LIV Tour is a PR tool for a reprehensible government seeking to wash away its human rights abuse

By Ken Reed

Originally published by Troy Media

The things people will do for money …

The way Greg Norman, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Graeme McDowell and other professional golfers tap dance while trying to […]

Accepting that you can fail leads you to handling failure during a competition

By Ken Reed

Originally published by Troy Media

As an athlete, coach and sports fan, I’ve long been enamoured with the subject of confidence in sports, more specifically, how you get it and maintain it.

I’ve been equally enamoured with […]

Perfectionism has been shown to be a leading cause of depression and, thus, suicide

By Ken Reed

Originally published by Troy Media

As Shalise Manza Young pointed out in a recent column for Yahoo! Sports, at least five National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes in the United States have died by suicide […]

Fans left with an increasingly boring game

By Ken Reed

Originally published by Troy Media

I don’t hate baseball analytics or their use by crafty baseball operations folks. I look at analytics gurus like Billy Beane, Theo Epstein and Andrew Friedman as smart guys who figured out how to exploit market inefficiencies […]

“The NFL is the richest sports franchise, full of billionaire capitalists demanding socialist handouts so they can make even more profits.”
— Ralph Nader

By Ken Reed

Originally published by Troy Media

The billionaire owners of the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills, Terry and Kim Pegula, have landed US$850 million in taxpayer […]

By Ken Reed

Originally published by Troy Media

“Every other sport – like virtually every sort of business – is governed by the antitrust laws.”
– Stuart Banner, author of The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption

The fact that the Supreme Court of the United States gave Major League […]

By Ken Reed

Originally published by Troy Media

As a game and entertainment product, Major League Baseball has plenty of problems.
For starters:

* the pace of play is dreadful;

* strikeouts and walks are up and action is down;

* stolen base attempts are becoming extinct;

* a […]

By Ken Reed

Originally published by Troy Media

As I write this, Norway is tied for second in total medals and gold medals at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Norwegians are projected to take home 45 medals by the end of these Games, surpassing the 39 they won at the 2018 Winter Olympics. […]

By Ken Reed

Originally published by Troy Media

Educational, physical, emotional and spiritual developmental goals for youth and high school sports programs are increasingly being brushed aside by win-at-all-costs and profit-at-all-costs ethos.

The professionalization of youth sports organizations, our ‘little leagues,’ is appalling. Adults – parents and coaches – treat youth sports […]