By Ken Reed

In a head-shaking decision on June 19, 1972, the Supreme Court ruled against St. Louis Cardinal Curt Flood in an antitrust suit Flood brought against Major League Baseball (MLB) over MLB’s reserve clause, which stated that the original team signing a player controlled that player’s rights for the player’s entire career.

Flood […]

By Ken Reed

Leaders from the Professional Footballers’ Association, Jeff Astle Foundation, the Concussion Legacy Foundation and brain injury association Headway have signed an open letter urging the International Football Association Board (IFAB) to allow temporary concussion substitutions in soccer games so players who may have been concussed during play can be properly evaluated […]

By Ken Reed

The things people will do for money …

The way Greg Norman, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Graeme McDowell and other golfers tap dance while trying to come up with reasons to justify their move to the new LIV Tour is embarrassing.

The LIV Tour has nothing to do with growing the […]

By Ken Reed

When it comes to goonery, the NHL has come a long ways from the ’60’s and 70’s, when being a goon who was good at cheap shots and fighting was a full-time job.

Today, there are a lot fewer true goons and the NHL polices fighting and cheap shots much better than […]

By Ken Reed

Young tennis star Coco Gauff ended the interview following her semifinal victory at the French Open with a message about the epidemic of gun violence and school shootings in America.

“Peace,” wrote Gauff on a camera lens. “End gun violence.”

“I think now athletes are more, I feel like more fine with […]

By Ken Reed

The U.S. Soccer Federation and the men’s and women’s national teams recently agreed to side-by-side collective bargaining agreements that will equalize pay and working conditions for both teams. It’s a landmark deal, years in the making, and it will boost soccer for all stakeholders in the United States. It also sends […]

By Ken Reed

As an athlete, coach and sports fan, I’ve long been enamored with the subject of confidence in sports. More specifically, how you get it and maintain it. I’ve also been equally enamored with the phenomenon of choking in the sports arena.

Why do our minds sometimes sabotage our efforts to perform […]

By Ken Reed

When it became okay for college athletes to benefit financially from their names, images and likenesses (NIL), the thought was that only football players and men’s basketball players would really benefit.

Well, that hasn’t been the case. Women in a variety of sports are doing quite well, better than their male counterparts […]

By Ken Reed

As Shalise Manza Young pointed out in a recent column for Yahoo! Sports, five NCAA college athletes have died by suicide in just the last two months.

One young person committing suicide is a tragedy. Five promising young student-athletes with bright futures taking their own lives in such a short timespan […]

By Ken Reed

Youth and high school sports officials (referees and umpires) are quitting at unprecedented rates due to the verbal and physical abuse they are increasingly receiving from “adults” (parents and coaches).

That abuse is a big reason so many states are now having trouble finding enough qualified officials to call the games […]