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By Ken Reed

This will be the last year for Chief Wahoo, the long-time logo/mascot of MLB’s Cleveland Indians.

Beginning in 2019, Cleveland players will no longer wear the logo on their uniforms or hats. And Chief Wahoo won’t be part of the club’s promotional efforts moving forward.

The team’s primary logo […]

By Ken Reed

Michigan State trustee Joel Ferguson somehow appears to believe that the ugly sex scandal involving team doctor/master pervert Larry Nassar is just another issue at the university. In a recent interview, he seemed to think that “this Nassar thing” could be neutralized by the fact the school’s president, Lou Anna Simon, had […]

By Ken Reed

A suburban Denver school district has decided that the best way to increase the academic performance of its students is to cut recess time.

The research says the school district couldn’t be more wrong.

According to an article by Ann Schimke posted on chalkbeat.org, elementary children in Adams 14 school […]

By Ken Reed

“I beg of you, all parents to please don’t let your children play football until high school,” says former Miami Dolphins star linebacker Nick Buoniconti.

“I made the mistake starting tackle football at 9 years old. Now, CTE has taken my life away.”

Buoniconti has been diagnosed with dementia and probable […]

By Ken Reed

For a long time, parents, coaches, players, reporters and some doctors have blamed concussions for causing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the brain disease often linked to contact sports like football and hockey.

The fact is, research has revealed for some time now that it is repetitive sub-concussive blows to the brain that […]

By Ken Reed

The NCAA and its media partners would like you to believe that the College Football Playoff (CFP) championship game is the ultimate celebration of college athletics.

The reality is, the title game is a mega example of social and economic injustice.

Everyone involved will be getting a boatload of money from […]

By Ken Reed

University of Central Florida (UCF) athletic director, Danny White, announced yesterday that the school will hang a national championship banner inside the school’s football stadium to celebrate the university’s undefeated football season.

Good for them. The so-called College Football Playoff is a joke. It’s not a true national championship because only about […]

By Ken Reed

Sports Business Daily has tabbed our nation’s Divider-In-Chief as 2017’s most influential sports business person.

What a sad choice by a publication that has a lot of respect in the industry. First of all, Trump isn’t even in the sports business. Second, his sports involvement amounts to the couple minutes it […]

By Ken Reed

The holiday season is traditionally a popular time for giving to charitable causes and the less fortunate.

That holds true in SportsWorld.

In any given year, many athletes and sports organizations are criticized — usually fairly — for their greed and win-at-all-costs attitudes.

But there are also many athletes and sports organizations […]

By Ken Reed

I recently wrote about the absurd, anti-fan, NFL catch rule. Since then, only a week later, another incomprehensible catch rule call was made.

This time, it took place in the Buffalo vs. New England game this past Sunday. A catch by Kelvin Benjamin of the Bills was initially ruled a […]