League of Fans

By Ken Reed

Sports gambling companies, like Fan Duel, Draft Kings, and Bet MGM, are increasingly promoting in-game wagering via mobile apps. They know in-game wagers are usually impulse bets because there isn’t time to give these types of wagers careful consideration.

These companies are sending push notifications to bettors encouraging in-game bets not […]

By Ken Reed

A new study in the American Journal of Medicine, has found that on a national level, physical inactivity prevalence is unacceptably high and has not appreciably improved over the past decade.

In the report, researchers state:

“Specifically, on a national level, physical inactivity prevalence is unacceptably high … The coronavirus disease […]

By Ken Reed

The challenges for the NCAA keep coming.

The latest is a lawsuit filed by three athletes against the NCAA and the Power Five conferences claiming that rules prohibiting schools from paying their athletes violate antitrust law.

That lawsuit sits on top of another lawsuit, House v. NCAA, that claims the NCAA […]

By Ken Reed

I recently wrote about data showing sports participation for boys and young children (6-12) was declining. Girls participation was up slightly but still trailed boys’. Moreover, only two states, Minnesota and Massachusetts, are currently meeting the government’s goal of 63% youth sports participation by 2030. Furthermore, of those children participating in […]

By Ken Reed

According to national data from the Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA), boys participation in sports has dropped from 50% to 40% in one decade.

Boys are still participating in sports at a higher rate than girls but the gap is closing. Girls’ sports participation rate was 35%, according to SFIA. […]

By Ken Reed

College football’s barons still can’t figure out how to have a real playoff format.

It’s a classic sports example of ineptitude: 154 years after the first college football game was played, college football fans are stuck with a 4-team invitational tournament whose participants are chosen by a dozen or so suits in […]

Girls Hit the Hardest

By Ken Reed

ACL injuries among high school athletes have grown 26% over the past 15 years, according to new research developed by the National ACL Injury Coalition.

The National ACL Injury Coalition reviewed injury data for 12 major girls and boys sports over five three-year periods from 2007 to […]

Researchers Find Conclusive Evidence That Repetitive Head Impacts Cause CTE

By Ken Reed

When it comes to brain trauma and CTE in sports, the research is showing that we’ve put too much emphasis on concussions.

For a long time, parents, coaches, players, members of the media and some doctors have blamed concussions for causing chronic […]