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June 22, 2012

Sandusky: Guilty. Will Verdict Turn Attention to USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal?

I’ll be writing about the wider, but less reported, sex crimes in youth swimming next week from the Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, for Yahoo Sports’ […]
June 22, 2012

Will USA Swimming Offer Truth and Reconciliation for Coach Sex Abuse Victims?

Tonight the jury in Pennsylvania found Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach, guilty of 45 of 48 counts of molesting boys. Next week […]
June 22, 2012

Muchnick on Twitter: Where the Sandusky Verdict Leaves the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal

Irvin Muchnick ‏@irvmuch Will USA Swimming offer truth and reconciliation for coach sex abuse victims? https://concussioninc.net/?p=5747 (cont.) Next week I’ll be in Omaha for the Sandusky-parallel […]
June 24, 2012

Road to Omaha: Substitute ‘USA Swimming’ for ‘Penn State’

An instructive takeout on the Sandusky verdict from The Daily Beast: “It wasn’t just university leadership that enabled Jerry Sandusky. It was a system that discourages […]
July 10, 2012

Nowinski’s Concussion Awareness Group Announces Latest ‘No Strings’ Professional Sports Grant

Boston’s Sports Legacy Institute, the concussion advocacy group founded by Chris Nowinski and Dr. Robert Cantu, announced that it has received a $20,000 grant from the […]
July 19, 2012

Yahoo Sports Commissioned Swimming Sex Abuse Investigation – Then Was Afraid to Publish It. Read the Story Exclusively at concussioninc.net.

Three weeks ago the sports site ThePostGame.com flew me to Omaha for the Olympic Swimming Trials – backdrop for a 4,000-plus-word investigation of the continuing scandal […]
July 20, 2012

Update on Publication of Swimming Sex Abuse Article

Yesterday I shared with blog readers the news that Yahoo Sports, after sending me to the Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha to complete an investigative feature […]
July 21, 2012

How Paterno Plays in St. Louis – Where I Come From

Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch praises local sports-talk shtickmeister Kevin Slaten for getting Sara Lampe, a Missouri legislator who is running for lieutenant governor, […]
July 23, 2012

Penn State Busted For Enabling, Covering Up Child Molester. Now, What About USA Swimming?

My article on the continuing, but under-the-radar, scandal of sex abuse in our national youth competitive swimming program will publish late today or tomorrow at http://momsteam.com. […]
Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick