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By Ken Reed

“There’s something to the play of football that damages the brain,” says Dr. Ann McKee, a Boston University neuropathologist and the world’s preeminent expert on CTE. “That, to me, is irrefutable.”

Andrew Lawrence has written a comprehensive feature article in Men’s Health on the dangers of football for kids with still […]

By Ken Reed

Major League Baseball (MLB) has increasingly become a game of strikeouts. A person can see more contact in the batting cage at the local amusement park than at an MLB stadium.

Batters are striking out in 22.3 percent of their plate appearances. That’s an all-time high and Major League Baseball is […]

By Ken Reed

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down […]

By Ken Reed

The unfortunate trend in youth and high school sports the last couple decades is toward specialization. Young athletes have increasingly chosen to focus on a single sport in their developmental years, often as young as eight or nine years old. (Perhaps more accurately, they’ve been strongly encouraged — some may say forced […]

By Ken Reed

Most people associate chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive brain disease caused by repetitive brain trauma, with the NFL — specifically retired NFL players.

But CTE is more than a pro football issue. While the Boston University CTE Center has discovered CTE in the brains of 110 of 111 former NFL […]

By Ken Reed

‘It is very much a moral dilemma’

The next lawyer that sues a university, or the NCAA, on behalf of a client who has suffered a brain injury due to playing football will definitely make use of some recent comments from a leader of the University of Colorado.

Linda Shoemaker, vice […]

By Ken Reed

Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown is suing the city of Milwaukee, its police chief and eight police officers involved in a parking ticket altercation back in January. Brown, who’s African-American, was tased and arrested in the incident. He was issued a parking citation but wasn’t charged with a crime.

Milwaukee Police Chief […]

By Ken Reed

I devoted a chapter in my book, How We Can Save Sports: A Game Plan, to our country’s need to replace abusive, militaristic-style coaches with more humanistic coaches. I’ve also written columns about the need to rid sports of coaching bullies — e.g., Bobby Knight types — especially at the youth […]

By Ken Reed

Helmet makers, along with some coaches, athletic directors and youth sports administrators would like you to believe that there are football helmets available that will greatly reduce the risk of brain trauma and concussions.

To be nice, they are misleading you. The reality is there’s very little a helmet can do to […]

By Ken Reed

“Wins and losses matter, but true acts of sportsmanship define participants. A moment this genuine should be required viewing for all athletes.”
—Chip Scoggins, Minneapolis Star Tribune

I love this story.

Ty Koehn, a high school pitcher for Mounds View High School in Minnesota, strikes out a childhood friend, Jack Kocon […]