By Ken Reed
For the first time in in Indianapolis 500 history, a racing team made up of mostly women will participate in the race this year.
The Paretta Autosport team is comprised of about 70% women, including the driver, owner and crew. This new first in auto racing comes 44 years after Janet […]
By Ken Reed
Baseball’s Unwritten Rules Book reared it’s ugly head again last week, when the Chicago White Sox’ Yermin Mercedes had the audacity to actually swing at a 3-0 pitch from a utility player during a blowout victory over the Minnesota Twins last week.
Mercedes hit that ninth inning lob ball from Twins […]
Continue Reading →: Baseball’s Unwritten Rules are Archaic, Stupid and Just Plain Silly
By Ken Reed
We’ve written about this issue before (here and here). But it needs to be addressed again.
The number of drop-in ads during radio and television broadcasts of Major League Baseball (MLB) games is completely out of hand.
The problem is especially troublesome with radio broadcasts. Seemingly, every single […]
Continue Reading →: Drop-In Ads During Baseball Radio Broadcasts Are Reaching the Point of Absurdity
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
We’re in the middle of a mental health crisis, and it’s crying out for more attention.
Lives are being lost to suicide. Depression, anxiety and other forms of mental illness negatively affect entire families, not just the individual suffering. Work productivity is impacted to a significant […]
Continue Reading →: We must get past the stigma to combat rising mental health crisis
By Ken Reed
The trend of sport specialization in youth sports continues unabated. Parents and coaches tell kids as young as seven and eight that they need to specialize in a single sport if they ever hope to be successful. Too many parents don’t even give kids a choice between single-sport participation and multi-sport participation. […]
Continue Reading →: Early Sports Sampling is the Key to Long-Term Sports Success
League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast
Cleveland Indians Owner/CEO Paul Dolan joins us on this episode of the Sports Forum podcast. We jump right into a hot topic: the use of Native American names and logos by sports teams in general and the Cleveland Indians in particular. Dolan describes the process the team went […]
By Ken Reed
We have a mental health crisis in this country and it’s crying out for more attention.
Lives are lost to suicide. Depression, anxiety and other forms of mental illness negatively affect entire families, not just the individual suffering. The nation’s productivity is impacted to a significant degree due to mental health […]
League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast
League of Fans Sports Policy Director Ken Reed has a very special guest on this episode of our Sports Forum podcast: Ralph Nader. Nader is a long-time consumer advocate and four-time presidential candidate. He was named one of the “100 Most Influential Americans of the 20th Century” by […]
Continue Reading →: Sports Forum Podcast (Episode #9): Talking Sports Issues With Ralph Nader
By Ken Reed
It used to be that youth sports was a local community activity. Youth sports teams — “little league” teams if you will — would play other teams formed in their neighborhood and perhaps a few teams from close surrounding neighborhoods.
In today’s club sports world, youth teams are formed with players from […]
Continue Reading →: Extensive Travel Makes Youth Sports Expensive and Inaccessible For Many Children
By Ken Reed
Major League Baseball has an entertainment problem. And when you’re in the entertainment business that’s not good.
Baseball has become a slow game with a lot of strikeouts, walks and occasional home runs. Those are called the “three true outcomes” in today’s game. The plethora of strikeouts is a big issue because […]