How the win-at-all-costs mentality in baseball is leading to a rise in pitching injuries
The quest for winning is jeopardizing our kids’ long-term health
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Author: Ken Reed
How Buddy Teevens revolutionized football
He advocated for player safety and promoted gender diversity in football coaching
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Football’s popularity soars despite CTE risks awareness
Every year of playing football increases the risk of developing CTE by 30 percent
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Adults are ruining sports for kids
The rise of overbearing parents and coaches in youth sports is a growing concern
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Six resolutions for the sports media in 2024
The sports media has to do better to address major issues within the world of sports
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Bobby Knight was an old-school, kick-‘em-in-the-butt, authoritarian coach
Thankfully, his coaching style is going away
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The battle for the heart and soul of sports
The profit-at-all-costs ethos is eroding the true purpose of sport
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Northwestern University’s scandals show how the world of sports is changing
Northwestern scandals spark a shift toward humanistic coaching
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The enduring allure of baseball
One sports enthusiast’s perspective on the timeless appeal of baseball
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Oakland no longer willing to play the stadium extortion game
The Oakland A’s are looking to leave Oakland for Vegas, after failing to extort more money from the city
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World Baseball Classic was great in ’23
Japan vs. USA World Baseball Classic championship game was one of the best baseball games in terms of intensity, drama and pure fun
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Legalized sports gambling needs tighter regulation
It needs to be actively policed in order to protect consumers
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It’s time to make some big decisions regarding football
We need to seriously consider changes that can improve the health and general well-being of the game’s participants
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Dartmouth shows how football can be made safer
Brain injuries dropped after Dartmouth eliminated tackling during practices
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The sports media is dropping the ball on key issues
Stop acting as PR agents for the sports leagues
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Pickleball is taking over the world
May even be destined to become an Olympic sport one day
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Brain injury focus needs to move from NFL to high schools
High schools need to find the money to fund a full-time athletic trainer who is nearby for practices and games
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Beware the psychological risks for kids in youth sports
Here are a few psychological risks parents should look for
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Making a strong case for more phys-ed in Canadian schools
Students with daily activity requirements are physically and emotionally healthier and perform better academically
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Greed drives pro golfers to align with Saudi sportswashers
LIV Tour is a PR tool for a reprehensible government seeking to wash away its human rights abuse
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The willingness to fail is key to success in sports
Accepting that you can fail leads you to handling failure during a competition
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College sports faces a growing mental health crisis
Athletes often feel that if they admit to struggling with mental or emotional problems, it shows a weakness in character and endangers their spot on the team
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Analytics destroying baseball’s entertainment value
Fans left with an increasingly boring game
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Spending public money on stadiums simply robs taxpayers
It takes from the poor and middle class and gives to the rich
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Lockout should be the final straw for baseball’s antitrust exemption
Time to end the government-sanctioned cartel
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Greed is killing Major League Baseball
Lack of action and decreasing entertainment value impacting attendance
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How did Norway come to dominate the Winter Olympics?
It focuses on making sports fun for their young people
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Professionalization of youth sports hurts our kids and society
Kids become performers in a spectacle, under the authoritarian oversight of the head coach
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A year after U.S. citizens stormed the Capitol, America remains upside down
If a huge majority of Americans can’t denounce what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, the U.S. has big problems
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Why can’t football make brain health a priority?
American society loves football so much it avoids hard discussions about the sport’s safety
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