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By Ken Reed

The last week hasn’t been a good one for pro sports, and the concepts of sportsmanship, integrity, honor, and ethics.

The NFL, which constantly preaches about protecting the integrity of the shield (the NFL’s logo), made Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston the top pick in its annual draft.

To say the least, […]

By Ken Reed

Kentucky’s John Calipari takes a lot of heat for recruiting one-and-done players that come to campus for a semester of basket-weaving classes and then go pro. However, conservative Duke University, and its basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, might be the new masters of the rent-a-high-school player (please don’t call them “student-athletes”).

Duke won […]

By Ken Reed

According to participants in a panel discussion at the Milken Institute Global Conference, women are increasingly helping to set the agenda in the worlds of sports, athletics, and fitness.

“Women have a seat at the table like we’ve never seen before,” said Christine Driessen, ESPN’s chief financial officer.

Much of the […]

By Ken Reed

The big fight approaches. “Bring it on!” yell sports fans. Pay-per-view execs clamor on and on about this “great event” and the record riches that the Floyd Mayweather – Manny Pacquiao fight will bring.

But nobody seems to want to address the fact that Mayweather is a serial abuser of women […]

By Ken Reed

After a four-year battle, federal judge Anita Brody approved a $1 billion NFL concussion settlement agreement earlier this week.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and league owners are celebrating the deal.

A group of former players who are suffering from the effects of football-induced brain trauma (including Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease), […]

By Ken Reed

College football bowl games paid more than a half billion dollars to big-time college athletic conferences and schools last season. That’s a $200 million increase over the prior year.

As an entertainment industry, college football and basketball have never been healthier. The money keeps flowing in.

But here’s the catch: the […]

By Ken Reed

A petition supported by Champion Women, an advocacy organization for girls and women in athletics, and the Drake Group, an organization that works for academic integrity in intercollegiate athletics, is currently posted on Change.org.

The petition calls for a bipartisan Presidential Commission “to identify and examine issues of national concern related […]

By Ken Reed

I see my overarching mission as trying to enhance the positives and mitigate the negatives in sports. That said, I tend to address the problems and issues in sports more than talking about what’s working when sports are at their best.

The negatives in sports are driven by ego and greed […]

By Ken Reed

A couple significant things happened in SportsWorld this week: MLB had an openly gay umpire on the field for the first time and the NFL hired a female official.

Of most significance, however, was the fact not much was made of either happening.

Dale Scott was the home plate umpire in […]

By Ken Reed

Well, here we are at the Final Four, where student-athletes show off their basketball skills for the love of the game.

Or so the NCAA wants us to believe.

Albert Burneko recently wrote a compelling piece for Deadspin, and in it he provocatively points out that there are no heroes […]