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November 27, 2012

How Does Notre Dame, No. 1 in Football, Get Away With Covering Up Player Rapes?

Notre Dame will be playing in the college football championship game. One person not watching will be Lizzy Seeberg, a 19-year-old freshman at Saint Mary’s College […]
November 26, 2012

Dan Pastorini Malpractice Suit Against Class Action Firm Hints Settlement Talks Already Under Way With NFL

UPDATE NOTE, 11/27/12 I need to clarify that today’s settlement conference, alluded to below, is in the retirees’ case (with lead named plaintiff Fred Dryer) challenging […]
November 24, 2012

Fat in the Fire: NFL Fights Obesity — Obesity Fights NFL

I have derided the National Football League for averring that we have a public health problem — childhood obesity — which can be solved in part […]
November 20, 2012

Concussion Inc. Bookstore Black Friday Special

We have a special holiday offer for direct orders of our line of ebook shorts. The offer does not apply to purchases at Amazon Kindle – […]
November 19, 2012

Notes on Sex Crimes in Sports Other Than Swimming – And a Question for the International Swimming Hall of Fame

Do we need a reminder that it is not my intent to be picking on USA Swimming? Junior hockey, too, is notorious for coach sex abuse, […]
November 16, 2012

This Week in ‘Whither Football?’: Chaney Unbound, Goodell on a Leash

In the historiography, if not the history, of the debate over football’s future, it is significant that writer Matt Chaney, the Cassandra of sports commentators, is […]
November 16, 2012

Sure, Expose NFL’s Double Move on Mike Webster Brain Trauma — But Don’t Forget the Dave Duerson Bubble Screen

On ESPN’s Outside the Lines, Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada have a good contribution to the question of what the National Football League knew and when […]
November 14, 2012

Stefan Fatsis: ‘Why Do We Let Kids Play Tackle Football? We Shouldn’t.’

Must read: http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/11/pop_warner_football_kids_should_not_be_allowed_to_put_on_helmets_and_knock.single.html
November 14, 2012

Background Checks? Washington State Judge, Convicted of Assaulting Woman Who Had Appeared in His Court, Went on to Become USA Swimming Coach and Official in South Dakota

How did a former judge in Washington State, who stepped down from the bench and was criminally sentenced on allegations that he raped a woman who […]
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