By Ken Reed

When we see great acts of sportsmanship we tend to say, “That’s nice” and get back to focusing on who won the competition.

Yes, sportsmanship is “nice” but in the big picture sportsmanship – how you play the game – is the most important thing. It’s the essence of sports at […]

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 […]

By Ken Reed

Don Shula was an old school football coach but he was a progressive thinker in many ways, and not just from a football strategy perspective.

When it came to treating female reporters as equals, he was on the right side of history long before his peers.

In the early 1980s, NFL teams […]

By Ken Reed

The coronavirus pandemic, the seemingly endless Covid-19 news coverage, and the attitudes and behavior of some of our politicians during this challenging time can certainly be depressing.

However, there is a ton of positive stuff happening right now, if one takes time to look for it. Since our focus at League of […]

By Ken Reed

One of the greatest, and most memorable, sports-related quotes comes from Nelson Mandela:

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can […]

By Ken Reed

It’s the season of sacrifice, of helping and serving others, of gifts and acts of kindness that can never be repaid.

Former MLB commissioner, Fay Vincent, recently shared a personal story in that vein, a story filled with the human spirit.

Vincent fell off the ledge outside his dorm window […]

By Ken Reed

Having been involved in sports for five decades, I’ve seen some great inspirational stories, both on and off the playing fields and courts.

There have been some fabulous comeback stories, in which athletes were thought to have had their careers cut short due to injuries suffered while playing only to come back […]

By Ken Reed

Earlier this week, I wrote about disgraced track coach Alberto Salazar being banned for four years for using performance-enhancing drugs with his athletes and attempting to tamper with doping controls.

Salazar was caught due in large part to the courage of two-time Olympic athlete Kara Goucher, who blew the whistle on […]