Guest Column
By Roldo Bartimole
If the Browns domed stadium in Brook Park tiff tells anything it says loudly that Cleveland and Cuyahoga County taxpayers can no longer afford the rapacious desires of billionaire sports owners.
We simply cannot pay their tab any longer.
It is a hard truth for too many […]
Continue Reading →: Truth is: We can no longer afford pro sports
By Ken Reed
This is my last column for League of Fans – at least in an official capacity as Sports Policy Director.
I’m “retiring,” although I plan to still be involved in sports in multiple capacities moving forward.
I truly love sports. After family, sports have been the central passion in my […]
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Ken Reed starts off this episode by announcing that he is retiring from League of Fans after 13 and 1/2 years serving as Sports Policy Director.
In this episode, Ken is joined by League of Fans Founder Ralph Nader. Ken […]
By Ken Reed
A new blood test which has the potential to quickly diagnose concussions at sporting events and elsewhere has gained FDA approval.
The new blood test is designed to detect two proteins released into the blood when someone suffers a concussion. Of note, it can rule out a concussion 95.6% of the time, […]
Continue Reading →: New Rapid Blood Test For Concussions Gets FDA Approval
By Ken Reed
Through the years, League of Fans has written a lot about how sports participation benefits young people physically, mentally, emotionally, and academically. On a global level, sport is also a valuable tool for protecting children’s safety, advocating for children’s rights, and creating young change agents.
Swiss organization Terre des hommes Lausanne (Tdh) […]
Continue Reading →: Tdh Supports Children Across the Globe Through Sports Participation
By Ken Reed
There have been a couple news stories recently that have people excited about new technologies that could potentially significantly reduce the number of sports concussions.
Unfortunately, stories like these might actually do more harm than good. More on that in a bit. First, let’s do a quick recap of the stories.
[…]By Ken Reed
As a society, we keep finding new ways to avoid physical movement. And it’s slowly killing us.
A sedentary lifestyle (dubbed by some health experts as Sedentary Death Syndrome) is equivalent to having a major disease. The cure? Not an expensive pharmaceutical. But inexpensive cardiovascular exercise. The research is straightforward: The more […]
Continue Reading →: Americans Continue to Engineer Movement Out of Their Lives
By Ken Reed
We’re continuing to move to an endpoint of two super conferences in big-time college football, similar to the AFC and NFC in the NFL. Basically, we will have professional football on Saturdays and Sundays.
The latest College Football Playoff (CFP) deal reveals that two conferences now control college sports at the […]
Continue Reading →: The Gap Between the Haves and Have-Nots in College Sports Continues to Grow
The quest for immediate victory in baseball is jeopardizing long-term athlete health
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
As with virtually every contemporary sports issue, win-at-all-costs (WAAC) and profit-at-all-costs (PAAC) mentalities are at the foundation of the numerous pitching injuries we’re seeing in baseball.
The American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI) has called […]
By Ken Reed
All for one, and one for all.
That old phrase popularized by The Three Musketeers is pretty well known. On the other hand, the concept mudita isn’t well known at all, but it has a similar meaning.
Mudita is a Buddhist philosophy that basically means taking vicarious joy in the success of […]