By Ken Reed
One of the greatest boxers of all-time, Teofilo Stevenson, passed away recently with little fanfare at the age of 60. Stevenson was a three-time Olympic gold medalist for Cuba in 1972, 1976, and 1980. He might have won a fourth if Cuba hadn’t boycotted the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.
Boxing observers […]
Continue Reading →: For Stevenson, Sport and Country Took Precedence Over Money
By Ken Reed
A new study says that 1.2 million American adolescents are taking supplements to enhance sports performance. In the vast majority of these cases the supplement involved is a basic multi-vitamin/mineral. The primary red flag raised in the study is the extensive use of creatine by young athletes. Among those using supplements […]
Continue Reading →: Dietary Supplement Use By Adolescents for Sports Performance a Concern
According to a report authored by Louis Freeh, the former FBI director who conducted an investigation for Penn State University in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, and other university leaders, “repeatedly concealed facts” from proper authorities in the Sandusky case.
The report also found that while […]
Continue Reading →: Penn State Report a Sad Indictment on the Power of Big-Time College Football
Brian Frederick had an interesting column speculating about the possibility of the Kansas City Royals, host of this year’s All-Star festivities, being owned by the people of Kansas City. It’s not a crazy concept. The Green Bay Packers have thrived for decades under such a model in the NFL.
The Packers are owned by […]
By Ken Reed
Too many college and high school athletes have collapsed and died in the last decade due to overzealous coaches and trainers who use over-the-top conditioning drills in an effort to “toughen up” the athletes under their direction.
These workout sessions are lightly regulated at best and coaches “just run willy-nilly” trying to […]
Continue Reading →: New Exercise Guidelines for Coaches and Trainers
By Ken Reed
The King-Devick Test has once again proven to be an easy, effective, and immediate sideline concussion screening tool for sports activities. In a study published by the Journal of Neurological Sciences, the King-Devick test proved to be an accurate “remove from play” sideline concussion assessment tool in youth rugby games according […]
Continue Reading →: A Simple, Effective Concussion Screening Test
By Ken Reed
Title IX, the landmark civil rights legislation that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program receiving federal financial assistance, recently celebrated its 40th birthday. A celebration was indeed in order given that millions more girls and women have been given the opportunity to participate in athletics than was […]
Continue Reading →: It’s a Shame That Most Schools Still Aren’t in Compliance with Title IX
Windfall From New College Football Playoff Should Be Used to Benefit the Players and Achieve Gender Equity in Athletics
The NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision’s (FBS) athletic directors and college presidents are poised to approve a four-team football playoff to determine a national champion. The move is being made for two primary reasons: 1) to avoid […]
By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger
The corporate subversion of the body
When our twin boys were teenagers in the 1990s, and when our youngest boy was a teenager in the 2000s, they strongly protested walking the mile to and from school. Walkers were “losers,” one of them told me. Their peers had induced […]
By Ken Reed
It was their team. It should still be their team. But it’s not.
A couple carpetbagging owners who bought the local team, the Seattle Supersonics, in 2008 while promising to keep the team in town, instead moved the franchise to Oklahoma City in a move that reeked of greed and a […]
Continue Reading →: Loyal NBA Fans in Seattle Hurting During NBA Finals