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. […]
Continue Reading →: March Madness Grad Rates: Good and Bad News
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 […]
Continue Reading →: Hruby’s Treatise on College Athletics a Must-Read
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 […]
Continue Reading →: O’Bannon Case Could Expose NCAA Money Games
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 […]
Continue Reading →: March Madness Hoopsters Being Robbed By the NCAA
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 […]
Continue Reading →: UNC Whistleblower Wins Drake Group Honors
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 […]
Continue Reading →: Ratey Says Our Students Need to Move More in Schools
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 […]
Continue Reading →: Sports Fans Less Healthy Than Non-Sports Fans
By Ken Reed
Edith Houghton, Major League Baseball’s first woman hired as a baseball scout, recently died at the age of 100. Houghton worked as a scout for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1946 to 1951.
How she got the job remains a bit of a mystery, but as Paul Vitello wrote in Houghton’s New […]
Continue Reading →: First Female Baseball Scout Passes at 100
By Ken Reed
You’ve probably seen it. A Canadian youth hockey coach going through the traditional post-game handshake line trips two opposing players, one 13-years old and one 10-years old. He then turns and points his finger at the kids while yelling at them. One of the kids that was tripped suffered a broken wrist […]