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"Q & A"
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Paul Busch
Paul Busch is a passionate hockey fan. He’s also passionately opposed to fighting in hockey, so much so that he started his own website on the topic: It’s Not Part of the Game.
Busch, a typical Canadian kid, grew up playing neighborhood and minor league […]
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Chuck Wilson
Chuck Wilson has been a long-time national radio host for ESPN and also has done national radio with Sirius/XM Radio. He was named runner-up for best national radio host of the decade (2000-09) by Sports Illustrated and was picked one of the 100 most influential sports educators […]
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Tom McMillen
Tom McMillen was a three-time All-American basketball player at the University of Maryland. He then was a Rhodes Scholar and played professional basketball in Europe for a year before embarking on an 11-season career in the National Basketball Association.
He retired in 1986 to begin a […]
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Sab Singh
Sab Singh is the founder of a website-based company called Sports Doing Good (www.sportsdoinggood.com). Singh is a sports management professor at Farmingdale State College in New York. An experienced business strategy and market research professional, Singh began transitioning to sports and academia six years ago when […]
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Joseph Siprut is the founder and managing partner of Siprut PC. His practice encompasses a wide spectrum of litigation, with an emphasis on challenging cases against powerful, well-funded adversaries.
The vision of Siprut’s law firm is the following: “To take interesting cases. To work with clients who have been […]
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Fred Bowen
Fred Bowen is the author of 18 books for kids that combine sports fiction and sports history. Ideas for his stories are often drawn from his experiences as a youth sports coach for thirteen years, and from his time as a young athlete growing up in Marblehead, […]
Frank Deford on the Issues
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Frank Deford is an author of eighteen books, a long-time commentator on NPR’s Morning Edition, Senior Correspondent on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, and Senior Contributing Writer for Sports Illustrated.
His latest book is Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter, a wide-ranging, […]
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Brenda VanLengen
Brenda VanLengen is Vice Chair of PE4life, a non-profit whose mission is to increase the amount of quality physical education in schools across the nation. From 2001-2010, VanLengen served as second in command for PE4life, including in her role as Chief Design Officer. In addition to her […]
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Diana Cutaia
Diana Cutaia has been the athletic director at Wheelock College in Boston since 2005. Wheelock competes at the NCAA Division III level.
Cutaia is a former college athlete who began her coaching career on the high school level at the age of 19. She started the women’s […]
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Patrick Hruby
Patrick Hruby is an award-winning journalist and writer based in Washington, DC. He writes extensively on sports issues, focusing on the people and issues around the games. Three of his features have been selected for the highly-acclaimed The Best American Sports Writing anthology.
Hruby has an undergraduate […]
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.
Media
"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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