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By Ken Reed

The U.S. Dept. of Labor is investigating two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, the San Francisco Giants and the Miami Marlins, for possible federal wage law violations.

Emails reviewed by the online nonprofit publication, FairWarning, found that possible improper use of unpaid interns is the focus of the Giants investigation. It […]

By Ken Reed

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt called university presidents from the college football powers of the day to the White House to address the growing concern among the American public over the dangers of football. The brutal game on campus was injuring — and killing — young men at an alarming rate. Roosevelt […]

By Ken Reed

As a country, we talk and write about the concussion problem in pro and college football on a regular basis these days. But only rarely do we look at the much bigger issue of youth and high school football.

The vast majority of youth leagues don’t have doctors or trainers on […]

By Ken Reed

If you watched the “League of Denial” PBS Frontline documentary and were angered, frustrated, scared, inspired to action, or all of the above, those feelings will be enhanced after reading the book.

One thing that the authors do particularly well in the book is outline the similarities and parallels between Big […]

By Ken Reed

I was handed free tickets to an NBA preseason game last night so I decided to go. The game was less than enthralling so I took a spin around the concourse as the second half dragged on. I wandered into a sports lounge on the club level and noticed a dozen or […]

By Ken Reed

At halftime of the Sunday Night Football game last night between the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys, NBC announcer Bob Costas delivered an essay in which he said the Redskins name is “an insult, a slur, no matter how benign the present-day intent.”

The statement from one of the country’s premier […]

By Ken Reed

As a society, we’ve definitely come a long ways since Title IX was enacted in 1972. But we still have a significant ways to go.

The gap between where we are now and where we need be in order to have equal opportunity in sports for both genders is evident when looking […]

By Ken Reed

The evidence against the NFL on the concussion issue presented in the PBS Frontline documentary, “League of Denial,” is damning indeed.

Undoubtedly, the full truth would be even more damning. However, due to the NFL’s settlement of the concussion lawsuits brought by players, we’ll probably never know the full truth regarding the […]

At the League of Fans, we believe that every problem in sports today takes root from one of two seeds: 1) A win-at-all-costs (WAAC) mentality; 2) a profit-at-all-costs (PAAC) mentality.

A great observer of American culture, Alexis de Tocqueville, nailed the PAAC mentality nearly two hundred years ago when he wrote:

“As one digs deeper […]

By Ken Reed

President Obama weighed in on the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins’ nickname this past Saturday. While his comments were pretty wishy-washy (“If I were the owner of the team … I’d think about changing it.”), the fact that the country’s president weighed in on the issue will bring more attention to […]