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August 2, 2011

Alan Schwarz: Why I’m No Longer Writing About Concussions in The New York Times

Today I received the following email from Alan Schwarz:   Irv— My move out of Sports has been in the works since December. After four years […]
August 2, 2011

‘Irv Muchnick Talks Fan Accountability for Health of performers’ … at Wrestling Observer Newsletter Website

http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-top-stories/96-wwe/21575-irv-muchnick-talks-fan-accountability-for-health-of-performers
August 2, 2011

New York Times’ Alan Schwarz Moves From Concussion Beat to National Education Reporter – Promotion or Exile?

In my Beyond Chron piece yesterday, I noted that Alan Schwarz, The New York Times’ concussion reporter, seems to have been taken off the beat. And […]
August 2, 2011

Beyond Beyond Chron: San Francisco Chronicle on the Concussion Case

I write a lot for Beyond Chron, whose raison d’être is ripping the San Francisco Chronicle. So I feel duty-bound to point out that the Chronicle, […]
August 1, 2011

‘Five Keys to the Upcoming NFL (Concussion) Season’ … today at Beyond Chron

No offense to Nnamdi Asomugha, who they tell me is a shutdown cornerback, but it’s not clear if 1,000 people in the world could pick him […]
July 31, 2011

Hollywood Stuntwoman Activist’s Fight With the Screen Actors Guild

Leslie Hoffman, a former Hollywood stuntwoman who at one time was the first female of her job classification on the board of directors of the Screen […]
July 31, 2011

‘Five Keys to the Upcoming NFL (Concussion) Season’ … Monday at Beyond Chron

July 29, 2011

‘NFL Fans Should Worry About More Than One Kind of “Blackout”‘ (full text)

[originally published July 26 at Beyond Chron, http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/NFL_Fans_Should_Worry_About_More_Than_One_Kind_of_Blackout__9373.html]   by Irvin Muchnick When the National Football League and its players announced that the lockout was over, […]
July 29, 2011

Mainstream Media Pick Up Criticism of Concussion Management Software – But New York Times Remains Missing in Action

“You have some nerve [criticizing The New York Times].” Alan Schwarz, reporter, The New York Times   “NYT has led [coverage of the concussion story] for […]
Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick