League of Fans

By Ken Reed

Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown is suing the city of Milwaukee, its police chief and eight police officers involved in a parking ticket altercation back in January. Brown, who’s African-American, was tased and arrested in the incident. He was issued a parking citation but wasn’t charged with a crime.

Milwaukee Police Chief […]

By Ken Reed

I devoted a chapter in my book, How We Can Save Sports: A Game Plan, to our country’s need to replace abusive, militaristic-style coaches with more humanistic coaches. I’ve also written columns about the need to rid sports of coaching bullies — e.g., Bobby Knight types — especially at the youth […]

By Ken Reed

Helmet makers, along with some coaches, athletic directors and youth sports administrators would like you to believe that there are football helmets available that will greatly reduce the risk of brain trauma and concussions.

To be nice, they are misleading you. The reality is there’s very little a helmet can do to […]

By Ken Reed

“Wins and losses matter, but true acts of sportsmanship define participants. A moment this genuine should be required viewing for all athletes.”
—Chip Scoggins, Minneapolis Star Tribune

I love this story.

Ty Koehn, a high school pitcher for Mounds View High School in Minnesota, strikes out a childhood friend, Jack Kocon […]

By Ken Reed

LeBron James, through his production company SpringHill Entertainment, is co-producing an HBO documentary about the “institutional denial of basic human rights” for NCAA athletes.

The documentary will debut at 10 p.m. ET, October 2nd, on HBO. It will feature four current and former college athletes, including Kentucky basketball player Nick Richards. […]

By Ken Reed

Most retired NFL players these days live with the uncertainty of not knowing how badly damaged their brains are from the repetitive blows to the head they endured during their careers.

They wonder if they are developing symptoms of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease caused by brain trauma. They wonder […]

By Ken Reed

Once upon a time, sport was one of the few institutions that brought people from diverse backgrounds together. Whatever your demographic, employment or political profile, you could count on a sense of unity when you went to the stadium or arena to cheer for the local team.

Those days are gone […]

By Ken Reed

When President George W. Bush took the mound at Yankee Stadium to throw out the first pitch following the horrific 9/11 attacks, sports helped bring us together as a country. As Howard Bryant recently wrote, sports were a “healing balm” for a hurting nation.

But since that point, pro sports owners […]

By Ken Reed

Is there any organization in America that lacks common sense more than the NCAA?

Yes, that’s a rhetorical question. But I’m continually amazed at the stupidity of the NCAA and its member institutions.

The latest example to cross my desk is the case of C.J. Harris. Harris was recruited by Auburn to […]