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Here are some additional notes on our featured story of the last two days: “How Does Notre Dame, No. 1 in Football, Get Away With Covering […]

“Mr. Swarbrick is not available to discuss matters performed in his capacity as an attorney and thus subject to attorney-client privilege.” Your humble blogger’s theme of […]

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, 25, murdered his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins, 22 (mother of their two-month-old daughter) this morning at home, in front of her […]

The No. 1 question I’m being asked is whether Jovan Belcher had a known concussion history. The short answer: no. The long answer: it doesn’t matter. […]

Dave Zirin “@EdgeofSports Neither Fox nor CBS mentioned the words “murder”, “Kasandra Perkins” or even “Jovan Belcher” in halftime shows. League directives? Irvin Muchnick “@irvmuch @EdgeofSports […]

Tracking the slow or fast decline of American football, as driven by public health concerns, involves following the science, of course — in addition to following […]

On Monday night, Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III dazzled ESPN’s football nation with his ball-handling. But Griffin had nothing on the verbal wizardry of NBC’s […]

Jim Richards of Toronto’s NewsTalk1010 interviewed me yesterday about the Jovan Belcher story. You can hear the conversation at http://muchnick.net/torontonewstalk12-3-12.mp3. I’ll try to have it up […]

In the last two days I’ve taken some new swings at my friend Bob Costas here and here. I don’t want to exaggerate or grandstand by […]