League of Fans

The anxiety of both players and owners is going up as time moves on without a new collective bargaining agreement in the NBA.

One factor that hasn’t been talked about much is a pending National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling that could come any day. The players filed charges in May claiming the owners […]

League of Fans and the organization’s sports policy director, Ken Reed, are featured in a lengthy article by Alex Johnson (@MAlexJohnson) posted on MSNBC.com Friday. See “Sports Fans Play the Washington Game.”

The article highlights some of the work League of Fans and other advocacy organizations are doing for fans, athletes and other sports […]

Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins recently made an interesting proposal that might help clean up some of the corruption in college sports: Make athletic departments legitimate academic branches and let athletes major in sports just like music, dance, art and film majors do. See Washington Post, “NCAA Colleges Should Consider Offering Sports as […]

I don’t see the attraction of sitting in a steel box going around a track at 200 mph with 30 or so other drivers in steel boxes. But that’s not the issue. I’m never going to be an Indy Car racer. There are plenty of people that like to race and even more fans who […]

A big chunk of sports fans look at the mess in college sports — a mountain of cheating scandals, conference realignment driven purely by greed — and wonder why the NCAA doesn’t step in and bring some sanity to the situation.

Well, here’s why: The NCAA’s not in charge.

The major football conferences, and […]

Denver Broncos defensive tackle Kevin Vickerson injured his right ankle on the first defensive play of last week’s game against the Green Bay Packers. Rather than come out of the game to receive treatment and avoid injuring the ankle further, he decided to “man up” and keep playing. He finished the game but when the […]

The cover story in the September/October 2011 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review is an excellent analysis of how the sports media covers problems in college sports. The story, titled “The Scandal Beat,” by Daniel Libit, talks about how the relatively small group of sports journalists that actually report and comment on the problems […]

Legendary sports journalist Frank Deford recently wrote a column that did an excellent job of succinctly and creatively pointing out how irrational and unethical the college sports system is. See “The Luxurious Revenue College Sports Model.”

Deford pointed out the absurdity of Rutgers’ women’s basketball coach making $1.3 million a year, plus allowances for […]