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By Karen Crouse.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/sports/after-sexual-abuse-conviction-new-scrutiny-of-youth-athletics.html?pagewanted=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

We have reported that Deena Deardurff Schmidt, the gold medal swimmer who was molested in her youth by her Hall of Fame coach Paul Bergen, is […]

June 13, Muchnick to Bruce Wigo, President CEO of the International Swimming Hall of Fame: You are right to be correcting the record regarding the ISHOF […]

Last week I settled my public records dispute with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene when the state decided, after all, to give me […]

USA Swimming has responded to the news that Congressman George Miller is asking the General Accounting Office to expand to the field of athletics, and especially […]

Last week I asked Bruce Wigo, the president and CEO of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, about allegations of sexual abuse against some Hall inductees. […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Federal Judge William D. Quarles postponed the preliminary injunction hearing scheduled for today in the libel case against me. An earlier consent […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Earlier we reported on the lifetime USA Swimming ban, for sexual misconduct, of Virginia coach Michael Pliuskaitis. See: “Successor to Paul Bergen […]

Subsequent to the posting of yesterday’s item, the parent of a 10-year-old swimmer who is coached by Michael Pliuskaitis called me, at the behest of Pliuskaitis, […]