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By Ken Reed

On the same day, in two different small community newspapers, I read two articles talking about a new football headwear device designed to “keep players safe” from head injuries. Here are the headlines: “Guardian Caps Keep Players Safe” and “New Safety for Player Noggins.”

Wow, from reading those two headlines […]

By Ken Reed

For some reason, most Americans seem to believe that coaches have to be from the ‘kick ’em in the butt” authoritarian school of coaching in order to be successful. You know, the Vince Lombardi and Bobby Knight types. This despite a ton of evidence that says that simply isn’t the case. Think […]

By Ken Reed

Yes, there’s a lot of greed in Major League Baseball. There’s also a lot of win-at-all-costs thinking that zaps the spirit out of what is a great game at its essence.

But there’s also a lot of good stuff.

One of the best parts about baseball is the game’s ability to forge […]

By Ken Reed

The National Labor Relations Board has shot down an effort by Northwestern football players to form the country’s first college athletes’ union.

The ruling annulled a 2014 regional NLRB decision in Chicago that found that scholarship football players are indeed employees under U.S. law and thus entitled to organize.

This week’s […]

By Ken Reed

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a self-described small government fiscal conservative, signed legislation this past week calling for $250 million of taxpayer money to go to the building of a new basketball arena for the Milwaukee Bucks’ billionaire owners.

Previously, Walker had championed major cuts to public education in Wisconsin and the […]

By Ken Reed

Unfortunately, as the mound of research on sports concussions continues to grow, athletes and parents are being forced to consider the likelihood of concussions when deciding which sports to participate in.

Concussions have been called the “silent epidemic in youth sports” and sportswriter Bill Simmons says concussions are “the single most important […]

By Ken Reed

Arian Foster might just be the NFL’s most interesting man.

Foster is a different cat in the homogeneous NFL. And being different is always tough, especially in an industry that values conformity, like professional sports.

Foster is a thinker and he likes to speak about what he’s thinking about. That in and […]

By Ken Reed

It’s been a great summer when measured by the socio-cultural progress the United States has made.

The Supreme Court finally determined that gay and lesbian Americans deserve the same rights under the law as other Americans by ruling that same-sex marriages are constitutionally legal.

In South Carolina, we witnessed political leaders […]

By Ken Reed

The recent Special Olympics event held in California was a great success, from many perspectives.

But in my mind, the most exciting development is the growth of Unified Sports, teams made up of athletes with and without intellectual disabilities. Unified Sports is a great tool for mainstreaming athletes with intellectual disabilities.

“The […]

By Ken Reed

Becky Hammon recently won the NBA’s Las Vegas summer league championship as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs’ entry.

In April, the NFL hired Sarah Thomas as the first full-time female official.

Another milestone was reached this week when Bruce Arians and the Arizona Cardinals hired Jen […]