By Ken Reed
So, the NFL is likely to make a rule next month at league meetings that will call for referees to penalize players for use of racist and gay slurs like the N-Word or F–got. Isn’t that special.
Of course, the use of those terms should be penalized. Using those words during […]
Continue Reading →: NFL Moves to Penalize Derogatory Terms But Keeps Redskins Nickname
February 19, 2014
Roger Goodell
Commissioner of the National Football League
345 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10154
Dear Mr. Goodell:
The New York Times reports that your compensation package in 2012 was $44.2 million or nearly $25,000 an hour, day after day, week after week! That is an astonishingly avaricious […]
Continue Reading →: Letter from Ralph Nader to Commissioner Roger Goodell
By Ken Reed
There is no legitimate reason that kids, ages 10-12, need to travel across the country to play in a soccer, basketball, baseball or softball tournament. But it happens all the time in today’s world of youth sports.
Youth sports vultures (aka entrepreneurs) understand that parents — mostly of the middle-class suburban variety […]
Continue Reading →: Elite Youth Sports Driven By Adult Egos and Greed
By Ken Reed
“The whole event [Olympics] long ago became a corporate spectacle that has more to do with selling TV ads than promoting international friendship.”
— Charles Lane
Middle School Athletes Being Recruited
In the Washington D.C. area, the best 8th grade football players are being recruited by local private schools in […]
Continue Reading →: Weekly Morsels: A Few Things That Might’ve Slipped Through the Cracks
By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
February 20, 2014
I’ve always been intrigued by the Olympic Games. Not because I have a big interest in most of the sports on display. I don’t.
But I love watching elite athletes attempting to deal with the pressure of performing on the world’s biggest […]
By Ken Reed
A two-minute National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) video presents a powerful argument against the continued use of the Redskins nickname by the NFL’s Washington franchise.
The video conjures up the old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Indeed, thousands of words have been written and spoken about […]
Continue Reading →: Short Video Captures the Argument Against the Redskins Nickname Perfectly
By Ken Reed
The nation is still abuzz over the great hockey game between the United States and Russia at the Olympic Games last week. The USA scored a thrilling shootout victory over the Russians.
The Olympics are providing us an entertaining hockey tournament that highlights skill over the thuggery too often on display in […]
Continue Reading →: Olympic Hockey Provides More Evidence That Fighting Is Unnecessary
By Ken Reed
As I went through Ted Wells’ report on the Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin situation in Miami, my primary emotion transitioned from anger to sadness.
What Incognito said and did was despicable. And if the allegations in the report are true, offensive line coach Jim Turner should be fired for, among numerous […]
Continue Reading →: Wells Report Makes Me More Sad Than Angry
By Ken Reed
Michael Sam had the courage to be true to himself. He decided to out himself before a snoopy reporter or stone-age NFL scout decided to do it for him.
He faced his fears and told the world “This is who I am.” Now the NFL needs to face its collective fear, “How […]
Continue Reading →: Sports Anchor Dale Hansen Nails Michael Sam Situation
By Ken Reed
The sports of football, boxing, hockey, and even soccer, have been the focus of increasing concern when it comes to brain trauma injuries.
It’s time to add rugby to the list.
Professor David Gerrard of the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago in New Zealand is part of […]