By Ken Reed
We’ve all heard about the cancellation of sporting events at the pro, college and even high school levels due to the coronavirus. But there has been very little said or written about youth sports and the millions of kids involved in those events.
The folks at the Aspen Institute’s Sports & Society […]
By Ken Reed
Colorado’s House of Representatives voted 55-9 this week to allow college athletes the right to earn income from their names, images, and likenesses (NILs). The bill was unanimously approved by the Colorado Senate last month. Governor Jared Polis is expected to sign the bill into law soon.
“This bill sends a […]
Continue Reading →: Colorado One Step From Permitting College Athletes to Profit From Their NILs
By Ken Reed
The Savannah Bananas know baseball fans hate being inundated with advertisements everywhere they look at the ballpark. So, they’re going to do something about it this season. The Bananas are getting rid of all ads for the 2020 campaign.
The Bananas, who play in the Coastal Plain League, a highly-regarded summer collegiate […]
Continue Reading →: Summer League Baseball Team to Go Ad-Free in 2020
The emergency NHL goalie did what every sports fan wishes they could do every time they watch the best of the best play
By Ken Reed
I can’t get enough of the highly improbable David Ayres story.
A 42-year-old kidney transplant recipient – and until recently a Zamboni driver for […]
By Ken Reed
I can’t get enough of the highly improbable David Ayres story.
A 42-year-old kidney transplant recipient — and until recently a Zamboni driver for a minor league hockey team — who hadn’t played in a hockey game, at any level, for five years, enters an NHL game in the second period, stops […]
Continue Reading →: The David Ayres Story: Why We Love Sports
The Houston Astros have a strange way of saying they’re sorry for cheating and tainting the game of baseball, including the World Series.
Late last week, the Astros staged what was supposed to be an apology press conference for using an elaborate high-tech scheme (well, except the banging on the trash cans part) to illegally […]
Continue Reading →: Astros Scandal Is a Mess But It Can Be Used As a Great Teaching Tool
By Ken Reed
On the same day that NCAA president Mark Emmert was testifying in front of Congress about how terrible it would be if college athletes were allowed to earn money from their name, image and likeness (NIL) — like any other college student, or U.S. citizen for that matter — Michigan State […]
By Ken Reed
The Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade is in the books.
Americans reveled in another Super Bowl spectacle.
Huge men constantly running into each other provides entertainment for millions of Americans.
But since chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was discovered in 2002 by Dr. Bennet Omalu, the game hasn’t been quite as […]
By Ken Reed
In the face of research revealing the dangers of repetitive sub-concussive head impact, and declining participation in high school football, the New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association has adopted new rules limiting full contact practices.
But not everyone is happy.
The rules limit full contact drills to 15 minutes per week. Preseason […]
Continue Reading →: New Jersey Limits Full Contact Football Practice to 15 Minutes a Week
By Ken Reed
Four members of the House of Representatives — Lori Trahan, D-Mass.; David McKinley, R-W. Va.; Max Rose, D-N.Y.; and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho — introduced a resolution this week urging Major League Baseball to back away from its plan to eliminate 42 minor league teams.
Many of the teams targeted for […]