Irv's Blog

September 18, 2023

An Open-Source Appeal to Readers: Does Anyone Have Video of the Gambling Disclaimer on the TV Screen During ESPN’s Damar Hamlin Near-Death Vigil in January?

Join us on Thursday, October 5, at Books Inc. in Berkeley, for the launch event for WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death […]
September 12, 2023

“New book exposes dark side of football” — San Francisco’s Beyond Chron

My new book Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning is reviewed by Randy Shaw at the San Francisco news site […]
August 20, 2023

‘Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning’ Begins Shipping to Book Outlets; Author Muchnick Will Be Available For Media Interviews

WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning has begun shipping from warehouses. At the bottom of this post is information […]
August 4, 2023

Muchnick Discusses New Football Death on NPR-Kansas City. And Read Full Chicago Tribune Op-Ed, ‘Popular or Not, Football Doesn’t Belong in Our Public Schools’

Irvin Muchnick’s Thursday interview on Up to Date, on Kansas City’s National Public Radio affiliate KCUR, can be streamed at the home page of the station […]
August 2, 2023

Muchnick to Discuss Football Death Thursday Morning on NPR’s Kansas City Affiliate, KCUR 89.3

As noted here yesterday, 19-year-old Myzelle Law, of MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas, has become the first known fatality this year during preseason football conditioning […]
August 1, 2023

And Another Season of Kids’ Deaths in Football Conditioning Drills Kicks Off

On the fifth anniversary of the exertional heatstroke death of another 19-year-old in the same state –Braeden Bradforth at Garden City Community College, whose story is […]
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Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick