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By Ken Reed

I’ve written several times in the past that the Redskins nickname is dead in Washington. It’s not a question of if, but when.

But thanks to Redskins’ owner Dan Snyder, that time could come sooner than later.

As Colin McGowan wrote in a recent SportsOnEarth column, “It’s genuinely astounding that […]

By Ken Reed

Legendary Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino joined 14 other former football players in filing a federal lawsuit against the NFL last week. Marino’s involvement will raise the profile of the concussion issue. And, according to HLN legal analyst Danny Cevallos, Marino’s name recognition and reputation will probably push any payout higher.

By Ken Reed

President Barack Obama, concerned about concussions in youth sports, hosted a conference on youth sports safety at the White House on Thursday.

He called for more research on concussions in young athletes and said a new attitude is needed when it comes to head injuries.

“We have to change a culture […]

By Ken Reed

The trend in the NFL and NBA is to draft college athletes well before they have had a chance to graduate. In basketball, more and more college players are turning pro after their first or second season. In the NFL, there’s been a big jump of players turning pro after their junior […]

By Ken Reed

For the last 32 years, New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden (MSG), a for-profit business, has not paid a cent in property tax to New York City. MSG was granted a tax exemption in 1982. There is no expiration date.

For the tax year beginning in July, the Garden will save […]

By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
May 23, 2014

In recent months, I’ve taken on a variety of current sports issues through this column. My topics have ranged from concussions in sports, to pay-for-play in college athletics, to the racist nature of the Redskins nickname, to tyrannical and demeaning coaches, to fighting […]

By Ken Reed

Anyone who watched League of Denial, the Peabody Award winning PBS documentary about the NFL’s grossly unethical approach to player brain injuries, will not be shocked to learn the details of a new lawsuit brought by former players against the league. The suit, which seeks class action status, alleges that the NFL […]

By Ken Reed

I’ve always thought that the use of cheerleaders by professional sports franchises was disgusting. The practice clearly exploits and objectifies women. Despite the thousands of female football fans in attendance at games and watching on television, NFL cheerleaders were designed simply to satiate the stereotypical male team sports fan’s three primary desires: […]

By Ken Reed

The case against football, based on growing evidence that the sport is dangerous to the human brain, continues to get stronger.

The latest research report on football and brain trauma is published in The Journal of the American Medical Association this week.

The findings aren’t pretty for America’s favorite game. A group […]

By Ken Reed

Where else in society do we allow more screaming, belittling, demeaning and abusive “leaders” than in the field of sports coaching?

“I can’t think of another place in society where we so willingly give people dispensation from what is socially and morally acceptable,” writes Timothy R. Clark, an Oxford-educated former college […]