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By Ken Reed
While most school fall sports seasons across the country have either been cancelled, postponed, or allowed to continue under heavy restrictions due to COVID-19, youth sports have — for the most part — continued on with few changes.
Youth sports organizations have a ton of freedom to do what they want […]
By Ken Reed
I’m sure it wasn’t easy but Ireland’s national lacrosse team did the right thing last week.
Ireland’s team withdrew from the World Games 2022 international lacrosse tournament so a Native American team, the Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team could play in the tournament. The Iroquois team qualified by finishing third in the […]
A League of Fans Special Feature
Eugene Jarecki
Q’s & A’s with Leading Sports Reformers
Eugene Jarecki is co-chair (with Amber McReynolds) of the Election Super Centers Project, a non-partisan, joint initiative of the National Vote at Home Institute and Silver Linings Group. The Project’s mission is to help sports team and arena owners and […]
By Ken Reed
Max Cobb, chair of the NGB Council for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), believes it’s time that America’s youth sports coaches be required to complete base-level training. Cobb said:
“From my perspective, and I’m speaking for myself and not as a representative of any larger organization, the next step […]
By Ken Reed
I was driving home recently and listening to a talk show about the social unrest in the country. The host was White and the guest was Black. After a couple minutes of discussion, the guest asked the host a powerful question.
“Have you ever woken in the morning and started to […]
By Ken Reed
Back in May, NCAA president Mark Emmert said no students, no football.
“All of the Division I commissioners and every president that I’ve talked to is in clear agreement: If you don’t have students on campus, you don’t have student-athletes on campus.”
At the time, everyone seemed in agreement with […]
Norway has a successful youth sports system, accessible to all. The national lottery earmarks millions for youth sports every year
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
I’ve been a youth sports coach for 17 years. For the most part, it’s been very rewarding. However, one of the hardest aspects has been […]
Guest Column
By Gerry Chidiac
In times of crisis, true leaders step forward. While effective political leadership has largely been absent, professional athletes, primarily players in the National Basketball Association and Women’s National Basketball Association, have demonstrated that celebrity status, when embraced with a sense of responsibility, can be a catalyst for global change.
Quite […]
By Ken Reed
Led by senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a group of U.S. senators is working on comprehensive legislation that would help college athletes in numerous ways. They are calling the prospective legislation a college athletes bill of rights.
The senators outlined their bill in a statement released on Thursday. […]
By Ken Reed
College athletics in general (and college football in particular) are in complete and total disarray. During the last few months, the NCAA has provided all the proof anyone could possibly need to demonstrate that they are completely worthless.
And toothless. When it comes to providing anything resembling leadership, well, let’s just […]
- "How We Can Save Sports" author Ken Reed appears on Fox & Friends to explain how there's "too much adult in youth sports."
Ken Reed appears on Mornings with Gail from KFKA Radio in Colorado to discuss bad parenting in youth athletics.
“Should College Athletes Be Paid?” Ken Reed on The Morning Show from Wisconsin Public Radio
Ken Reed appears on KGNU Community Radio in Colorado (at 02:30) to discuss equality in sports and Title IX.
Ken Reed appears on the Ralph Nader Radio Hour (at 38:35) to discuss his book The Sports Reformers: Working to Make the World of Sports a Better Place, and to talk about some current sports issues. 
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Sports & Torts – Ken Reed, Sports Policy Director, League of Fans – at the American Museum of Tort Law
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