League of Fans

By Ken Reed

People need to move to be healthy, physically and mentally. This includes children, especially in an era in which childhood obesity and related health problems are increasingly becoming a concern. Moreover, when children and teenagers are forced to remain isolated and inactive they have much higher rates of anxiety and depression.

Youth […]

By Ken Reed

We’re in the midst of both a coronavirus pandemic and a childhood obesity epidemic. As such, there’s a dilemma for young athletes and their parents: Is the risk of playing organized sports during the Covid pandemic greater than the risk of the negative physical and mental impacts of not playing?

Young people […]

By Ken Reed

Undoubtedly, in the future when someone says “2020” the first thing that will pop to mind for the vast majority of the world’s citizens will be the Covid pandemic.

But from a sports perspective — more particularly, a United States sports perspective — 2020 will be known as the Year of Women.

By Ken Reed

I think almost everyone is ready to turn the page on 2020, including sports fans who saw their favorite games cancelled, postponed or modified beyond recognition.

SportsWorld did its best to keep the games going during a global pandemic (even at times when public health experts said they shouldn’t), but beginning in […]

By Ken Reed

Finally.

Cleveland’s Major League Baseball (MLB) team has said it plans to replace its racist Indians nickname. That’s great news.

Native Americans shouldn’t be used as nicknames and mascots for sports teams in the same way lions, bears, and other animals are. Period.

But why is the Cleveland organization waiting […]