By Ken Reed

A new blood test which has the potential to quickly diagnose concussions at sporting events and elsewhere has gained FDA approval.

The new blood test is designed to detect two proteins released into the blood when someone suffers a concussion. Of note, it can rule out a concussion 95.6% of […]

By Ken Reed

There have been a couple news stories recently that have people excited about new technologies that could potentially significantly reduce the number of sports concussions.

Unfortunately, stories like these might actually do more harm than good. More on that in a bit. First, let’s do a quick recap of the […]

By Ken Reed

As a society, we keep finding new ways to avoid physical movement. And it’s slowly killing us.

A sedentary lifestyle (dubbed by some health experts as Sedentary Death Syndrome) is equivalent to having a major disease. The cure? Not an expensive pharmaceutical. But inexpensive cardiovascular exercise. The research is straightforward: […]

By Ken Reed

We’re continuing to move to an endpoint of two super conferences in big-time college football, similar to the AFC and NFC in the NFL. Basically, we will have professional football on Saturdays and Sundays.

The latest College Football Playoff (CFP) deal reveals that two conferences now control college sports at […]

By Ken Reed

As with virtually every contemporary sports issue, win-at-all-costs (WAAC) and profit-at-all-costs (PAAC) mentalities are at the foundation of the numerous pitching injuries we’re seeing in baseball.

The American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI) has called the rise in the number of professional pitchers requiring ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction (“Tommy John surgery”) […]

By Ken Reed

Unlike their professional counterparts, most college football and basketball players aren’t making big money. While many college superstars are pulling in significant income from name, image and likeness (NIL) deals, most college role players receive little compensation for their efforts beyond tuition and room and board. As such, they are more […]

By Ken Reed

Some billionaires simply have no shame.

Take the Pegula family, owners of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, as an example.

According to Forbes, Terry and Kim Pegula have a net worth of $5.8 billion. Despite that wealth, they wanted taxpayers to help pay for a new football stadium for their […]

By Ken Reed

Pro sports owners have the best business deal in the United States. They operate unregulated cartels and have a variety of antitrust protections. Basically, pro sports owners have been given free rein in this country. Moreover, their franchises appreciate at rates very few companies in other industries can match. Yet, they […]

By Ken Reed

A report from the Commission On the State of U.S. Olympics and Paralympics was released last week. The report, titled “Passing the Torch: Modernizing Olympic, Paralympic & Grassroots Sports In America” had several recommendations. Probably, the most noteworthy recommendation was the following:Congress should allow USOPC to focus on high performance […]

By Ken Reed

The mind is the last frontier in sports. Since the beginning of competitive athletics, sports coaches and trainers have focused almost solely on the physical development of athletes. In the last couple decades, data analytics and technological advances have taken center stage when working with athletes. But athletes aren’t robots and […]