By Ken Reed

Let’s be clear: Aaron Rodgers has every right to hold whatever thoughts and beliefs he might have about Covid-19 and vaccines.

But that freedom ends when his actions have a negative — or potentially negative — health impact on others.

What the unvaccinated don’t seem to get is this game called life […]

By Ken Reed

Why is this so hard?

In the year 2021, why do some sports organizations still insist on using Native American names, mascots, caricatures, rituals, etc., to promote their team? And in the case of Atlanta’s baseball team, why do they continue to encourage fans to do the “tomahawk chop” by turning the […]

MLB Will Provide Housing for Minor Leaguers in 2022

By Ken Reed

Thanks to the efforts of a couple advocacy groups, and the strategic use of social media by players, minor league baseball players will have housing covered by Major League Baseball (MLB) starting in 2022.

Advocates for Minor Leaguers and More Than Baseball, are […]

By Ken Reed

The Brooklyn Nets have said thanks but no thanks to Kyrie Irving’s offer to be a part-time player for their team.

Due to public safety concerns regarding the pandemic, the unvaccinated Irving won’t be allowed to play games in New York. According to the city mandate, anyone entering an indoor gym/arena — […]

By Ken Reed

The following is an excerpt from League of Fans’ sports policy director Ken Reed’s book Ego vs. Soul in Sports Joe Ehrmann is a former NFL All-Pro football player and founder of the InsideOut Initiative, a national movement to promote purpose-based athletics by connecting student-athletes to transformational coaches, in a nurturing […]

By Ken Reed

The mental health benefits of exercise have been lauded for quite a while now. Regular exercisers can attest to the stress-and-anxiety-reducing benefits of cardiovascular exercise.

A recent study from Germany, published in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, highlights how exercise helps the depressed brain. The study adds to the growing […]

By Ken Reed

Shortly before he died, U.S. Rep. and civil rights icon John Lewis said athletes are the new civil rights warriors.

“They have a great deal of influence,” said Lewis of athletes. “Sometimes history and fate just brings things together. And I think that is happening now.”

For decades, many athletes have started […]

By Ken Reed

The NFL’s competition committee and coaches, along with the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) all agreed that there needed to be a crackdown on taunting this season.

This is a great move and long overdue. Every year there seems to be an increase in the amount of smack-talking and disrespectful gesturing in opponents’ […]

By Ken Reed

NBA training camps are about to open and 50 to 60 players have yet to receive a single Covid vaccine dose. That’s an issue NBA executives and coaches were hoping to avoid.

This summer, league officials proposed a mandate requiring all players be vaccinated against Covid in order to participate this season. […]

By Ken Reed

Texas and Oklahoma have left the Big 12 for the SEC because their thirst for money is unquenchable. They basically ditched long-time partners in the middle of the night because in their eyes college sports are about “me” not “we.”

The Big 12 responded by stealing three schools from the AAC […]