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By Ken Reed

A few weeks ago, the NFL settled for $765 million with a group of former players who sued the league over brain trauma-related injuries. In some people’s eyes, that ended this annoying “concussion issue” so we could all just go back to watching football.

But the NFL settlement isn’t the end. Not […]

By Ken Reed

Dan Wetzel is an American treasure. He’s one of the best sportswriters we have in this country. He’s a columnist for Yahoo! Sports and his September 11th column is one of his best. He lays out the mess that is big-time college athletics today. But instead of focusing on the numerous scandals, […]

By Ken Reed

I received quite a bit of feedback on my latest Huffington Post column, “Are Sports Really Fun?” A lot of the input I received centered around questions and thoughts about how to tone down our win-at-all-costs mentality in sports — especially at the youth level. So, I decided to take a […]

By Ken Reed

“I fear for college football,” says CBS News’ investigative reporter Armen Keteyian. “It’s a runaway train.”

Keteyian and fellow investigative reporter and Sports Illustrated writer Jeffrey Benedict are co-authors of a new book on college football due out in a week called “The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football.”

By Ken Reed

The recent settlement between the National Football League (NFL) and approximately 4,500 former players is definitely a win for the NFL. The league gave up less than 10% of its gross revenue for one year and didn’t have to admit any type of guilt, reveal any internal research, or open any medical […]

By Ken Reed

Football starts in earnest this weekend for youth, high school, and college football teams. It’s estimated that there are 3.5 million youth football players, 1.3 million high school football players, and 100,000 college football players in this country.

The vast majority of the players and their parents aren’t aware of the brain […]

By Ken Reed

ESPN recently decided to end its partnership with PBS on a project called “League of Denial,” a documentary that was supposed to be part of PBS’ high-quality Frontline series.

The New York Times reported that ESPN officials met with NFL administrators, including commissioner Roger Goodell, and shortly thereafter pulled the […]

League of Fans’ Sports Policy Director Ken Reed has a new regular column on contemporary sports issues at The Huffington Post.

By Ken Reed

Washington DC mayor Vincent Gray is the latest politician to push sports welfare on local taxpayers. Gray has reached a tentative agreement with the private owners of DC United, a Major League Soccer franchise, calling for taxpayers to split the cost of a new soccer sports palace with DC United’s owners.

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By Ken Reed

In many ways, and in many instances, Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel, aka Johnny Football, has shown himself to be an immature spoiled brat. Comedian Argus Hamilton described Manziel’s past year this way: “In one year he’s gone from Johnny Football to Johnny Walker to Johnny Hancock.” Character-wise, it doesn’t appear that Manziel, […]