League of Fan’s Sports Policy Director, Ken Reed, is featured on The New York Times‘ Room for Debate Opinion Page.

“Dropping the Ball” on Room for Debate asks the question: “Should more undergraduate schools follow in the footsteps of Spelman College and consider dropping intercollegiate sports programs?”

Intercollegiate athletics can be expensive.

Some schools [...]

In Praise of Participation, Blog 9

by Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

Here it is — our long-promised draft legislation.

Although the “bill” below is only a suggestive outline or “concept draft” of a possible piece of federal legislation, it’s a start on what’s necessary to save the health of our children. Or, at [...]

Sports Reform Organization Calls for More Coaching Education Programs That Promote Humanistic Coaching Styles

In the wake of the firing this week of Rutgers’ men’s basketball coach Mike Rice for abusing his players, League of Fans announced today that it is calling for more coaching education programs that promote humanistic coaching styles as an antidote [...]

In Praise of Participation, Blog 8

by Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

In this blog I want to add detail to my Revolutionary Physical Fitness idea, which I have developed in broad outline in previous blogs. While I do research on what the necessary legislation and national campaign for Revolutionary PE would look like, [...]

In Praise of Participation, Blog 7

By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

I was leaving a workout at the YMCA fitness center and ran into a man also on the way out whom I had seen on several occasions using the elliptical trainer. I knew he was a professor at a local college — [...]

In Praise of Participation, Blog 6

By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

To reprise my previous blogs: What are we talking about when we say “revolutionary” physical education?

Philosophically speaking, it’s what the late Phil Lawler, a leader in the fitness-based PE movement, described as:

“…enabling each student to maintain a physically active lifestyle [...]

In Praise of Participation, Blog 5

By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

I was having lunch with a doctor who’s an expert on our national epidemic of diabetes. I was shocked when he told me that by 2050 a third of the population is expected to be diabetic. “And it’s a very expensive disease,” [...]

In Praise of Participation
By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

Here’s the solution America has been waiting for and that I’ve promised in my previous blog: a solution to one of the most dramatic crises the country has ever suffered, a crisis far more threatening and harmful than, say, terrorism.

Here’s a remedy [...]

By Lance Tapley
The Anti-Fan Blogger

The solution is social, not individual

In this blog I want to head toward a highly specific, practical suggestion to revolutionize fitness, sports, and health in America. It is both an old and very new suggestion. But first I need to set the philosophic stage.

In 1994 the [...]

NFL chooses to keep coercive, anti-fan blackouts

by Shawn McCarthy
Guest Analyst for League of Fans

All Hail the National Football League for its merciful generosity during a time of massive economic struggle and high unemployment. Headlines regarding a recent adjustment to the NFL’s blackout policy include: “New NFL blackout rule good for fans”; [...]