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By Ken Reed

For at least a couple decades, the NBA has been the most progressive American professional sports league.

That distinction will be reinforced in the coming days when the Milwaukee Bucks interview San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon.

Hammon, a college All-American at Colorado State and a long-time WNBA star, is […]

By Ken Reed

I can still see my dad, lying on his nursing home bed, listening to a baseball broadcast on his transistor radio.

The broadcasters were his daily companions as he dealt with a challenging and scary health issue. In a sense, they were actually his friends; people he could count on to take […]

By Ken Reed

There are many reasons youth and HS athletes should play more than one sport, and the NFL just gave us another one.

Of the 32 first round draft picks in the recent NFL draft, 29, or 91%, were multi-sport athletes in high school.

Draft analyst, Kirk Herbstreit, had this to say […]

By Ken Reed

The latest episode of HBO’s “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” has a segment on abusive coaching practices in the NCAA.

In the segment, Dr. Ben Tepper, from Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business, is interviewed. Tepper has made the study of abusive leadership in the workplace his specialty. He is […]

By Ken Reed

If you have any interest at all about the issue of whether college athletes should be paid or not, Jon Solomon’s long piece for the Aspen Institute is a must read.

The foundation of the whole debate is the concept of amateurism, it’s history with the NCAA, and the NCAA’s constantly […]

By Ken Reed

Adults like competitive sports in general, and winning in particular. When it comes to youth sports, they like creating events that look similar to the pro and big-time college games they enjoy watching.

Kids, on the other hand, want to have fun playing with their friends and learning new skills without constantly […]

By Ken Reed

From the “People Can’t Really Be This Cruel and/or Stupid Can They?” department, two youth baseball coaches in New Hampshire reportedly said they would instruct their players to bean a girl in the Oyster River Youth Association (ORYA) in the hope that action would intimidate the girl into leaving the baseball […]

By Ken Reed

Youth sports entrepreneurs want to get into parents’ pockets. And parents are afraid of their kids getting left behind in the youth sports rat race.

Greed and fear is a toxic combination and it’s hurting our young people.

J.J. Adams had an excellent feature article on this topic in the Vancouver […]

By Ken Reed

Early in his NBA career, LeBron James stayed away from any political-socio-cultural issues, despite urgings from League of Fans and others. In 2008, James was quoted as saying he wanted to “keep athletics and politics separate.”

But in recent years, James has spoken out on a wide-variety of political-socio-cultural issues. […]

By Ken Reed

Major League Baseball (MLB) in general, and MLB commissioner Rob Manfred in particular, seem obsessed with the average length of big league baseball games.

My question is why? Why are a few minutes here or there so important?

The average length of an MLB game is very similar to the average […]