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By Ken Reed

Quanterix, a Massachusetts company, is close to bringing to market a highly sensitive, single molecule, blood test that can detect proteins in the blood that indicate a brain injury. The test can signal a concussion, or sub-concussive injury, which will let team personnel know that an effected player shouldn’t be allowed back […]

By Ken Reed

The legacy of Peyton Manning might end up being about more than just his two Super Bowl wins and a boatload of NFL passing records.

Manning might eventually be known as the guy that indirectly spurred reform efforts on college campuses to clean up the “rape culture” problem of sexual assault by […]

By Ken Reed

We at League of Fans spend a lot of time researching and writing about developments in the field of sports concussions. Most of these are reports on new studies that have scary findings regarding the short and long-term impact of brain trauma.

However, we also want to note positive developments on this […]

By Ken Reed

In his weekly column on college basketball, Nick Kosmider of the Denver Post touched on the tragedy that stuck Colorado State University (CSU) basketball player Emmanuel Omogbo last month. While on the school’s Ft. Collins campus, Omogbo was given the heartbreaking news that a fire had destroyed his home in Maryland […]

By Ken Reed

Christine Baugh is a lifelong athlete who wants to make sports safer for athletes of all ages. She’s currently a Harvard Ph.D. student working on a doctorate in health policy with a concentration in ethics.

One of Baugh’s focus areas is concussions in sports, especially in youth sports. According to a […]

By Ken Reed

As college sports increasingly became all about the money the past 50 years, the Ivy League, for the most part, remained a Division I conference that put academics above wins and dollars. However, during the past decade, that philosophy has slowly eroded, as win-at-all-costs (WAAC) and profit-at-all-costs (PAAC) thinking and actions have […]

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No Holds Barred: Ken Reed of League of Fans on Concussions and Sports

From the Intro:

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with Ken Reed, the sports policy director for the League of Fans.

League of Fans is a sports reform project started by activist […]

By Ken Reed

The citizens of St. Louis not only found out that they lost their NFL team to Los Angeles this week, they also discovered they still owe $100 million in debt on the bonds used to finance the Edward Jones Dome, the stadium that was publicly-financed to bring the Rams to St. […]

By Ken Reed

Two teams, filled with terrific athletes, gave us a national college football championship game for the ages on Monday night. In a back-and-forth game, Alabama finally prevailed, 45-40, over Clemson.

The entertainment value of the game was extremely high. The players, on both teams, put on quite a show. However, unlike other […]

By Ken Reed

Very few NCAA athletes understand and appreciate the economic power they possess as a collective group. Donald H. Yee, a sports lawyer whose firm represents Tom Brady among others, wrote an excellent piece for the Washington Post a couple days ago about how college athletes, especially minority athletes in the football […]