Currently viewing the category: “Uncategorized”

By Ken Reed

The world of sports needs to grow up.

The latest example occurred this past Thursday night. In the sixth inning of a 2-1 baseball game, the Los Angeles Dodgers Zack Greinke hit the San Diego Padres Carlos Quentin on a 3-2 count. Greinke displayed obvious frustration with himself. However, Quentin, instead […]

By Ken Reed

Mike Rice was fired today as men’s basketball coach at Rutgers University. It’s belated justice. He should have been fired immediately after Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti and school president Robert Barchi viewed the video showing Rice pushing and kicking players, as well as throwing balls at players’ heads and other […]

By Ken Reed

The overall Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for male basketball players in the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament increased in 2013 to 70 percent from 67 percent last year.

At a more detailed level, the report found the GSR for African-American players rose from 59 to 65 percent from 2012 to 2013. […]

By Ken Reed

It’s Sweet Sixteen time at the Big Dance. On the hardwood, March is becoming more and more mad. Florida Gulf Coast is one of the NCAA tournament’s best stories in years.

However, the big-time college sports model remains as ugly as ever. And nobody lays out the case against the NCAA cartel […]

By Keen Reed

A federal judge is expected to rule on June 1 whether or not the four-year-old O’Bannon v. NCAA lawsuit will be given class-action status. If class-action status is granted, it could mean big changes for the NCAA’s billion-dollar economic model. Instead of the NCAA (read: member schools) keeping all the loot for […]

By Ken Reed

I love watching the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. I fill out a bracket just like millions of my fellow Americans do.

But my excitement this year is tempered by a sobering new study that reveals how much top NCAA Division I athletes in football and men’s basketball are being exploited by […]

By Ken Reed

The evidence that fit students perform better academically relative to their less fit peers has been piling up in research studies. Physically fit students not only perform better academically, they focus better in the classroom, have fewer behavioral problems, less absenteeism, and, of course, are healthier.

Now a new study reveals […]

By Ken Reed

Mary Willingham, a former reading specialist for the academic support program for athletes at the University of North Carolina (UNC), has won the Robert Maynard Hutchins Award for exposing special treatment for athletes at UNC. Willingham exposed the fact that UNC athletes were enrolled in more than 50 “no-show” classes so they […]

By Ken Reed

Dr. John Ratey, a Harvard researcher and author of the groundbreaking book SPARK: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, believes our kids need to be exercising a lot more in school than they currently are. He says more physical activity in our nation’s schools is critical, not just for […]

By Ken Reed

The United States is often called a sports-crazy country. In reality, we’re a country of crazy sports fans who, for the most part, aren’t sports participants. Moreover, sports fans tend to exercise less than the rest of the population and have riskier dietary habits. A study published in the United States Sports […]