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By Ken Reed

During last Thursday night’s NFL contest, the Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson left the game after being sent to the sideline by referee Walt Anderson. Wilson sat out for only one play. After the play, he got up and ran back into the game before he could be examined by the Seahawks’ […]

By Ken Reed

Bob Costas, perhaps the nation’s most well-known and most-respected sports journalist, came out firing at football in general, and the NFL in particular, at a University of Maryland sports issues symposium recently.

“The issue that is most substantial, the existential issue, is the nature of football itself,” Costas told the crowd. […]

By Ken Reed

As he announced that he was donating his brain to researchers at the CTE Center at Boston University, Nick Buoniconti simultaneously ripped the National Football League (NFL) for failing players and not doing enough to support brain injury research.

“The fact that the NFL pulled its funding from Ann McKee’s research […]

By Ken Reed

As if there weren’t already enough reasons to worry about brain injuries in sports, here’s another one: a new large study found that concussions in adolescents can increase the risk of later developing multiple sclerosis. In addition, the M.S. risk increased if an athlete had suffered more than one brain injury.

By Ken Reed

Integrity.

No pro sports league’s record book is more sacred to fans than Major League Baseball’s. Baseball fans across generations can regurgitate baseball’s most popular records with ease.

That said, MLB’s record book — most notably the section with home run records — is currently under assault. The crazy home run numbers […]

By Ken Reed

Chris Borland walked away from a $2.9 million NFL contract to save his brain.

Borland, who had an outstanding rookie season with the San Francisco 49ers before giving up the game, is featured in a new public service announcement funded by the Union of Concerned Scientists. In the video, Borland outlines […]

By Ken Reed

One of the toughest sports scenes I’ve witnessed in recent years came about last football season when the Carolina Panthers’ Luke Kuechly took a blow to his head and suffered his second concussion in two years. TV cameras captured Kuechly sobbing uncontrollably as he tried to corral his emotions following the brain […]

By Ken Reed

According to a new study conducted by Ryan Brewer, an associate professor of finance at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus, and published in the Wall Street Journal, Ohio State’s football program is valued at $1.5 billion. $1.5 billion!

Brewer’s analysis was based on what a college football program “would be worth […]

By Ken Reed

Boston University researchers recently said they have discovered a way to test for CTE in living patients.

If that news didn’t shake up NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and the league’s owners more than the national anthem protest issue, it certainly should have. It means the future of their sport is at […]

By Ken Reed

In the NCAA’s world this all apparently makes sense.

In the past week, the NCAA let the University of North Carolina off the hook for its long-lasting and wide-ranging academic fraud involving more than a 1000 athletes over 18 years, while at the same time taking away a year of eligibility from […]