League of Fans

League of Fans Calls For Sports Journalists to Fulfill Their Journalistic Duty

Asks Fans and Other Stakeholders to Demand More From the Sports Media and Its Large “News Hole”

Ralph Nader announced today that his League of Fans organization is starting a campaign to ask the sports media to increase their work on the social, […]

Dear Mr. Stern:

Later this month, NBA play will resume after a lengthy lockout and intense labor negotiations between the players and management. But why are you starting this abbreviated season with a tripleheader on Christmas Day, December 25—a religious day revered by a majority of the American people and a special time for […]

According to researchers from New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, heading a soccer ball on a regular basis — even just a few times a day — can lead to brain damage. See FoxNews.com. Soccer players who headed the ball on a frequent basis showed similar brain injuries to […]

Despite receiving approximately $4 billion every year from the sale of broadcast rights, the NFL refuses to release high-angle video that shows the entire playing field to fans or media outlets for fear that it would open up coaches and players to criticism. The video, known as All-22 footage because it shows the actions of […]

Major-college football coaches, on average, are making nearly $1.5 million in 2011, an increase of approximately 55 percent since 2006. See USA Today, “Salaries for college football coaches back on rise.”

“The hell with gold,” higher education lawyer Sheldon Steinbach says. “I want to buy futures in coaches’ contracts.”

This obscene jump in compensation […]

Concussion awareness is a huge topic in the world of sports today, from youth sports to the NFL and NHL. The incidence of concussions, testing for the presence of concussions, and guidelines for when athletes should be allowed to return to action, are all hot issues in SportsWorld.

The King-Devick test is a very accurate, […]

One of the saddest developments in sports — at all levels — is the growing trend of youth and high school athletes specializing in one sport and playing that sport year-round. The results aren’t pretty. The professionalization of young athletes is resulting in more cases of overuse injuries, putting the future health and mobility of […]

ESPN does some awfully good work. The network’s documentaries are usually outstanding. Outside the Lines has been excellent for years on current issues. ESPN has a solid stable of commentators and analysts. And the sports network has done some good investigative work the past couple decades. But the “Worldwide Leader’s” coverage of the Penn State […]

A growing number of sports medicine specialists are claiming that there is a vast overuse of MRI scans in the world of sports. See “Sports Medicine Said to Overuse A Popular Scan,” New York Times.

“If you want an excuse to operate on a pitcher’s throwing shoulder, just get an MRI,” according to Dr. […]