Unvaccinated NBA star won’t be welcomed back to the Nets until he’s fully able to participate in all team activities
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
The Brooklyn Nets have said thanks but no thanks to Kyrie Irving’s offer to be a part-time player for their National Basketball Association team.
Due […]
Continue Reading →: Kyrie Irving hasn’t learned a thing from playing a team sport
By Ken Reed
The Brooklyn Nets have said thanks but no thanks to Kyrie Irving’s offer to be a part-time player for their team.
Due to public safety concerns regarding the pandemic, the unvaccinated Irving won’t be allowed to play games in New York. According to the city mandate, anyone entering an indoor gym/arena — […]
Continue Reading →: Kyrie Irving Hasn’t Learned a Thing From Playing a Team Sport
By Ken Reed
The following is an excerpt from League of Fans’ sports policy director Ken Reed’s book Ego vs. Soul in Sports Joe Ehrmann is a former NFL All-Pro football player and founder of the InsideOut Initiative, a national movement to promote purpose-based athletics by connecting student-athletes to transformational coaches, in a nurturing […]
Continue Reading →: Former Football Star Teaches the Game of Life
By Ken Reed
The mental health benefits of exercise have been lauded for quite a while now. Regular exercisers can attest to the stress-and-anxiety-reducing benefits of cardiovascular exercise.
A recent study from Germany, published in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, highlights how exercise helps the depressed brain. The study adds to the growing […]
Continue Reading →: Yet Another Study Shows Exercise Reduces Symptoms of Depression
We need a lot more ‘we’ people than ‘me’ people – in professional sports and everywhere else
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
National Basketball Association training camps are in full swing and 50 or so players (of about 530 total) have yet to receive a single COVID-19 vaccine dose. That’s an […]
Continue Reading →: NBA’s anti-vaxxers put far too many people at risk
By Ken Reed
Shortly before he died, U.S. Rep. and civil rights icon John Lewis said athletes are the new civil rights warriors.
“They have a great deal of influence,” said Lewis of athletes. “Sometimes history and fate just brings things together. And I think that is happening now.”
For decades, many athletes have started […]
By Ken Reed
The NFL’s competition committee and coaches, along with the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) all agreed that there needed to be a crackdown on taunting this season.
This is a great move and long overdue. Every year there seems to be an increase in the amount of smack-talking and disrespectful gesturing in opponents’ […]
Continue Reading →: NFL’s Crackdown on Taunting This Season a Welcome Boost to Sportsmanship
By Ken Reed
NBA training camps are about to open and 50 to 60 players have yet to receive a single Covid vaccine dose. That’s an issue NBA executives and coaches were hoping to avoid.
This summer, league officials proposed a mandate requiring all players be vaccinated against Covid in order to participate this season. […]
Continue Reading →: The NBA — Like the Country — Has an Anti-Vaxxer Problem
Active students have better grades, enhanced memory, lower absenteeism and better behaviour
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
The physical activity levels of our young people were already trending downward when COVID-19 hit. The pandemic made things worse. Kids around were stuck at home, forced to try to learn virtually.
An online […]
Continue Reading →: COVID-driven physical inactivity crisis hits school-age children
Guest Column
By Gerry Chidiac
The Toronto Blue Jays are often referred to as Canada’s team because they are the only Major League Baseball (MLB) organization in the country. This season they are playing the most exciting baseball we’ve seen in years, and even though their ranks are not made up of many Canadian players, […]
Continue Reading →: Toronto Blue Jays: A Celebration of Diversity and Inclusion