In Praise of Participation, Blog 7

By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

I was leaving a workout at the YMCA fitness center and ran into a man also on the way out whom I had seen on several occasions using the elliptical trainer. I knew he was a professor at a local college — […]

In Praise of Participation, Blog 6

By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

To reprise my previous blogs: What are we talking about when we say “revolutionary” physical education?

Philosophically speaking, it’s what the late Phil Lawler, a leader in the fitness-based PE movement, described as:

“…enabling each student to maintain a physically active lifestyle […]

In Praise of Participation, Blog 5

By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

I was having lunch with a doctor who’s an expert on our national epidemic of diabetes. I was shocked when he told me that by 2050 a third of the population is expected to be diabetic. “And it’s a very expensive disease,” […]

In Praise of Participation
By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

Here’s the solution America has been waiting for and that I’ve promised in my previous blog: a solution to one of the most dramatic crises the country has ever suffered, a crisis far more threatening and harmful than, say, terrorism.

Here’s a remedy […]

By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

The solution is social, not individual

In this blog I want to head toward a highly specific, practical suggestion to revolutionize fitness, sports, and health in America. It is both an old and very new suggestion. But first I need to set the philosophic stage.

In 1994 the […]

NFL chooses to keep coercive, anti-fan blackouts

by Shawn McCarthy
Guest Analyst for League of Fans

All Hail the National Football League for its merciful generosity during a time of massive economic struggle and high unemployment. Headlines regarding a recent adjustment to the NFL’s blackout policy include: “New NFL blackout rule good for fans”; […]

Windfall From New College Football Playoff Should Be Used to Benefit the Players and Achieve Gender Equity in Athletics

The NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision’s (FBS) athletic directors and college presidents are poised to approve a four-team football playoff to determine a national champion.  The move is being made for two primary reasons: 1) to avoid […]

By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

The corporate subversion of the body

When our twin boys were teenagers in the 1990s, and when our youngest boy was a teenager in the 2000s, they strongly protested walking the mile to and from school. Walkers were “losers,” one of them told me. Their peers had induced […]

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

Dear Mr. Selig:

On June 1, 2012 Johan Santana pitched a great game for the Mets against the Cardinals. But it was not a no-hitter as you and your top MLB officials know. […]

Randy Levine, President
Brian Cashman, General Manager
New York Yankees

Gentlemen:

When I was growing up in Connecticut, I’d listen with pleasure to Mel Allen’s radio broadcasts of the New York Yankee games.

The commercials were reserved for the commercial breaks – between half innings.

Now, the commercials have become a significant part […]