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By Ken Reed

As a football-loving country, we’ve collectively exhibited cultural avoidance behavior when it comes to the seriousness of brain trauma and CTE in sports like football and hockey.

This holds true for the players that love the game, including the adults playing in the NFL.

Most NFL players are at least somewhat familiar […]

By Ken Reed

.901.

That’s Urban Meyer’s winning percentage at Ohio State.

It’s also the only reason he’s still the head coach at Ohio State today.

After protecting, and covering up for, despicable assistant coach Zach Smith for about a decade — and lying about it — Ohio State’s board of trustees gave Meyer a […]

By Ken Reed

Vince Lombardi has been dead for 48 years. Yet, his treat-‘em-like-dogs coaching style is very much alive in today’s sports world.

The University of Maryland football program is but the latest example of tyrannical coaches going way beyond legitimate coaching techniques. It’s another example of what I call Lombardi Syndrome (militaristic, controlling, […]

By Ken Reed

Vince Lombardi has been dead for 48 years. Yet, his treat-‘em-like-dogs coaching style is very much alive in today’s sports world.

The University of Maryland football program is but the latest example of tyrannical coaches going way beyond legitimate coaching techniques.

During a May workout, Maryland offensive lineman Jordan McNair exhibited “extreme […]

By Ken Reed

Okay, this is getting out of hand.

Now, two police unions in South Florida are urging members to boycott Miami Dolphins football games because some Dolphins players continue to protest police brutality and social injustice during the national anthem.

“It’s a slap in the face,” said Broward County Police Benevolent Association […]

By Ken Reed

Earlier this year, Fox News personality Laura Ingraham infamously told LeBron James and Kevin Durant to “shut up and dribble” for having the audacity to criticize President Trump.

Well, not only is LeBron not shutting up, his production company is creating a three-part documentary series for Showtime highlighting the influence of […]

By Ken Reed

Brett McMurphy has long been a journalist in every positive sense of the word. In short, he’s a pro’s pro.

But ESPN decided to let McMurphy go as part of a layoff in April 2017. McMurphy still had 18 months left on his contract at the time and instead of taking another […]

By Ken Reed

I’ve often said there’s too much adult in youth sports.

Screaming, swearing, abusive, over-demanding, win-at-all-costs (WAAC) youth sports parents and coaches lead to high rates of emotional burnout among young athletes (70%-80% quit team sports by age 13).

We now know that the same group of over-the-top “adults” is driving referees […]

By Ken Reed

Taylor Branch is a well-known civil rights and presidential historian. His trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement is definitive.

That said, his work on college sports is also of the highest quality. In 2011, Branch wrote a highly-regarded feature article for The Atlantic summarizing this work entitled, […]

By Ken Reed

Josh Rosen has always been a progressive thinker. He’s also never shied away from sharing his ideas.

Those traits continue for the former UCLA quarterback and Arizona Cardinals rookie.

Along with a couple others, he’s come up with an economic justice proposal for the NCAA and its student-athletes.

Rosen likes college athletics […]