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By Ken Reed

Get this: Some parents are spending more than 10% of their family income on youth sports expenses like registration fees, travel, camps, personal trainers, equipment, etc., according to a recent Time article.

The parents of one 10-year-old baseball player say they’ve already spent $30,000 on his baseball career. Another dad says […]

By Ken Reed

Cyrus Mehri has seen enough of the NFL players getting the short end of the stick in negotiations with NFL owners.

Mehri, a civil rights lawyer who’s won big settlements in discrimination cases against corporate giants Coca-Cola and Texaco, is planning to challenge current NFLPA chief DeMaurice Smith in the March […]

By Ken Reed

Americans still love football but we continue to be less interested in having our kids play the game.

Football participation numbers have been dropping for quite awhile. The drop is strongly correlated to the increase in concussion awareness among parents.

High school football participation is down 4.5 percent the past […]

By Ken Reed

In a land of people who treasure their freedoms, why do so many people hate Colin Kaepernick for exercising his First Amendment-sanctioned rights?

I appreciate the fact that the national anthem is very meaningful to a lot of people. To some, it’s a moving tribute to our veterans. To others, it’s a […]

By Ken Reed

We live in a volatile political climate. The country has likely never been more divided on political issues — well, since the Civil War, of course.

Donald Trump didn’t start the divide in this country but he has certainly revved it up with his inflammatory rhetoric.

As the country has become […]

By Ken Reed

A couple weeks ago, it was learned that of a 111 brains of former NFL players examined, 110 had the serious brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is caused by repetitive blows to the head.

What didn’t receive much attention in this study was the finding that of the 53 […]

By Ken Reed

One of the most progressive thinkers we have on contemporary sports issues is John Gerdy.

Gerdy was an All-American basketball player at Davidson College and later an athletic administrator and sports management professor. But throughout his career, he’s never been one of those people that keeps doing things just because someone tells […]

By Ken Reed

Come on now. We’re all big boys and girls here. Despite those cute ads the NCAA puts out every year about student-athletes being great in the classroom as well as on the athletic fields and playing courts, very few human beings can excel at both academics and athletics at big-time college sports […]

By Ken Reed

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Colin Kaepernick:

“I don’t know what his status is in the NFL, but I’m glad the NBA doesn’t have a politician litmus test for our players. I’d like to think we encourage our players to exercise their constitutional rights.”

From the college sports inequity department:

University […]

By Ken Reed

In the opening two paragraphs of his op-ed piece in the Hollywood Reporter, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar nailed the current Colin Kaepernick situation.

Abdul-Jabbar wrote:

The swirling turmoil around whether or not NFL teams are reluctant to sign Colin Kaepernick because of his outspoken politics reminds me of a restaurant near my home […]