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By Ken Reed

America is a sports-crazed nation in one way: spectatorship. We love watching sports a lot more than participating in them. After the age of 13, there’s a big drop in sports participation. After the age of 18, there’s another big drop. For most people, when they give up participating in sports, they […]

By Ken Reed

A few National Hockey League executives, including an NHL Hall of Fame player, have come out against fighting in the league.

“We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow fighting,” said Steve Yzerman, an NHL […]

By Ken Reed

Sean Pamphilon’s new documentary, “The United States of Football,” asks some important questions about the grip football has on our society, from the professional level down to the youth level. It’s a movie about a subject we all have a stake in — there are numerous societal ramifications — but especially […]

By Ken Reed

Micah Porter, a legendary high school track and cross country coach in Colorado, recently announced he’s gay, the first Coloradoan and one of only a handful of gay prep coaches nationally to have taken that step.

Porter’s teams have won four Colorado state championships and he has coached 33 athletes to […]

By Ken Reed

In July, the Chicago City Council approved a rarity in modern professional sports: a major stadium renovation funded completely by the ownership of the pro franchise playing in the stadium. The Rickets family, owners of the Chicago Cubs since they purchased the team from the Tribune Company in 2009, developed a plan […]

By Ken Reed

Electronic Arts (EA Sports) and the Collegiate Licensing Company have negotiated settlements of the lawsuits brought by former and current college athletes, including former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon, regarding the unauthorized use of the players’ likenesses in video games and related merchandise.

”Today’s settlement is a game-changer because, for the […]

By Ken Reed

The University of California, Berkeley is one of the finest universities in the country. However, that premier academic status could be in jeopardy if the school’s administration maintains its misplaced priority of feeding the big-time college sports machine on campus.

Earlier this week, The Daily Californian, published an op-ed by the Berkeley […]

By Ken Reed

Sportsworld, perhaps the last bastion of pure unadulterated homophobia in American culture, had its closet door kicked slightly ajar in May when NBA player Jason Collins became the first active, openly gay athlete to come out in one of the four major American team sports leagues.

In a poignant letter […]

By Ken Reed

The Wall Street Journal recently had an interesting article by Stu Woo about how little game action there actually is during some of our favorite spectator sporting events.

For example, a Wall Street Journal study found that only 18 minutes of a three-hour baseball game broadcast was actual baseball being played. […]

By Ken Reed

A college sports reform movement called All Players United (APU) drew media attention this past Saturday. The campaign was launched by the National College Players Association, an advocacy group for college athletes.

Football players from Georgia, Georgia Tech and Northwestern wore the letters “APU” on tape on their wrists. Others wore […]