By Ken Reed
Earlier this week, the National Labor Relations Board’s regional director in Boston ruled members of the Dartmouth men’s basketball team are employees and granted them the right to unionize.
It was just the latest instance of college athletes gaining more civil and economic rights.
Sure, the ruling will be appealed, but […]
By Ken Reed
I’d hate to be a college athletic director, or football or basketball coach, right now. Between name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation and the transfer portal it’s pretty much chaos in College SportsWorld today.
“We have an ecosystem where anything goes,” says Darren Heitner, a sports attorney based in Florida. “There is […]
Continue Reading →: NIL Situation in College Sports is a Complete Mess
By Ken Reed
I’m going to stray a bit today from pure sports policy issues to address a hot baseball topic: Is the Los Angeles Dodgers big offseason good or bad for baseball?
After the Dodgers landed Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Teoscar Hernandez this past offseason to go with superstars Mookie Betts […]
The rise of overbearing parents and coaches in youth sports is a growing concern
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
I was at a sixth-grade girls’ basketball game last weekend. I saw a lot of adults yelling and screaming at both referees and 11-and-12-year-old kids. Let’s just say a lot of what […]
By Ken Reed
The newest inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York are Adrian Beltre, Joe Mauer and Todd Helton. Besides being outstanding baseball players, they have one other thing in common: they were all terrific multi-sport athletes growing up.
Beltre’s best sports were tennis and basketball as a youth in […]
“Nothing, according to the research, predicts excellence like finding the task fun.” — Alfie Kohn, sociologist
By Ken Reed
I was at a 6th grade girls basketball game last weekend. I saw a lot of adults yelling and screaming at both referees and 11-and-12-year-old kids. Let’s just say a lot of what I saw and […]
Meanwhile, the National Labor Relations Board Holds Hearings on Whether or Not College Athletes Should Be Considered Employees
By Ken Reed
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) yesterday announced a subcommittee legislative hearing titled “NIL Playbook: Proposal to Protect Student […]
The sports media has to do better to address major issues within the world of sports
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
For the most part, the sports media is falling dreadfully short when it comes to examining major sports problems, why they exist, and what can be done to mitigate them […]
Continue Reading →: Six resolutions for the sports media in 2024
By James F. Humphreys
“Every aspect of each sport should be reconsidered with an eye towards brain trauma.” — Chris Nowinski, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center at Boston University.
Ken Reed has written a clear, and sometimes provocative, analysis of what is wrong with sports in present day America and, what’s more, […]
Continue Reading →: Book Review: Ken Reed’s “How We Can Save Sports: A Game Plan”
By Ken Reed, Sports Policy Director, League of Fans
For the most part, the sports media is falling dreadfully short when it comes to the in-depth examination of our major sports problems, why they exist, and what can be done to mitigate them or prevent them.
Even when key issues and scandals are identified […]
Continue Reading →: Six New Year’s Resolutions for the Sports Media to Consider Now