By Ken Reed
Pro sports owners have the best business deal in the United States. They operate unregulated cartels and have a variety of antitrust protections. Basically, pro sports owners have been given free rein in this country. Moreover, their franchises appreciate at rates very few companies in other industries can match. Yet, they continue […]
By Ken Reed
A report from the Commission On the State of U.S. Olympics and Paralympics was released last week. The report, titled “Passing the Torch: Modernizing Olympic, Paralympic & Grassroots Sports In America” had several recommendations. Probably, the most noteworthy recommendation was the following:
Congress should allow USOPC to focus on high performance […]
Continue Reading →: Olympic & Paralympic Report Calls For Government to Take Lead On Youth Sports
By Ken Reed
The mind is the last frontier in sports. Since the beginning of competitive athletics, sports coaches and trainers have focused almost solely on the physical development of athletes. In the last couple decades, data analytics and technological advances have taken center stage when working with athletes. But athletes aren’t robots and they […]
Continue Reading →: New Book, “Mind Games,” Shines the Spotlight On Athletes’ Mental Health
By Ken Reed
In a couple weeks, the Kansas City Current will open a $117 million, 11,500 seat stadium, which will be called CPKC Stadium. It will be one of a few stadiums in the world constructed specifically for female athletes. The stadium is designed to expand to a 20,000 seat capacity.
The Current’s […]
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“I think if exercise were a drug, it would be the most powerful drug ever invented on the planet.” — Mark Hyman, M.D.
By Ken Reed
In 2015, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges put out a report calling exercise a “miracle cure.” This wasn’t a conclusion based on one or two studies. There […]
Continue Reading →: When It Comes To Exercise Everyone Can Be An Athlete
By Ken Reed
Today’s National Hockey League (NHL) is built more on skill and speed than physical hits, and that’s a good thing. It’s a safer game for players. And it’s a more athletic game with a lot less fighting and cheap shots.
“The new-age player, definitely there’s more emphasis on the skill and […]
Continue Reading →: NHL Gradually Evolving From the Stone Age
By Ken Reed
Over-the-top adults (parents and coaches) in youth sports is a topic we regularly address at League of Fans.
Australian Open tennis champion Jannik Sinner, during his victory speech, addressed this issue indirectly by thanking his parents for not putting pressure on him as a young athlete and allowing him to […]
Continue Reading →: Jannik Sinner: “I with that everyone could have my parents”
Studies have found that every year of playing football increases the risk of developing CTE by 30 percent
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
Nothing seems to slow the popularity of football, even the growing mound of research about how dangerous the game is to the human brain.
Neurologist Adina Wise has […]
Continue Reading →: Football’s popularity soars despite CTE risks awareness
By Ken Reed
It can be reasonably argued that University of Iowa star hoopster Caitlin Clark is the biggest thing in basketball this season — male or female.
Clark is the all-time leading scorer in college women’s basketball history, passing Washington’s Kelsey Plum this week. She’s the Steph Curry of the women’s college game, […]
Continue Reading →: Iowa’s Caitlin Clark is Great for Basketball — Women’s and Men’s
By Ken Reed
Neurologist Adina Wise has written a compelling article about the paradox that is our country’s growing viewership of football while at the same time more of us than ever understand the strong link between playing football and the devastating disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
First, the evidence regarding CTE:
A […]