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By Ken Reed

Cobb County, Georgia (a suburb of Atlanta) announced this month that it will be putting $300 million (some reports have pegged the figure even higher) in public financing towards a new stadium for the Atlanta Braves.

Meanwhile, the citizens of Cobb County are dealing with an $86.4 million school budget shortfall. […]

By Ken Reed

Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, a vocal critic of the NFL and its concussion policy, is now targeting the NCAA. Sanchez is questioning whether or not the NCAA is taking proper action to protect players from head injuries following the death of Frostburg State University football player Derek Sheely. Sheely suffered a head […]

By Ken Reed

When one reads about boxer Magomed Abdusalamov remaining in a coma at Roosevelt Hospital in New York after his Nov. 2nd fight with Mike Perez at Madison Square Garden, one has to ask, “What kind of society sanctions assault and battery for the public entertainment of others?”

The answer, I guess, […]

By Ken Reed

Research coming out the American Heart Association conference on Tuesday revealed a depressing picture: Worldwide, kids are slower and less fit today than their parents were when they were young.

“It makes sense,” said Dr. Stephen Daniels, a University of Colorado pediatrician. “We have kids that are less active than before.”

By Ken Reed

Some say sitting is the new smoking. Doctors have recently coined the term “Sedentary Death Syndrome (SDS)” to describe the multitude of diseases resulting from a sedentary lifestyle.

“Excessive sitting is a lethal activity,” says Dr. James Levine, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

While regular exercise is beneficial […]

By Ken Reed

Brett Favre has become the latest former NFL player to say he wouldn’t encourage his son to play football.

“I would be real leery of him playing football,” said Favre on a “Today” show segment with host Matt Lauer.

Favre revealed that he now suffers from memory loss and that he couldn’t […]

By Ken Reed

It appears that Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Richie Incognito is the classic bully. Moreover, his behavior has been enabled by coaches throughout high school, college and the NFL because he’s a good football player.

Before he was suspended, Incognito was even a member of the Dolphins’ leadership council!

The rap sheet […]

By Ken Reed

The lawyers and accountants of NFL franchises — not to mention the team owners themselves — are undoubtedly smiling ear-to-ear these days because the league’s financial liability risk related to the brain trauma and concussion issue has dropped considerably the last couple months.

Back in August, the league agreed to a $765 […]

By Ken Reed

The Mayo Clinic recently held a conference on concussions in hockey. One of the outcomes was researchers calling for a ban on fighting at all levels of the game of hockey.

Dr. Michael Stuart, a director of the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center and the chief medical officer for USA Hockey, called […]