By Ken Reed
MLB Network is currently running a documentary about Billy Bean, the former Major League Baseball player who quit the game at age 30 in order to live a more authentic life as a gay man.
The one-hour documentary is very well done. Bean himself narrates it and he comes off as […]
Continue Reading →: The Billy Bean Story: Compelling and Important
What would you call an organization that pulls in $9.5 billion a year in revenue and is one of the most successful entertainment enterprises ever created?
Our government calls it a non-profit.
The name of the organization? The National Football League, which is classified as a 501(c)6 industry association.
“Since the NFL is […]
By Ken Reed
One of my favorite sayings is “There’s too much adult in youth sports.”
It’s sad but oh so true. Adults and their oversized egos continue to ruin the youth sports experience for way too many kids.
The latest example comes from Little League baseball where the Jackie Robinson West team from Chicago […]
Continue Reading →: Chicago Little League Team Stripped of National Title
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“Immersed in sports as a player, coach, marketer, teacher and writer, Ken Reed shares our belief that many of the problems and challenges in sports – at all levels – have been […]
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By Ken Reed
Cyd Zeigler should’ve been a lawyer. He’d make a damn good one.
That said, he’s also a damn good journalist. And we’re lucky to have him in the sports world.
Zeigler recently built one of the most compelling cases on a sports issue I’ve ever seen.
The subject? Michael Sam and why […]
Continue Reading →: Michael Sam Unfairly Being Shut Out of the NFL
By Ken Reed
Debra Pyka, a Wisconsin woman is suing Pop Warner, the largest youth football organization in the country. She’s claiming her son’s suicide at age 25 can be traced to playing youth football with Pop Warner.
An autopsy found that Pyka’s son, Joseph Chernach, was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the […]
Continue Reading →: Pop Warner Football Hit With Concussion Lawsuit
By Ken Reed
Legendary North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith passed away on Saturday. He leaves an amazing legacy — on and off the court.
Dean Smith’s impressive coaching record:
27 straight 20-win seasons
33 years in a row of finishing in the top 3 of the ACC
22 seasons of at least 25 wins
[…]By Ken Reed
Every now and then I feel a twinge of optimism that hockey is moving in a positive direction … finally. It could be news that a minor league has banned fighting, or a hockey association at some level announcing new concussion evaluation and return-to-play guidelines. Someone mentioned to me recently that there’s […]
By Ken Reed
At one time, sports-loving kids played sandlot ball or pick-up ball. Basically, they’d call their friends and set up a game in the park or at a friend’s house that had a basketball hoop in the driveway.
Then with the advent of Little League baseball, parents got involved and started organizing the […]
By Ken Reed
The Ivy League isn’t perfect. They’ve had some scandals of their own.
But life in college athletics is all relative. And the Ivy League still gives more respect to the “student” part of student-athlete than any other Division I conference.
The Washington Post’s Fred Bowen pointed out recently that the Ivy […]
Continue Reading →: Ivy League Still the Model for NCAA Division I Athletics