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We’ve finally found the writer who puts the “foot” in football stupidity. It is Max Boot. We recently brushed off his ill-researched Wall Street Journal essay, […]

@irvmuch ESPN ombudsman Robert Lipsyte’s piece on the Frontline partnership crash-and-burn is disappointing. http://es.pn/17d5mMh (cont.)     @irvmuch (cont.) The estimable Lipsyte too equivocal and “fact-based” […]

by Irvin Muchnick   On Wednesday, the staff of Congressman George Miller of California will be meeting with top USA Swimming and U.S. Olympic Committee officials […]

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/27/215972814/usa-swimming-to-review-sexual-misconduct-prevention-program   An OK piece, more than seven minutes in length, that misses two notable recent developments: – USA Swimming’s lobbying efforts, in combination with the […]

by Irvin Muchnick   The story of the national disgrace of widespread coach sexual abuse and cover-up in our Olympic swimming program — first broken by […]

by Irvin Muchnick   The rubber hits the road today for USA Swimming’s ramped-up $200,000 public relations campaign to give its beleaguered “safe sport” program mouth-to-mouth […]

“Finally, Congress shows interest in USA Swimming sex abuse scandal” http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/civil-rights/319013-finally-congress-shows-interest-in-usa-swimming-sex-abuse-scandal#ixzz2dHjBPavB

by Irvin Muchnick   “We had a productive meeting yesterday with USA Swimming and the U.S. Olympic Committee,” a member of Congressman George Miller’s staff on […]

Doubling down in defensiveness like the National Rifle Association, the beleaguered CEO of USA Swimming, Chuck Wielgus, blogs today about yesterday’s meeting among swimming and Olympic […]