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By Ken Reed

The Final Four is always a time for celebration and dismay.

It’s a celebration of great athletes, great back stories and a great sport. But at the same time, it’s distressing that the athletes creating this billion dollar spectacle are prevented from sharing in the largesse.

A couple of USA Today writers, […]

By Ken Reed

Lawyers representing former NFL players who have filed dementia claims under the NFL concussion settlement, say the league is “muddling the claims process.”

“The NFL seeks to rig the Settlement system. This is part of the League’s DNA,” said Gene Locks, a Philadelphia-based attorney who represents 1,100 players in the case. […]

By Ken Reed

Major League Baseball (MLB) owners are pushing Congress to allow them to continue paying minor league baseball players less than a McDonald’s worker or Walmart greeter.

The reality for most minor league players today is that the hot dog vendor in the stands is making more money than they are.

And […]

By Ken Reed

There are still a lot of unsigned free agents in Major League Baseball as spring training nears its end.

I hear and read a lot of chatter about how greedy Major League Baseball players are. Some people say it will serve these unsigned free agents right if they get a much […]

By Ken Reed

College basketball players don’t have a union. Moreover, they’re young, in school, and most have little spending money.

As such, they are in a tough position when it comes to collectively addressing civil rights and economic injustice issues with the NCAA.

That said, there’s a growing chorus that believes it might take […]

By Ken Reed

Dave Zirin had a good piece this week about Bernie Sanders visiting the Los Angeles Dodgers spring training home and reflecting on the pain it caused him and millions of other Dodger fans in Brooklyn when Walter O’Malley chased the money in California and left a loyal diehard fanbase in New […]

By Ken Reed

Washington Post columnist, Jerry Brewer, delivered a blistering — and well-deserved — attack to the NFL this week.

Apparently, at the recent NFL scouting combine, LSU running back Derrius Guice was asked by some enlightened NFL team if he liked men. This would be shocking if the NFL hadn’t shown multiple […]

New Book Tells the Story of O’Bannon’s Fight Against the NCAA for Economic Justice

By Ken Reed

Former UCLA basketball All-American Ed O’Bannon had finally had enough when he saw his likeness being used in a video game. He knew others were making money off his likeness and he also knew he wasn’t getting a […]

By Ken Reed

We know that repetitive blows to the head lead to brain injuries and diseases, including concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). And we know the sole purpose of boxing is to strike one’s opponent in the head repeatedly, in the hopes of knocking him/her out.

So, the obvious question is why do […]

League of Fans’ sports policy director, Ken Reed, was interviewed for this article examining the activism of African-American athletes in the United States throughout history.

Following is an excerpt from Al Jazeera on Jackie Robinson as part of a Black History Month feature, The black game changers of US sport
From Muhammad Ali […]