by Irvin Muchnick   Bob Bowman, well known as the coach of Michael Phelps, history’s greatest ever Olympic swimmer, has jumped from Arizona State University to […]

In the news: “Lawyers for Nassar assault survivors have reached $100M deal with Justice Department,” https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245491081/lawyers-for-nassar-assault-survivors-have-reached-100m-deal. My book UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA […]

This article was first published on March 13 at https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/03/13/opinion-usa-swimming-coach-abuse-youth-sports-congress-reforms/.   by Irvin Muchnick   Just months before the Paris Summer Olympics, the little-noticed Commission on […]

This article was first published on March 18 at https://beyondchron.org/congressional-commission-proposals-to-curb-sports-coach-sexual-abuse-have-bay-area-roots/.   by Irvin Muchnick   After a whitewash 2014 “independent review” of USA Swimming’s Safe Sport […]

This article was first published on March 10 at https://www.salon.com/2024/03/10/americas-amateur-sports-are-plagued-with-scandal-is-reform-finally-coming/.   by Irvin Muchnick   The Commission on the State of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic […]

Thank you to writer-comedian Rebecca Delgado-Smith and everyone on her quirky podcast “The Alarmist,” for having me this week as their “guest expert” pontificating on the […]