By Ken Reed

Through the years, League of Fans has written a lot about how sports participation benefits young people physically, mentally, emotionally, and academically. On a global level, sport is also a valuable tool for protecting children’s safety, advocating for children’s rights, and creating young change agents.

Swiss organization Terre des hommes […]

By Ken Reed

All for one, and one for all.

That old phrase popularized by The Three Musketeers is pretty well known. On the other hand, the concept mudita isn’t well known at all, but it has a similar meaning.

Mudita is a Buddhist philosophy that basically means taking vicarious joy in […]

By Ken Reed

Buddy Teevens was a progressive football coach in the best sense of the term.

Sadly, a tragic accident took him from us way too soon.

Teevens died from complications following a terrible bicycle accident last year. But before he passed, he left some important initiatives for football coaches at […]

By Ken Reed

Over-the-top adults (parents and coaches) in youth sports is a topic we regularly address at League of Fans.

Australian Open tennis champion Jannik Sinner, during his victory speech, addressed this issue indirectly by thanking his parents for not putting pressure on him as a young athlete and allowing […]

By Ken Reed

My primary mission at League of Fans is to write about contemporary sports issues, and to try to find ways in which the world of sports could be better for all its stakeholders.

But my favorite part of this gig is finding little nuggets, stories that I call “Sport At Its […]

By Ken Reed

A fairly common view of athletes today is that they are all greedy “me, me, me” human beings who are more interested in building their personal brands than in doing anything that positively impacts society.

Those athletes certainly exist, but I think, overall, that view is more about the mindset of some […]

By Ken Reed

I’m an old guy. I remember when Title IX became law in 1972, opening the door — even if it was just cracked a little at the time — to more sports opportunities for girls and women.

Valerie Bonnette, a Title IX consultant, once pointed out, “Women aren’t born less interested in […]

By Ken Reed

After 47 years in the NBA, and another nine in the old ABA, the Denver Nuggets finally have their first pro basketball championship.

But what is more impressive than the fact they won the title is how they did it.

The Nuggets are led by Nikola Jokic, a two-time league MVP and […]

By Ken Reed

Baseball has a hook in me and I’m not really sure why. I’m a basketball and football fan but I find baseball has a unique appeal.

I’m not a big fan of the overly romanticized odes to baseball that too often show up in print or on the big screen. Nevertheless, I […]

By Ken Reed

As we approach the one-third mark of the 2023 MLB season, it has become clear to me that Los Angeles Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani is underappreciated.

In the 150 years or so of Major League Baseball, we have never seen anything like what Shohei Ohtani continues to do in the dual role […]