Weekend Reading on USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandals — From Rapist Coach Rick Curl to Congressman Mike Honda’s Interest
Exclusive: Congressman Mike Honda ‘Has Begun Looking Into Congressional Hearings’ on USA Swimming Sex Abuse
September 28, 2012Banned Pennsylvania Swim Coach Kenneth Fuller Still Out on Bail Despite Evidence of Contacts With Alleged Victim
October 1, 2012Links to ConcussionInc.’s coverage, in chronological order.
‘Whatever Happened to the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal?’ (full text)
Published March 30th, 2012
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P.S. on ‘Whatever Happened to the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal?’
Published March 30th, 2012
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‘Penn State in the Pool: California Legislators Plunge Into USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal’ (full text)
Published April 9th, 2012
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Muchnick Publishes ‘PENN STATE IN THE POOL’ – Examines Continued USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse
Published April 16th, 2012
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Resolving Conflict in Accounts Between Olympic Gold Medal Swimmers David Berkoff and Pablo Morales
Published April 18th, 2012
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‘Olympic Gold Medalist Denounced USA Swimming Child Sex Abuse – But Now Serves on its Board of Directors’ (full text)
Published April 20th, 2012
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End-of-Week Thoughts on Long-Running and Unresolved USA Swimming Sex Abuse
Published April 20th, 2012
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BREAKING: USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal Widens With New Cases in Tennessee and Pennsylvania
Published May 17th, 2012
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EXCLUSIVE: USA Swimming’s Secret International List of Youth Swimming Figures With Abuse Allegations Who Are Not Officially Banned
Published May 17th, 2012
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‘Courts Must Toughen Sanctions Against USA Swimming’s Nose-Thumbing Tactics in Sex Abuse Litigation’ (full text)
Published May 28th, 2012
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Splash of Sex Abuse: In Olympic Year, USA Swimming Backstrokes From Accountability
Published May 29th, 2012
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Cal Swim Coach, Sex Abuse Survivor, Banned From Clinic at Her Old Club
Published June 7th, 2012
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Road to Omaha: Thanks, Dave Zirin. Also, California Country Club Backs Down and Allows Abuse Survivor to Conduct Swimming Clinic
Published June 15th, 2012
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Will USA Swimming Offer Truth and Reconciliation for Coach Sex Abuse Victims?
Published June 22nd, 2012
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Road to Omaha: Substitute ‘USA Swimming’ for ‘Penn State’
Published June 24th, 2012
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Swimming Sex Abuse Expose Killed by Yahoo Sports — Read It Now at MomsTeam.com
Published July 24th, 2012
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Washington Post: Prominent Coach Rick Curl Under Investigation For 1983 Relationship With 13-Year-Old Swimmer
Published July 25th, 2012
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Washington Post Bombshell on Coach Rick Curl Recalls USA Swimming’s ‘Emergency Hearing Process’ and Testy PR Director
Published July 25th, 2012
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FBI Should Investigate USA Swimming For Cover-Up of Coach Norm Havercroft’s Serial Sex Abuse
Published July 25th, 2012
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Did USA Swimming Lie to Washington Post and the World About When They Learned of Sex Abuse Allegations Against Coach Rick Curl?
Published July 26th, 2012
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What USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus Swore, on Penalty of Perjury, About Statutory Rapist Coach Rick Curl
Published July 26th, 2012
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Olympics Open – Where Is NBC on the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal?
Published July 27th, 2012
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California Supreme Court to USA Swimming: Stop Hiding Documents in Sex Abuse Cases
Published July 29th, 2012
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Four Questions They Probably Won’t Ask at Today’s Secret USA Swimming ‘Emergency Hearing’ For Statutory Rapist Coach Rick Curl
Published July 30th, 2012
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Felony Hearing in Virginia Thursday For Swim Coach Noah Rucker – Staffer at Statutory Rapist Rick Curl’s Curl-Burke Club
Published July 31st, 2012
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BULLETIN: Rapist Coach Rick Curl’s USA Swimming Credentials ‘Provisionally Suspended’
Published August 1st, 2012
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Washington Post: Rick Curl ‘Accepts’ Provisional USA Swimming Suspension
Published August 1st, 2012
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The Sick and Sophomoric World of Rick Curl and His Underling Swim Coach, Noah Rucker
Published August 2nd, 2012
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Sex Happens. But Why Is USA Swimming By Far the Worst National Sports Governing Body in Terms of Protecting Children?
Published August 3rd, 2012
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Remember Sarah Burt
Published August 4th, 2012
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Kelley Currin Talks About Swim Coach Rick Curl’s Sex Abuse on NPR
Published August 6th, 2012
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‘Rick Curl Sex Abuse Case Raises New Concerns’ — Read It Now at MomsTEAM.com
Published August 8th, 201
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Sex Abuse Revolving Door: Rick Curl Case Shows College Programs Share Responsibility for USA Swimming Cover-Ups
Published August 8th, 2012
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Abuse of Girl Swimmers by Their Coaches Is Not Job-Site Sexual Harassment, Requiring ‘Sensitivity Training.’ It Is Rape, Requiring Criminal Prosecution.
Published August 8th, 2012
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Enablers From the Top: The People Accountable for the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal
Published August 9th, 2012
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Sex Abuse Accountability Project: Here’s Your USA Swimming Board of Directors
Published August 10th, 2012
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Does American Swimming Coaches Association Publish List of Coaches Banned for Sex Abuse? Exec Dir: ‘No.’ Why Not?
Published August 10th, 2012
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Paging Legendary Coach Richard Shoulberg on Why American Swimming Coaches Association Doesn’t Have Its Own Sex Abuse Banned List
Published August 11th, 2012
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American Swimming Coaches Association Executive Director Whines About ConcussionInc.’s Coverage
Published August 11th, 2012
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Dear Swim Coaches Association Board: Who Will Stand Up to the Widespread Child Sex Abuse in Your Sport?
Published August 13th, 2012
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Muchnick Exchange With Ira Klein of Swim Coaches Association Board
Published August 14th, 2012
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How American Swimming Coaches Association – Which ‘Does Not Deal Directly With Children’ – Helps Keep Pervert Coach Mitch Ivey Gainfully Employed
Published August 14th, 2012
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Hall of Fame Swimmer and USA Swimming Vice President David Berkoff: No Comment on Whether He Was ID’ing Rapist Coach Rick Curl in 2010 Email
Published August 15th, 2012
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Dear Tim Murphy, Ulen-Brooks Endowed Coach for Harvard Men’s Swimming and Diving: What Do Your Benefactor and Employer Say About the Sport’s Sex Abuse Scandal?
Published August 15th, 2012
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Why Is Harvard’s Coach a Muck-a-Muck With the American Swimming Coaches Association?
Published August 16th, 2012
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Accused Sex Offender Noah Rucker – From Confirmed Rapist Rick Curl’s Club – Not in New Edition of USA Swimming’s Banned Coaches List
Published August 17th, 2012
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Eddie Reese, Mark Schubert, the Late Richard Quick – Three Examples of Top-Level Swimming Coaches Who Had to Know a Great Deal About Rick Curl’s Long-Term Sexual Abuse of Kelley Davies
Published August 20th, 2012
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USA Swimming Board Member David Berkoff ‘Signaled Left But Turned Right’ on Coach Sex Abuse
Published August 22nd, 2012
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EXCLUSIVE: Full Text of 2010 Email Confirms That USA Swimming Board Member David Berkoff Noted Widespread Knowledge of Coach Rick Curl’s Sexual Abuse
Published August 23rd, 2012
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Dear Coach Dick Shoulberg: Isn’t It Time for You to Take Account of the Sex Abuse of Girl Swimmers by Rick Curl and Many Others?
Published August 23rd, 2012
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A Talk With Title IX Titan Donna Lopiano About Sex Crimes Against Girls in Sports
Published August 26th, 2012
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Another Sex Criminal Coach Found Right Under USA Swimming’s Nose. (In other words … it’s Wednesday.)
Published August 29th, 2012
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Safe4Athletes’ Katherine Starr: ‘Kelley Davies and I Were Two of Four Texas Teammates Who Had Been Raped by Their Youth Coaches’
Published August 30th, 2012
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Get Set for the Conventions of Our Two Major National Sex Abuse-Enabling Swim Organizations. Wait! Which One Is Which?
Published August 31st, 2012
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EXCLUSIVE: Rapist Coach Rick Curl’s Australian Business Partners Are Featured Speakers at American Swimming Coaches Association Convention
Published September 1st, 2012
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Accused Sex-Abusing Coach Kenneth Fuller Swiftly Added to USA Swimming Banned List – But No Announcement of Date or Outcome of His ‘Emergency Hearing’
Published September 4th, 2012
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Washington Post and Other National News Media Are Missing in Action on USA Swimming Sex Abuse
Published September 4th, 2012
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Australia’s Carlile Swim School: Rick Curl Was Not Our Business Partner
Published September 4th, 2012
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University of Florida’s Gregg Troy, Swim Coach Association Board Member and Convention Star, Knows the Sex Abuse Issue Very Well
Published September 5th, 2012
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Helpful Pat Hogan, USA Swimming Club Development Director – Always at the Ready With a Job Reference For a Sex Abuser
Published September 5th, 2012
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P.S. on Rick Curl and Australia’s Carlile Swim School – And the Latter’s Role at the American Swimming Coaches Association Event
Published September 6th, 2012
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Three-Continent Flight From Justice of Simon ‘Danny’ Chocron — Pedophile Coach for the Bolles School Sharks
Published September 7th, 2012
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Michael Phelps’ Coach Goes to Work for Consulting Company of Ex-USA Swimming President Dale Nueburger – Another One Who Has Problems With ‘the Truth and Nothing But the Truth’
Published September 11th, 2012
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David Berkoff and the Aquatic Sports Convention Play Around the Edges of USA Swimming’s Toxic Sex Abuse Culture
Published September 13th, 2012
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USA Swimming Convention OK’s Coach-Athlete Sex – And Media Rubber-Stamp USA Swimming
Published September 17th, 2012
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Rick Curl and Mark Schubert Cases Lead Parents and Media to Trough of USA Swimming Sex Abuse and Cover-Up. Will They Take a Sip?
Published September 17th, 2012
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Read It Now — Swimming Philanthropist Dia Rianda’s Lawsuit Against Olympic Coach Mark Schubert for Wrongful Termination and Retaliation
Published September 17th, 2012
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What Dia Rianda Says About Rapist Swim Coach Rick Curl in Her Lawsuit Against Mark Schubert
Published September 17th, 2012
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USA Swimming Hopes Rick Curl Hearing on Swimmer Abuse and Payoff Is a Tree Falling in the Forest
Published September 18th, 2012
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BULLETIN: Rick Curl Waives Hearing, Is Permanently Banned by USA Swimming
Published September 19th, 2012
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Victim’s Lawyer: ‘Rick Curl Was the Proverbial Jerry Sandusky Within USA Swimming’
Published September 19th, 2012
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Muchnick Email to USA Swimming’s Athlete Protection Officer and PR Director … Standing By For Response
Published September 19th, 2012
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Justine McCarthy’s ‘Deep Deception: Ireland’s Swimming Scandals’
Published September 19th, 2012
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Curl-Burke Coach Noah Rucker Indicted on Underage Sex Charge
Published September 19th, 2012
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USA Swimming’s Rick Curl Timeline Is Missing Some Items on the Front End. Let Me Help.
Published September 19th, 2012
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USA Swimming Mislabels Rick Curl’s Expulsion Crimes — And Cowardly Media Play Along
Published September 20th, 2012
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In the Next Stage of Rapist Rick Curl’s Saga, USA Swimming Apologist David Berkoff Should Blast Off
Published September 20th, 2012
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Rick Curl, Mark Schubert, Ad’m Dusenbury, and the Sands of Time in Mission Viejo Swimming and Sex Abuse
Published September 20th, 2012
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David Berkoff Speaks! (He Should Just Shut Up and Go Away.)
Published September 20th, 2012
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Washington Post Drowns Itself in Non-Coverage of Indictment of Rapist Coach Rick Curl’s Underling Noah Rucker
Published September 21st, 2012
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Muchnick Emails USA Swimming Athlete Protection Officer and PR Director Re Banned Coaches List and Status of Ad’m Dusenbury … Standing By for Response
Published September 21st, 2012
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‘Suppose Sandusky Had Raped His Own Players?’ — The Chilling Reality USA Swimming’s Apologists Refuse to Face
Published September 23rd, 2012
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Bully for the Congressional Anti-Bullying Caucus — And How About Hearings on USA Swimming Sex Abuse?
Published September 27th, 2012
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Colorado Police Department and District Attorney Block Release of Arrest Record of Pedophile Ex-USA Swimming Official Will Colebank
Published September 28th, 2012
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Colorado Police Change Tune, Release Record of Pedophile Ex-USA Swimming Official Will Colebank — But Not (Yet) Narrative Report of His Arrest
Published September 28th, 2012
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Exclusive: Congressman Mike Honda ‘Has Begun Looking Into Congressional Hearings’ on USA Swimming Sex Abuse
Published September 28th, 2012