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According to a report authored by Louis Freeh, the former FBI director who conducted an investigation for Penn State University in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, and other university leaders, “repeatedly concealed facts” from proper authorities in the Sandusky case.

The report also found that while […]

Brian Frederick had an interesting column speculating about the possibility of the Kansas City Royals, host of this year’s All-Star festivities, being owned by the people of Kansas City. It’s not a crazy concept. The Green Bay Packers have thrived for decades under such a model in the NFL.

The Packers are owned by […]

By Ken Reed

Too many college and high school athletes have collapsed and died in the last decade due to overzealous coaches and trainers who use over-the-top conditioning drills in an effort to “toughen up” the athletes under their direction.

These workout sessions are lightly regulated at best and coaches “just run willy-nilly” trying to […]

By Ken Reed

The King-Devick Test has once again proven to be an easy, effective, and immediate sideline concussion screening tool for sports activities. In a study published by the Journal of Neurological Sciences, the King-Devick test proved to be an accurate “remove from play” sideline concussion assessment tool in youth rugby games according […]

By Ken Reed

Title IX, the landmark civil rights legislation that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program receiving federal financial assistance, recently celebrated its 40th birthday. A celebration was indeed in order given that millions more girls and women have been given the opportunity to participate in athletics than was […]

By Ken Reed

It was their team. It should still be their team. But it’s not.

A couple carpetbagging owners who bought the local team, the Seattle Supersonics, in 2008 while promising to keep the team in town, instead moved the franchise to Oklahoma City in a move that reeked of greed and a […]

By Ken Reed

Dr. Robert Cantu and Chris Nowinski of the Sports Legacy Institute have asked the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to warn athletes about the risk of developing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) from repetitive brain trauma in sports.

“CTE can be a devastating neurological disease, and anyone voluntarily exposing themselves to repeated […]

By Ken Reed

The tendency today among sports skeptics (yes, I often qualify) is to denigrate everyone and everything in sports, especially the highly commercialized big-time college and pro sports. It’s not fair. There are some outstanding people in sports, from the little leagues to the big leagues. There always have been and there always […]

By Ken Reed

In a recent article he penned, Minnesota state senator John Marty wrote that the millions of public dollars going to build the wealthy owners of the highly profitable Minnesota Vikinigs a new stadium is evidence of warped priorities.

“Mr. (Zygi) Wilf’s expensive lobbying effort and his generous campaign contributions won the […]

Is there any better financial deal in the world than being an NFL owner?

What other business owner gets a deal where they have a protected monopoly with antitrust exemptions up the gazoo, and virtually guaranteed appreciation of the business?

Name the last NFL franchise that sold for less than the owner paid […]