Ryan Lambert
Puck Daddy Blog
Yahoo! Sports

Dear Mr. Lambert:

Thank you for your interest in our letter to NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, in which we called for a ban on fighting in the NHL.

While appreciating the passion in your commentary, we believe there were several misunderstandings, misstatements and unwarranted [...]

The trend in youth sports is to push kids to specialize in one sport as early as 10 years old. (See ““Can Sport Specialization Cause Youth Injuries?“). The result is a huge increase in injuries like anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears and kids burning out on sports before they pick up their high school [...]

Patrick Hruby has written an outstanding article on the subject of brain trauma and the implications for the future of football for Yahoo! Sports’ new online magazine ThePostGame. It’s eye-opening, scary, and impactful.

It’s hard to read this piece and not come away thinking that football’s days are numbered — at least as a [...]

In a big-time sports version of the “99% vs. 1%,” the University of California-Berkeley recently opened its plush Simpson Student-Athlete High Performance Center (SAHPC). The “One-Percenters” in this case are members of 13 varsity sports teams on campus. Not only is the general student body (36,142 total students) barred from using the new facility but [...]

In an open letter to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman on February 6th, the League of Fans stated that the Ontario Hockey League “bans fighting and all blows to the head,” as does the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), the NCAA, and other hockey organizations. While the Ontario Hockey League has indeed banned “staged fights” at [...]

Dear Mr. Bettman:

It’s time to act.  The National Hockey League must take immediate steps to ban fighting and outlaw all blows to the head.  And you, Mr. Bettman, as league commissioner, must lead the way.

Fighting in hockey can no longer be a long-debated issue pitting those who find it barbaric and unsportsmanlike and [...]

“There is so much money tied into big-time college athletics that it forces some people to make bad decisions,” says Robin Harris, executive director of the Ivy League.

A more accurate understatement has never been uttered.

At universities with NCAA Division I athletic programs, most notably Bowl Championship Series (BCS) schools, the school’s educational mission [...]

The NFL just wishes the concussion issue would go away. But it’s not going anywhere.

In fact, sports-related head trauma in general, and concussions in particular, will be one of the biggest, if not THE biggest sports issue in the next decade. The NFL will be thrust right into the middle of it.

For [...]