December

Every year, roughly 40 million kids sign up for youth sports across the country. While that may seem like a lot, several studies show most of […]

Immediately after the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide in Kansas City, I noted that I was seeking comment from Dr. Bennet Omalu on whether it would be possible […]

Matt Chaney, author of the superb but barely noticed 2009 book Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in American Football, is our most fearless historian of football’s […]

Melinda Henneberger, the Washington Post writer who has covered the Notre Dame football rape scene for National Catholic Reporter — including the seven-month investigation by the […]

My interview about Jovan Belcher with Jim Richards of NewsTalk 1010 in Toronto is now up at http://youtu.be/tupOtClwk7Q. The home page of my YouTube channel is […]

In the last two days I’ve taken some new swings at my friend Bob Costas here and here. I don’t want to exaggerate or grandstand by […]

Jim Richards of Toronto’s NewsTalk1010 interviewed me yesterday about the Jovan Belcher story. You can hear the conversation at http://muchnick.net/torontonewstalk12-3-12.mp3. I’ll try to have it up […]

On Monday night, Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III dazzled ESPN’s football nation with his ball-handling. But Griffin had nothing on the verbal wizardry of NBC’s […]

Tracking the slow or fast decline of American football, as driven by public health concerns, involves following the science, of course — in addition to following […]