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Sathya S. Gosselin
Sathya S. Gosselin is an attorney with Hausfeld, LLP. The firm’s founder, Michael Hausfeld, is widely regarded as one of the top civil litigators in the United States. Gosselin’s been a partner in the firm for six-plus years and is based in Washington, DC.
Gosselin […]
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David Light Shields
David Light Shields is co-author of the book True Competition: A Guide to Pursuing Excellence in Sport and Society. He is an Associate Professor and Teacher Education Program Coordinator at St. Louis Community College.
Previously, Shields was co-director of the Mendelsen Center for Sport, Character, and […]
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Barb Lazarus
Barb Lazarus is the owner and co-founder of Game On! Sports Camps 4 Girls. Game On! is a unique sports-based experience for young girls ages 4-14. The camp focuses on building campers’ character, self-esteem, and a healthy lifestyle, while fostering a love of sport. The overarching goal […]
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Roger Noll
Roger Noll is professor of economics emeritus at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
Noll is a well-known sports economist. He’s been called the “Father of Sports Economics,” due in large part to his groundbreaking book, Government and […]
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Andrew Maraniss
Andrew Maraniss is the author of Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South.
In addition to his work as an author, Maraniss is a partner at McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations. He is the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist […]
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Dr. Richard Lapchick
Richard Lapchick is a human rights activist, sports studies educator, author and sports issues expert who has long been known as the “racial conscience of sport.” He currently is the endowed chair and director of the DeVos Sports Management program at the University of Central Florida […]
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Dr. Bobbi Lancaster, a successful and well-regarded physician in Arizona, is a transgender golfer trying to earn an LPGA tour card while playing on a couple minor league golf tours.
Born Robert Lancaster, she underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2010.
Lancaster grew up in Canada, participating in soccer, […]
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Terri Lakowski was an outstanding high school athlete who grew increasingly frustrated with the gender inequities she encountered in athletics.
“My teammates and I were tired of feeling like second-class citizens to the boys,” says Lakowski.
That frustration was the impetus for Lakowski studying Title IX while playing basketball […]
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Jim Baugh
Jim Baugh has spent most of his career in the sports industry, including a successful stint as the president of Wilson Sporting Goods. He was elected to the Sports Industry Hall of Fame in 2011.
Throughout his career, he’s been a passionate advocate for sports, fitness, and […]
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Brian Kitts
Brian Kitts is one of three co-founders of You Can Play, an advocacy project “dedicated to ensuring equality, respect and safety for all athletes, without regard to sexual orientation.
A sports-loving kid, Kitts grew up in New Mexico and graduated from the University of Denver. He spent […]
Sports Forum Podcast
Episode #28 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: A Chat With Mano Watsa, a Leading Basketball and Life Educator – Watsa is President of PGC Basketball, the largest education basketball camp in the world, with over 150 camps in 30+ U.S. states and Canada. We discuss problems in youth sports today, including single sport specialization, the growing gap between the “haves” and “have-nots,” the high drop-out rate in competitive sports, and the growing mental health challenges young athletes are dealing with today.
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Episode #27 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: Kids’ Sports: How We Can Take Back the Game and Restore Quality Family Time In the Process – Linda Flanagan is author of “Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids’ Sports and Why It Matters.” We discuss how commercialized and professionalized youth sports are hurting kids and their families.
Episode #26 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: How Can We Fix Youth Sports? – John O’Sullivan is Founder and CEO of Changing the Game Project and author of “Changing the Game: The Parents Guide to Raising Happy, High Performing Athletes and Giving Youth Sports Back to Our Kids.”
Episode #25 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: Physical Education Should Be a Critical Component of K-12 School Design – Michael Horn is co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation.
Episode #24 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: Mental Health and Athletes: Ending the Stigma – Nathan Braaten and Taylor Ricci are the founders of Dam Worth It, a non-profit created to end the stigma around mental health at colleges and universities through sport, storytelling, and community creation.
Episode #23 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: Olympian Benita Fitzgerald Mosley Talks Title IX, Youth Sports and the Olympics.
Media
"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.
- League of Fans Sports Policy Director Ken Reed quoted in Washington Post column titled "What happened to P.E.? It’s losing ground in our push for academic improvement," by Jay Mathews
League of Fans is a sports reform project founded by Ralph Nader to fight for the higher principles of justice, fair play, equal opportunity and civil rights in sports; and to encourage safety and civic responsibility in sports industry and culture.
Vanderbilt Sport & Society - On The Ball with Andrew Maraniss with guest Ken Reed, Sports Policy Director for League of Fans and author of How We Can Save Sports: A Game Plan
Sports & Torts – Ken Reed, Sports Policy Director, League of Fans – at the American Museum of Tort Law
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