A League of Fans Special Feature
Brian Kitts
Brian Kitts is one of three co-founders of You Can Play, an advocacy project “dedicated to ensuring equality, respect and safety for all athletes, without regard to sexual orientation.
A sports-loving kid, Kitts grew up in New Mexico and graduated from the University of Denver. He spent […]
Continue Reading →: Q’s & A’s with Leading Sports Reformers: Brian Kitts
By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
November 11, 2013
The ongoing debate over the Washington Redskins nickname is tiresome.
It’s tiresome because it’s inevitable that the team name will be changed, no matter what Washington team owner Dan Snyder says. It’s just a matter of time. Clearly, Snyder’s contention that the […]
Continue Reading →: Forget Snyder, It’s Time to Target the Redskins’ Advertisers
By Ken Reed
It appears that Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Richie Incognito is the classic bully. Moreover, his behavior has been enabled by coaches throughout high school, college and the NFL because he’s a good football player.
Before he was suspended, Incognito was even a member of the Dolphins’ leadership council!
The rap sheet […]
Continue Reading →: Incognitos of the World Get Their Start in Elementary School
By Ken Reed
The lawyers and accountants of NFL franchises — not to mention the team owners themselves — are undoubtedly smiling ear-to-ear these days because the league’s financial liability risk related to the brain trauma and concussion issue has dropped considerably the last couple months.
Back in August, the league agreed to a $765 […]
Continue Reading →: NFL Picks Up Another Victory on Concussion Issue
By Ken Reed
The Mayo Clinic recently held a conference on concussions in hockey. One of the outcomes was researchers calling for a ban on fighting at all levels of the game of hockey.
Dr. Michael Stuart, a director of the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center and the chief medical officer for USA Hockey, called […]
Continue Reading →: Researchers Call for Hockey Fighting Ban
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 […]
Continue Reading →: Giants and Marlins Under Investigation by Dept. of Labor
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
The Huffington Post
October 23, 2013
Two excellent documentaries about the concussion crisis in football, The United States of Football and League of Denial, have recently come and gone. oth films garnered some attention from the general public. But instead of spurring a national discussion about the safety […]
Continue Reading →: America Is in a State of Denial When It Comes to Football
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 […]
Continue Reading →: Interesting Podcast With “League of Denial” Co-Authors