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By Ken Reed

The winningest coach in college football history has retired.  But his legacy will be more than wins on a scoreboard.

Gagliardi coached at NCAA Division III St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.  His resume includes 489 wins, 30 conference titles and four national championships.  He was the first active head coach to […]

By Ken Reed

After having to fork over millions (and eventually billions) in a couple of the latest taxpayer-financed stadium scams, the owners of the Minnesota Vikings and Miami Marlins are showing their gratitude by telling fans, “It’s time to get screwed again.”

Vikings owners Zigi and Mark Wilf are attempting to make their most […]

By Ken Reed

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is making the rounds touting the NFL’s new “heads up tackling” campaign, which will supposedly make youth football safer. The reality is, the campaign, co-sponsored by USA Football, is more of a PR campaign than a safety campaign.

The cold hard fact, the elephant in the NFL’s living […]

By Ken Reed

The NHL work stoppage continues — and unlike the NFL labor dispute that seemed to be non-stop news — nobody cares.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and his league’s owners are in deep trouble. Hockey is a fringe sport in the United States and the fact the NHL is poorly run makes things […]

By Ken Reed

Earlier this week, the NBA announced it was scrapping the idea of putting small corporate logos on their teams’ uniforms — at least for now.

The rumored reason for the decision is that complications and complexities related to conflict issues between player sponsors and team uniform sponsors were too much to […]

By Ken Reed

The question of whether or not our young people should be playing football continues to gain attention.

Earlier this week, Good Morning America featured a segment about a Dover, New Hampshire school board member — and retired medical doctor — Dr. Paul Butler, who’s calling for the banning of high […]

As the World Series unfolds, it seems a fitting time to share this article on the uniquely positive aspects of baseball — from a progressive perspective. The article was written by Andrew Kimball and originally appeared in Tikkun.

–- Ken Reed, Sports Policy Director, League of Fans

In Praise of Baseball
by Andrew […]

By Ken Reed

A new documentary called Head Games increases awareness and understanding of the concussion crisis in sports, while at the same time advocating safety measures to help prevent the devastating effects of brain trauma among the next generation of athletes. The film is based on a book of the same title, written by […]

By Ken Reed

We at the League of Fans spend a majority of our time addressing the inequities and injustices in sports. Our goal is to push our sports organizations to be more socially responsible in their policymaking, decisionmaking and actions. In short, we want to get the destructive win-at-all-costs (WAAC) and profit-at-all-costs (PAAC) mentalities […]

By Ken Reed

Dave Zirin recently had an enlightening column in the Nation about the current NHL lockout, and the similarities with recent lockouts in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. He highlighted what appears to be a coordinated industry-wide effort by the owners in each league to abandon the annoying collective bargaining process and break […]