By Ken Reed

I’m a big baseball fan. I played through college and I follow the game very closely. Occasionally, usually through a friend or colleague, I get the opportunity to sit close to the field, not too far above one of the dugouts. What an awesome view. You can really see the pitcher, hitter […]

By Ken Reed

Research has found that one of the things kids hate the most about youth sports is “The Ride Home” with critical parents. This short video depicts the typical youth sports “Ride Home” very well.

When you put yourself in the child’s spot in this video, it’s clear how these “Ride Home” […]

By Ken Reed

A recent research article on high school football injuries in The American Journal of Sports Medicine concluded that sports-related concussions (SRC) dropped 57% after a Wisconsin high school rule limited contact during football practices.

The report also said the SRC rate during games was unchanged. This is important to note because […]

Company Urges U.S. Soccer to Be “On the Right Side of History”

By Ken Reed

Proctor & Gamble is donating $529,000 — $23,000 for each of the 23 players on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT) that recently won the World Cup. The donation was made to help close the pay gap between the […]

By Ken Reed

Jim Bouton died last week at 80. The plethora of Bouton obituaries and tributes since have focused on his pitching career, including winning a couple World Series games with the New York Yankees, and the blockbuster book Ball Four* he wrote in diary style about his 1969 season. But Jim Bouton was […]

By Ken Reed

Serena Williams has apologized. Finally.

Williams’ boorish behavior and poor sportsmanship in last year’s U.S. Open final overshadowed what should have been a grand moment for a young star from Japan named Naomi Osaka.

Osaka won the match, resulting in her first major tournament victory, but not before Williams […]

By Ken Reed

The beginnings of what might be the greatest women’s soccer team of all-time can be traced back to June 23, 1972 when Title IX became the law of the land.

Title IX is a public policy initiative that was driven by Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana and Congresswoman […]

By Ken Reed

Is the NFL completely morally bankrupt?

This is the league that runs phony, shameful campaigns to salute military soldiers and veterans.

This is the league that tried to hide evidence that brain trauma was leading to CTE.

This is the league that asks prospective […]

By Ken Reed

America was built by bold people looking for a better life — for themselves and their brothers and sisters.

That’s all U.S. women’s national team soccer player Megan Rapinoe is doing.

She’s simply asking that we, as a country, live up to the last three words of the Pledge or Allegiance: “justice […]

By Ken Reed

Sexism sucks.

And nobody knows that better than the U.S. women’s national soccer team. The current team members, and their predecessors, have been fighting gender discrimination on the part of the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) and FIFA for decades.

Let’s start with this: The U.S. women’s national team […]