League of Fans

By Ken Reed

The coaches can leave whenever they want to. The players are stuck.

Football coach Tom Herman bolted the University of Houston for the University of Texas only 12 hours after reportedly telling his Houston players that he wasn’t going anywhere.

He’s not the first coach to lie to his players about […]

By Ken Reed

Two interesting articles about youth and high school football were published in the last week.

Each of them looked at the growing football cultural war from a variety of perspectives.

The first piece, Patrick Hruby’s well-researched treatise, “Friday Night Lights Out,” looks at the allure of the game for players, coaches […]

By Ken Reed

As a blanket of cold temperatures covers a big part of the country, it’s fun to read about our warm-weather sport, baseball. Moreover, it warms the heart to read about a baseball player who’s giving back and making a positive difference in the lives of children.

Michael Powell had an outstanding […]

By Ken Reed

According to an investigative report by NJ Advance Media, FieldTurf, the country’s leading manufacturer of artificial turf sports fields, sold more than 1,000 fields to schools and communities across the country after its executives knew the product was defective and failed to live up to the company’s lofty marketing claims.

By Ken Reed

What Was Liberty Thinking?

I was surprised that Liberty University hired former Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw as the school’s new athletic director.

I was shocked they chose to not even mention or address the fact that McCaw was suspended by Baylor for his “failure to adequately respond to multiple reports of […]

By Ken Reed

A segment called “Cost of the Game,” in the latest Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO, is must-see viewing for parents and coaches of youth and high school football players. The episode talks about the fact that youth and high school football programs have more full-contact practices than teams at […]

By Ken Reed

Among the loud fallout from the election results earlier this month, a couple referendums for publicly-financed new pro sports stadiums received little notice.

In San Diego, voters told Dean Spanos, owner of the NFL’s Chargers franchise, they weren’t interested in giving the local NFL team hundreds of millions of dollars to build […]

By Ken Reed

Michael Phelps swears by it. So do many track and field athletes (including my daughter, who runs track at the college level), as well as several celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Chinese Cupping is an ancient practice in which cups are placed on the skin in a way that creates […]

By Ken Reed

The American Sociological Association (ASA) has joined other academic and civil rights organizations in calling for Major League Baseball and the Cleveland Indians franchise to abandon the Chief Wahoo caricature used by Cleveland as the team’s logo.

In a letter to Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, ASA president Michelle […]