Reading Time: 3 minutes Baseball suspensions and fines should reverberate through all sports, down to children’s athletics. Cheating is a social ill that needs to be addressed
Author: Ken Reed
Sport, at its best, can help change the world
Reading Time: 3 minutes Leaders must fully incorporate social, cultural and environmental considerations – not just economic ones – in their decision-making
Why is Nike still glorifying disgraced coach Salazar?
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is no room for abusive coaches in sports, yet Nike seems intent on ignoring critics – including athletes and its own employees
How do we make sense of, and manage, football’s violence?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Head-first tackles, helmet swinging and devastating hip injuries all add to a game’s growing reputation for chaos
Abuse of female athletes at Nike project is reprehensible
Reading Time: 4 minutes The win-at-all-costs, profit-at-all-costs culture at Nike must be cleaned up for good
Economic justice on the way for U.S. college athletes
Reading Time: 4 minutes The hypocrisy in college athletics promotes the amateur myth and tries to suppress the fact that the young athletes have significant market value
Fans’ expectations of athletes are out of whack
Reading Time: 3 minutes Those who booed retiring Indianapolis Colt Andrew Luck should be ashamed of themselves. Athletes aren’t warriors created by central casting for our weekend enjoyment
Fan injuries from foul balls up dramatically
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time for MLB to put protective netting up from home plate to the foul poles
Jim Bouton’s impact reached far beyond the baseball diamond
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Ball Four author was a significant social activist, speaking out about apartheid, and exposing small-town government and media corruption
Rapinoe’s quest for ‘justice for all’ is quintessentially American
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many people just want Rapinoe to shut up and play soccer because what she says and does makes them feel uncomfortable