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By Ken Reed

Why Are We Still Sanctioning Boxing?

Tim Hague was 34. He died from boxing, a sport whose entire purpose is to try and concuss one’s opponent.

Given how much we know about the short-and-long-term dangers of brain trauma, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), can there be any compelling reason to continue […]

By Ken Reed

Americans love football. Americans — at least most of them these days — also know that football is dangerous to the human brain.

Because of those two facts, businesses understand that if they can create a helmet that actually protects the brain from repetitive head trauma they will have struck the […]

By Ken Reed

I recently wrote about the unfair way the University of Pittsburgh was treating basketball player Cameron Johnson.

Johnson, an honor student and recent Pitt grad was trying to transfer to the University of North Carolina to finish up his eligibility. The NCAA says grad transfers are legal but they leave it […]

By Ken Reed

Tom Brady’s wife says her husband hid concussions from the New England Patriots last season.

Drew Brees said he would conceal a concussion from his wife.

As Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins wrote recently:

“The problem is that they have signaled to four million high school and college football players […]

By Ken Reed

I want to be the first member of the Cam Johnson Fan Club.

Johnson is a former University of Pittsburgh basketball player who is trying to transfer to the University of North Carolina to play his final two years of eligibility. He graduated from Pitt in three years, summa cum laude, […]

By Ken Reed

Too often, big-time college sports and professional sports seem to be driven by nothing more than win-at-all-costs and profit-at-all-costs ethos.

That’s why it’s so refreshing to see examples of great sportsmanship like we did last week at the French Open when Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro consoled his opponent, Spain’s Nicolas […]

By Ken Reed

Recently, there have been a couple fights in Major League baseball games due to somebody breaking a childish unwritten rule of baseball (sometimes known as “The Code”).

Let’s start with the case of Miami Marlins manager Don Mattingly.

Mattingly and the Marlins are off to a horrendous start. Thus, Mattingly might be […]

By Ken Reed

Concussions and brain trauma in youth and high school sports has become such a big issue that the National Athletic Trainers Association recently devoted an entire issue of Journal of Athletic Training to sport-related concussions.

The trainers’ survey found that 94% of adults said head injuries and concussions in sports are […]

By Ken Reed

We’re all aware of some of the outlandish things that President Donald Trump has said — or tweeted — this past year. Some of his thoughts and beliefs are interesting, to say the least.

But until I saw a recent Washington Post article, I didn’t know what his beliefs were on […]

By Ken Reed

It’s heartening to know that mainstream media outlets are increasingly highlighting the gross economic inequities in big-time college sports. For years, popular sports media outlets either ignored the issue altogether or defended the status quo of “amateurism” when it came to the topic of fairly compensating the athletes that bring in multi-millions […]