By Ken Reed
For a long time, parents, coaches, players, reporters and some doctors have blamed concussions for causing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the brain disease often linked to contact sports like football and hockey.
The fact is, research has revealed for some time now that it is repetitive sub-concussive blows to the brain that […]
By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
January 17, 2018
It is widely believed that the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) does the worst job representing its players of all the pro sports league player unions in the country.
Enter Cyrus Mehri, one of the nation’s most effective social justice and worker […]
Continue Reading →: Mehri Seeks to Fix Worst Players Union in America
A League of Fans Special Feature
Cyrus Mehri
Q’s & A’s with Leading Sports Reformers
Cyrus Mehri has a long history of fighting for social justice. He is a discrimination, civil and consumer rights, worker rights and corporate fraud lawyer. Mehri has represented employees, consumers, investors, athletes, small businesses and others in high-impact cases against […]
By Ken Reed
The NCAA and its media partners would like you to believe that the College Football Playoff (CFP) championship game is the ultimate celebration of college athletics.
The reality is, the title game is a mega example of social and economic injustice.
Everyone involved will be getting a boatload of money from […]
Continue Reading →: A Sad Night For College Football Players
By Ken Reed
University of Central Florida (UCF) athletic director, Danny White, announced yesterday that the school will hang a national championship banner inside the school’s football stadium to celebrate the university’s undefeated football season.
Good for them. The so-called College Football Playoff is a joke. It’s not a true national championship because only about […]
Continue Reading →: UCF Will Proudly Hang a National Championship Banner
By Ken Reed
Sports Business Daily has tabbed our nation’s Divider-In-Chief as 2017’s most influential sports business person.
What a sad choice by a publication that has a lot of respect in the industry. First of all, Trump isn’t even in the sports business. Second, his sports involvement amounts to the couple minutes it […]
By Ken Reed
The holiday season is traditionally a popular time for giving to charitable causes and the less fortunate.
That holds true in SportsWorld.
In any given year, many athletes and sports organizations are criticized — usually fairly — for their greed and win-at-all-costs attitudes.
But there are also many athletes and sports organizations […]
By Ken Reed
I recently wrote about the absurd, anti-fan, NFL catch rule. Since then, only a week later, another incomprehensible catch rule call was made.
This time, it took place in the Buffalo vs. New England game this past Sunday. A catch by Kelvin Benjamin of the Bills was initially ruled a […]
By Ken Reed
I’m guessing 99% of American football fans, including current and former players, watching the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New England Patriots game this past Sunday believed that the Steelers’ Jesse James caught the football thrown by Ben Roethlisberger and scored what probably was the winning touchdown near the end of the game.
[…]By Ken Reed
The World Players Association (WPA), which is a collection of more than 100 player organizations across the globe that represent 85,000 professional athletes, unveiled a “Universal Declaration of Player Rights” earlier this month. The declaration is designed “to protect players from ongoing and systemic human rights violations in global sport.”
The […]
Continue Reading →: World Players Association Unveils Universal Declaration of Player Rights