Today’s Wall Street Journal publishes my article on Teddy Roosevelt and football, from The Big Scrum:
Football is in trouble. NFL owners have locked out the players, meaning that the upcoming season could be cancelled. Even if the games go on, a lingering dispute over head injuries has saddled the sport with a messy controversy.
Perhaps the sport needs a modern Teddy Roosevelt. A century ago, he waded into a fight over violence in football and possibly saved the game—if not from extinction, then at least from relegation to second-tier status in the world of athletics.