By Ken Reed
No more tackling during football practice — at least not in the Ivy League.
Starting this upcoming football season, Ivy League teams will not be allowed to tackle during practices. It is a move to reduce injuries, most notably concussions.
“We know the damage major collisions, or even a lot of […]
By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
March 1, 2016
As big a challenge as sports concussions are — and I think they are the number one contemporary sports issue — there have been some encouraging developments in the sports concussion field recently.
Let’s start with neurofeedback training, a new technology that is […]
By Ken Reed
It’s 2016, and MLB finally decided it wasn’t wise to allow baserunners coming into second base to slide away from the bag and directly at the shortstop or second baseman — often with spikes up or shoulder lowered — for the clear purpose of wiping out the infielder with the ball on […]
Continue Reading →: MLB Comes Out of Stone Age With New Sliding Rule
By Ken Reed
More and more kids — and in some cases, their parents — are finally getting fed up with the societal pressure to specialize in one sport at a young age.
These youngsters are saying they’ll specialize in college, or at least late in their high school career, but for the time being […]
Continue Reading →: New Trend? Multi-Sport Athletes Pushing Back Against Specialization
By Ken Reed
I recently received a call from a writer who was doing a piece on Harmon Killebrew. He had read an old column I had written about Killebrew and wanted to know if I would like to comment about Killebrew the person.
Here is some of what I told him:
“Harmon Killebrew […]
Continue Reading →: Harmon Killebrew: A Hall-of-Fame Person Deserving His Own Stamp
By Ken Reed
Quanterix, a Massachusetts company, is close to bringing to market a highly sensitive, single molecule, blood test that can detect proteins in the blood that indicate a brain injury. The test can signal a concussion, or sub-concussive injury, which will let team personnel know that an effected player shouldn’t be allowed back […]
Continue Reading →: High-Tech Blood Test Close to Detecting Brain Injuries on Sidelines
By Ken Reed
The legacy of Peyton Manning might end up being about more than just his two Super Bowl wins and a boatload of NFL passing records.
Manning might eventually be known as the guy that indirectly spurred reform efforts on college campuses to clean up the “rape culture” problem of sexual assault by […]
Continue Reading →: Peyton Manning and Sexual Assault by Athletes on Campus
By Ken Reed
We at League of Fans spend a lot of time researching and writing about developments in the field of sports concussions. Most of these are reports on new studies that have scary findings regarding the short and long-term impact of brain trauma.
However, we also want to note positive developments on this […]
Continue Reading →: Promising Development in the Concussion Field
A League of Fans Special Feature
Bobby Richardson
Bobby Richardson was a second baseman for the New York Yankees from 1955 through 1966. He was part of one of the great dynasties in American sports history, playing in seven different World Series during his career. He won the World Series MVP in 1960, the only […]
By Ken Reed
The Huffington Post
February 2, 2016
The Super Bowl is our country’s national celebration of football, a game Dr. Bennet Omalu, the doctor who discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), calls our “collective societal intoxication and addiction.”
From an entertainment perspective, football is more popular than ever. Attendance figures, television […]
Continue Reading →: NFL Players in Denial on Brain Trauma; Parents Can’t Afford to Be