League of Fans

By Ken Reed

The Philadelphia 76ers are the first NBA team to put a sponsor’s logo on their uniforms.

Yes, for the 2017-18 season, a StubHub advertisement will grace the front of the 76ers uniforms.

StubHub is a website that connects ticket buyers and sellers.

Let the greed times roll!

— Ken Reed, Sports […]

By Ken Reed

Mile High Stadium.

It once was the iconic name of the Denver Broncos’ home for decades.

But when Broncos’ owner Pat Bowlen demanded that the taxpayers of the Denver metro area build him a new sports palace — or else — things got messy.

The taxpayers of the Denver metro area stepped […]

By Ken Reed

Nick Symmonds, two-time Olympian and American champion in the 800 meters, is on a mission. His goal is to greatly increase awareness and understanding regarding the raw deal track and field athletes are getting — in the United States and internationally.

The life of the typical professional track athlete is much […]

By Ken Reed

Washington D.C. taxpayers are about to get stuck paying $50 million of a $54.46 million, 5,000 seat, arena that will serve as a practice facility for the NBA’s Washington Wizards and be the home of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics.

The Wizards say they need the new practice facility in order to […]

By Ken Reed

Linebacker DeAndre Levy of the Detroit Lions has written an eye-opening and courageous essay in The Players’ Tribune about the warped sense of what it means to be a man that many of his fellow NFL players hold. He outlines a view about women that pervades the world of male athletics […]

By Ken Reed

Not only don’t college athletes get to share in the soaring revenues their blood, sweat and tears generates, they basically have no say in policy matters that impact their health, safety and daily lives.

First, let’s be clear here. We’re talking about big-time college athletics, most notably athletics in the Power Five […]

By Ken Reed

When it comes to pro sports in the United States you can count on one thing: profit-at-all-costs (PAAC) thinking will drive decision-making.

The NBA recently announced that its team jerseys, including the iconic uniforms of the Celtics and Lakers, will now have ads on them. Glory be, NBA basketball courts will now […]

By Ken Reed

A new brain scanning technology called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was used by researchers in a study of 40 living ex-NFL players. The scans revealed brain damage in 43% of the subjects. In addition, 50% of the players demonstrated “significant problems” with executive function, 45% had learning or memory problems, and […]