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By Ken Reed

The American Sociological Association (ASA) has joined other academic and civil rights organizations in calling for Major League Baseball and the Cleveland Indians franchise to abandon the Chief Wahoo caricature used by Cleveland as the team’s logo.

In a letter to Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, ASA president Michelle […]

By Ken Reed

Flag football is the fastest growing sport in the United States, according to a recent survey conducted by USA Football. From 2014 to 2015, flag football participation grew by 8.7%, for children ages six to 14. One youth sports organization, i9 Sports has seen a 46% growth in participation for its flag […]

By Ken Reed

A University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health study has found that high school athletes that specialize in one sport sustain lower-extremity injuries at a significantly higher rate than athletes who don’t specialize in a single sport.

“While we have long believed that sport specialization by high school athletes […]

By Ken Reed

Kevin Turner, a veteran NFL player, died from the most advanced stage of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disease linked to repetitive head trauma.

He was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) in 2010 and died earlier this year — from CTE not ALS.

“The severity of Mr. Turner’s CTE was […]

By Ken Reed

New York State Supreme Court judge Jeffrey K. Oing issued an order Monday that could help determine whether or not the National Football League knew about the dangers of concussions for years before those dangers became widely known and deliberately concealed facts about brain trauma from its own players.

The NFL […]

By Ken Reed

A new study concludes that heading in soccer can cause brain damage.

The United Kingdom study, published by EBioMedicine, is the first to detect neurological changes caused by sub-concussive impacts such as heading. Changes in motor response and memory were observed in the study participants, ages 19 to 25.

“For the […]

By Ken Reed

The common belief is that the United States is a sports-mad country. That’s not true. We’re a sports-spectator-mad country. We’re couch potatoes who much prefer watching sporting events — live or on TV — to actually participating in them.

Sadly, that’s also true for our children.

In a new study […]

By Ken Reed

The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin recently wrote a compelling short piece about a First Amendment case heard by the Supreme Court in 1946. The case, West Virginia State Board v. Barnette, provides a great defense of the freedom of expression. It’s also a case that’s relevant to today’s debate about Colin […]

By Ken Reed

Earlier this week, the Nevada state senate approved giving Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis $750 million towards a new Las Vegas sports palace for his team to play in. If the state assembly also votes to approve the deal, it would be the largest public subsidy ever for an American stadium […]

By Ken Reed

Chicago Cubs manager, Joe Maddon, is constantly talking about focusing on the process and staying in the present moment. He spends his energy on the controllables and in doing so he remains relatively calm under pressure.

Maddon’s Cubs scored four runs in the ninth inning on Tuesday to eliminate the San Francisco […]