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Yesterday, I wrote about how the NFL uses the Los Angeles market as a blackmail tool for league owners to use as leverage to get new stadiums or stadium improvements in their respective cities. (See “New Kroenke LA Stadium“)

“Build me a new sports palace or I’m moving the team to LA,” is […]

By Ken Reed

Multi-billionairre Stan Kroenke, owner of the St. Louis Rams, says he plans to build an NFL stadium in Los Angeles on the site of the old Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood.

We’ll see.

Unofficially, 17 NFL teams have used the open Los Angeles market as a threat to secure a new stadium […]

By Ken Reed

HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel recently had an eye-opening feature on the exploitation of minor league baseball players.

Minor league baseball players, especially at the lower levels, have very little in common with their big league brethren. These minor leaguers are “professional” in the sense they’re getting paid but their meager […]

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

–John Wooden

“All you have to do is try your best. And don’t worry what the outcome is going to be. Just try your best.”

–John Wooden, when […]

by Ken Reed

It’s fun to step back every now and then from the ego-and greed-infused aspects of sports and look at a story of “sport doing good.”

I came across one of those stories last night …

Carter Gates is a 9-year-old Colorado Springs resident who loves basketball. Unfortunately, he’s also battling leukemia and […]

by Ken Reed

The new four-team College Football Playoff (CFP) is designed to determine the ultimate winner in college football, the national champion if you will.

But the real winners are the corporations, the Nikes and ESPNs of the world, along with the colleges in the power five conferences. The losers? The players who produce […]

By Ken Reed

In what could be the first of many, a class-action concussion lawsuit has been filed against the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) by Chicago attorney Joseph Siprut on behalf of former Illinois high school football player Daniel Bukal. Bukal suffered multiple concussions playing for Notre Dame College Prep in Illinois from […]

By Ken Reed

I read a ton about concussions in sports. Most of what I read comes in the form of journal articles, research reports and second-hand accounts. But what really hits home is when you read a first-hand account of how a concussion or long-term sub-concussive brain trauma changes someone’s personality and life. These […]

By Ken Reed

Major League Baseball umpire Dale Scott revealed he was gay this week. He is the first male sports official in the four major professional sports to do so.

Thanks to the courage of Jason Collins, Michael Sam and several other sports figures who previously came out as gay to the general public, […]

by Ken Reed

Ohio State football player Kosta Karageorge had suffered four or five concussions, according to his sister. The number might have been greater given that Karageorge had a tendency to not report concussions, based on teammate accounts.

We also now know that Karageorge likely committed suicide. He was found dead in a […]