Dear Mr. Nader,
Thank you for your letter, article and statutory excerpts regarding the practice of staged acts of violence conducted by the National Hockey League.
While we agree that the level of violence in hockey games has reached repugnant levels, the issue of whether these games or the conduct of these “staged fights” come […]
California leads the nation in tuition increases and the UC system has said that annual tuition hikes could range from 8% to 16% over the next four years. That would follow a tuition hike of 17% for in-state students last year, leading to student protests and sit-ins on the Berekely campus. Cal Berkeley is also […]
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Paul Busch has developed an excellent website dedicated to the pursuit of a fighting-free NHL. It’s called “It’s Not Part of the Game.” The website is a well-reasoned, researched-based look at the role of fighting in NHL hockey.
Busch loves the game but is upset that fighting and thuggery take away from the beauty of the sport. […]
Continue Reading →: New Website Seeks End to Fighting in the NHL
An Open Letter to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman
April 18, 2012
Mr. Gary Bettman
1185 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Dear Mr. Bettman:
It’s time for you to resign. The disturbing increase in head-hunting thuggery in this year’s NHL playoffs, along with your feeble response and denial of a problem, […]
A League of Fans Special Feature
Dave Zirin is the leading sports activist/journalist in the country. He regularly writes about the intersection of politics and sports. Zirin was named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” and won the Sport in Society and Northeastern University School of Journalism’s 2011 “Excellence in […]
Continue Reading →: Q’s & A’s with Leading Sports Activists: Dave Zirin
The 40th Anniversary of Title IX’s enactment into law will be June 23, 2012. The law has been hugely beneficial for society, yet several myths remain prevalent. Kate Fagan and Luke Cyphers effectively address five of those myths in a recent ESPN article.
Here’s an important fact: Since the law’s inception, BOTH male and […]
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The NFL is in trouble. Not on the field, or in the stands, or in TV executives’ offices, but in courtrooms.
The NFL is facing an avalanche of concussion-related lawsuits from former players. These players believe that the NFL didn’t take concussions seriously during their playing days and didn’t do enough to protect them […]
Continue Reading →: Gregg Williams Audio Tape is the NFL’s Worst Nightmare
The best town in pro sports is also the smallest: Green Bay, Wisconsin, home of the Packers. The Dallas Cowboys aren’t America’s team, the Green Bay Packers are. And not just because of their championship history. The Packers are owned by the fans, not a wealthy owner operating with a profit-at-all-costs (PAAC) philosophy. The Green […]
Continue Reading →: Green Bay Packers’ Ownership Structure Remains the Ideal
In one tirade, hockey analyst — and former NHL coach and general manager — Mike Milbury demonstrated how far the NHL has to go on the concussion issue.
After a wild fight in Sunday’s Philadelphia-Pittsburgh NHL game, touched off in part by a cross-check Philadelphia’s Brayden Schenn delivered to Crosby, Milbury called NHL superstar Sidney […]
Continue Reading →: Milbury’s Thinking an Example of NHL’s Stone-Age Mentality
According to former sports agent Josh Luchs, amateurism in college sports (most notably, football and men’s basketball) is like Prohibition, “neither one of them works effectively.”
“Like Prohibition, the NCAA member institutions have created this underground marketplace without adequate and effective oversight,” said Luchs in a Q&A article by Patrick Hruby. “As long as […]
Continue Reading →: College Football and Basketball Comparable to Prohibition