By Ken Reed
Given all the busts for using performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sports the last few years, and the difficulty in catching all the cheaters, there’s a growing movement to chuck the whole process, to let athletes do anything they want in order to get a performance edge.
Continue Reading →: Sport Wouldn’t Be Sport Without Doping Rules
By Ken Reed
Steroids have been a big issue in Major League Baseball and the National Football League for years. Meanwhile, steroid abuse hasn’t received much attention in college football.
That’s about to change.
A major investigative report by the Associated Press has revealed that steroid abuse is a significant problem in college football […]
A League of Fans Special Feature
Brenda VanLengen
Brenda VanLengen is Vice Chair of PE4life, a non-profit whose mission is to increase the amount of quality physical education in schools across the nation. From 2001-2010, VanLengen served as second in command for PE4life, including in her role as Chief Design Officer. In addition to her […]
Continue Reading →: Q’s & A’s with Leading Sports Reformers: Brenda VanLengen
By Ken Reed
A new study published in the scientific journal Brain strengthened the case that head trauma can lead to “long-term, degenerative brain disease.”
“The study, which included brain samples taken posthumously from 85 people who had histories of repeated mild traumatic brain injury, added to the mounting body of research revealing the possible […]
Continue Reading →: New Study Shows Link Between Subconcussive Hits and Brain Disease
By Ken Reed
It’s interesting to note that in a capitalist society, in which team owners tout the free market whenever they can, it’s a corporate welfare system — most notably taxpayer-financed sports stadiums and arenas — that is serving to increase the wealth of pro sports owners in America.
“Ironically, it [taxpayer financing of […]
Continue Reading →: It’s Time to Address the Sports Welfare Issue
By Ken Reed
The website MastersinHealthcare.com has an excellent graphic on concussions: what they are, how they happen, why they’re dangerous, how to recognize them, and what the effects are.
“You may not be a head-injury prone athlete, but if you have any loved ones who are involved in contact sports, the following infographic […]
Continue Reading →: New Concussion Infographic a NIce Resource for Sports Parents
By Ken Reed
So, former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue ruled in favor of Jonathan Vilma and against current commissioner Roger Goodell in the NFL’s New Orleans Saints Bountygate case. Interesting little side drama. But that’s all the Tagliabue ruling is. In fact, the whole Bountygate case is but a side drama.
Bountygate is an NFL-created […]
In Praise of Participation, Blog 7
By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger
I was leaving a workout at the YMCA fitness center and ran into a man also on the way out whom I had seen on several occasions using the elliptical trainer. I knew he was a professor at a local college — […]
By Ken Reed
The growing mound of research on the dangers of brain trauma in sports — especially when it comes to the young developing brain — has resulted in many parents deciding to not allow their children to play tackle football. According to a recent report from the Sports & Fitness Industry Association, the […]
By Ken Reed
Former MLB players union executive director Marvin Miller passed away recently from liver cancer. His death barely caused a ripple in the sports world. That’s a shame.
Miller’s efforts dramatically improved the pro sports industry, not just for the players, but for fans and even owners, who have thrived under the pro […]