League of Fans

By Ken Reed

As part of a lawsuit alleging that Major League Baseball (MLB) owners are not complying with minimum wage laws, minor league players won a victory in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday when it was ruled that the class-action suit could proceed. The appellate court’s ruling reversed a […]

By Ken Reed

By all accounts, Maxim Dadashev was a terrific young man. Now he’s dead. At 28. Because of a boxing match.

Dadashev died late last month after taking a beating during a boxing match in Oxon Hill, Md. He collapsed shortly after leaving the ring and was rushed to a nearby hospital. […]

By Ken Reed

There are folks in a couple other professions out there besides football player and hockey player that have to think about the dangers of blows to the head: baseball catchers and umpires.

For both catchers and home plate umpires, foul tips that go off a hitter’s bat and straight into the face […]

By Ken Reed

Back in 2006-07, 384 NHL games featured at least one fighting major, which was 31.2% of all games.

During the 2018-19 season, there were fewer than 200 games with a fighting major, the first time in the modern era the total had dropped that low.

There are several reasons for the […]

By Ken Reed

I’m a big baseball fan. I played through college and I follow the game very closely. Occasionally, usually through a friend or colleague, I get the opportunity to sit close to the field, not too far above one of the dugouts. What an awesome view. You can really see the pitcher, hitter […]

By Ken Reed

Research has found that one of the things kids hate the most about youth sports is “The Ride Home” with critical parents. This short video depicts the typical youth sports “Ride Home” very well.

When you put yourself in the child’s spot in this video, it’s clear how these “Ride Home” […]

By Ken Reed

A recent research article on high school football injuries in The American Journal of Sports Medicine concluded that sports-related concussions (SRC) dropped 57% after a Wisconsin high school rule limited contact during football practices.

The report also said the SRC rate during games was unchanged. This is important to note because […]

Company Urges U.S. Soccer to Be “On the Right Side of History”

By Ken Reed

Proctor & Gamble is donating $529,000 — $23,000 for each of the 23 players on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT) that recently won the World Cup. The donation was made to help close the pay gap between the […]

By Ken Reed

Jim Bouton died last week at 80. The plethora of Bouton obituaries and tributes since have focused on his pitching career, including winning a couple World Series games with the New York Yankees, and the blockbuster book Ball Four* he wrote in diary style about his 1969 season. But Jim Bouton was […]