By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
August 22, 2013

The longer my wife and I spoke, the more the tears started welling up in my 13-year-old daughter’s eyes.

Sitting around an outside table at a restaurant near our home, we were sharing news our youngest child didn’t want to hear: Mom and […]

By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
August 14, 2013

College football players across the country have reported for fall practice and are eagerly preparing for the upcoming 2013 football season.

The vast majority of them arrived on campus assuming the NCAA has their backs when it comes to safety and health issues. […]

Read the letter to Mariano Rivera and sign the “One More Year” petition.

July 16, 2013

Allan H. (Bud) Selig, Commissioner
The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball
245 Park Avenue, 31st Floor
New York, NY 10167

Dear Mr. Selig:

A question: How can you allow a growing number (16 at last count) of your Major League Baseball teams to promote all-you-can-eat tickets at their […]

In Praise of Participation, Blog 10

by Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

In mid-June a bill was shot down in the Maine Legislature — after school officials opposed it — that required kindergarten-to-grade-five schoolchildren to participate in at least 30 minutes of daily “physical activity.” The activity could include recess or classroom activities […]

Guest Essay

By Frank Mensel

For Americans fond of pro sports — who see them as part of the very fabric of Americana — the recurring scandals over performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) could hardly be more galling. To such fans, there is no career more privileged and envied than that of the big-league athlete, whatever the […]

League of Fan’s Sports Policy Director, Ken Reed, is featured on The New York Times‘ Room for Debate Opinion Page.

“Dropping the Ball” on Room for Debate asks the question: “Should more undergraduate schools follow in the footsteps of Spelman College and consider dropping intercollegiate sports programs?”

Intercollegiate athletics can be expensive.

Some schools […]

In Praise of Participation, Blog 9

by Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

Here it is — our long-promised draft legislation.

Although the “bill” below is only a suggestive outline or “concept draft” of a possible piece of federal legislation, it’s a start on what’s necessary to save the health of our children. Or, at […]

Sports Reform Organization Calls for More Coaching Education Programs That Promote Humanistic Coaching Styles

In the wake of the firing this week of Rutgers’ men’s basketball coach Mike Rice for abusing his players, League of Fans announced today that it is calling for more coaching education programs that promote humanistic coaching styles as an antidote […]

In Praise of Participation, Blog 8

by Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

In this blog I want to add detail to my Revolutionary Physical Fitness idea, which I have developed in broad outline in previous blogs. While I do research on what the necessary legislation and national campaign for Revolutionary PE would look like, […]