By Ken Reed
In the wake of women’s national team member Megan Rapinoe’s decision to kneel during the national anthem last September in protest of injustices she was seeing in the United States, the U.S. Soccer Federation has issued a new rule REQUIRING all players to “stand respectfully” during the Star Spangled Banner.
If […]
Continue Reading →: U.S. Soccer Takes on Role of Third-World Dictator
By Ken Reed
Venus Williams is a household name in the vast majority of American households (and many households around the globe, for that matter). The reason? Her epic tennis career: Seven Grand Slam titles, #1 world ranking, and Olympic gold medal winner, for starters. But in terms of positive impact on the world, […]
By Ken Reed
Long-time sports talk host Mike Francesa said on his radio show Wednesday that it would be “impossible” for a woman to coach a team of men.
“Do you know how impossible that would be? … It wouldn’t be tough. It would be impossible,” said Francesa in response to a caller’s question […]
By Ken Reed
If half the allegations in a new lawsuit filed against Baylor are true, Baylor deserves the death penalty.
I don’t care how hard it might be for Baylor to rebuild its football program after serving the death penalty. What we already know about what went on in Art Briles’ football program at […]
Continue Reading →: Death Penalty Now On the Table for Baylor
By Ken Reed
For most of the past decade, the brain injury chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has been linked with American football. This is due to the extensive number of collisions in the game and the relatively high rate of concussions suffered by participants.
Boxing and hockey are two other sports regularly identified as having […]
Continue Reading →: CTE a Growing Concern for Soccer Players
By Ken Reed
Sometimes kids can make better decisions than adults.
A youth (fifth grade) basketball team in a Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) league in Clark, New Jersey decided to forfeit the rest of its season rather than boot the team’s two female players off the team.
The CYO league recently told St. John’s […]
By Ken Reed
The vast majority of Americans stop participating in competitive sports after high school, college at the latest. That’s not the case in other countries, where club sports organizations keep citizens active from 8 to 80.
It’s sad that American athletes throw in the towel so early on their sports careers. Moreover, it […]
By Ken Reed
Former NFL quarterback Jake Plummer, along with other former football players, are on a mission to get medical marijuana approved as a safer pain management option for NFL players relative to the addictive opioids that many players rely on today.
Plummer is a leading advocate for the medical marijuana movement. But […]
Continue Reading →: NFL Needs to Speed Up Research on Medical Marijuana
By Ken Reed
I want to look at the Super Bowl today from a purely athletic competition standpoint. That’s hard to do because there are so many political and economic issues surrounding the game. The Super Bowl is certainly much more than a sporting event. But sometimes, to remain a sports fan, you need to […]
By Ken Reed
Sports fans have long heaped verbal abuse on referees and umpires. While that’s certainly not great from a sportsmanship perspective, it comes with the territory.
The problem today is that too often verbal abuse is turning into physical abuse.
“The negative atmosphere in the public sector is getting much worse,” according […]
Continue Reading →: Fan Abuse Leading to Shortage of Sports Officials