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Clayton Ellis is a SHAPE America board member and a former national physical education teacher of the year. Clayton is one of our nation’s leading advocates for getting our young people to be more physically active so they can enjoy the physical, mental, behavioral and academic benefits.
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By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
We’re in the midst of both a COVID-19 pandemic and a childhood physical inactivity epidemic.
That creates a dilemma for young athletes and their parents: Is the risk of playing organized sports during the pandemic greater than the risk of the negative physical and mental […]
By Ken Reed
People need to move to be healthy, physically and mentally. This includes children, especially in an era in which childhood obesity and related health problems are increasingly becoming a concern. Moreover, when children and teenagers are forced to remain isolated and inactive they have much higher rates of anxiety and depression.
Youth […]
By Ken Reed
We’re in the midst of both a coronavirus pandemic and a childhood obesity epidemic. As such, there’s a dilemma for young athletes and their parents: Is the risk of playing organized sports during the Covid pandemic greater than the risk of the negative physical and mental impacts of not playing?
Young people […]
By Ken Reed
Undoubtedly, in the future when someone says “2020” the first thing that will pop to mind for the vast majority of the world’s citizens will be the Covid pandemic.
But from a sports perspective — more particularly, a United States sports perspective — 2020 will be known as the Year of Women.
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By Ken Reed
I think almost everyone is ready to turn the page on 2020, including sports fans who saw their favorite games cancelled, postponed or modified beyond recognition.
SportsWorld did its best to keep the games going during a global pandemic (even at times when public health experts said they shouldn’t), but beginning in […]
Why is the Cleveland baseball team waiting until 2022 to make the change? Let the healing begin now
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
Finally, Cleveland’s Major League Baseball (MLB) team says it plans to replace its racist Indians nickname. That’s great news.
The Indigenous shouldn’t be used as nicknames and […]
By Ken Reed
Finally.
Cleveland’s Major League Baseball (MLB) team has said it plans to replace its racist Indians nickname. That’s great news.
Native Americans shouldn’t be used as nicknames and mascots for sports teams in the same way lions, bears, and other animals are. Period.
But why is the Cleveland organization waiting […]
The policy appears to be ‘the show must go on,’ no matter what the health consequences are
By Ken Reed
Originally published by Troy Media
U.S. college basketball’s March Madness is one of my favourite sporting events of the year.
The upsets are fun. The one-loss-and-you’re-gone format of the national championship […]
League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast
Jim Thompson started Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) in 1998 to help create a movement to transform the culture of youth sports from “win-at-all-costs” to a positive, character-building experience. PCA conducts thousands of workshops every year for youth sports leaders, coaches, parents and athletes. Thompson is the author of […]
Sports Forum Podcast
Episode #33 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: Ken Reed Announces His Retirement and Chats With League of Fans Founder Ralph Nader – Ken and Ralph talk about the history of League of Fans and the reasons it was created. They then move into a discussion of a variety of contemporary sports issues that League of Fans has been working on in recent years. Ken and Ralph end by talking about the need for sports fans, athletes, and other sports stakeholders to get involved in the sports reform movement and be activists and change agents on issues important to them, whether that be at the local, state, or national level.
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Episode #32 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: Prolific Author Joe Posnanski Joins the Show – Posnanski is one of America’s best sportswriters and has twice been named the best sports columnist in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors. We chat about his new book, “Why We Love Baseball,” his new Substack newsletter called Joe Blogs.
Episode #31 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: Foul Ball Safety Is Still an Important Issue at Ballparks – Our guests are Jordan Skopp, founder of FoulBallSafety.com and Greg Wilkowski, a Chicago based attorney. We discuss the historical problem of foul balls injuring fans and why some teams are still hesitant to put up protective netting in some minor league and college baseball parks.
Episode #30 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: The State of College Athletics with Dr. David Ridpath: Problems and Potential Solutions – Ridpath is a sports administration professor at Ohio University and a member of The Drake Group, a college sports reform think tank.
Episode #29 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: The Honorable Tom McMillen Visits League of Fans’ Sports Forum – McMillen is a former All-American basketball player, Olympian, Rhodes Scholar and U.S. Congressman. We discuss the state of college athletics today.
Episode #28 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: A Chat With Mano Watsa, a Leading Basketball and Life Educator – Watsa is President of PGC Basketball, the largest education basketball camp in the world. We discuss problems in youth sports today.
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"How We Can Save Sports" author Ken Reed appears on Fox & Friends to explain how there's "too much adult in youth sports."
Ken Reed appears on Mornings with Gail from KFKA Radio in Colorado to discuss bad parenting in youth athletics.
“Should College Athletes Be Paid?” Ken Reed on The Morning Show from Wisconsin Public Radio
Ken Reed appears on KGNU Community Radio in Colorado (at 02:30) to discuss equality in sports and Title IX.
Ken Reed appears on the Ralph Nader Radio Hour (at 38:35) to discuss his book The Sports Reformers: Working to Make the World of Sports a Better Place, and to talk about some current sports issues.
- Reed Appears on Ralph Nader Radio Hour League of Fans’ sports policy director, Ken Reed, Ralph Nader and the New York Times’ Tyler Kepner discussed a variety of sports issues on Nader’s radio show as well as Reed’s updated book, How We Can Save Sports: A Game Plan. Reed's book was released in paperback in February, and has a new introduction and several updated sections.
League of Fans is a sports reform project founded by Ralph Nader to fight for the higher principles of justice, fair play, equal opportunity and civil rights in sports; and to encourage safety and civic responsibility in sports industry and culture.
Vanderbilt Sport & Society - On The Ball with Andrew Maraniss with guest Ken Reed, Sports Policy Director for League of Fans and author of How We Can Save Sports: A Game Plan
Sports & Torts – Ken Reed, Sports Policy Director, League of Fans – at the American Museum of Tort Law
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