By Ken Reed
Kamaiu Johnson was on a path likely heading nowhere.
He’d dropped out of school by age 13. His father had skipped town and his family was loving but poor. At times, Johnson lived with as many as nine other family members in a cramped two-bedroom apartment.
“I was so lost in life,” […]
Continue Reading →: Kamaiu Johnson: A Cool Story Featuring Humanity At Its Best
League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast
This might be one of the most important Sports Forum podcasts we’ve done, or will ever do. Our guest is, Ann McKee, M.D., a true superstar in the field of neuropathology and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Dr. McKee has been named by TIME magazine as one of the […]
By Ken Reed
Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericks played their first 13 home games this season without playing the national anthem before tip-off. And nobody noticed. Finally, somebody at The Athletic noticed and reported it.
Cuban didn’t give a reason. He simply said he had decided before the season not to play the anthem.
[…]By Ken Reed
A little girl remains in critical condition after Kansas City Chiefs outside linebackers coach, Britt Reid (son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid) struck two cars with his pickup truck last Thursday. One of the cars had run out of gas and was stopped on the side of an interstate entrance ramp. […]
Continue Reading →: The Sadness of the Britt Reid Tragedy Overshadows Tampa Bay’s Win
By Ken Reed
The Kansas City Chiefs have a true hero on their team but he won’t be in Tampa for the Super Bowl.
Chiefs offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif opted out of this season so he could care for sick patients during the Covid crisis at a long-term care hospital facility in his native […]
Continue Reading →: The Real Kansas City Chiefs Hero is Not Mahomes, It’s Duvernay-Tardif
By Ken Reed
The pandemic has shut down a good portion of youth sports activities across the country. This has caused a lot of frustration for kids, parents, coaches and youth sports organizations.
Obviously, the goal is to keep children, and the adults they live with, as safe as possible during the pandemic. However, the […]
Continue Reading →: Pandemic Represents a Chance to Reset Youth Sports for the Better Going Forward
By Ken Reed
Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves have had an issue hanging over their heads for a long time: a nickname that’s offensive to many and which has a racist beginning.
With the passing of Hank Aaron, the greatest player in franchise history (and the greatest player in baseball history, according to some), Atlanta […]
Continue Reading →: The Atlanta Braves Should Change Their Name to the Atlanta Hammers
What constitutes manhood in sports culture is archaic. As if the sports world has been frozen in time – Neanderthal time
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
What former New York Mets general manager Jared Porter did to a female reporter is despicable. He certainly deserved to be fired after admitting to […]
Continue Reading →: Major League Baseball has a sexual harassment problem
By Ken Reed
HBO’s new episode of “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” has a very troubling segment on runner abuse allegations at Nike. What’s especially troubling is that Nike is paying the legal costs for their disgraced and suspended running coach Alberto Salazar. Running prodigy Mary Cain, former Olympian Kara Goucher, and elite male […]
Continue Reading →: HBO Examines Troubling Allegations of Runner Abuse at Nike
By Ken Reed
What former New York Mets general manager did to a female reporter is despicable. He certainly deserved to be fired after admitting to sending dozens of explicit text messages and photos to a female reporter in 2016.
The sad part is almost everyone inside baseball — most notably women in baseball — […]
Continue Reading →: Porter Incident Points to Crying Need for MLB to Hire Advocate for Women