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By Ken Reed

Activists and lawyers have been working for 20 years to get the Washington Redskins to drop their offensive nickname and also to get media outlets to stop using the moniker. The efforts have been largely unsuccessful. The Washington Post, which has supported their position, says the case has become “largely symbolic.”

The […]

By Ken Reed

In the end, this year’s American League East race might be decided by a blown call at first base this past Saturday night.

The New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles have been battling for first place for weeks. The Orioles won Saturday’s game between the two teams when the Yankees’ Mark […]

By Ken Reed

Dan Wetzel might be the best sports columnist in America. Brendon Ayanbadejo might be the best activist athlete in the United States. And Maryland state house of delegates-member Emmett C. Burns Jr. (D-Baltimore County) might be the biggest political fool in the country (I know, there’s tough competition in this category).

By Ken Reed

A new study in the journal Neurology concluded that former NFL players died from degenerative brain disease at a rate three times higher than the general U.S. population. The new study is just the latest of multiple studies in recent years linking football with brain disease.

The study’s authors said “these […]

By Ken Reed

We’ve been told for years that exercising more will make us healthier, thinner, and probably allow us to live longer. Yet, the amount we exercise doesn’t change. That fact has been stumping exercise advocates and researchers for a long time.

Michelle L. Segar, a research investigator at the Institute for Research on […]

In an op-ed column in the Chicago Tribune today, I called for high school football to be banned. I’m not happy about it. I truly enjoy watching football games at all levels. Moreover, I think there are a lot of positives involved with playing football. But there’s a huge negative that I feel overrides […]

By Ken Reed

The National Football League is three-fourths through its preseason (read: exhibition) schedule, which means NFL fans are three-fourths through the latest version of one of the greatest fan scams in sports history.

Season-ticket holders — pro football’s most loyal fans — across the country continue to be forced (extorted would actually be […]

By Ken Reed

Nike is expected to release a new LeBron James shoe this fall with a price tag of approximately $300. In doing so, they will be exploiting the sports hero worship mindset of millions of young Americans, including poor inner city youth. (Who else is the target for these shoes? It certainly isn’t […]

By Ken Reed

Hypocites.

Augusta National has long been driven by hypocrisy.

Augusta’s chairmen — from Clifford Roberts, to Hootie Johnson, to Billy Payne — have consistently said that what they do at Augusta National is a private matter.

But they’ve never had any problem completely opening up their club, via television, to the general […]

By Ken Reed

Title IX’s 40th anniversary was celebrated earlier this summer. The landmark law has been a godsend for females in terms of participation in athletics, but the impact for female coaches and administrators has been less than stellar.

Sports participation numbers for girls and women were extremely low in 1972, at both the […]