By Ken Reed

Minor league baseball teams, like millions of other small businesses in this country, are in trouble. Big trouble.

Unlike their Major League Baseball colleagues who typically get about half their revenue from media rights deals, minor league teams are almost exclusively reliant on ticket sales and in-stadium concession and merchandise revenues.

MLB […]

April 15th is Jackie Robinson Day. In honor of #42 and what he did not only for the game of baseball but the country as a whole, we are re-posting a popular column from League of Fans’ sports policy director Ken Reed.

My family and I had just plunked our buns down on the hard […]

By Ken Reed

The Ivy League, often called the “Ancient Eight” due to the long tradition-rich history of its member schools, revealed its ancient mindset in a ruling last week when it disallowed spring athletes who lost their senior seasons due to the coronavirus pandemic from being eligible to compete next year.

Now […]

By Ken Reed

Nobody has been hit harder by all the sporting event cancellations caused by Covid-19 than low-wage workers at stadiums and arenas across the country.

Some pro sports owners have recognized this and are coming to the assistance of these workers.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been leading the way in […]

By Ken Reed

Both U.S. Soccer and the U.S. women’s national team (USWNT) want to settle their equal pay case before it’s scheduled to go to trial ‪on May 5th.‬ While it’s highly likely the coronavirus pandemic may delay the trial date, efforts are still being made to settle the dispute sooner rather than later.

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By Ken Reed

We’ve all heard about the cancellation of sporting events at the pro, college and even high school levels due to the coronavirus. But there has been very little said or written about youth sports and the millions of kids involved in those events.

The folks at the Aspen Institute’s Sports & Society […]

By Ken Reed

Colorado’s House of Representatives voted 55-9 this week to allow college athletes the right to earn income from their names, images, and likenesses (NILs). The bill was unanimously approved by the Colorado Senate last month. Governor Jared Polis is expected to sign the bill into law soon.

“This bill sends a […]

By Ken Reed

The Savannah Bananas know baseball fans hate being inundated with advertisements everywhere they look at the ballpark. So, they’re going to do something about it this season. The Bananas are getting rid of all ads for the 2020 campaign.

The Bananas, who play in the Coastal Plain League, a highly-regarded summer collegiate […]

By Ken Reed

I can’t get enough of the highly improbable David Ayres story.

A 42-year-old kidney transplant recipient — and until recently a Zamboni driver for a minor league hockey team — who hadn’t played in a hockey game, at any level, for five years, enters an NHL game in the second period, stops […]

The Houston Astros have a strange way of saying they’re sorry for cheating and tainting the game of baseball, including the World Series.

Late last week, the Astros staged what was supposed to be an apology press conference for using an elaborate high-tech scheme (well, except the banging on the trash cans part) to illegally […]