By Ken Reed
When it became okay for college athletes to benefit financially from their names, images and likenesses (NIL), the thought was that only football players and men’s basketball players would really benefit.
Well, that hasn’t been the case. Women in a variety of sports are doing quite well, better than their male counterparts […]
Continue Reading →: NIL Era a Boon for Women’s College Sports
Perfectionism has been shown to be a leading cause of depression and, thus, suicide
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
As Shalise Manza Young pointed out in a recent column for Yahoo! Sports, at least five National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes in the United States have died by suicide […]
Continue Reading →: College sports face a growing mental health crisis
By Ken Reed
As Shalise Manza Young pointed out in a recent column for Yahoo! Sports, five NCAA college athletes have died by suicide in just the last two months.
One young person committing suicide is a tragedy. Five promising young student-athletes with bright futures taking their own lives in such a short timespan […]
Continue Reading →: Mental Health Issue Reaches Crisis Stage in College Athletics
By Ken Reed
Youth and high school sports officials (referees and umpires) are quitting at unprecedented rates due to the verbal and physical abuse they are increasingly receiving from “adults” (parents and coaches).
That abuse is a big reason so many states are now having trouble finding enough qualified officials to call the games […]
Fans left with an increasingly boring game
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
I don’t hate baseball analytics or their use by crafty baseball operations folks. I look at analytics gurus like Billy Beane, Theo Epstein and Andrew Friedman as smart guys who figured out how to exploit market inefficiencies […]
Continue Reading →: Analytics destroying baseball’s entertainment value
By Ken Reed
I don’t hate baseball analytics, or the use of them by crafty baseball operations folks. I look at analytics gurus like Billy Beane, Theo Epstein, and Andrew Friedman as smart guys who have figured out how to exploit market inefficiencies in the game of baseball.
But what they’ve also done is inadvertently […]
Continue Reading →: As an Entertainment Product, Baseball Analytics Are Hurting the Game
Editor’s note: On the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking MLB’s color line, League of Fans is running the following essay from Ken Reed’s book, “Ego vs. Soul in Sports: Essays on Sport At Its Best and Worst.”
My family and I had just plunked our buns down on the hard green seats at […]
By Ken Reed
Guest Opinion
The Post Gazette
Originally published by Syracuse.com
Only in America can multi-billionaire capitalists like Terry and Kim Pegula, owners of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, demand socialist handouts from taxpayers for a new publicly financed sports palace so the value of their franchise — along with the […]
Continue Reading →: There’s still time to stop ‘public rip-off’ for Buffalo Bills stadium
By Ken Reed
A first-of-its-kind study has revealed that headers and accidental head impacts in soccer result in changes in blood patterns, linked to brain signalling pathways and potential alterations. The study analyzed blood samples from 89 pro soccer players in a range of scenarios involving heading.
The results demonstrated “specific alterations” in the […]
Continue Reading →: New Study Provides More Evidence That Headers Affect Brain Activity
“The NFL is the richest sports franchise, full of billionaire capitalists demanding socialist handouts so they can make even more profits.”
— Ralph Nader
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
The billionaire owners of the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills, Terry and Kim Pegula, have landed US$850 million in […]
Continue Reading →: Spending public money on stadiums simply robs taxpayers