August 2018 – Concussion Inc. – Author Irvin Muchnick

August 29, 2018

Gary O’Toole, Whistleblower of Irish Swim Coach Monster George Gibney: ‘I Always Thought Peter Banks Knew Something and Said Nothing.’ Is Tampa’s Berkeley Preparatory School Still Listening to the Sound of Silence?

PREVIOUSLY: “BREAKING: Peter Banks — Irish-American Swim Coach With Close Ties to Rapist Former Irish Olympic Coach George Gibney and to Questions About Gibney’s American Immigration […]

August 26, 2018

Berkeley Prep School Headmaster Joseph Seivold and Athletic Director Bobby Reinhart Must Make Their New Hire Peter Banks Clear the Air Surrounding Any Association With Rapist Irish Olympic Swim Coach George Gibney’s U.S. Immigration

by Irvin Muchnick The Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa, Florida, has a new assistant swimming coach, Irish-American Peter Banks. He is an old man with […]

August 24, 2018

BREAKING: Peter Banks — Irish-American Swim Coach With Close Ties to Rapist Former Irish Olympic Coach George Gibney and to Questions About Gibney’s American Immigration — Surfaces at Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa, Florida

by Irvin Muchnick A week ago today Concussion Inc. reported that prominent Irish-American swimming coach Peter Banks — a former assistant to George Gibney and […]

August 20, 2018

Do As I Say, Not As I Do: San Francisco Chronicle Reminds Us, ‘Good Journalism Is Vital in Sports, Too’

by Irvin Muchnick The San Francisco Chronicle sports section, which punted the story of the cover-up of Ted Agu’s 2014 death in Cal football and […]

August 17, 2018

How Much Is the Underfunded U.S. Center for SafeSport Paying PR Con Man Dan Hill? Chief Executive Shellie Pfohl Won’t Say

by Irvin Muchnick The United States Olympic Committee’s new sex police agency, the U.S. Center for SafeSport, is off to a rocky start. The agency’s […]

August 17, 2018

BREAKING: Peter Banks — Irish Assistant to Fugitive Rapist George Gibney and a Former American Swimming Coaches Association Official — Is Out at Florida Swim Club

by Irvin Muchnick A prominent Irish-American swimming coach whose ties to George Gibney underscore questions about the role of the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) […]

August 16, 2018

University of Maryland Dumps Football Conditioning Coach Rick Court For Killing Jordan McNair. University of California Didn’t Dump Football Conditioning Coach Damon Harrington For Killing Ted Agu.

by Irvin Muchnick The University of Maryland has made its second significant move in the media furor over the June heat stroke death of football […]

August 14, 2018

Remembering Bart Nolan — Champion of the Quest for Justice for the Victims of Fugitive Rapist Irish Olympic Swim Coach George Gibney

Reprinted with permission below is an article from the Sunday Times of London, Irish edition, on Bart Nolan, who died last week at 88 after decades […]

August 13, 2018

Did 911 Call and Rhabdomyolysis Hospitalization of Cal Football Player During Winter Conditioning Motivate Further Delay in Release of ‘Independent’ Program Review?

by Irvin Muchnick The scare this year at University of California-Berkeley football winter conditioning — the summoning of emergency medical services to tend to a […]