Far From a Dying Sport

By Ken Reed

For years now, some baseball writers have been lamenting the decline in baseball’s popularity in general, and with young people in particular.

They contend the game is too slow and of little interest to sports fans below the senior set.

It’s true that in-game attendance […]

How Can a Sport Whose Sole Purpose Is To Cause Brain Damage in One’s Opponent Still Be Legal?

By Ken Reed

Patrick Day is dead. At 27. Because of a blow to the head suffered during a boxing match. How senseless.

Maxim Dadashev, another boxer, is also dead. At age 28. […]

By Ken Reed

The mountain of evidence correlating physical fitness and brain health is about as high as Everest these days.

And it keeps growing.

A new study published last month in Scientific Reports revealed that the more fit young adults were (mostly in their 20’s) the more robust their white matter looked and the […]

By Ken Reed

What more do people want from NBA commissioner Adam Silver?

It seems nearly everyone — from the far right of the political spectrum to the far left — is upset with the NBA’s response to China’s hissy fit over Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s support of Hong Kong protesters.

Just […]