By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
August 2, 2016

What are we to make of Zika, a mosquito-transmitted virus that poses risks to Olympic athletes, spectators and media members in Rio de Janeiro?

Some people claim the U.S. media has completely overblown the risks, while others contend that an international outbreak of […]

By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
July 19, 2016

“Television buys sports … Television tells sports what to do. It is sports and it runs them the way it does most other things; more flamboyantly than honestly.” — Leonard Shecter

The mass media provides the financial foundation that drives commercialized sport. That […]

By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
June 24, 2016

The sexual assault case involving Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, along with the light six-month sentence he received, has brought the problem of sexual assault on college campuses — especially those involving college athletes — back into the national spotlight.

The perpetrators of sexual […]

By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
June 11, 2016

The definition of manhood in our sports culture is archaic. It’s as if SportsWorld has been frozen in time – Neanderthal time.

I’ve written often in the past about the silliness of the macho man culture in hockey, including the tolerance for fighting, […]

By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
May 20, 2016

Depending on your perspective, sport is either thriving or disintegrating today. From a purely commercial enterprise perspective, sport has never been stronger. The business of sport is one of the largest and fastest-growing industries in the United States. Sport is nearly a $450 […]

May 11, 2016

Mr. Adam Silver, Commissioner
National Basketball Association
645 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10022

Dear Mr. Silver:

Congratulations! A major part of your legacy will now be “the first commissioner of one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States to start the process of NASCARizing […]

By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
May 11, 2016

Mr. Adam Silver, Commissioner
National Basketball Association
645 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10022

Dear Mr. Silver:

Congratulations! A major part of your legacy will now be “the first commissioner of one of the four major professional sports leagues in […]

By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
April 3, 2016

Imagine the world of sports without ego.

No more trashtalking, showboating, cheating, cheap shots or running up the score. No more wackadoo parents and coaches ruining youth sports. No more prima donna professional athletes.

The win-at-all-costs mentality? Gone. The me-first athlete? History. Greedy […]

By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
March 1, 2016

As big a challenge as sports concussions are — and I think they are the number one contemporary sports issue — there have been some encouraging developments in the sports concussion field recently.

Let’s start with neurofeedback training, a new technology that is […]

By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
February 2, 2016

The Super Bowl is our country’s national celebration of football, a game Dr. Bennet Omalu, the doctor who discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), calls our “collective societal intoxication and addiction.”

From an entertainment perspective, football is more popular than ever. Attendance figures, television […]