By Ken Reed
Former Colorado Avalanche enforcer Scott Parker battles the effects of repeated head trauma on an almost daily basis: dizziness, memory loss, nausea, ringing in his ears, seizures, and light sensitivity. Yet, he supports fighting in the NHL.
“It won’t be hockey anymore (if fighting is banned), and more guys will get hurt,” […]
Continue Reading →: NHL Insiders Continue to Support Fighting
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. […]
Continue Reading →: Braves’ New Stadium Bad Deal for Citizens
By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
November 27, 2013
I love sports.
I’m also fed up with sports.
I’m guessing that a lot of you are conflicted in the same way.
I’ve been involved in the world of sports, in one capacity or another, my entire life. Born the […]
Continue Reading →: It’s Decision Time: What Kind of Sports Do We Want?
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 […]
Continue Reading →: Congresswoman Sanchez Asks NCAA to Review Approach to Concussions
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, […]
Continue Reading →: Abdusalamov Fight Brings Spotlight Back on Barbaric Sport of Boxing
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.”
[…]Continue Reading →: Today’s Kids 15% Less Fit Than Parents Were
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 […]
Continue Reading →: Favre Not Sure He’d Let Son Play Football
By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
November 14, 2013
The definition of manhood in our sports culture is archaic. It’s as if SportsWorld has been frozen in time — Neanderthal time.
The Richie Incognitio/Jonathan Martin case in Miami is disgusting, not simply because of the ugly particulars in this case, but […]
By Ralph Nader
In the mid-1950s I visited several tribal areas in the west, including the Blackfeet and Crow Reservations. The poverty, despair and cultural devastation were everywhere. In 1956, as a Harvard Law Student, I researched and wrote a long article titled “American Indians: People Without a Future” in the Harvard Law […]