By Ken Reed
Amazingly, NBA training camps will open in a little over a week. The professional leagues in the United States continue to bleed into each other.
One of the hot basketball topics this summer has been NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s stated wish to allow 18-year-olds to play in the NBA.
“I think there’s […]
Yet Team Owners Continue to Demand Public Money for New Stadiums
By Ken Reed
The Green Bay Packers are the NFL’s only publicly-owned franchise. As such, the Packers are required to release annual financial figures.
Of course, the other 31 franchises, all privately owned, hate this. They’d prefer that nobody knew how much revenue they […]
Continue Reading →: Thanks to the Green Bay Packers We Know the NFL is Rolling in the Dough
Today might be a good time for a little perspective in SportsWorld. Fans of numerous college and pro football teams are very upset about outcomes from this past weekend’s football games.
The following story is a reminder that there are a lot more important things in life (and sports, for that matter) […]
Continue Reading →: The Value of Good Friends Trumps Sports Results
Guest Column
By Gerry Chidiac
Being a sports fan is interesting. There are certain teams and athletes to whom we willingly give the utmost devotion, and there are others we despise. Some sports we find thrilling, others are baffling, and some we just cannot connect with.
I’ve always loved basketball, as a player, as […]
Continue Reading →: WNBA Gaining In Popularity, Including With This Fan
By Ken Reed
Nick Kyrgios consistently acts like a jerk during tennis tournaments. And the powers that be in the world of tennis inexplicably enable his boorish, unsportsmanlike behavior.
Kyrgios lost in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open on Tuesday night this week. Afterwards, he demolished two of his racquets while stealing the spotlight […]
Continue Reading →: Tennis World Needs to Stop Enabling the Boorish Behavior of Nick Kyrgios
By Ken Reed
Let’s just accept the fact that big-time, FBS-level, college football is professionalized and commercialized to the max. Big Ten athletic departments will soon be splitting $1 billion a year from the conference’s new TV deal. Meanwhile, football coaches salaries continue to go through the roof. And yet some observers of college […]
By Ken Reed
We have written extensively in the past about the importance of our children being physically active. That is especially true given that the Covid pandemic has resulted in our kids leading increasingly sedentary lives.
The physical benefits of sports participation and other physical activities can’t be overstated. Our young people […]
Continue Reading →: There Are a Few Psychological Risks for Kids In Youth Sports
By Ken Reed
I often say there’s “too much adult in youth sports.” When adults are heavily involved in youth sports, ego-and-greed based decisions and activities are sure to be part of the environment.
Win-at-all-costs (WAAC) and profit-at-all-costs (PAAC) mentalities and policies are increasingly part of the youth sports landscape, as youth sports entrepreneurs (aka […]
Continue Reading →: Letter Writer Nails the Problem With Youth Sports: WAAC and PAAC
By Ken Reed
We’ve written several times through the year about the negatives of early sport specialization.
This time we’ll take a slightly different approach by focusing on the positives of young people playing multiple sports.
1. Playing Multiple Sports Improves Overall Athleticism
Playing multiple sports develops different muscles, increases flexibility and enhances […]
Continue Reading →: Why Youth Athletes Should Play Multiple Sports
By Ken Reed
It’s mid-August and that means youth and high school football, and soccer, are upon us.
That means it’s time to revisit the subject of brain trauma. And that means focusing less on concussions and more on repetitive subconcussive head impacts.
When it comes to brain trauma and CTE in sports, research […]