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November 17, 2021
November 17, 2021

In a Telling Sign For Football’s Future — And After a Trail of Death and Scandal — Fort Scott Community College in Kansas Eliminates the Sport

by Irvin Muchnick   Over the weekend, Salon published my article pulling together some of the details on the University of California-Berkeley’s cover-up of the 2014 […]
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November 13, 2021
November 13, 2021

Today at Salon … ‘Football’s unknown epidemic: When Black players die suddenly, the cover-up begins’

In the predawn hours of Feb. 7, 2014, a pre-med student named Ted Agu, a son of Nigerian immigrants and a walk-on player for the University […]
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November 12, 2021
November 12, 2021

Saturday at Salon: ‘African-Americans love football, but football doesn’t seem to love them back. Not even when it’s a matter of life and death.’

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July 26, 2021
July 26, 2021

From Ireland’s Broadsheet: ‘George Gibney and the Power of the Olympic Movement’

A reprint of the article here yesterday — the “director’s cut” of my February piece for the Colorado Springs Gazette.   Irvin Muchnick: Gibney And The Power […]
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July 25, 2021
July 25, 2021

As Olympics Start, Read the Full History of Ireland’s 1984 and 1988 Swimming Coach George Gibney — Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in Sports History

This article adapts and expands on the one originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette on February 27 under the headline “Podcasts stir new abuse allegations […]
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July 18, 2021
July 18, 2021

Meet the Fabulous Djang Boys, Stars of U.S. Masters Swimming — And Learn How USA Swimming’s Carelessness With Sexual Abuse Endangers Both Children and Adults

by Irvin Muchnick In 1999, Swimming World magazine reported: “New Mexico Masters Phillipp (Lincoln) Djang set a world mark in the men’s 45-49 100m back, his […]
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Irv investigates scandals in sports -- chiefly, sexual abuse in Olympic sports youth programs and the public health hazards of football. Follow his blog for real-time reporting and commentary on these issues. Documents disclosed under Irv’s 2017 Freedom of Information Act settlement with the Department of Homeland Security exposed the quarter-century-long harboring in this country of former Irish Olympic swimming coach

George Gibney -- now the target of a federal government grand jury investigation (as is USA Swimming, the national sport governing body under the U.S. Olympic Committee). Details are in the ebook

THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES: What the Hunt For the Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in the History of Global Sports Has Told Us About the Sports Establishments and Governments on Two Continents.

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