Jason Reid recently wrote a provocative column for the Washington Post. He kicks off his column with a very strong statement:
“With each bone-breaking, head-injuring hit, NFL players are killing themselves slowly,” wrote Reid. “It’s not a possibility. It’s a fact, no less certain than the league’s immense profitability.”
Knowing what we now know […]
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One of the victims in the growing arms race in big-time college sports is students. With university budgets tight and athletics programs unable to self-fund, schools are increasingly turning to student fees to fund skyrocketing athletics budgets.
For the second consecutive year, Rutgers University topped Bloomberg’s list of universities that provide the biggest subsidies […]
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The NCAA’s power schools in the power conferences are getting just what they wanted when they formed the BCS: separation from the smaller Division I schools who are desperately trying to keep pace. Ironically, most BCS schools are themselves unable to keep pace with a small group of big-time college sports powers.
Take the University […]
Continue Reading →: Arms Race in NCAA Division I Increasingly Out of Control
Dan Wetzel has an excellent column on the Minnesota Vikings stadium issue. It includes a discussion about the absurdity of fans paying for a wealthy owner’s new stadium but still being subject to the blackout rule.
Here’s Wetzel’s conclusion:
Minnesota is going to get a new stadium. The Vikings are going to stay put. […]
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A League of Fans Special Feature
Q’s & A’s with Leading Sports Reformers: Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson is founder and chief executive officer of Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), a non-profit formed at Stanford University with the mission to create a movement to transform the culture of youth sports so that all youth athletes have a […]
Ralph Nader’s Sports Policy Project Recognizes Individuals and Organizations That Epitomize the Spirit of Sports and Promote Fair Play and Justice for all Stakeholders
Ralph Nader announced today the winners of the 2012 League of Fans’ “Sport At Its Best” awards. The individuals and organizations cited were honored for working toward a level playing field, […]
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By Ken Reed
Junior Seau’s suicide has spurred conversations throughout the sports world about whether football can survive in its present form. Andy Staples writes that “given everything we’ve learned in the past few years about the brain damage caused by repeated trauma, the immediate reaction is to point the finger at football … […]
Who has it better than professional sports franchise owners? The government has given them monopoly privileges and anti-trust exemptions. And local fans/taxpayers build them large sports palaces (and usually cover a major chunk of maintenance as well), while giving them virtually all revenues from naming rights, parking, and concessions. Oh, and don’t forget the big […]
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For years, we exercised to get our hearts in shape and to look better. Those are still positive benefits from working out and becoming more physically fit. But there’s a growing mound of research that suggests that not only will exercise help us look better, it will help us think better.
“Exercise, the latest neuroscience […]
“Staged” Fights Being Examined
In a letter responding to Ralph Nader’s request to examine the practice of “staged or planned fighting” in the NHL — in terms of whether or not it is commercial boxing without a license — the office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris responded by agreeing “that the level […]
Continue Reading →: CA AG’s Office Agrees NHL Violence is Repugnant