football reform

Sports
The NFL Is Its Own Worst Enemy
Americans aren't watching football this season like they used to, but it's not the game's fault. It's everything around the football being played—the rules, the refereeing, the broadcasts—that is hurting the NFL.
Ty Schalter
12.15.16
Sports
"Slaughter of the Innocents": When D.C. Considered Banning High School Football
In 1909, one woman kicked off a heated debate in the nation's capitol, pitting skeptical educators against football supporters about whether the sport belonged in schools at all.
Matt Chaney
11.29.16
Sports
Teddy Roosevelt Loved Football, Except When It Brutalized His Son
President Theodore Roosevelt is remembered as an ardent football supporter, but his son Ted's high school and college playing injuries complicated his feelings about the sport's inherent violence.
Matt Chaney
5.31.16