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2024 (83)

November 10 | ‘Where Is George Gibney’s Extradition?’ It’s Time for a BBC-Second Captains Podcast Sequel.
The full George Gibney story...
November 5 | Times of London, Irish Edition, Is Also Missing in Action on What Happened to the Anticipated George Gibney Extradition
The full George Gibney story...
November 3 | Irish Celebrity Designer: I Distinctly Remember George Gibney Coming into the Girls’ Changing Rooms at Newpark School
The full George Gibney story...
November 1 | Ongoing Story of Coach Abuse Is Being Ghosted. But a Washington Post Reporter Is on It.
PREVIOUSLY: March 13 Chicago...
October 29 | SwimSwam.com, Sport News Site, Adores ‘Journalist’ Alex Pussieldi — All-Time International Coaching Abuser, Now in His Third Act in Brazil
by Irvin Muchnick The...
October 27 | Alex Pussieldi Update: Decade After Ouster in Florida, Peeping Tom and Multinational Trafficker Coach Remains a Powerful Figure in Brazilian Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick The...
October 21 | Garda Finally Clarifies — Says 4-Year-Old Complaint of George Gibney’s 1982 Molestation of 11-Year-Old Girl Remains Open
PREVIOUSLY: “At...
October 18 | Book Bonus: The Chapter on Exertional Heatstroke in the 2023 Book “Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning”
PREVIOUSLY: “Death No....
October 17 | [AMENDED] Death No. 4 in Summer Youth Football Conditioning Drills Since 2018 Just in the State of Kansas
P.S. OCTOBER 18 Conditioning...
October 16 | Thank You to the Boulder Bookstore in Colorado for This Author Video for “UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe”
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October 16 | At Anniversary of Latest George Gibney Extradition Speculation, Ireland’s Garda Refuses to Update Status of Child Sexual Assault Complaint
The full George Gibney story...
October 13 | Roundup of ‘UNDERWATER’ Reviews to Date
Publishers Weekly USA...
October 6 | Court Dismisses Heritage Foundation Case for Prince Harry’s Immigration Records — Rejects Analogy to George Gibney in ‘Muchnick v. Dept. of Homeland Security’
Earlier this year we told you...
September 23 | Interview with Ron Barr on ‘Sports Byline USA’ (two segments, 20 minutes)
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September 21 | Feature Article Overview of ‘UNDERWATER’ at the Daily Mail: “The sexual abuse cover-up that could be even bigger than the Larry Nassar scandal”
The sexual abuse cover-up...
September 19 | “UNDERWATER” Is Amazon’s #1 New Release in Sports Journalism
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September 14 | Last Night at the Tattered Cover Book Store in Littleton, Colorado
Thank you to dear old friend...
September 13 | Interview with Marty Tirrell of ‘Sports Overnight America,’ Sports Byline USA Network (11 minutes)
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September 13 | ‘UNDERWATER’ Also Available as an Audiobook
UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked...
September 12 | “UNDERWATER” Is Amazon’s #1 New Release in Both Sports Journalism and Swimming
SPORTS JOURNALISM...
September 12 | Interview About ‘UNDERWATER’ with Ken Cail, ‘Cail & Company,’ WKXL (New Hampshire Talk Radio)
“On Wednesday we...
September 10 | Interview with Rick Tittle of ‘Titillating Sports,’ Sports Byline USA Network (12 minutes)
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September 10 | Thank you, Sports Byline USA and Rick Tittle, for the First Radio Interview for “UNDERCOVER”
I just finished talking live...
September 9 | Publication Day for ‘UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe’ — Everything You Need to Know
Look for UNDERWATER at your...
September 5 | “A powerful reminder of the need to speak truth to power” — Review at Booklist
“Muchnick takes a...
September 4 | Sarah Ehekircher – Whose Story of Abuse Is Told in Chapter 3 of the New Book ‘UNDERWATER’ – Wins Key Round of Litigation in Her Case Against USA Swimming and Coach Scott MacFarland
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 2 | ‘UNDERWATER’ Is Amazon’s #1 New Release in Sports Journalism
...
August 30 | The FBI, Sexual Abuse, Swimming, and My New Book ‘UNDERWATER’
by Irvin Muchnick This...
August 29 | Table of Contents of ‘UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe’
Links for...
August 28 | Where’s Waldo? USA Swimming and the U.S. Center for SafeSport at Loggerheads Over Who’s on the Hook for Damages
by Irvin Muchnick In...
August 25 | “Drowning in abuse” — Full Text of Recent Sunday Perspective Feature in the Colorado Springs Gazette
This article was originally...
August 23 | ‘Irvin Muchnick Live at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove, September 13’
EVENT DETAILS:...
August 19 | Michael Phelps Coach Bob Bowman Is Highlighted in ‘Director’s Cut’ of July 28 Chicago Tribune Op-Ed
On July 28, the Chicago...
August 17 | Ireland’s The 42: “How disgraced Irish swim coach George Gibney made a new life in America”
(paywall)...
August 16 | Tattered Cover Bookstore’s Flyer for the Launch Event for ‘UNDERCOVER,’ September 13 in Littleton, Colorado
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August 15 | ‘UNDERWATER’ Colorado Bookstore Events Announced
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August 14 | Coach Sexual Abuse Is a Far More Serious Olympic Sports Problem than Performance-Enhancing Drugs
by Irvin Muchnick The...
August 14 | “This will make waves” — Review at Publishers Weekly
“The stories of abuse...
August 12 | Flashback: 2015 Denver Post Op-Ed: ‘USA Swimming Reform Is a Job for Congress’
PREVIOUSLY: ...
August 11 | “Drowning in abuse” — Today in the Colorado Springs Gazette
PREVIOUSLY: “Swimming Has a...
August 3 | Book Bonus: “Sex abuse and swimming: A dark history” (Salon’s Excerpt from ‘Undercover: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe’)
PREVIOUSLY: “Swimming Has a...
August 2 | Unboxing Day
And if I got my books,...
August 1 | ‘UNDERWATER’ Is Amazon’s #1 New Release in Swimming
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July 30 | ‘UNDERWATER’ Is Amazon’s #1 New Release in Sports Journalism
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July 30 | “May take wide readership of ‘UNDERWATER’ to push parents to demand reforms” — San Francisco’s Beyond Chron
“As young swimmers and...
July 29 | Chicago Tribune Editorial Page Echoes My Sunday Op-Ed Call for Structural Reforms of Youth Sports Programs to Address Coach Sexual Abuse
by Irvin Muchnick In...
July 28 | “Swimming has a dark side of abuse and poor oversight” — Op-Ed in the Sunday Chicago Tribune
Later this week we will have...
July 23 | Washington Post Reports on How Little Has Changed at USA Gymnastics, Years after the Larry Nassar Scandals. You Can Substitute ‘USA Swimming’ for ‘USA Gymnastics’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 19 | George Gibney’s Irish Swimming Coach Cohort Derry O’Rourke, 78, Convicted of Raping Teenager in 1980s – Faces Third Prison Sentence for Sex Crimes. Plus, a New Twist from Village Magazine
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 18 | ECW Press Launches Social Media Campaign During Olympics for ‘UNDERWATER’ Pre-Orders
...
July 9 | Ireland’s Village Magazine Censored My New Article ‘George Gibney and the Rape of “Stella”‘ … by the tweet
VIA TWITTER / X (1 of...
July 5 | George Gibney and the Rape of ‘Stella’
A version of this article is...
June 25 | ‘UNDERWATER’ Heads to the Printer. Here Are the Full Front and Back Cover Images.
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June 23 | Washington Post’s Ethical Woes a Reminder of How That Great Newspaper — and Others — Have Pandered to Team Swimming and Fallen Short on Critical Coach Abuse Coverage
by Irvin Muchnick The...
June 18 | New Lawsuit Details Years-Long Sex Crimes of Late Harvard University and USA Swimming Coach Joe Bernal
by Irvin Muchnick Joe...
June 10 | Advance Praise for ‘Underwater’ from Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle: ‘Nobody rakes the muck with a more relentless sense of purpose’
“Irvin Muchnick made my...
June 5 | “George Gibney and the Rape of ‘Stella’” – My Article Later This Month in Ireland’s Village Magazine
A piece about Irish and...
June 4 | Underwater
The hundreds of millions who...
May 29 | ‘WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning’ Launches Thursday, October 5, at Berkeley’s Books Inc.
Join us for the launch...
May 26 | FOIA for Prince Harry’s 2020 U.S. Visa Application Extensively Cites – and the Newest Court Development Mirrors – Our 2016-17 Case for George Gibney’s Immigration Records
UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked...
May 26 | Pre-Order ‘UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe’
Pre-orders of UNDERCOVER: The...
May 22 | For Congress, Doping Violations in the Chinese Olympic Program Are a Job for the FBI. As for Sexual Abuse in Our Own … We’ll Get Back to You.
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 1 | ECW Press Announces September Publication Date for ‘UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe’
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April 24 | University of Texas Hires of Head Swimming Coach Bob Bowman and Assistant Erik Posegay Trigger Look Back at Michael Phelps’s North Baltimore Aquatic Club
by Irvin Muchnick Bob...
April 18 | USA Gymnastics’ Larry Nassar Abuse Survivors Settle With Justice Department for $100 Million. My Upcoming Book Chronicles the Parallel and Even More Sprawling USA Swimming Abuse Scandals.
In the news: “Lawyers...
April 12 | “Parents have the power to compel Congress to act to protect young athletes” … Full text from Chicago Tribune Op-Ed
This article was first...
April 11 | “Congressional commission proposals to curb sports coach sexual abuse are rooted in Bay Area” … Full text from Beyond Chron
This article was first...
April 9 | “America’s amateur sports are plagued with scandal: Is reform finally coming?” … Full text from Salon
This article was first...
April 5 | My Shot on the ‘Alarmist’ Podcast, Discussing the 2007 Chris Benoit Double Murder-Suicide
Thank you to writer-comedian...
April 3 | U.S. Center for Safe Sport Tries Marginal Changes to Head off Recommendations of Congressional Commission
PREVIOUSLY: “Is Real...
April 2 | Guest Essay by Mitch Lyons, Founder of Campaign to End Abusive Coaching: ‘Public School Athletics Are Negligent and Neglected’
PREVIOUSLY: “Why...
April 1 | Why Concussion Inc. Will Publish a Guest Essay Tomorrow by Mitch Lyons, Founder of the End Abusive Coaching Campaign
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 24 | At Congressional Hearing, U.S. Center for Safe Sport CEO Caught in Contradictions as Legislative Reform Debate Intensifies
PREVIOUSLY: “Is Real...
March 19 | “Congressional Commission Proposals to Curb Sports Coach Sexual Abuse Have Bay Area Roots” … at Beyond Chron
After a whitewash 2014...
March 18 | More Than a Year Later, State Bar ‘Interviews’ University of California Lawyer Michael R. Goldstein About My Ethics Complaint; Declines to Hold Hearing Over His Lies
by Irvin Muchnick In a...
March 13 | “Irvin Muchnick: Parents have the power to compel Congress to act to protect young athletes” … Today on the Chicago Tribune Op-Ed Page
Just months before the Paris...
March 10 | Is Real Reform at Hand to Curb Youth Coach Sexual Abuse? … Today at Salon
The Commission on the Future...
February 25 | “Time to nail George Gibney” — full text from Ireland’s Village Magazine
This article was originally...
February 19 | “Time to nail U.S.- based swimming coach pedophile George Gibney” … now at Village, Ireland’s Political and Cultural Magazine
George Gibney, the story that...
February 15 | “Vince McMahon’s ‘Rosebud’ moment: Was a family secret behind his career of abuse?” … full text from Salon
The article below was first...
February 10 | “Vince McMahon’s ‘Rosebud’ moment: Was a family secret behind his career of abuse?” … today at Salon
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January 27 | “Lurid new allegations surface in WWE boss and Trump crony Vince McMahon’s sex abuse case” — today at Salon
Late Friday, McMahon, WWE,...
January 15 | Guest Column by Debbie Denithorne-Grodensky, Survivor of Abuser Swimming Coach Andy King: Some Things to Add to the Legacy of the Recently Deceased Richard Thornton
by Debra Denithorne-Grodensky...

2023 (47)

December 28 | 2024 Could Be the Year of the Elusive Renewed George Gibney Prosecution. But Here’s What Also Could Derail It.
UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked...
December 26 | The Definitive and Authorized Version of the Classic 1988 Penthouse Magazine Article on the Von Erich Wrestling Family
With the release of the movie...
December 23 | More on the Fabulism of Diana Nyad, Sexual Abuse Survivor and Open Water Swimming Legend
My book UNDERWATER: The...
December 22 | Jim Martin Retires – Long-Time Pennsylvania District Attorney Who Presided Over the Cover-Up of Wrestler Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka’s Murder of Nancy Argentino
by Irvin Muchnick Jim...
December 19 | ‘The Iron Claw’ Manages to Land With a Twisted, but Heartfelt, Authenticity. The Key Was Not Sugar-Coating the Fritz Von Erich Character.
by Irvin Muchnick Last...
December 15 | Dale Neuburger – Official Whose Business Machinations Are Blamed for Open Water Swimmer Fran Crippen’s 2010 Death – Wins Lifetime Service Award
Irvin Muchnick’s book...
December 9 | SwimSwam: USA Swimming Is Running a Deficit
Irvin Muchnick’s book...
December 8 | Muchnick on Boston Radio For an Hour Tonight to Discuss ‘WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning’
In an encore appearance...
December 5 | Further Embarrassing Itself, State Bar Has Yet to Document a Basic Investigation of University of California Counsel’s Serial Lies to Courts in Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
Irvin Muchnick’s book...
November 28 | Even If George Gibney Is on Verge of Extradition, the American Nexus of His Story – the 1991 Rape in Tampa – Might Remain Unprosecuted and Unexplored
Irvin Muchnick’s book...
November 20 | George Gibney in the U.S. – Reprint of 2021 Article in the Colorado Springs Gazette
PREVIOUSLY: “Another...
November 19 | ‘Another accused sex offender in the sports world, sheltered by U.S., may finally face justice’ — today at Salon
...
November 15 | The Real Story Behind the New Movie ‘Iron Claw’ (Spoiler! Fritz Von Erich Was a Lunatic.)
by Irvin Muchnick As...
November 6 | George Gibney Bullet Points on Twitter / X
(1 of 5) As reports from...
November 5 | More Signs That a George Gibney 2.0 Prosecution in Ireland Could Be Happening
PREVIOUSLY: “BREAKING:...
November 1 | BREAKING: George Gibney Criminal Investigation Opened in Ireland
by Irvin Muchnick News...
October 8 | 4 Ways to Get ‘WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning’
1. GO TO YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE...
October 3 | Today Was ‘Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads’ Pub Day; Radio Tour Kicks off Wednesday with Two Live Interviews
WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER...
October 1 | “The moment football died for me — in an ordinary NFL game, 34 years ago” – today at Salon
This is an excerpt from Salon...
September 30 | ‘Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads’ on Berkeleyside’s List of Important New Books by Local Authors
See “9 new books with...
September 29 | ‘WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning’ Launches Thursday, October 5, at Books Inc. in Berkeley
The launch event is Thursday,...
September 18 | An Open-Source Appeal to Readers: Does Anyone Have Video of the Gambling Disclaimer on the TV Screen During ESPN’s Damar Hamlin Near-Death Vigil in January?
Join us on Thursday, October...
September 12 | “New book exposes dark side of football” — San Francisco’s Beyond Chron
My new bookWithout Helmets or...
August 20 | ‘Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning’ Begins Shipping to Book Outlets; Author Muchnick Will Be Available For Media Interviews
WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER...
August 4 | Muchnick Discusses New Football Death on NPR-Kansas City. And Read Full Chicago Tribune Op-Ed, ‘Popular or Not, Football Doesn’t Belong in Our Public Schools’
Irvin Muchnick’s...
August 2 | Muchnick to Discuss Football Death Thursday Morning on NPR’s Kansas City Affiliate, KCUR 89.3
As noted here yesterday,...
August 1 | And Another Season of Kids’ Deaths in Football Conditioning Drills Kicks Off
On the fifth anniversary of...
July 28 | ‘Popular or not, football and its destructive effects don’t belong in our public schools’ – Today in the Chicago Tribune
This month, the American...
July 27 | Tomorrow at the Chicago Tribune: My Op-Ed ‘Football Belongs Out of Our Public Schools’
Tomorrow, Friday, the Chicago...
May 5 | Former Speed Skater Eva Rodansky to the Commission on the State of the U.S. Olympic Movement: ‘U.S. Speedskating Is a Corrupt Monopoly’
Our recent article at Salon...
April 28 | Advance Praise for WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH IN FOOTBALL CONDITIONING
Without Helmets or Shoulder...
April 27 | Advance Praise from Robert Lipsyte for WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH IN FOOTBALL CONDITIONING
Without Helmets or Shoulder...
April 26 | Advance Praise from Bob Costas for WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH IN FOOTBALL CONDITIONING
Without Helmets or Shoulder...
April 25 | ‘California State Bar Fumbles Again in UC’s Cover-Up of Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death’ … full text from Salon
Without Helmets or Shoulder...
April 23 | ‘California State Bar Fumbles Again in UC’s Cover-Up of Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death’ — Now at Salon
Without Helmets or Shoulder...
April 14 | Letter to State Bar Investigator Regarding the Closing of the Misconduct Complaint Against University of California Senior Counsel Michael R. Goldstein
Below is the text of my April...
April 13 | Full Text of Appeal For State Bar Disciplinary Hearing in University of California Senior Counsel Michael R. Goldstein’s Alleged Lies to Courts in Public Records Act Case Concerning Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
PREVIOUSLY: Full text of the...
April 12 | University of California Senior Counsel Michael R. Goldstein Was the Master of What the State Bar Calls Possible ‘Inadvertent Mistakes’ in the Public Records Act Case Over the Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
Irvin Muchnick’s book...
April 11 | State Bar Rejects Misconduct Complaint Against University of California’s Michael R. Goldstein – Says His Serial Lies in Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up Case Could Be ‘Inadvertent Mistakes’; Appeal to Follow
Irvin Muchnick’s book...
March 30 | ‘Is the congressional commission on Olympic abuse more than an inside job?’ … full text from Salon
This article was published on...
March 10 | State Bar of California Concedes Failures in Its Attorney Discipline Mechanism — Promises to Do Better
by Irvin Muchnick I...
February 10 | Super Bowl Special: Reprints of My Trilogy of Damar Hamlin Commentaries at Salon Last Month
My book to be published later...
January 26 | Bar Association Assigns Investigator to Misconduct Complaint Against University of California Senior Counsel Michael Robert Goldstein; Lied Repeatedly to Court in Public Records Act Case Over Documents in Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
ECW Press has announced the...
January 20 | State Supreme Court Brings ‘Muchnick v. UC Regents’ to an End. It’s a Fitting Capper to Wide Official Cover-Up in the Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death at Cal.
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 14 | ‘Football’s problem isn’t the rules, the equipment or the medical care: This sport kills’ … today at Salon
Damar Hamlin’s...
January 11 | ‘Football-industrial complex makes a rapid recovery: From horror to guilt to inspiration’ … today at Salon
...
January 5 | My Salon Piece on Damar Hamlin and Football’s Future
Damar Hamlin’s dreadful...

2022 (45)

December 12 | California Supreme Court Is Asked to Review ‘Muchnick v. UC Regents’ – Public Records Act Case Exposing the Cover-Up of the Circumstances of Cal Football Player Ted Agu’s 2014 Conditioning Drill Death
ECW Press has announced the...
November 28 | ‘Cal Football Death Cover-Up Case Shows How State Public Records Act Needs Fixing’ — today at Beyond Chron
The California Public Records...
November 21 | Attorney Misconduct Complaint Against University of California Senior Counsel Is Now Officially ‘State Bar Case No. 22-0-14952 Michael Robert Goldstein’
ECW Press has announced the...
November 19 | ‘Personal foul: University of California wins a round (against me) in football death cover-up’ … today at Salon
ECW Press has announced the...
November 18 | Full Text of the Attorney Misconduct Complaint Against University of California Senior Counsel Michael R. Goldstein, State Bar No. 129848
ECW Press has announced the...
November 17 | Dear University of California President Michael V. Drake: What Do You Say to Our Allegation That Your Senior Counsel Michael R. Goldstein Violated the State Bar Attorney Misconduct Code by Lying to Courts During the Public Records Act Litigation Over the Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up?
ECW Press has announced the...
November 16 | Muchnick Files Bar Association Attorney Misconduct Complaint Against University of California Senior Counsel, Who Lied Repeatedly to Courts in Public Records Act Case Over Withheld Documents in Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
ECW Press has announced the...
November 10 | In the Public Records Act Case About the Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up, the University of California Didn’t Even Stop Short of Outright Lying in Order to Get Its Way at the Court of Appeal
ECW Press has announced the...
November 10 | CHRIS & NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling’s Cocktail of Death
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November 9 | California Court of Appeal Is Setting a Harmful Precedent For Designating the ‘Prevailing Party’ in Public Records Act Cases Resulting in New Documents Exposing Public Agency Malfeasance
ECW Press has announced the...
November 8 | $125,000 Was a Small Price For Cal-Berkeley’s Already Successful Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up. Fighting Even That Is Designed to Intimidate Anyone Daring to Use the Public Records Act to Investigate Cover-Ups.
ECW Press has announced the...
November 7 | In Reversal, Appellate Court Rules UC ‘Prevailing Party’ in Public Records Case – Changing Nothing About Our Daylighting of Massive New Info in Cal’s Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
ECW Press has announced the...
November 4 | “Those who’re letting mass-abuser George Gibney off the hook need accountability – not excitable podcasts, and not even justice”
My article, “Swimming...
November 1 | Coming Fall 2023: ECW Press Announcement of ‘Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads’ by Irvin Muchnick
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November 1 | ECW Press Announces Irvin Muchnick’s Upcoming Book on ‘The American Way of Death in Youth Football Conditioning’
ECW Press has announced a...
October 15 | “How a legendary Harvard swim coach became an international fugitive” – today at Salon
Strap on your goggles for the...
October 4 | ‘Why is the U.S. Olympic agency meant to stop sexual abuse investigating its top critic?’ … full text from Salon
The following is adapted from...
September 13 | California Appellate Court Sets October 26 For Oral Arguments in University of California’s Appeal of Our Public Records Act Lawsuit Win Uncovering Hundreds of Pages of Internal Documents in Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Cover-Up
California’s 1st...
July 19 | ‘When abuse scandals hit, colleges hire “independent” investigators — and the cover-up begins’ (full text from Salon)
The piece below was...
July 16 | ‘Vince McMahon’s hush-money scandal: A window into Trump’s America’ … today at Salon
… Beginning nearly 40...
June 26 | I Believe I Know the Identity of One of the Accused in the San Diego State Football Gang Rape Story. And It’s a Prominent Name. What Would YOU Do?
by Irvin Muchnick For...
June 20 | ‘College sports and the cover-up industry’ — today at Salon
In the wake of a devastating...
June 16 | New Allegations of WWE’s Vince McMahon’s Hush Money Payments Recall Old Story of His Rape Accuser, Referee Rita Chatterton
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 28 | Teri McKeever – Celebrated Cal Women’s Swimming Coach Facing Massive Allegations of Mistreatment of Her Athletes – Is Newest Test of Institutions’ Bogus ‘Independent Investigation’ Model
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 11 | Law.com’s ‘Legal Intelligencer’ Is M.I.A. on Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin’s SLAPP Suit Settlement and Abuse of Process
by Irvin Muchnick Of...
May 8 | Why the George Gibney Investigations Must Persist
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 4 | Pennsylvania DA James Martin’s Defamation Case Against Local Critic Bill Villa Settles – Against the Defendant’s Will – With an Insurance Company’s Payment of a Pittance. Now, What About Martin’s Egregious Abuse of Public Funds in This ‘SLAPP’ Suit?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 18 | Where Is ‘Where Is George Gibney?’
“[T]here are no other...
April 11 | Oregon Football’s $100 Million Rhadomyolysis Lawsuit Tracks With the Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death at California That We’ve Been Exposing
by Irvin Muchnick The...
April 6 | Pope Apologizes for Canada’s Abusive and Homicidal Missionary Schools. All Records Must Be Unsealed Regarding Charges Against Olympics Chieftain John Furlong – Irish School Colleague of George Gibney.
by Irvin Muchnick Pope...
March 28 | Flashback: Three Stories About the University of California’s Ted Agu Cover-Up That Were Specifically Enabled by Our Successful Public Records Act Lawsuit
After four years of...
March 26 | Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Coverage of Their Amicus Brief in Our Support in ‘Muchnick v. Regents of the University of California’
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March 25 | Full Brief by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the First Amendment Coalition in the University of California’s Appeal in the Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Cover-Up
Below is the full text of the...
March 24 | In Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Cover-Up Public Records Act Case, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and First Amendment Coalition Tell Appellate Court That University of California Seeks ‘to Chill Members of the Public, Including Journalists’
by Irvin Muchnick The...
March 24 | BREAKING … Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and First Amendment Coalition File Brief Attacking University of California’s Appeal of Its Loss in Public Records Act Case Involving Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Cover-Up
The Reporters Committee for...
March 16 | There’s a Smoking Gun in ‘Private Citizen’ Pennsylvania District Attorney James Martin’s Harassment Suit Against a Critic – If Only the Regional News Media Would Cover It
PREVIOUSLY: “How Jimmy...
March 15 | Football’s Heat Waves — Exertional Heatstroke Deaths — Aren’t Faking Us Out
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 7 | UC’s Overreaching California Public Records Act Appeal Only Highlights Its Two-Pronged Cover-Up of Ted Agu’s 2014 Football Conditioning Drill Death
PREVIOUSLY:...
March 4 | Concussion Inc.’s Brief Defending Against the University of California’s Appeal of Our Public Records Act Victory in the Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Cover-Up Was Filed — Here Are Extended Excerpts
Appellate law specialist John...
February 25 | The Tirrell Williams Exertional Heatstroke Death at Fort Scott Community College Football in Kansas Is Looking a Lot Like the Braeden Bradforth Exertional Heatstroke Death at Garden City Community College in Kansas
PREVIOUSLY: “Another...
February 22 | Another Exertional Heatstroke Death in Kansas Junior College Football: Tirrell Williams, Fort Scott Community College
by Irvin Muchnick Sam...
February 7 | ‘Football hero: How George Visger survived the NFL and traumatic brain injury — barely’ (full text from Salon)
The piece below was...
January 29 | Today at Salon: ‘Football hero: How George Visger survived the NFL and traumatic brain injury — barely’
Along with 100 million fellow...
January 11 | The Nexus of Sickle Cell Trait and Football Death Is Not Fit to Print in the New York Times
by Irvin Muchnick On...
January 5 | Tragic Update on the Irish Casualties of the 2015 Berkeley Balcony Collapse
Today, Broadsheet in Ireland...

2021 (40)

December 20 | Good News May Loom in Pennsylvania District Attorney’s Appalling Defamation Lawsuit Against a Critic. And ‘SLAPP’ Target Bill Villa Is Poised to Countersue DA James Martin.
P.S. 12/22/21 Two days after...
December 12 | Do-Nothing U.S. Center for SafeSport Finally Does Something! Of Course, That Something Is to Legally Harass a Lawyer For Abuse Victims.
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 6 | ‘Football’s unknown epidemic: When Black players die suddenly, the cover-up begins’ (full text from Salon)
The piece below was...
December 5 | At Virginia Union University, Another Originally Mislabeled Cardiac Event Death During Football Conditioning Turns Out to Be ‘Acute Sickle Cell Crisis’
by Irvin Muchnick On...
November 17 | In a Telling Sign For Football’s Future — And After a Trail of Death and Scandal — Fort Scott Community College in Kansas Eliminates the Sport
by Irvin Muchnick Over...
November 13 | Today at Salon … ‘Football’s unknown epidemic: When Black players die suddenly, the cover-up begins’
In the predawn hours of Feb....
November 12 | Saturday at Salon: ‘African-Americans love football, but football doesn’t seem to love them back. Not even when it’s a matter of life and death.’
...
July 26 | From Ireland’s Broadsheet: ‘George Gibney and the Power of the Olympic Movement’
A reprint of the article here...
July 25 | As Olympics Start, Read the Full History of Ireland’s 1984 and 1988 Swimming Coach George Gibney — Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in Sports History
This article adapts and...
July 18 | Meet the Fabulous Djang Boys, Stars of U.S. Masters Swimming — And Learn How USA Swimming’s Carelessness With Sexual Abuse Endangers Both Children and Adults
by Irvin Muchnick In 1999,...
July 12 | End of an Error: Screen Actors Guild Health Plan Finally Settles Stuntwoman Leslie Hoffman’s Long-Running Disability Dispute For $125,000
Concluding an administrative,...
July 1 | USA Swimming’s Struggle to Cover Up Its Sexual Abuse Crisis (full text from Salon)
The article below was...
June 27 | Takeaways From My Salon Article on the Background of the Federal Grand Jury Investigation of USA Swimming For Cover-Ups of Coach Sexual Abuse
Yesterday Salon published...
June 26 | Inside USA Swimming’s Generation-Long Cover-Up of Sexual Abuse — Now a Federal Grand Jury Investigation … today at Salon
At the annual United States...
June 25 | Another Genocidal Find at a First Nations School in Canada — And More Reason to Pick Up the Investigation of George Gibney’s Irish Teaching Colleague John Furlong
Now 751 more unmarked graves...
June 22 | “Irv Muchnick says goodbye to pro wrestling … for now” — at SLAM! Wrestling
Irv Muchnick is no stranger...
June 7 | Legal Fund For the Indigenous Accusers of Irish-Canadian Olympics Exec and George Gibney Colleague John Furlong Needs an Additional $64,000
We’ve been telling you...
June 4 | Canadian Olympic Boss John Furlong — Once an Irish School Cohort of Fugitive Rapist Swimming Coach George Gibney — Is a Good Place to Start With Canada’s Renewed Reckoning of Mistreatment of First Nations Children
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 26 | What We’ve Learned About the Degraded Federal Courts’ Office of Judicial Integrity — Now Headed by Michael C. Henry, Formerly the Highest-Paid Employee of the U.S. Center for SafeSport
PREVIOUSLY: Salon, May 11:...
May 25 | Is the Federal Courts’ New ‘Judicial Integrity Officer’ Even a Licensed Attorney? (full text from Salon)
The piece below was...
May 22 | ‘Is the Federal Courts’ New “Judicial Integrity Officer” Even a Licensed Attorney?’ — Today at Salon
Sources say embattled sports...
May 19 | U.S. Olympic Committee’s Controversial Abuse Investigator Fails Upward — To the Federal Courts (full text from Salon)
The piece below was...
May 12 | U.S. Center for SafeSport PR Consultant Reacts to Salon Article About Former Center Chief Lawyer Michael Henry. Muchnick Responds.
Yesterday Salon published...
May 11 | ‘U.S. Olympic Committee’s Controversial Abuse Investigator Michael Henry Fails Upward — To the Federal Courts’ … Today at Salon
The annals of foxes guarding...
May 10 | Dead in the Water: The Tragic Human Cost of Swimming’s Abuse Scandals (full text from Salon)
The piece below was...
May 5 | UC Appeals Concussion Inc.’s Victory in California Public Records Act Case on 2014 Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Cover-Up; Leading Appellate Specialist John Derrick Joins Our Team
On January 8, we reported...
April 26 | Travis Tygart, Top U.S. Sports Anti-Drug Official, Was Involved in Covering Up Swimming Sex Scandals (full text from Salon)
Yesterday Salon published my...
April 25 | ‘Dead in the Water: The Tragic Human Cost of Swimming’s Abuse Scandals’ — Today at Salon
On the afternoon of June 29,...
April 18 | Sexual Abuse Cases Close in on Olympic Sports Organizations (full text from Beyond Chron)
SEE ALSO: “Top U.S....
April 15 | ‘Top U.S. Sports Anti-Drug Official Was Involved in Covering Up Swimming Sex Scandals’ — Today at Salon
The celebrated head of the...
April 13 | ‘Sexual Abuse Cases Close in on Olympic Sports Organizations’ — Today at Beyond Chron
Current headlines surrounding...
April 5 | Disabled Stuntwoman Leslie Hoffman’s Fight With the Screen Actors Guild’s Pension Fund Drags Into Its Second Decade in Court
by Irvin Muchnick In...
March 9 | George Gibney Article on Front Page of Colorado Springs Gazette Now Open to All Online
The Colorado Springs Gazette,...
February 27 | George Gibney Is the Top Story of Sunday’s Colorado Springs Gazette
The American immigration and...
February 21 | Relief at Last in Yet Another Irish School Abuse Story
A former rugby coach and...
February 5 | ‘The World Is Watching on George Gibney’ … at Ireland’s Broadsheet
An adaptation of our article...
February 4 | Why Is the Orlando Sentinel Missing in Action on the George Gibney Story? And Other Post-BBC Podcast Gibney Media Notes
by Irvin Muchnick Though I...
January 31 | Michael Henry, U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Legal Con Man, Becomes ‘Judicial Integrity Officer’ of the Federal Courts
by Irvin Muchnick Michael...
January 18 | New York Times on George Gibney
by Irvin Muchnick Jumping off...
January 8 | University of California Agrees to Pay $125,000 in Attorney Fees to Settle Our Public Records Case in Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
Judge Jeffrey S. Brand has...

2020 (91)

December 16 | Cyberhack Disaster at U.S. Center for Safe Sport Further Exposes the Group’s Overall Unprofessionalism and Diversionary Agenda
by Irvin Muchnick Two months...
December 6 | ‘Muchnick v. UC’ Public Records Act Case Inches Closer to Finish
The register of actions at...
December 1 | Where Now on George Gibney? My Interview With John Ryan of Broadsheet in Ireland
...
November 25 | ‘Keep Making Waves’ … at Ireland’s Broadsheet
“My last word on the...
November 23 | BBC’s ‘Where Is George Gibney?’ Podcast Dribbles Down, Ignoring Major Questions
(Broadsheet.ie, the Irish...
October 30 | When Trump Toady Linda McMahon Hired a Child Molester at WWE — Read All About It at Business Insider
by Irvin Muchnick David...
October 24 | Judge’s Final Order on Prevailing Party in ‘Muchnick v. UC Board of Regents’ Sets Up Conclusion of California Public Records Act Case in 2014 Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Cover-Up
PREVIOUSLY:...
October 21 | ‘Where Is George Gibney?’ Podcast Delivers a Substance-Free Climax
PREVIOUSLY: “George...
October 19 | CNN Brasil Stays on the Trail of Brazilian-American Swimming Coach Alex Pussieldi in a Big Report on USA Swimming Abuses and on Some of Pussieldi’s Associates
by Irvin Muchnick A week ago...
October 11 | Nearly 20 Years After a Cover-Up by USA Swimming and the Florida Police and Media, the Heat Might Finally Be Coming For Abusive Brazilian-American Coach Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick In 2015,...
October 9 | Let’s Start Cataloging the Open Questions Left by the BBC’s Exposure of Peter Banks As an Architect of George Gibney’s Flight From Ireland to the U.S.
by Irvin Muchnick In 2018 I...
October 8 | Mark Horgan BBC Podcast Nails George Gibney Cohort Peter Banks For the 1993 Job Offer Letter That Enabled the Rapist Irish Olympic Coach’s U.S. Visa
by Irvin Muchnick Credit...
October 7 | ‘Where Is George Gibney?’ How About ‘Where Is Peter Banks?’
PREVIOUSLY: “George...
October 6 | ‘Not Making Waves’ … From Ireland’s Broadsheet
Irvin Muchnick: Not Making...
October 5 | Trading Facile Memes For a Challenging Narrative, BBC’s George Gibney Podcast Descends Into Disappointment
PREVIOUSLY: “George...
September 30 | ‘Where Is George Gibney?’ Podcast Probably Won’t Explain His Vulnerability to American Criminal Charges in His 1991 Rape and Impregnation of a 17-Year-Old Irish Swimmer in Tampa — So We Will
PREVIOUSLY: “George...
September 29 | 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: Is It Live Or Is It Memorex?
THE MEDIA EQUATION Trump...
September 28 | Support the Change.org Petition to Reform U.S. Masters Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick Seven years...
September 27 | When George Gibney Lived in Colorado (And Even Coached Swimming There), Two Suburban Denver Police Departments Learned All About Him. They Kicked the Can Down the Road.
PREVIOUSLY: “George...
September 23 | Flashback: ‘George Gibney Saga Is Climaxing, With a Bang or a Whimper’
DOJ Human Trafficking Office...
September 21 | Anglo-Irish Media’s George Gibney Stench Gets Worse: Celebrated Editor of Irish Times Was Father of Supreme Court Justice Who Helped Gibney Escape Justice (Also, of Course, Father of Gibney’s Lawyer)
by Irvin Muchnick Where we...
September 18 | In Email to Vice Chancellor During Cover-Up of Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death From Sickle Cell Trait Collapse, Berkeley Campus Police Chief Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
PREVIOUSLY: “Court...
September 17 | ‘Irvin Muchnick: A Deeper Dive’ (full text from the Irish news site Broadsheet)
Originally published earlier...
September 15 | George Gibney Had a Tie to Murderer John du Pont. And Don’t Forget the Deceptive Irish-Canadian Olympic Potentate John Furlong — Accused Abuser of Indigenous Students at a Missionary School.
by Irvin Muchnick The Sunday...
September 14 | Muchnick on Daniel Libit’s ‘The Intercollegiate’ Podcast, Discussing Public Records Act Case For Documents in University of California’s 2014 Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Cover-Up
Thank you to investigative...
September 13 | George Gibney’s Family and Friends in High Places: Still the Elephant in the Room of Anglo-Irish Media Coverage of the ‘Vanished’ Sex Criminal Irish Olympic Swimming Coach
by Irvin Muchnick It’s...
September 11 | Here’s What We Learned Additionally About UC Berkeley’s Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up As a Consequence of Our Successful Public Records Act Case
PREVIOUSLY: “Court...
September 9 | No, Britain’s Guardian Newspaper — I Didn’t ‘Try Unsuccessfully to Have George Gibney Deported From the United States.’ Also, There’s No Past Tense About It.
P.S. 9/11/20, 5:00 a.m....
September 9 | Court Finds For Concussion Inc. in California Public Records Act Case Against University of California — 730 New Pages Laid Bare in Cover-Up of Ted Agu’s 2014 Football Conditioning Death From a Sickle Cell Trait Attack
by Irvin Muchnick In a major...
August 27 | George Gibney Didn’t Vanish (full text from the Irish news site Broadsheet)
Originally published earlier...
August 27 | ‘Gibney Didn’t Vanish’ — Review of First Episode of BBC Podcast ‘Where Is George Gibney?’, For Ireland’s Broadsheet
...
August 25 | Sarah Ehekircher in the Guardian: “My swim coach raped me when I was 17. USA Swimming made it disappear.”
...
August 19 | Sarah Ehekircher, Long-Ago Abuse Survivor Whose Story Was Championed by Concussion Inc., Sues USA Swimming, Coach Scott MacFarland, and Mission Viejo Swim Club in California Court
by Irvin Muchnick Sarah...
July 26 | For Those Catching Up With the George Gibney Story
Why Is George Gibney –...
July 20 | Swimming World Magazine, and Its John Leonard Mouthpiece Editor Craig Lord, Continue Their Defense of Both Leonard and Mark Schubert in U.S. Swimming Establishment’s Harboring of Rapist Irish Olympic Coach George Gibney
PREVIOUSLY:...
July 15 | Ireland’s Broadsheet: New ‘Shallow Hype’ on the George Gibney Story
From Broadsheet, the Irish...
July 15 | FLASHBACK: DOJ Human Trafficking Office Investigation of George Gibney Closes In — Which Means the Saga of the Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in the History of Global Sports Is Climaxing, With a Bang or a Whimper
Originally published on...
July 14 | Editor of Swimming World Magazine — Old Pal and Protector of American Swimming Coaches Association Boss John Leonard — Jumps into the New Round of George Gibney Hype and Avoids the Elephant in the Room
PREVIOUSLY: “What...
July 12 | Skeletal Remains at South Dublin’s Lissenfield Are Not Related to a Missing Young Person. But Details on the U.S. Investigation of George Gibney Continue to Develop.
by Irvin Muchnick While being...
June 27 | Of That Noose in the Garage of NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace — And the Negligent Homicide of Cal Football Player Ted Agu
by Irvin Muchnick Even during...
June 16 | Pope Francis Ponders Dissolving Sodalitium Christianae Vitae — Peruvian Sect With Ties to Quasi-Fugitive Irish Olympic Swimming Coach George Gibney
by Irvin Muchnick Wracked by...
June 4 | BBC Says George Gibney Podcast Series Delayed Until August ‘Due to the Current Global Pandemic.’ Huh?
THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES:...
June 1 | Anglo-Irish Podcast Series on George Gibney Is Delayed Until August. And Gibney’s Sexual Abuse Accomplice, Ger Doyle, Just Died.
by Irvin Muchnick PREVIOUSLY:...
May 28 | Justice Roderick Murphy, of the Irish Government’s Vague 1998 Report Calling George Gibney ‘The First Named Coach’ — Another Exhibit of National Cronyism
PREVIOUSLY:...
May 24 | Lissenfield — Historic Irish Site Where Skeletal Remains Recently Turned Up — May Be Key in Establishing Link Between 1986 Philip Cairns Disappearance and George Gibney’s Social Circles
by Irvin Muchnick Concussion...
May 14 | Possible New Evidence in Case of Philip Cairns, Long-Time Missing Irish Boy, Carries Reminder of the Big-Picture Stakes of the George Gibney End Game
by Irvin Muchnick Partial...
May 9 | Investigative Wrestling Journalist David Bixenspan Takes the Jimmy Snuka Murder Cover-Up Narrative to Another Level
by Irvin Muchnick In a 2008...
May 6 | Table of Contents of ‘CHRIS & NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling’s Cocktail of Death,’ Ultimate Historical Edition
The Ultimate Historical...
May 5 | Our Piece Last Week Is Reprinted As ‘Letter From Berkeley’ at Ireland’s Broadsheet
The ebook THE GEORGE GIBNEY...
May 4 | Introduction to the Third ‘Ultimate Historical Edition’ of ‘CHRIS & NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Wrestling’s Cocktail of Death’
The Ultimate Historical...
May 3 | “‘Now I know too much’ — A Fresh Read on ‘CHRIS & NANCY'”
The full text of thereview...
May 1 | May Day, From the Irish Connection at 2020 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, California, USA
by Irvin Muchnick In...
April 28 | ‘Dr. D’ David Schultz and Me
PREVIOUSLY: “Time For a...
April 26 | How Jimmy Snuka Got Away With Murder. How the Allentown Morning Call Helped Cover Up the Historical and Ongoing Corruption in Lehigh County Criminal Justice. Here’s the Story VICE TV’s ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ Was Afraid to Tell.
PREVIOUSLY: “Time For a...
April 23 | The One and Only Law Enforcement Voice in VICE TV’s ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ Episode on the Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Case Was a Local Police Chief Who Got Fired the Year I Broke the Story
PREVIOUSLY: “Time For a...
April 22 | Muchnick Discusses Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Case on ‘Hannibal TV’
Thank you to Devon Nicholson...
April 21 | “‘Dark Side of the Ring’ blandly convicts Snuka in the court of public opinion, blanket-censoring the whole story” (full text from SLAM! Wrestling)
PREVIOUSLY: “Time For a...
April 21 | After the Jimmy Snuka After-Show Debacle, VICE TV’s ‘Dark Side of the Ring After Dark’ May Be Going … Dark. For Real.
PREVIOUSLY: “Time For a...
April 20 | What to Make of the Intriguing Testimony of Sam (Tonga Kid) Fatu in the ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ Episode on the Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder of Nancy Argentino?
PREVIOUSLY:...
April 18 | VICE TV’s ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ Producers: We’re Not Responsible For the Train Wreck That Was VICE TV’s ‘Dark Side of the Ring After Dark’ on the Jimmy Snuka Murder Case
PREVIOUSLY:...
April 17 | In Our Post-‘Dark Side of the Ring’ Reset of the Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Story, Also Look Here Soon For Reviews of Some of the Best Coverage at the Time of His Death in 2017
by Irvin Muchnick Thank you...
April 16 | Muchnick on Irish Podcast ‘Off the Ball’ Pro Wrestling Edition, Discussing Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka’s Murder of Nancy Argentino and Other Topics
by Irvin Muchnick Yesterday I...
April 15 | Time For a Deep Dive Into the VICE TV / ‘Dark Side of the Ring After Dark’ Censorship of My ‘Live-to-Tape’ Interview About the Ongoing Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Cover-Up in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
by Irvin Muchnick Thank you...
April 15 | ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ Blanket-Censors the Jimmy Snuka Murder Cover-Up Back Story
“…...
April 14 | One Quick Tweet, and Goodnight
Irvin Muchnick@irvmuch on...
April 14 | Recommended Reading From Here in 2017, Before Tonight’s ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ Documentary on VICE TV About the Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Case
The piece below was published...
April 14 | Talking the Jimmy Snuka Murder Case Tonight on ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ and Its Companion Show — Then Further on Ireland’s ‘Off the Ball’ Wrestling Podcast
by Irvin Muchnick As noted...
April 12 | Muchnick in ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ Documentary on Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Case — Tuesday, 10 p.m. Eastern, VICE TV
Concussion Inc.’s Irvin...
April 2 | ECW Press News Release on Publication of CHRIS & NANCY, Ultimate Historical Edition — Book on 2007 Benoit Murder-Suicide
ECW Press announces the...
March 26 | Tour of the New Website
CHRIS & NANCY: The True...
March 25 | Background of ‘CHRIS & NANCY, Ultimate Historical Edition’ — Book About Benoit Murder-Suicide
CHRIS & NANCY: The True...
March 24 | ‘Setting up the third, ultimate historical edition of Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY’ — Today at SLAM! Wrestling
“One of the goals of...
March 23 | ‘CHRIS & NANCY, Ultimate Historical Edition’ — Book on Benoit Murder-Suicide — Now Available on all eBook Platforms
The Ultimate Historical...
March 21 | ‘Ultimate Historical Edition’ of ‘CHRIS & NANCY,’ Book About 2007 Benoit Murder-Suicide, On Sale at Amazon Kindle. Read the New Introduction Tuesday at SLAM! Wrestling.
The ebook version of the...
March 20 | Concussion Inc.’s New Website Look Goes Live This Weekend;
‘CHRIS &...
March 16 | CONCUSSION INC.: The End of Football As We Know It
...
March 16 | THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES
...
March 16 | WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal
Order on Amazonhere, or order...
March 16 | PENN STATE IN THE POOL: The Cover-Up of the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal
...
March 16 | DUERSON
...
March 16 | OUT OF MY HEAD
...
March 16 | UPMC: Concussion Scandal Ground Zero
...
March 9 | With New Book Coming Out, New Look Upcoming at Concussion Inc.
Content has slowed here...
February 13 | From Ireland’s Broadsheet: ‘Covering Gibney’
PREVIOUSLY: “Muchnick...
February 12 | Muchnick on Ireland’s ‘Off the Ball’: We Have Everything on George Gibney ‘Except the Shoe Dropping’
Three days ago we published...
February 9 | DOJ Human Trafficking Office Investigation of George Gibney Closes In — Which Means the Saga of the Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in the History of Global Sports Is Climaxing, With a Bang or a Whimper
Introduction Source...
January 31 | Two Developments in Swimming Sexual Abuse Narratives While I Was Away
by Irvin Muchnick Pope...
January 30 | Newest Odd Court Ruling Allows UC to Keep Secret Email From Deputy Athletic Director Solly Fulp to His Dad About Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
by Irvin Muchnick In the...
January 20 | Gone Fishin’, Again, in Jiangxi Province, China
In October 2005 I went on a...
January 17 | What They’ve Said in America (And Mostly Not Said) About George Gibney
by Irvin Muchnick To...
January 13 | ImPACT Applications Founders Cash Out — Sell University of Pittsburgh Medical Center For-Profit Pioneer of the Concussion Inc. Economy to Private Equity ‘Standardized Testing’ Marketer
by Irvin Muchnick The...

2019 (153)

December 17 | Is ICE Bust of Abusive Mexican Gymnastics Coach a Harbinger of Government Action on Ireland’s George Gibney?
PREVIOUSLY: “U.S....
December 16 | Cal Football Death Cover-Up, Pt. 4: San Francisco Chronicle Made Mistakes, Cherry-Picked Deposition Narratives, Held No One Accountable — Reset Business As Usual
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES...
December 12 | Cal Football Death Cover-Up, Pt. 3: Berkeley Campus Police Helped Conditioning Coach Damon Harrington Give a More Plausible Non-Answer About Ted Agu Sickle Cell Trait ‘Rumors’ — Also Withheld From Sheriff and Coroner Many Pages of Related Documents
SERIES TO DATE...
December 11 | Cal Football Death Cover-Up, Pt. 2: Team Physician Dr. Casey Batten Lobbied Coroner For Ted Agu Autopsy Finding That Ignored Sickle Cell Trait
SERIES TO DATE...
December 10 | Ireland’s Broadsheet: My Holiday Update on the U.S. Government Investigation of Rapist Irish Olympic Swimming Coach George Gibney
Below is the full text,...
December 8 | Cal Football Death Cover-Up, Pt. 1: University Kept Salient Details of Player-on-Teammate Criminal Assault Under Wraps — Both Before and After Ted Agu Perished in the Same Conditioning Program
SERIES TO DATE...
December 5 | What Do I Mean By the ‘Cover-Up’ in the 2014 Death of University of California Football’s Ted Agu? As We Approach a Key Public Records Act Hearing on Sweeping Secrecy Claims, Let’s Count the Ways
by Irvin Muchnick Earlier...
December 3 | ‘Newsletter of Intent,’ Covering College Sports Reform, Has New Article About Our Work and Public Records Act Litigation in Cal’s Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
by Irvin Muchnick Thank you...
November 29 | Never Mind — Judge Brand Is Still the Assigned Judge in Our California Public Records Act Case; Hearing of Our Motion For UC Berkeley’s Ted Agu Football Death PR-Related Emails to Be Heard in Oakland Next Week
by Irvin Muchnick Contrary to...
November 27 | We’ve Been Assigned Our Third Judge in Three Years in the California Public Records Act Litigation For UC Berkeley’s Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up Documents
by Irvin Muchnick The Alameda...
November 24 | Concussion Inc. to Court: University of California’s Evidentiary Challenges to Our Public Records Act Case Motion on Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up Are ‘Harassing’
by Irvin Muchnick A hearing...
November 22 | A Week After the Garden City, Kansas, Report Buries Coach Jeff Sims in the Braeden Bradforth Death, He Is Still Employed in Joplin, Missouri
PREVIOUSLY: New Investigation...
November 16 | Kansas City Star Editorial: “If coach Jeff Sims had any self-awareness, he would quit coaching today”
...
November 15 | New Investigation of Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death at Garden City Community College Is Surprisingly Good — But Still Not Enough to Stop the Carnage
by Irvin Muchnick Though not...
November 14 | Garden City Community College’s Report on Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death Is Released — Read It Here
The 48-page report is...
November 12 | U.S. Government Does Not Deny Active End Game of George Gibney Investigation
by Irvin Muchnick The United...
November 11 | Irish Sun: ‘George Gibney’s links to Peru could finally see the monster deported to Ireland, an author believes’
...
November 10 | Movie Stunt Legend Leslie Hoffman Wins Another Court Round Against Screen Actors Guild. Will SAG Finally Take Care of Her?
PREVIOUSLY:...
November 5 | Garden City Community College Insurer’s $100,000 ‘Independent Review’ in Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death Has Been Completed and Submitted
PREVIOUSLY: Garden City...
November 4 | In Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Lawsuit, Deputy AD Solly Fulp Discussed Duties As a Top Cal Executive. In Our Public Records Act Case, It’s ‘I Cannot Recall.’
by Irvin Muchnick In a 2015...
October 31 | Today’s Whole Court Package in Our Public Records Act Case For University of California-Berkeley Documents in Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Cover-Up
Our New Court Filing For...
October 31 | Concussion Inc. Attorney Roy Gordet’s Declaration Today in Alameda County Superior Court in California Public Records Act Case For UC-Berkeley Records in Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death
I, Roy S. Gordet, declare as...
October 31 | My Declaration Today in Alameda County Superior Court in California Public Records Act Case For UC-Berkeley Records in Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death
I, Irvin Muchnick, under...
October 31 | Full Text of Concussion Inc.’s Brief in Alameda County Superior Court Challenging Attorney-Client Privilege of Cal Deputy Athletic Director Solly Fulp’s 17-Page Email to His Father About Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death
A facsimile of this brief is...
October 31 | Our New Court Filing For University of California PR Strategy Emails in 2014 Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Challenges Attorney-Client Privilege Claim on Deputy Athletic Director Fulp’s Message to His Father
by Irvin Muchnick Concussion...
October 29 | Are the Colorado Attorney General’s Priest Abuse Investigators Sharing Notes With the Feds’ George Gibney Investigators? If Not, Why Not?
PREVIOUSLY: Wall Street...
October 24 | Follow @irvmuch on Twitter
Irvin Muchnick@irvmuch There...
October 23 | ‘New California Sexual Abuse Law Could Drown USA Swimming’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
This article was originally...
October 22 | ‘New California Sexual Abuse Law Could Drown USA Swimming’ — Today at Beyond Chron
Last year I told Beyond Chron...
October 20 | USA Swimming’s Global Reckoning For a Generation of Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up Nudges Ever Closer With New California Statute of Limitations Law and New Litigation
by Irvin Muchnick On October...
October 11 | Former Cal Deputy Athletic Director Solly Fulp Confirms That It Was His Father Who Was Forwarded Internal Emails on the Ted Agu Football Death For Which the University Is Now Claiming Attorney-Client Privilege
by Irvin Muchnick Solly Fulp,...
October 7 | Flashback: Concussion Inc.’s Early 2019 Coverage Anticipated New Reports of Federal Grand Jury Investigation of Swimming’s Insurance Practices
As George Gibney Action...
October 2 | Wall Street Journal Bombshell: Federal Grand Jury and FBI Are Investigating USA Swimming Sexual Abuse — Including Concealed Assets and Irregularities With In-House Insurance Company
by Irvin Muchnick Giving even...
October 1 | Flashback: My 2003 Los Angeles Times Magazine Article ‘Welcome to Plantation Football’
With the passage of and...
September 23 | In Our Public Records Act Case For UC Berkeley Documents in 2014 Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Cover-Up, Former $300,000+ Executive Solly Fulp Will Be Deposed in San Francisco on October 3
by Irvin Muchnick Last month...
September 18 | Tanya Birch — Sister of Tampa Swim Coach Todd Hoffmeier — Seems to Be Using a Fake Email Account. She’s a Window Into a History of Widespread USA Swimming Abuse.
by Irvin Muchnick In the last...
September 17 | Greater Tampa Swim Association’s Todd Hoffmeier Doesn’t Respond to Question of Whether His Sister Is a Source of Anonymous Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Ryan Gober
PREVIOUSLY: Meth Possession...
September 17 | Report of Multi-Pronged Federal Grand Jury Investigation of USA Swimming, Other National Sport Governing Bodies. Is George Gibney’s Fate in the Mix?
by Irvin Muchnick Scott Reid...
September 16 | U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Chief Travis Tygart, Who Helped Bury USA Swimming Sex Abuse Cases, Wins USA Swimming’s ‘Athletes’ Appreciation Award’
Over the weekend at the...
September 13 | Update on the Chaos — Or Worse — in Tampa Bay Area Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick The...
September 8 | Meth Possession Arrest of Son of Rapist Hall of Fame Coach Paul Bergen Just the Start of New Round of Scandals in Florida Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick At...
August 30 | Boston Globe Sports Columnist Dan Shaughnessy Thinks Basketball Legend Bob Cousy’s Presidential Medal of Freedom Speech Was Great — But Omits, Then Distorts, the Most Important Line From It
by Irvin Muchnick In an...
August 27 | Solly Fulp, Former Cal Athletics Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer, Is One of Several Figures at the Center of the UC Berkeley Cover-Up of the 2014 Ted Agu Football Death
by Irvin Muchnick Yesterday...
August 26 | Former UC Berkeley Athletics Chief Operating Officer Subpoenaed For Deposition About His Emails in Muchnick’s California Public Records Act Case For Documents on Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
by Irvin Muchnick This...
August 15 | Court in Public Records Act Case Sets Hearing on Scope of Attorney-Client Privilege Claim in University of California Documents on Ted Agu Football Death
by Irvin Muchnick In what may...
August 13 | My Diana Nyad Problem — And Ours
by Irvin Muchnick A year ago...
August 2 | First Anniversary of Braeden Bradforth Death Marked By Powerful Hometown Event and Powerful Kansas Public Radio Coverage
by Irvin Muchnick As noted...
August 1 | Discussing George Gibney on Ireland’s ‘Off the Ball’ (Along With TD Maureen O’Sullivan)
The interview linked below...
July 30 | Evidence of George Gibney’s Travel to Colorado Church Children’s Eye Clinic Mission in Peru Could Be Right There in His Failed 2010 Application For American Citizenship
by Irvin Muchnick Upon return...
July 26 | Full Text of Announcement of August 1 Memorial For Braeden Bradforth
What:...
July 26 | New Deportation Case of Irish-American Man Is Similar To — And Different From — George Gibney’s
by Irvin Muchnick I’ve...
July 25 | Braeden Bradforth Anniversary Memorial on August 1
A week from today will be the...
July 23 | Ireland’s Broadsheet: ‘Mr Muchnick Goes To Dublin’ (with photos!)
...
July 21 | Dublin Calling (George Gibney Investigation Division)
by Irvin Muchnick In search...
July 15 | Discussing George Gibney on Ireland’s ‘Newstalk’ (Along With TD Maureen O’Sullivan)
...
July 12 | Discussing George Gibney on RTE Radio 1’s ‘Today with Sean O’Rourke’
The first interview to...
July 10 | To the Emerald Isle For the Gibney Project
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 9 | Broadsheet Previews My Trip — ‘Irv in Ireland’
...
July 8 | Muchnick on Irish Podcast ‘What’s the Story?’ in Advance of Dublin Visit to Promote ‘The George Gibney Chronicles’ and Campaign to Extradite Gibney
Investigative journalist and...
July 5 | 2nd Edition of ‘George Gibney Chronicles’ eBook Now Live at Amazon Kindle; Includes Fresh Reporting on the Fugitive Irish Olympic Swimming Coach’s Eye Clinic Mission For Children in Peru
The second Kindle edition of...
July 1 | ‘George Gibney Chronicles’ 2nd Edition To Be Published This Month — Will Highlight Investigation of Fugitive Irish Olympic Swim Coach’s ‘International Peru Eye Clinic Foundation’
An updated second edition of...
June 24 | Sports Illustrated Finally Makes Good With Thorough Account of Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death at Garden City Community College in Kansas
Collapse and Confusion: The...
June 20 | Brandon Drawz, Controversial Swimming Figure, Resurfaces at High-Level Meeting at Olympic Training Center — And Now Responds to Concussion Inc.’s 2015 Coverage of Him
by Irvin Muchnick On...
June 7 | Public Records Find By Associated Press Further Exposes Embarrassment of Garden City Community College’s Investigation of Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 5 | Philadelphia Inquirer Finally Breaks the Embargo on Coverage of Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin’s ‘SLAPP’ Suit Against a Citizen-Journalist Critic
by Irvin Muchnick Bill Villa,...
June 2 | Garden City Community College Names Expert For Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death Investigation. Now, About That ‘Independence’ Part …
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 31 | Update From the Irish Independent on the Post-Prison Life of George Gibney’s Double-Murderer Former Swimming Coach Cohort Frank McCann
THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES:...
May 30 | USA Swimming Refuses to Confirm That George Gibney Was a Member in 1995 — Also Won’t Say Whether Current Background Check Procedures Would Have Caught His 27-Count Indictment in Ireland For Child Sexual Abuse
THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES:...
May 29 | Talking the U.S. Investigation of George Gibney on the Irish Podcast ‘Off the Ball’
The most comprehensive...
May 27 | Sham 2.0: Garden City Community College’s $100,000 ‘Independent Investigation’ of the Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death Is Just Another Internal Review by the College’s Insurance Lawyers
Complete chronological...
May 22 | As George Gibney Action Looms, USA Swimming Is Under the Microscope For Its Uniquely Irregular Insurance Practices
THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES:...
May 22 | Just For Fun: The Story of the Late Laura Branigan’s Song ‘Gloria’ and the St. Louis Blues Hockey Team
The St. Louis Blues are in...
May 20 | Gerald Procanyn — Pennsylvania Detective Who Lied to Me in 1992 About the 1983 Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Investigation — Retires From His Double-Dipping Job As a Lehigh County District Attorney Investigator
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 17 | Flashback: Let’s Make the Investigations of Braeden Bradforth’s Death at Garden City Community College Criminal, As Well As Civil
The essay below, published...
May 17 | Coverage in The Nation of Garden City Community College’s Announcement of an ‘Independent’ Investigation of Braeden Bradforth’s Death
Complete chronological...
May 14 | Wheat Ridge (Colorado) Police Refuse to Say If They Did Anything With the Information They Got in 2000 on George Gibney
THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES:...
May 12 | Shifting Football Conditioning Death Legal Fights From Civil to Criminal Would Be a Game-Changer
by Irvin Muchnick New...
May 10 | Braeden Bradforth Would Have Turned 20 Today. His Mom Has Taken an Important Step Toward Suing Garden City Community College in His Wrongful Death.
Today would have been the...
May 10 | Former Colorado Cop Who Investigated George Gibney in 2000 Surfaces … Promises Interview … Ducks Out. Why Was Nothing Done About Gibney’s Green Card?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 7 | Viceland Reprises Fritz Von Erich as ‘The Great Santini’
by Irvin Muchnick Some...
May 3 | Congressman Chris Smith: Garden City Community College’s ‘Summary’ of Its Captive Review of the Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death ‘Is a Sham’
I promised to publish Garden...
May 2 | In Addition to Hiding the 141-Page Campus Police Binder in Our Public Records Act Case, University of California Covered Up an Unknown Number of Documents in the Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Generated by Its Office of Risk Services
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 30 | New Jersey’s Bipartisan House Delegation Unites to Pressure Garden City Community College of Kansas in Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death
Following is the full text of...
April 29 | Annals of Journalism, Pt. 5: San Francisco Chronicle Was Worried That a Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up Opinion Piece Might Crowd Out Its Important Unique Coverage
PREVIOUSLY: Annals of...
April 26 | EXCLUSIVE: Garden City Community College Is Preparing to Release a ‘Summary’ of Its Mysterious Internal Review — Which Skews the Facts of Braeden Bradforth’s Football Conditioning Death and Smears His Memory
by Irvin Muchnick As...
April 26 | Annals of Journalism, Pt. 4: My New Opinion Piece For Berkeley’s Daily Californian on UC’s Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up … CENSORED
PREVIOUSLY: Annals of...
April 25 | Annals of Journalism, Pt. 3: My 2018 Opinion Piece For Berkeley’s Daily Californian on UC’s Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up — Before They Started Censoring Me
PREVIOUSLY: Annals of...
April 24 | Annals of Journalism, Pt. 2: My 2017 Opinion Piece For Berkeley’s Daily Californian on UC’s Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up — Before They Started Censoring Me
PREVIOUSLY: Annals of...
April 23 | Follow @irvmuch on Twitter
.@dailycal to me: Why...
April 23 | Annals of Journalism, Pt. 1: Opinion Piece For Berkeley’s Daily Californian on UC’s Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up, Scheduled For Publication Today, Was Killed at the Last Second … For Expressing an Opinion
Complete headline links to...
April 23 | BREAKING: Congressman Smith Cancels Friday Meeting With Garden City Community College President and Braeden Bradforth’s Mother, After GCCC Lawyer Reneges on Meeting’s Terms
PREVIOUSLY: Not So...
April 21 | ‘Justice For Braeden Bradforth’ Campaigners Need to Follow Up on Congressman Chris Smith’s Pressure on Garden City Community College President Ryan Ruda — And Others
PREVIOUSLY: Not So...
April 18 | Court Rescinds Errant Order That Our California Public Records Act Petition Against University of California Was ‘Dropped’
PREVIOUSLY: Alameda County...
April 18 | Not So Fast: Garden City Community College President Has Yet to Establish Any Basis For Braeden Bradforth’s Mother to Meet With Him
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 13 | Who Was Braeden Bradforth? Listen to This Riveting Interview of His Mom, Joanne Atkins-Ingram, on Brian Black’s Podcast
There are important...
April 11 | Alameda County Superior Court Piles Administrative Errors on Top of Bad Rulings in Our Public Records Act Case Against the University of California in the Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
PREVIOUSLY: “Even With...
April 6 | Garden City Community College’s Braeden Bradforth Death Cover-Up Makes New York Television News — Are the Sleeping National Sports Media Next?
PREVIOUSLY: ...
April 5 | Full Text of Congressman Chris Smith’s Media Release on Today’s Event With Braeden Bradforth’s Mother, Joanne Atkins-Ingram
PREVIOUSLY: Congressman Chris...
April 5 | Congressman Chris Smith at New Jersey Press Conference With Braeden Bradforth’s Mom: Garden City (Kansas) Community College ‘Brick Wall’ on Info About Football Conditioning Death Is ‘Rude,’ ‘Legalistic,’ ‘Condescending,’ ‘Outrageous’
by Irvin Muchnick At a...
April 4 | Even With the Judge Wrongly Enabling the Public Records Act Suppression of the Secret Berkeley Campus Police 141-Page Binder, Documents Are Telling the Story of the University of California’s Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
Complete headline links to...
April 3 | See It Now: Cal Football Assistant Athletic Trainer Michael Jones Tells Campus Cop He Isn’t Allowed to Talk About Ted Agu’s ‘Medical Status’
PREVIOUSLY:...
April 2 | Another New Berkeley Campus Police Document Surfaces: Assistant Trainer Told Cop He Didn’t Know If He ‘Was Allowed to Discuss’ Ted Agu’s ‘Medical Status’
PREVIOUSLY: “University...
April 1 | ‘Inadvertently’ Omitted Documents in California Public Records Act Case Show Berkeley Football Team Doctor Casey Batten — Point Person in the Ted Agu Sickle Cell Trait Death Cover-Up — Corresponding With Chief Campus Counsel
PREVIOUSLY: “University...
March 25 | University of Oklahoma Athletic Trainer: From the Moment of Ted Agu’s Death, Cal Football Staff Feared Implications of a Finding of Sickling Collapse, Instead of Coronary
PREVIOUSLY: “See It...
March 24 | Full Text of Letter From Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey to Garden City Community College President Ryan Ruda Requesting Independent Investigation of Braeden Bradforth Death
Below is the full text of the...
March 24 | Congressman Smith of New Jersey to Garden City Community College President and Board: “Immediately commission a thorough and independent investigation into the tragic death of Braeden Bradforth”
March 22, 2019 Congressman...
March 20 | Since-Defrocked Cal Athletic Trainer Robbie Jackson Was Almost Certainly the One Who Told Campus Cop and Paramedics That Ted Agu Carried the Sickle Cell Trait
PREVIOUSLY: “See It...
March 20 | See It Now: First Responders to 911 Call For Ted Agu Recorded, “PATIENT HAS HISTORY OF SICKLE CELL”
PREVIOUSLY: “See It...
March 20 | Team Doctor’s Borderline-Perjurious 2014 Deposition Testimony in Ted Agu Family’s Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against University of California Underlies the UC Berkeley Football Death Cover-Up
The text below is an excerpt...
March 20 | See It Now: Incriminating Berkeley Campus Cop’s Report Refers to Ted Agu’s ‘Pre-Existing Medical Condition’. Plus, Bonus Document Probably Not in the Secret 141-Page Police Binder: EMS Report Specifically Citing Sickle Cell Trait
PREVIOUSLY: “See It...
March 19 | Follow Coverage of the University of California Cover-Up of Ted Agu’s 2014 Football Conditioning Death on Twitter With @irvmuch
Irvin Muchnick”...
March 19 | Ted Agu’s ‘Pre-Existing Medical Condition’ Was in First Sentence of Berkeley Campus Police Incident Report — New Find From University of California’s 141-Page Collection of Cover-Up Documents
PREVIOUSLY: “See It...
March 15 | Shortly After Braeden Bradforth Death, Garden City Community College Official Told His Mom of Campus Surveillance Video Evidence — Which Is Now Destroyed
by Irvin Muchnick In...
March 13 | See It Now: In ‘Do-Over’ Interrogation, Berkeley Campus Cops Lead Football Strength and Conditioning Coach Damon Harrington to Answers About Ted Agu’s Sickle Cell Trait That Avoid ‘Not Telling the Truth or Being Deceptive’
PREVIOUSLY: “Berkeley...
March 12 | Berkeley Campus Police Lieutenant’s Second ‘Clarifying’ Interrogation of Conditioning Coach Damon Harrington Adds to Evidence of Role in Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
PREVIOUSLY:...
March 11 | Congressman Chris Smith Tells Concussion Inc., ‘I Will Do Everything I Can To Help Uncover the Truth About Braeden Bradforth’s Case’
by Irvin Muchnick As I...
March 8 | Court’s Final Ruling Blesses the Secrecy of the 141-Page Berkeley Campus Police ‘Binder’ in the 2014 Football Conditioning Drill Death of Ted Agu; Our California Public Records Act Case Proceeds.
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 7 | Thinking Inside the Box: How a Professional Prosecutor Would Weigh Criminal Charges in the Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death at Garden City Community College in Kansas
PREVIOUSLY: Our Interview of...
March 6 | Our Interview of Former AD (Who Resigned in Scandal) Raises Question of Whether Garden City Community College ‘Internal Review’ of Braeden Bradforth Exertional Heat Stroke Death Even Deals With Coach Jeff Sims’ Water-Withholding Policy
by Irvin Muchnick The...
March 5 | Our California Public Records Act Case For University of California Material in the 2014 Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up Is Mired in Court Confusion
by Irvin Muchnick As...
March 4 | Jeff Sims Email Stating ‘Absolutely I Will Help in Any Way’ Contradicts Garden City Community College’s Stonewalling in Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 3 | Joplin Globe (Hometown Paper of Coach Jeff Sims’ New School, Missouri Southern State University): ‘Answers Needed From Garden City in Braeden Bradforth Death’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 1 | Principal of Ireland’s Newpark School Threatens Broadsheet News Site Over Reference to the New George Gibney eBook
by Irvin Muchnick In...
March 1 | ‘George Gibney Chronicles’ — eBook on the Three-Decade Odyssey of Ireland’s Rapist Olympic Swim Coach and His American Immigrant Protection — Is Now Available
...
February 26 | eBook Bonus: Introduction and Table of Contents of ‘The George Gibney Chronicles,’ Publishing Friday, March 1
Yesterday Concussion Inc....
February 25 | ‘Bringing Gibney To Book’ — Ireland’s Broadsheet
From the Monday stream at...
February 24 | ‘George Gibney Chronicles’ — eBook About Two-Continent Hunt For Irish Olympic Swimming Coach and Fugitive Sex Criminal — Publishes March 1
Independent journalist and...
February 24 | Full Roundup of Latest Coverage of Braeden Bradforth Death at Garden City Community College
“New Jersey lawmaker...
February 20 | Story of Braeden Bradforth Death in Garden City Community College Football BLOWS UP
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 18 | Powerful Report by Kansas Public Radio on the Death of Football Player Braeden Bradforth at Garden City Community College
Reporter Sam Zeff did an...
February 8 | A Week After the Braeden Bradforth Death ‘Internal Review’ Was Reported To Have Been Completed, Garden City Community College Remains Mum
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 5 | Three Weeks Later, Judge Jeffrey S. Brand’s Ruling That UC Gets to Keep Secret the Berkeley Campus Police Reports on the Ted Agu Football Death Remains ‘Tentative.’ Again, Here Are the Table of Contents, Plus Cal’s ‘Credible’ Non-Police ‘Review’
PREVIOUSLY: Superior Court...
February 1 | New Jersey State Senator to Kansas Attorney General: Investigate the Braeden Bradforth Death and Garden City Community College’s Practices
PREVIOUSLY: Braeden...
January 31 | Braeden Bradforth’s Mother Arrives in Kansas and Local Media Coverage Begins; Garden City CC Says Its ‘Internal Review’ of Death Incident Was Completed Today
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 31 | George Gibney 2019: Reproducing the 1995 and 2000 Reports From Police in the Denver Suburbs of Arvada and Wheat Ridge
PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS OF THIS...
January 30 | George Gibney 2019: Getting to the Truth About His Interlude in Colorado
PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS OF THIS...
January 30 | Judge Jeffrey S. Brand’s Ruling That Berkeley Campus Police Can Keep Secret Their 141 Pages of Reports on Ted Agu Football Death Remains ‘Tentative.’ Once Again: Table of Contents of ‘Binder’ — Plus the ‘Credible’ Non-Police Report
PREVIOUSLY: Superior...
January 29 | Kansas Bureau of Investigation: ‘We Do Not Have an Investigation Related to the Death of Braeden Bradforth’
PREVIOUSLY: “Kansas...
January 29 | Garden City Community College Officials Won’t Commit to Public Release of Ongoing ‘Internal Review’ of Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death — His Mother Heads to Kansas to Press For Answers
PREVIOUSLY: Kansas Police...
January 28 | Kansas Police Chief Told Father of Dead Garden City Community College Football Player Braeden Bradforth That He Would Make Calls Inquiring into Evidence in the Incident — But Did He?
by Irvin Muchnick The...
January 25 | Once Again, Here Are the Table of Contents of the Suppressed 141-Page Berkeley Campus Police Report on the Ted Agu Death, and the ‘Independent’ Report That Judge Jeffrey S. Brand Suggests Is An Acceptable Substitute
PREVIOUSLY: Superior...
January 25 | Not George Gibney (Yet) — But a Huge New Case of Irish-American Police Cooperation and Extradition Around a Sexual Abuser With a Sports Connection
TheIrish Independent,...
January 25 | Figure Skater John Coughlin Committed Suicide During U.S. Center for SafeSport Investigation. Also, Remember Sarah Burt.
Sarah Burt was an outstanding...
January 24 | February 1 Is the Latest Soft Deadline in USA Swimming’s Kabuki Dance With the U.S. Center for SafeSport Over Revisiting the Case of Coach Scott MacFarland’s Grooming and Abuse of Sarah Ehekircher
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 21 | Did Judge Jeffrey S. Brand Say ‘Credibility’? The Cal Football Strength and Conditioning Program Review That the Court Suggests Is a Good-Faith Substitute For the Secret 141 Pages of Campus Police Records in the Ted Agu Death
by Irvin Muchnick As...
January 18 | Superior Court Judge Jeffrey S. Brand Signals Denial of Concussion Inc.’s Motion to Force Release of University of California-Berkeley’s 141 Pages of Secret Campus Police Reports in 2014 Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death
by Irvin Muchnick In a...
January 12 | University of Oregon Football Conditioning Lawsuit Brings a New Factor: ‘Only’ Near-Death
by Irvin Muchnick In a...
January 9 | Solo Workout Death of Cal Football Player Bryce Turner Might — Or Might Not — Relate to the Ongoing Theme of Deaths in Offseason Team Conditioning
-by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 6 | George Gibney 2019: Identifying Where Irish and Americans — Law Enforcement Agencies, Government and Other Officials — Need to Interact
PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS OF THIS...
January 4 | James Martin, Pennsylvania District Attorney Whose Office Screwed Up the Murder Prosecution of Wrestler Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka — And Covered Up It and Other Cases — Runs For an Unprecedented Sixth Term
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 3 | Coroner’s Report Day After Braeden Bradforth Death Documents No Intervention by Garden City Community College Athletic Trainer When Football Player Walked Away Without Answering Him
by Irvin Muchnick A...
January 2 | Witnesses of August Football Practice at Garden City (Kansas) Community College Tell of Water Withheld, Players Collapsing During Repeated Sprint Drills, Coach Jeff Sims Humiliating Braeden Bradforth As He Struggled Prior to Exertional Heat Stroke Death
by Irvin Muchnick Jeff...
January 2 | See It Now: Full Text of Paramedics’ 911 Narrative in the Football Conditioning Death of Braeden Bradforth at Garden City Community College in Kansas
On December 10, Concussion...

2018 (233)

December 31 | U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Deer-in-the-Headlights Founding CEO, Shellie Pfohl, Resigns and Lopes Back to the Bramble
by Irvin Muchnick Part...
December 31 | George Gibney 2019: What Happened Inside the Irish Government in the Immediate Aftermath of the Settlement of Our FOIA Case For Material From the American Immigration File of the Rapist Former Olympic Swimming Coach
PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS OF THIS...
December 30 | George Gibney 2019: December 2017 FOIA Settlement Documented U.S. Government Inaction and Set the Stage For New Action
PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS OF THIS...
December 29 | George Gibney 2019: Our Review Series Continues With Flashback to Federal Judge Breyer’s 2016 Decision in the FOIA Case For Department of Homeland Security Records on the Rapist Former Irish Olympic Swimming Coach
PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS OF THIS...
December 27 | George Gibney 2019: Fate of the Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in the History of Global Sports (‘The First Named Coach’) Hinges on Pressure of House Democrats on Executive Branch of President Donald Trump (‘Individual-1’)
(Complete chronological links...
December 23 | Mark Schubert, USA Swimming’s Alpha Male Authoritarian, and the Good Old Boys of the International Swimming Coaches Association
by Irvin Muchnick Last...
December 20 | Braeden Bradforth, College Football’s Latest Conditioning Death, Went From the Jersey Shore, to Recruitment by a Junior College in the Heart of the Heart of the Country, to a Kansas Morgue — All in the Span of Eight Days
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 20 | In Arguing That the Secret Ted Agu Death Berkeley Campus Police Reports Should Not Be Released, University of California Ignored Key Evidence. So We Gave It to the Court Ourselves.
by Irvin Muchnick Late...
December 19 | Full Text of Concussion Inc.’s Last Argument For Release of the 141-Page Binder of Berkeley Campus Police Reports in the 2014 Ted Agu Death in Cal Football Winter Conditioning
Below are the full texts of...
December 19 | Concussion Inc. to Court in Final Brief: The 141-Page Binder of Berkeley Campus Police Reports in the Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death ‘Should Be Turned Over Without Delay’
by Irvin Muchnick In...
December 16 | Garden City Community College in Kansas, Where Braeden Bradforth Was Killed on the First Day of Football Practice, Is a House of Many-Splendored Dysfunction
by Irvin Muchnick A...
December 14 | Now That Sports Illustrated Is Committed to ‘Updating Accordingly’ Its Erroneous Coach Jeff Sims-Fed Spin on the Cause of Braeden Bradforth’s Death, When Will the Magazine Decide to Do a, Like, Accountable Story About It?
by Irvin Muchnick A...
December 13 | Sports Illustrated Writer Promises ‘Update’ of Incorrect August Story About Braeden Bradforth Death That Echoed Garden City Community College Football Coach’s Spin That the Cause Was a Blood Clot, Rather Than Exertional Heat Stroke
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 11 | Echoes of Louisville High School Football Coach’s Reckless Homicide Prosecution in Exertional Heat Stroke Death Are Evident in Emerging Details About Coach Jeff Sims With Braeden Bradforth at Garden City Community College in Kansas
by Irvin Muchnick Last...
December 11 | Good-Guy Swim Coach Chris DeSantis Tells the Truth About the ‘Legendary’ Dick Shoulberg
Two weeks ago swimming coach...
December 10 | Braeden Bradforth Emergency Medical Services Report: Coach Told Paramedics the Stricken Player Was Hosed With Water to See If He Would Respond Before Call Was Made to 911
by Irvin Muchnick The...
December 8 | Joplin and Kansas Newspaper Coverage Starts Bringing the Heat to Coach Jeff Sims, Garden City Community College, Missouri Southern State University in Braeden Bradforth Death
by Irvin Muchnick All...
December 7 | Missouri Southern State University Finally Issues a Statement on New Football Coach Jeff Sims’ Role in Braeden Bradforth’s Death — An Appalling One That’s Not Really Even Public. The Joplin Globe Rolls Over For It.
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 7 | ‘Was Found in Some Water at the College, Unresponsive’
by Irvin Muchnick The...
December 6 | Braeden Bradforth Hospital Records: Stricken Garden City Community College Football Player Said To Be ‘In Water’ Before Transport to Emergency Room
by Irvin Muchnick The...
December 5 | Garden City CC Promises Administrators’ ‘Internal Review’ of Braeden Bradforth Autopsy Finding. The Investigation Must Have Two Prongs.
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 5 | Football Conditioning Death of Braeden Bradforth at Garden City Community College: Complete Links
College Football Just Had Its...
December 5 | Garden City Community College ‘Recognizes Importance’ of Exertional Heat Stroke Finding in Braeden Bradforth Football Conditioning Death
by Irvin Muchnick The...
December 4 | Why Did the Kansas Forensic Pathologist Specifically Go to the Trouble of Pointing Out ‘No Blood Clot’ in Death of Garden City Community College Football Player Braeden Bradforth?
by Irvin Muchnick In a...
December 2 | Garden City Community College Confirms It is Investigating Braeden Bradforth Death — But Missouri Southern State University, New Employer of Coach Jeff Sims, Remains Mum
by Irvin Muchnick New...
December 1 | CBS Sports Network Producer: Topic of Braeden Bradforth Death and Controversy Didn’t Arise ‘Naturally in the Flow’ of Junior College Football Championship Game Broadcast
by Irvin Muchnick In...
November 30 | After Braeden Bradforth Autopsy, His Mother’s Lawyer Vows to ‘Move Forward With Our Investigation and Provide Further Answers’
by Irvin Muchnick As...
November 29 | Coach Jeff Sims Emails Me That ‘GOD Has’ the Timing of His Player Braeden Bradforth’s Death
by Irvin Muchnick I...
November 29 | Braeden Bradforth Died of Heat Stroke — The ‘Non-Football-Related’ Spin of Garden City (Kansas) Community College Coach Jeff Sims Is Definitively Debunked by Long-Delayed Autopsy Findings
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 29 | BREAKING — Autopsy Findings Released in August Football Conditioning Death of Braeden Bradforth, Garden City (Kansas) Community College
Concussion Inc. has learned...
November 29 | Did Missouri Southern State University Ask Its New Football Coach Jeff Sims Anything About the Death on His Watch This Summer of Braeden Bradforth at Garden City (Kansas) Community College?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 28 | Is Jeff Sims of Junior College Championship Game’s Garden City (Kansas) — Now Headed to Missouri Southern State — the Latest Coach to Kill a Player in Football Conditioning Amidst a Community Cover-Up?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 21 | Matt Chaney Guest Column: ‘Football Denial Stands Historical and Perpetual, California and Elsewhere’
While we await a final ruling...
November 20 | Full Text of Court’s Tentative Ruling Yesterday in Concussion Inc. Motion For Release of UC Berkeley Campus Police 141 Pages of Reports on 2014 Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death
Below is the full text of the...
November 20 | ‘Not Persuaded’ by University of California, Judge in Our Public Records Act Lawsuit For Ted Agu Football Death Papers Asks For Evidence That 141-Page Berkeley Campus Police Binder Involved ‘Suspicion of Criminal Activity’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 16 | Two Sarah Ehekircher Teammates Step Forward With Statements to USA Swimming Supporting Her Abuse Case Against Scott MacFarland — One Recants ‘Entirely Inaccurate’ 2010 Affidavit Defending Him
by Irvin Muchnick In...
November 14 | More Than Three Months Later, Still No Autopsy Report in the Most Recent Football Conditioning Death: Braeden Bradforth, Garden City Community College in Kansas
by Irvin Muchnick A...
November 11 | Berkeley Campus Police Chief Margo Bennett Has a Credibility Problem With Her Claim to the Court That Vice Chancellor’s Note About PR in the Aftermath of the Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death ‘Was Not Directed to Me’
by Irvin Muchnick An...
November 9 | Full Text of Final Court Brief in California Public Records Act Case For 141-Page Berkeley Campus Police File on Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death
Below are the full texts of...
November 9 | Final Court Brief For Secret 141-Page Berkeley Campus Police ‘Binder’: ‘Overwhelming Evidence of National Interest in Football Conditioning Deaths, Including Ted Agu’s, and University of California’s Cover-Up’
Sunday at Concussion Inc.:...
November 1 | What DJ Durkin Firing at Maryland Means For College Football Coach Accountability — And For the Search For Full Truth in 2014 Conditioning Death of University of California’s Ted Agu
by Irvin Muchnick As...
October 31 | DJ Durkin Fired at Maryland Amid Family, Player, Campus, State Politician Protests; Details and Analysis Tomorrow
...
October 31 | Whitewash of Maryland Coach DJ Durkin in Jordan McNair Football Death Sharpens Focus on Public Records Fight for Campus Police Reports in Ted Agu Death at Cal. (And Don’t Forget Braeden Bradforth at a Kansas Community College.)
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 25 | Sarah Ehekircher at ‘Olympians Rising’: ‘Is the media keeping USA Swimming’s dirty little secret on sexual abuse?
As we reported in advance,...
October 23 | USA Swimming Chief Tim Hinchey Bails on Tomorrow’s Scheduled Meeting With Grooming-Abuse Victim Sarah Ehekircher and Attorney Jonathan Little
by Irvin Muchnick Two...
October 19 | Seven Reasons Why a California Court Should Order Release of the Berkeley Campus Police’s 141 Pages of Reports and Supplements in the Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 17 | Here’s the Table of Contents of the Secret 141-Page Berkeley Campus Police Ted Agu Death Report ‘Binder’ We’re Seeking in California Court
In the declaration...
October 16 | Full Text of Our Court Filing Today Asking For Release of 141 Pages of Secret University of California-Berkeley Campus Police Reports on 2014 Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death
Concussion Inc. has asked...
October 16 | Concussion Inc. Asks Court to Compel Release of University of California-Berkeley’s Secret 141-Page ‘Binder’ of Campus Police Reports Following 2014 Football Conditioning Death of Ted Agu
by Irvin Muchnick In a...
October 14 | U.S. Center for SafeSport Claims It Is Near a Decision in Sarah Ehekircher’s Complaint Against Groomer-Abuser Coach Scott MacFarland — And Against USA Swimming’s Biased and Inadequate 2010 Investigation
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 3 | Judge in Our Public Records Act Case For University of California Documents in the Ted Agu Football Death Warns of Sanctions If There Is ‘Any Delay’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 27 | JUDGE ORDERS QUICK BRIEFING ON RELEASE OF BERKELEY CAMPUS POLICE 141-PAGE REPORT IN 2014 TED AGU FOOTBALL DEATH; CLIMACTIC DISPUTE OF OUR PUBLIC RECORDS ACT CASE AGAINST UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 27 | As Court Fight Climaxes Over Release of 141 Pages of Campus Police Reports in the 2014 Ted Agu Football Death, HBO’s ‘Real Sports’ Puts UC Berkeley and Former Conditioning Coach Damon Harrington Under the Microscope
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 25 | Here’s (Redacted) Table of Contents of 141 Pages of Secret UC Berkeley Campus Police Reports After the Ted Agu Football Death — We’re Asking a California Court to Compel Release
“John, regarding the...
September 24 | Was UC Berkeley Campus Police’s Mission Public Safety — Or Support of Institutional Cover-Up? More Background For Our Court Request For Release of 141 Pages of Campus Police Reports in Ted Agu Football Death
“John, regarding the...
September 23 | University of Maryland Just Released Its Investigation of the Jordan McNair Football Conditioning Death. UC Berkeley’s Secret 141-Page Campus Police Report Is the Closest Thing to an Investigation of the Ted Agu Death.
“John, regarding the...
September 21 | NEW TED AGU PAPERS: As Public Records Act Case Awaits Court Moves on 141-Page Campus Police Report in 2014 Football Death, A New Outline of Internal University of California Emails Is Revealed
by Irvin Muchnick Last...
September 18 | Case Management Report to Judge Jeffrey S. Brand: Release of UC Berkeley ‘Binder’ of Campus Police Reports in 2014 Ted Agu Football Death Focuses Public Records Act Lawsuit to Its ‘Most Salient Dispute’
The previous post here today...
September 18 | Concussion Inc. Asks Judge to Schedule Briefing on Release of 141 Pages of UC Berkeley Campus Police Reports in 2014 Ted Agu Football Death
by Irvin Muchnick In...
September 17 | Former Oklahoma Team Doctor Eichner: “Football ‘conditioning’ is out of control and killing our kids”
Last week Dr. E. Randy...
September 15 | Ryan Lochte’s Father — Recently Retired Swim Coach Steven Lochte — Is a New Addition to the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Little-Noticed ‘Interim Suspension’ List
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 13 | See It Now — Full Transcripts of the Depositions Showing That University of California Football Team Doc Casey Batten Misled the Alameda County Coroner on the Cause of the 2014 Death of Ted Agu
PREVIOUSLY: NEW TED...
September 12 | Cal Football Doc Casey Batten Spun, Lobbied, Misled Coroner in Ted Agu Death. Only Question Is: Did Batten Do This on His Own?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 11 | Tweeting the Current Essentials of the Story of the 2014 Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up at the University of California-Berkeley
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September 11 | NEW TED AGU PAPERS: Background of University of California Team Doctor’s Deception of Coroner in 2014 Football Death Is Revealed in Internal Emails
by Irvin Muchnick At...
August 29 | Gary O’Toole, Whistleblower of Irish Swim Coach Monster George Gibney: ‘I Always Thought Peter Banks Knew Something and Said Nothing.’ Is Tampa’s Berkeley Preparatory School Still Listening to the Sound of Silence?
PREVIOUSLY: “BREAKING:...
August 26 | Berkeley Prep School Headmaster Joseph Seivold and Athletic Director Bobby Reinhart Must Make Their New Hire Peter Banks Clear the Air Surrounding Any Association With Rapist Irish Olympic Swim Coach George Gibney’s U.S. Immigration
by Irvin Muchnick The...
August 24 | BREAKING: Peter Banks — Irish-American Swim Coach With Close Ties to Rapist Former Irish Olympic Coach George Gibney and to Questions About Gibney’s American Immigration — Surfaces at Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa, Florida
by Irvin Muchnick A...
August 20 | Do As I Say, Not As I Do: San Francisco Chronicle Reminds Us, ‘Good Journalism Is Vital in Sports, Too’
by Irvin Muchnick The...
August 17 | How Much Is the Underfunded U.S. Center for SafeSport Paying PR Con Man Dan Hill? Chief Executive Shellie Pfohl Won’t Say
by Irvin Muchnick The...
August 17 | BREAKING: Peter Banks — Irish Assistant to Fugitive Rapist George Gibney and a Former American Swimming Coaches Association Official — Is Out at Florida Swim Club
by Irvin Muchnick A...
August 16 | University of Maryland Dumps Football Conditioning Coach Rick Court For Killing Jordan McNair. University of California Didn’t Dump Football Conditioning Coach Damon Harrington For Killing Ted Agu.
by Irvin Muchnick The...
August 14 | Remembering Bart Nolan — Champion of the Quest for Justice for the Victims of Fugitive Rapist Irish Olympic Swim Coach George Gibney
Reprinted with permission...
August 13 | Did 911 Call and Rhabdomyolysis Hospitalization of Cal Football Player During Winter Conditioning Motivate Further Delay in Release of ‘Independent’ Program Review?
by Irvin Muchnick The...
August 12 | Where University of Maryland Meets University of California: Collected Football Death Flashback Links
Football Death Flashback 1...
August 12 | Football Death Flashback 7 (4/23/16): Ted Agu’s Teammate Went to Berkeley Campus Police And Detailed Conditioning Coach Harrington’s Role in Earlier Player-on-Player Assault
Our article earlier today...
August 12 | Football Death Flashback 6 (6/25/16): Cal’s Damon Harrington’s ‘Massive Punishment Session Before Entire Team’ and Extreme Drill Called ‘Grave Digger’
Our article earlier today...
August 12 | Football Death Flashback 5 (5/29/16): Coroner Testified That Cal Doctor Casey Batten Impeded Death Investigation
Our article earlier today...
August 12 | Football Death Flashback 4 (5/23/16): Berkeley Campus Police Withheld From Sheriff and Coroner 100+ Pages of Death Investigation — Including Teammates’ Statements
Our article earlier today...
August 12 | Football Death Flashback 3 (5/17/16): Lies and Evasions of Cal Head Coach Sonny Dykes and Staff After Ted Agu Perished
Our article earlier today...
August 12 | Football Death Flashback 2 (5/16/16): Fatal Drill ‘Like an Army Movie’; Coach Harrington’s Taunt ‘Berkeley Was Making Us Soft’; Ted Agu’s Close Friend Transferred in Disgust
Our article earlier today...
August 12 | Football Death Flashback 1 (5/11/16): Cal Conditioning Coach’s ‘Punishment Drills,’ ‘Swagger Games,’ ‘Down South Mental Toughness’
Our article earlier today...
August 12 | What’s Happening Now at University of Maryland Football After the Jordan McNair Death Is What Should Have Happened at the University of California After the 2014 Ted Agu Death
by Irvin Muchnick The...
August 9 | Be VERY Skeptical of the Early Spin That Kansas College Player Braeden Bradforth’s Conditioning Death Last Week Was Not Football-Related
by Irvin Muchnick Did...
August 8 | U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Con Man PR Contractor Told Me His Employees ‘Would Never Lie For Me.’ So Far, He’s Right About That.
Complete related links:...
August 8 | Update on Sarah Ehekircher Case at U.S. Center for SafeSport
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 6 | U.S. Center for SafeSport’s PR Spear Carrier, Dan Hill, Is Straight Out of the USA Swimming Troll-the-Critics Playbook
by Irvin Muchnick...
August 6 | Complete Chronological Links to Our Coverage of the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Con Men ‘Legal Affairs Director’ and PR Coordinator
Sarah Ehekircher,...
August 5 | U.S. Center for SafeSport’s PR Person Is a Con Man, Too — Fabricates Conversation ‘On Speaker Phone’ With Concussion Inc.
by Irvin Muchnick The...
August 3 | In Scary Echo of 2014 Ted Agu Cal Football Death, Another Player With Sickle Cell Trait Was Hospitalized in Berkeley With an Overexertion Muscle-Death Syndrome — Here Are Exclusive Details
by Irvin Muchnick Four...
August 3 | College Football Just Had Its 33rd Conditioning Drill Death Since 2000 — Braeden Bradforth, Garden City (Kansas) Community College
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 1 | University of California Lawyer Describes for Judge in Our Public Records Act Case a ‘Binder’ of Police Documents in the Ted Agu Football Death Totaling 141 Pages
by Irvin Muchnick A...
July 29 | Public Is Getting Wise to the U.S. Center for SafeSport Scam. What Is Congress Going to Do About It?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 26 | Anti-Abuse Group Cancels Appearance at International Swim Coaches Association Event Because of Mark Schubert Involvement
by Irvin Muchnick A...
July 25 | Timeline of the University of California’s Concealments and Feints Over a 141-Page Campus Police Report in 2014 on the Death of Football Player Ted Agu
PREVIOUSLY: “Concussion...
July 24 | Full Text of Our Reply Brief on University of California’s Arrogant Refusal to Produce a Substantive Legal Response in Public Records Act Litigation Over Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up Documents
The previous post explained...
July 24 | Concussion Inc. to Judge: Court Sanctions May Be Required to Stop University of California’s Stonewall Tactics in Ted Agu Football Death Public Records Case
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 24 | Flashback: Editor Who Is Being Brought in to Dismantle the New York Daily News Comes From Tronc’s Bullpen in Allentown
The Tronc company has...
July 19 | U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Con Man Legal Affairs Director, Michael Henry, Has a New Title — ‘Director, Investigations & Outcomes’
by Irvin Muchnick The...
July 8 | Heat Is on USA Swimming’s Alpha Bad Guy Coach Mark Schubert — Whose Story Has Key Connections to Sarah Ehekircher Abuser Scott MacFarland. Here’s a Nugget the Mainstream Coverage of Schubert Is Omitting.
by Irvin Muchnick Six...
July 6 | USA Swimming Met A Second Time With Sarah Ehekircher, But Has Fallen Silent on Banning Scott MacFarland or Releasing Records From the 2010 Investigation
by Irvin Muchnick (I...
June 20 | George Gibney Got to U.S. With a Diversity Lottery Visa and Lied on His Citizenship Application — But Apparently He’s Not the Type ICE Likes to Bust
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 19 | Canadian Human Rights Commission Will Review Dead-End Investigation of Abuses of Native Students by John Furlong — Olympic Potentate and Former Irish School Colleague of Rapist Swimming Coach Fugitive George Gibney
by Irvin Muchnick In a...
June 18 | University of Maryland Won’t Disclose Cause of Football’s Latest Conditioning Death — Another Case With Strong Echoes of Ted Agu at Cal in 2014
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 17 | Program Note on Developing Stories at Concussion Inc.
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 14 | Sarah Ehekircher Update: SafeSport Center Falls Silent, But USA Swimming Chief Hinchey Sets Second Meeting and Gives Up 2010 Hearing Transcript; Congressional Probes Improve
by Irvin Muchnick Is...
June 12 | Full Text of Our Motion on Privacy Issues in ‘Muchnick v. UC Regents’ — Public Records Act Case For Documents Related to Ted Agu’s 2014 Cal Football Death
As just reported here,...
June 12 | Concussion Inc. Tells Court in Public Records Act Case of University of California’s ‘Shifting Grounds for Withholding or Disclosing the Agu Documents’; Asks For Immediate Release of 141-Page Campus Police Report on 2014 Football Death
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 10 | Better Late Than Never, San Francisco Chronicle Tells Some of the Very History It Participated in Burying About the Cal Football Conditioning Program That Killed Ted Agu
by Irvin Muchnick With...
June 4 | Sleazy Emails From U.S. Center for SafeSport Expose Con of Sarah Ehekircher Before Meeting With Senior Investigator Kathleen Smith and Director of Legal Affairs Michael Henry
by Irvin Muchnick The...
June 3 | Turns Out That Sarah Ehekircher Squared Off Against Not One But Two ‘Non-Practicing Lawyers’ — Her U.S. Center for SafeSport ‘Investigator’ As Well As the ‘Director of Legal Affairs’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 31 | U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Sandbagging of Abuse Complainant Sarah Ehekircher by Legal Affairs Director Michael Henry Should Blow Up This New Agency Without Further Ado
by Irvin Muchnick Who is...
May 29 | U.S. Center for SafeSport Cons Sarah Ehekircher Into Meeting With Its Top Lawyer — Uses Other Despicable Tactics Straight Out of the Old USA Swimming Revictimization Playbook
by Irvin Muchnick As...
May 28 | Does Existing Law Give USOC the Authority It Needs to Root Out Sexual Abuse? Champion Women’s Nancy Hogshead-Makar Says ‘Yes’
by Irvin Muchnick One...
May 24 | Yesterday’s House Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing on Olympic Sports Body Abuse Accomplished Somewhere Between Little and Nothing
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 24 | Ireland’s Broadsheet: ‘Opening an Investigation Into George Gibney’
Opening An Investigation Into...
May 23 | The World Is Watching the Congressional Hearings on Coach Abuse With the Olympic Sports Chiefs. I’m Watching the Watchers.
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 22 | U.S. CENTER FOR SAFESPORT OPENS INVESTIGATION OF RAPIST IRISH OLYMPIC SWIM COACH GEORGE GIBNEY — HAS LIVED IN THE U.S. SINCE THE MID-1990s
by Irvin Muchnick At...
May 22 | Berkeley Campus Police’s Withholding From County Sheriff of 112 Pages of Reports Is Part of the ‘Third Layer’ of the Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
by Irvin Muchnick One...
May 21 | Read the Full Deposition on the 141-Page UC Berkeley Campus Police Report Following Ted Agu Football Death That Was Withheld From the Alameda County Sheriff — And Continues to Be Hidden in Our Public Records Act Case
...
May 20 | Must Viewing: Dani Bostick’s Talk, ‘A Voice to the Silent’
Another USA Swimming victim I...
May 20 | Sarah Ehekircher Guest Column: ‘What I Would Say To Congress If I Were Testifying This Week’
Both House of...
May 19 | ‘Is the Sheriff’s Office Aware That the UC Berkeley Campus Police Report on Ted Agu’s Death Is Not 29 Pages Sent to You — But 141 Pages?’ ‘No.’
Below, Concussion Inc. is...
May 18 | Our California Public Records Act Lawsuit For More Ted Agu Football Death Papers Focuses on 100-Plus Pages of Campus Police Reports That Were Concealed From Sheriff and Coroner
by Irvin Muchnick In...
May 15 | ‘Taekwondo Sexual Abuse Takes Olympic Sports Bodies into Human Trafficking and Class Action’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
This article was originally...
May 13 | Sarah Ehekircher, Who Just Got Scott MacFarland Booted From Swimming 30+ Years After He Groomed and Abused Her, Is Talking With Congressional Investigators About the Bigger Picture
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 10 | Former FDA Official Daniel Fabricant, Now an Industry Lobbyist, Huffs and Puffs at Anthony Roberts Article Exposing His Shocking Misconduct
by Irvin Muchnick My...
May 9 | Suppose They Had a Class Action Against USA Swimming — And the Class Was the Hundreds of Thousands of Members Against Whom Fraud Got Perpetrated With Use of Their Dues to Fund the ‘Safe Sport’ Program?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 8 | ‘Taekwondo Sexual Abuse Takes Olympic Sports Bodies Into Human Trafficking and Class Action’ — Today at Beyond Chron
The latest explosive sexual...
May 6 | ‘Years later, questions remain regarding football player Ted Agu’s death’ (full text from the Daily Cal)
This article was originally...
May 5 | Speed Skating Canada, Like US Speedskating Before It, Parts Ways With Michael Crowe, But Doesn’t Clarify Misconduct Allegations
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 4 | From the Archives: Complete Pre-History of the Finally Settled ‘Freelance’ Copyright Class Action — a.k.a., ‘In re Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation’
by Irvin Muchnick As...
May 4 | Muchnick Op-Ed in Daily Cal Probes the Long Tail of the Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up
On March 20, 2014 – six...
May 2 | Sarah Ehekircher’s Meeting With USA Swimming Chief Tim Hinchey Still Leaves an Impasse Over Release of the Flawed 2010 National Board of Review Transcript
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 2 | Craig Lord Shuts Down SwimVortex — And Stays Silent Over the Mystery ‘Documents’ That He Claimed Exonerate American Swimming Coaches Association Boss John Leonard in the George Gibney Cover-Up
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 1 | Publishers Weekly: ‘After 17 Years of Litigation, “Freelance” Writers Finally Collect’
...
April 30 | Irish Media Coverage of George Gibney Complaint to U.S. Center for SafeSport and Appeal to Congresswoman DeGette
“Gibney’s Victims...
April 29 | Flashback: Trump’s Russia Ties Included Promoting MMA Great Fedor Emelianenko
The reprint below is...
April 27 | Cal Finally Readies Release of ‘Do-Over’ Report on Football Strength and Conditioning Program That Killed Ted Agu in 2014
by Irvin Muchnick One...
April 26 | Judge Sets ‘Framework’ For Listing Documents in California Public Records Act Lawsuit For UC Berkeley Administrators’ Documents Relating to 2014 Ted Agu Football Death
by Irvin Muchnick For...
April 26 | Irish Politician Maureen O’Sullivan Files For U.S. Center For SafeSport Investigation of George Gibney and Seeks Support of Congresswoman Diana DeGette of Colorado
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 25 | Sarah Ehekircher’s Statement on Her Groomer/Abuser Scott MacFarland’s Removal From the Magnolia Aquatic Club
As noted here yesterday,...
April 24 | Scott MacFarland, Sarah Ehekircher’s Groomer-Abuser, Disappears From Website of Houston’s Magnolia Aquatic Club
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 24 | Chris DeSantis on Sarah Ehekircher’s Upcoming Meeting With USA Swimming Chief Tim Hinchey
“Pretty much everyone...
April 24 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Calls Bruno Sammartino ‘One of Promoter Sam Muchnick’s Biggest Draws.’ Huh?
by Irvin Muchnick The...
April 22 | New SafeSport Center Probes Vague Charge Against Scott MacFarland; Abuse Victim Sarah Ehekircher Expresses Skepticism — Also Is Meeting With Congresswoman and USA Swimming Chief
by Irvin Muchnick The...
April 20 | Help Wanted: USA Swimming Safe Sport Director
by Irvin Muchnick USA...
April 18 | Pro Wrestling Great Bruno Sammartino Has Died at 82. My Relationship With Him Was Complicated.
Bruno Sammartino, the...
April 16 | Brain-Injured Hollywood Stuntwoman Leslie Hoffman’s Ongoing Fight With the Screen Actors Guild Is (Again) in the Hands of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 9 | Gordet Declaration: University of California Lawyer Told Us His Office Had ‘Experts’ on Federal Educational Records Privacy Act
I, Roy S. Gordet, under...
April 9 | Muchnick Declaration: University of California in a ‘Tawdry’ Attempt to Squelch Investigation of Circumstances of Ted Agu Football Death
I, Irvin Muchnick, declare...
April 9 | Full Text of Concussion Inc.’s Brief in Alameda County Superior Court Responding to University of California Motion For Protective Order to Prevent an Index of Withheld Documents Relating to Ted Agu Football Death
I. Introduction and Summary...
April 9 | Concussion Inc. to Court: University of California Failure to Explain Why It Shouldn’t Produce Index of Documents on Ted Agu Football Death Adds Up to ‘Unfulfilled Promises’
“In a feeble attempt to...
March 30 | Houston Chronicle’s Nose Is Growing on ‘Cutting For Space’ Explanation; More Likely It’s Self-Censoring Article on U.S. Center for SafeSport Investigation of Local Coach and Accused Groomer-Abuser James Scott MacFarland
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 30 | Chris DeSantis: ‘SafeSport Needs Absolute Transparency’
As referenced at the C DeS...
March 28 | While the World Watches, Sarah Ehekircher’s Case and Others Move Forward at the U.S. Center for SafeSport
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 28 | Congresswoman Jackie Speier Refers George Gibney Immigration Questions and Irish Extradition Campaign to House Judiciary Committee: Press Report
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 27 | Craig ‘I’m a Journalist’ Lord of SwimVortex Is ‘Working On’ a Story About ‘Documents’ That Purport to Show American Swimming Coaches Association’s John Leonard Did Right in George Gibney’s U.S. Visa and Colorado Coaching Job Scenario
by Irvin Muchnick When...
March 26 | Confusion Surrounds James Scott MacFarland’s Status at Houston’s Magnolia Aquatic Club in Wake of U.S. Center for SafeSport’s New Investigation of Sarah Ehekircher’s Grooming-Abuse Allegations
by Irvin Muchnick USA...
March 26 | James Scott MacFarland — Accused Groomer-Abuser of Sarah Ehekircher — Is Scrubbed at Houston’s Magnolia Aquatic Club
The alert Chris DeSantis...
March 25 | Houston Chronicle to Cover U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Reopening of USA Swimming’s Investigation of Sarah Ehekircher’s Grooming-Abuse Allegations Against Coach James Scott MacFarland
by Irvin Muchnick The...
March 22 | John Leonard’s Mouthpiece, Craig Lord of SwimVortex, ‘Will Think About’ Sharing Purported Documents of American Swimming Coaches Association Chief’s ‘Damning Evidence’ That Supposedly Kept George Gibney From Getting Employed in Colorado
by Irvin Muchnick As...
March 22 | Arvada (Colorado) Police Issue Second and Different Description of Sgt. Jo Ann Rzeppa’s 1995 Report on George Gibney; Deny That Detective Had Connection to the North Jeffco Swim Team
PREVIOUSLY: “As...
March 21 | Twitter Digest of the Current Status of the Mystery of George Gibney at the North Jeffco Swim Club Out of Apex Park & Rec in Arvada, Colorado
Irvin Muchnick”...
March 20 | Colorado Park & Rec Lawyer Says We Don’t Know Anything About George Gibney … or Ken ‘Kelly’. Concussion Inc. Responds.
Below is the full text of a...
March 20 | A (Teeth-Pulling) Q & A With Andy Lehner — Who Coached Shortly After Rapist Former Irish Olympic Coach George Gibney at USA Swimming’s North Jeffco Club Out of the Apex Park and Recreation District in Arvada, Colorado
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 19 | Colorado Cop Who Investigated George Gibney in 1995 Was the Mother of a Swimmer in His North Jeffco Program: Sources
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 18 | U.S. Center for SafeSport Must Carefully Shadow USA Swimming’s Disgraceful 2010 Hearing of Allegations Against James Scott MacFarland. First Stop: Pro-MacFarland Testimony From His Best Friend — ASCA Hall of Fame Coach Bob Gillett.
by Irvin Muchnick A...
March 17 | Congratulations to SwimSwam on Picking Up Our MacFarland-Ehekircher Coverage —
— and adding a few new...
March 16 | Follow Us on Twitter (@irvmuch)
Irvin Muchnick”...
March 16 | EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Center for SafeSport Is Revisiting Sarah Ehekircher’s Complaint to USA Swimming That Coach James Scott MacFarland Groomed and Had Sex With Her Beginning When She Was 17
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 15 | John Leonard, Chief Visa Fixer for the American Swimming Coaches Association — And Five-Star General of Chickenhawk Nation
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 14 | As Questions Persist Over Hire of George Gibney by North Jeffco Hurricanes — And the Role of the American Swimming Coaches Association — Let’s Review the 1995 and 2000 Reports on Gibney by Suburban Denver Police Departments
by Irvin Muchnick The...
March 13 | North Jeffco (Colorado) Hurricanes’ Stonewalling of How They Came to Hire the Rapist Former Head Coach of the Irish Olympic Swimming Team = A Story Guaranteed Not to End Well
by Irvin Muchnick In...
March 12 | Co-Head Coaches of North Jeffco Hurricanes — USA Swimming’s Club in Arvada, Colorado — Are Mum on Circumstances of the 1990s Hire of George Gibney, Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in Global Sports History
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 11 | As We Watch U.S. Center for SafeSport Boot Up Solutions — or Simply Reboot the USA Swimming Safe Sport Cover-Up — Remember This: Child Sex Abuse Is Not an ‘Athletes’ Rights Issue’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 9 | What American Swimming Coaches Association Boss John Leonard Is Now Saying About ASCA and George Gibney Doesn’t Add Up
by Irvin Muchnick In...
March 8 | Podcast Interview With Chris DeSantis Is Up
“The Journalist Who...
March 8 | USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus’s Email Response to Hearing of Sarah Ehekircher’s Grooming and Abuse by Coach Scott MacFarland: ‘My Gosh … I Am Copying Our Legal Counsel …’
Here is the full text of an...
March 7 | A Very Nice Note by Good-Guy Swim Coach Chris DeSantis
Chris DeSantis, one of the...
March 7 | What Sarah Ehekircher Says ASCA’s John Leonard Told Her About His Military Career — And What Leonard Said About It in a 2012 Deposition
“Throughout the months...
March 7 | ASCA Boss John Leonard ‘Categorically Denies’ Sarah Ehekircher’s Sexual Harassment Allegations; Captive Swimming Industry Publication’s Article Also Smears Ehekircher and Concussion Inc.
PREVIOUSLY: “Sarah,...
March 7 | Sarah Ehekircher Describes the American Swimming Coaches Association’s John Leonard As the Boss From Hell — And a Creep and Sex Harasser to Boot
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 6 | Muchnick in Outside Magazine: ‘It’s Time to Fix Sports’ Sexual-Abuse Culture — for Good’
I’ve been covering...
March 6 | Sarah Ehekircher, Long-Time Coach, Tells of Her Youth Grooming and Abuse by Scott MacFarland, Her ‘Revictimization’ by USA Swimming’s 2010 Investigation, and Her Sexual Harassment by American Swimming Coaches Association Boss John Leonard
by Irvin Muchnick A...
March 3 | Yes, the George Gibney Story Is About Justice at Long Last For His Many Victims. But It’s Also About Accountability For the American Government and Swimming Establishment.
by Irvin Muchnick As noted in...
March 3 | Irish Times: “No justice, no peace for the victims of George Gibney”
This excellent overview of...
March 2 | Ireland’s Broadsheet: ‘You Can’t Call George Gibney a Paedophile’
As we wait for Johnny...
March 1 | Big George Gibney Piece Drops This Weekend From Johnny Watterson of the Irish Times
Sports columnist Johnny...
March 1 | American Swimming Coaches Association Board Member Says Executive Director John Leonard Will Be Pressed on Whether ASCA Helped George Gibney’s 1992 U.S. Visa
by Irvin Muchnick A...
February 28 | Court Directs University of California to Justify Withholding an Index of Documents in Concussion Inc.’s Public Records Act Case Involving Football Player Ted Agu’s Death
by Irvin Muchnick The...
February 28 | American Swimming Coaches Association President Doesn’t Deny Possibility of ASCA Involvement in the Coaching Offer to George Gibney That Coincided With His Successful 1992 U.S. Visa Application
by Irvin Muchnick The...
February 27 | See It Now (see it again) — USA Swimming Investigator’s Report of His 2004 Interview With the Victim Complaining of Brazilian Coach Alex Pussieldi’s Physical Assault and Hidden-Camera Peeping
PREVIOUSLY: USA...
February 26 | USA Swimming’s Resigned and Disgraced ‘Safe Sport’ Director Susan Woessner Promised to ‘Right That Wrong’ on the Failure to Ban Brazilian Human Trafficker and Peeping Tom Coach Alex Pussieldi 10 Years Earlier — Then Did Nothing
“I understand your...
February 25 | USA Swimming’s ‘Safe Sport’ Program Is a Fraud. For Proof, Read Now-Deposed Founding Director Susan Woessner’s Sworn Court Testimony.
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 23 | There’s Work to Be Done by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in Investigating USA Swimming Abuse and Cover-Up — And the Committee Says It’s On It
by Irvin Muchnick We...
February 22 | Pat Hogan, USA Swimming’s Club Development Director, Resigns Along with Safe Sport Director Woessner — Most Infamous For Helping a Secretly Banned Olympic Coach Get a New Job at the Nearby Country Club Aquatics Center
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 22 | Susan Woessner Resigns as USA Swimming’s Safe Sport Director After Being Called Out For Her Relationship With Sean Hutchison — A Coach She Then Investigated
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 22 | Remembering and Honoring Sarah Burt Means Forcing Congressional Action Above and Beyond the Safe Sport Act of 2018
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 22 | Read the Powerful Open Letter to the USA Swimming Board of Directors by Coach Chris DeSantis — And Sign the Petition
Dear Members of the USA...
February 21 | ‘I Don’t See a Newsworthy Reason to Rehash the Previous Problems’ at USA Swimming — What the Editor of the Omaha World-Herald Told Me in 2012
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 21 | Meet the Fabulous Woessner Sisters of USA Swimming Corporate Headquarters. Susan Woessner Is the Director of Safe Sport. Geri Woessner Is the Business Development Manager.
And both starred in the...
February 21 | Concussion Inc. Tells Court ‘Further Delaying Tactics’ in California Public Records Act Case For Documents in 2014 Death of Cal Football Player Ted Agu ‘Are Unacceptable’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 20 | Major Media Outlets’ Tardy Investigations of USA Swimming Abuse and Cover-Up Are Welcome — Also Must Be Taken With a Silo of Sodium Chloride
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 19 | Muchnick Discusses New Scrutiny of USA Swimming Sexual Abuse on 96.9 The Game in Orlando
Growing attention to sexual...
February 15 | Let’s Contemplate Some Timeline and Jurisdictional Issues in Investigations of Sean Hutchison by Both USA Swimming Safe Sport and USOC’s National Center for Safe Sport
PREVIOUSLY: The...
February 14 | Concussion Inc.’s Pocket Guide For Congressional Investigators to Our Six Years of Coverage of the Scandals of USA Swimming Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up (Part 3, 2014)
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 12 | Concussion Inc.’s Pocket Guide For Congressional Investigators to Our Six Years of Coverage of the Scandals of USA Swimming Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up (Part 2, 2013)
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 11 | Concussion Inc.’s Pocket Guide For Congressional Investigators to Our Six Years of Coverage of the Scandals of USA Swimming Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up (Part 1, 2012)
by Irvin Muchnick USA...
February 9 | Key Links to Our Coverage of the Campaign to Extradite George Gibney
GEORGE GIBNEY FOIA SUIT...
February 9 | Rebroadcast — Free to All — of Ireland’s ‘Second Captains’ Episode on George Gibney
Here’s another push to...
February 8 | The ‘New’ Story From USA Swimming — Sean Hutchison’s Grooming of Ariana Kukors — Again Challenges Congress to Do Its Job and Hold Broad Hearings on Olympic Sports Youth Coach Abuse
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 6 | Ireland’s Broadsheet: ‘The Gibney-McCann Connection’
...
February 6 | Family in Ireland Fears Prison Release of Swim Coach Frank McCann — Who Murdered His Wife and Daughter and Is Also a Figure in the George Gibney Cover-Up
by Irvin Muchnick In...
February 2 | Irish Politician Maureen O’Sullivan and Journalist Justine McCarthy Discuss George Gibney on ‘Second Captains’ Podcast
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 30 | Some Things the House Energy and Commerce Committee Should Ask Olympics Chief Scott Blackmun When They Hold Promised Hearings on Sex Abuse at USA Swimming, USA Taekwondo, USA Gymnastics
by Irvin Muchnick In...
January 26 | House Energy and Commerce Committee Promises Hearing on Abuses in Swimming and Taekwondo, As Well As Gymnastics
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 26 | The Good People of Ireland Seeking George Gibney Justice Need to Give One More Good Shot at Help From the Good People of America
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 25 | Muchnick Discusses George Gibney on Ireland’s ‘Off the Ball’
“How did George Gibney...
January 24 | Ireland’s ‘Off the Ball’ With Two-Part Coverage of the New Campaign For George Gibney Justice; Muchnick Interview Will Air Thursday
Today Ireland’s Off the...
January 23 | How Was Olympic Coach Michael Crowe — Credibly Accused of Sexual Misconduct With His Athletes — Able to Glide So Easily From US Speedskating to Speed Skating Canada?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 22 | What Whistleblower Eva Rodansky Told US Speedskating’s Law Firm Five Years Ago About Coach Michael Crowe — Now Under Investigation in Canada
by Irvin Muchnick In a...
January 19 | Story of Defrocked U.S. Olympic Speedskating Coach Michael Crowe Blows Up at Speed Skating Canada … A Twitter Feed
Irvin Muchnick”...
January 18 | What American Speedskating Abuse Whistleblower Eva Rodansky Wrote About Busted Canadian Olympic Coach Michael Crowe — 12 Years Ago
Yesterday we forwarded the...
January 17 | US Speedskating Bad Actor Michael Crowe Is Shelved by Speed Skating Canada
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 16 | Helping Figures Like George Gibney Cross National Borders Is at the Heart of the American Swimming Coaches Association’s Business Model
Plaintiff Irvin Muchnick is a...
January 15 | Rapist Former Irish Olympic Swimming Coach George Gibney Has to Be on USA Swimming’s Secret ‘Flagged’ List — That Is, Unless the List Doesn’t Even Exist. Congress Could Tell Us.
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 14 | ‘Yeah, I Think I’ve Heard the Name’ — What the Late, Disgraced USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus Said About George Gibney in His 2010 Deposition in a Lawsuit by a Victim of Coach Sex Abuse
by Irvin Muchnick A...
January 13 | Flashback: Muchnick’s 2015 Denver Post Op-Ed, ‘USA Swimming’s Wielgus Has No Credibility — Reform Is a Job For Congress’
On Sunday, Concussion Inc....
January 11 | ‘I Don’t Know George Gibney and He Has Never Been a Member of Florida Swimming’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 4 | Ireland’s Broadsheet Echoes Our Call: FOIA Documents Show ‘There Is No Excuse’ For Further Irish-U.S. Inaction on George Gibney
This latest is an excellent...
January 3 | Ireland’s Murphy Inquiry Said George Gibney’s Victims ‘Were Vindicated’ by the Garda’s Evidence. But There’s Vindication and There’s Vindication.
by Irvin Muchnick As...
January 2 | Flashback: USA Swimming’s Offshore Reinsurance Scam Exemplified the Globalization of Youth Sports Sex Abuse Cover-Up
As the campaign heats up to...

2017 (152)

December 28 | Reprint of Times of London Article: ‘TD Demands Action From U.S. on George Gibney’
Below is the full text of an...
December 27 | “Call for Trump to deport accused Irish pedophile as part of immigration crackdown” — Irish Central
“An Irish politician is...
December 27 | What Ireland’s Maureen O’Sullivan Will Say to Americans — Including Sister Legislators in U.S.
London’sTimeshas...
December 27 | “Ireland TD O’Sullivan demands action from US on Gibney” — Times of London
“A TD has said that the...
December 26 | Will 2018 Be the Year Irish and American Law Enforcement Stop Talking in Code About George Gibney and Start Sharing Evidence of the Former Irish Olympic Swim Coach’s 1991 Rape in Tampa?
Former Irish Olympic Swim...
December 24 | On the Holidays … From Kimberly Archie’s ‘Faces of CTE’
The holidays are always tough...
December 22 | Former Irish Olympic Swim Coach George Gibney Is Credibly Accused of Raping and Impregnating a 17-Year-Old Swimmer in Tampa in 1991. Irish and American Police Agencies Must Share the Known Evidence.
by Irvin Muchnick The...
December 20 | New George Gibney Papers: U.S. Government Documents Curious Decision Not to Remove Former Irish Olympic Swim Coach Despite Numerous Sexual Abuse Allegations
by Irvin Muchnick The...
December 19 | Reviewing the Background of the New George Gibney Documents Just Released by the U.S. Government
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 18 | Reprint of Sunday Times of London Article: “Swimmer ‘Was to Expose George Gibney'”
Below is the full text of the...
December 17 | Shout-Out to Tamara Holder, Ex of Fox News — For Helping Give the George Gibney Story Legs and For Speaking Out About Her Own Tale of Horror at Rupert Murdoch’s Network
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December 17 | After George Gibney FOIA Win, Justice in the Many Criminal Cases of the Rapist Irish Olympic Swim Coach Now Rests Primarily With Action by the Americans
by Irvin Muchnick On...
December 16 | “Swimmer ‘was to expose Gibney'” — Sunday Times of London
“New information...
December 15 | Full Text of Aaron Rogan’s Two-Part Coverage For London’s Times — Bringing Us to the Brink of Breakthrough on George Gibney Justice
Below is the full text of two...
December 14 | Times of London, Ireland Edition: “Government is ready to take action in Gibney case'”
“Simon Coveney has said...
December 14 | Full Exchange Today at the Irish Parliament Regarding George Gibney, Between the Deputy Prime Minister and Legislator Maureen O’Sullivan
Below is the transcript of...
December 14 | BREAKING — Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister: New George Gibney Information About to Become Public ‘And We Will Act on It If We Can’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 13 | Irish Legislator Maureen O’Sullivan Guest Column: ‘My Concern Is For Victims of Abuse Who Have Never Had Justice’
Maureen O’Sullivan...
December 12 | Times of London: “Released files ‘bolster effort to deport Irish swimming coach’”
“Newly released files...
December 12 | GEORGE GIBNEY FOIA SUIT SETTLES AS GOVERNMENT ADMITS DECISION NOT TO DEPORT IRISH OLYMPIC SWIM COACH AFTER DENYING U.S. CITIZENSHIP — PLUS OTHER NEW INFO
Chronological links to our...
December 11 | As George Gibney FOIA Appeal Hovers, Here Are Five Things You Should Know About Youth Sports Coach Sex Abuse
Chronological headllne links...
December 7 | Florida Prosecutor to Address Implications of Video of George Gibney’s 1991 Florida Rape Victim
by Irvin Muchnick The...
December 5 | Fugitive Coach Danny Chocron’s Lawyer Responds to Coverage of His Venezuelan Swimming Federation Sanction
PREVIOUSLY: Danny Chocron...
December 2 | Flashback: Donald Trump Is Not Under Investigation. And Neither Was Vince McMahon.
Donald Trump, James Comey,...
November 30 | Ireland’s Broadsheet: ‘Time To Bring The Gibney Nightmare To A Close’
PREVIOUSLY: “In 2006...
November 29 | In 2006 Investigation on Ireland’s RTÉ TV, See George Gibney, Man Without a Country — Watched by Many But Prosecuted by None. Can That End Now?
by Irvin Muchnick At...
November 29 | See It Soon: Video Showing George Gibney Under American Law Enforcement Watch Goes Live Today
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 24 | USADA Chief Travis Tygart’s Conflict in Case of Bolles School Sex-Abusing Coach Danny Chocron Is Worse Than We Knew
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 15 | Danny Chocron — Coach Who Jumped Bail on Florida Sex Abuse Charges — Was Sanctioned by Venezuelan Swimming Federation After Concussion Inc.’s Reports
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 13 | In the Swirl of Newly Emerging Abuse Stories, Stop to Remember Sarah Burt — Again
by Irvin Muchnick As...
November 10 | Recapping the Week’s Coverage at Concussion Inc. — George Gibney Immigration, Diana Nyad / Jack Nelson, Ted Agu Death at Cal Football
GEORGE GIBNEY Last Saturday...
November 9 | University of California to Submit ‘Vaughn Index’ of Internal Documents on 2014 Ted Agu Football Death in Muchnick’s State Public Records Act Suit
by Irvin Muchnick The...
November 9 | Diana Nyad’s Swimming Hall of Fame Coach and Molester Jack Nelson — Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage
Congratulations, Diana...
November 9 | Diana Nyad in the New York Times: ‘My Life After Sexual Assault’
“Here I was, a...
November 8 | Key Takeaways From ‘Who Is Protecting George Gibney?’ at the Irish News Site Broadsheet
PREVIOUSLY: “George...
November 7 | Ireland’s Broadsheet: ‘Who Is Protecting George Gibney?’
PREVIOUSLY: “George...
November 5 | How George Gibney Lied on His 2010 Application For American Citizenship
PREVIOUSLY: “George...
November 5 | Reprint of Sunday Times of London Article: ‘Abuser Coach Gibney Denied U.S. Citizenship’
Below is the full text of the...
November 4 | ‘Abuser coach Gibney denied US citizenship’ — Sunday Times of London
“George Gibney, the...
November 4 | George Gibney’s 2010 Application For American Citizenship Was Rejected, With No Other Consequences, Federal Judge Said
Chronological links to our...
October 25 | Tom Humphries Case Prompts Irish Discussion of Similarities to George Gibney Story
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 24 | Prominent Irish Sportswriter Tom Humphries Sentenced in Text-Grooming and Sex Abuse Case
by Irvin Muchnick As...
October 23 | In a Tired Celebrity Media Ritual, Michael Phelps ‘Opens Up’ About Everything — Well, Everything Except the Sex Abuse Right Under His Nose in the Swimming World
by Irvin Muchnick As...
October 22 | Given a Platform to Discuss Sex Abuse in Swimming, Michael Phelps Swings and Misses
The tease in the push item...
October 20 | U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Head Travis Tygart’s Cover-Ups of Sex Abuse at USA Swimming: Complete Links
EXCLUSIVE: Travis Tygart,...
October 20 | Writer Anthony Roberts Rekindles the Heat on Anti-Doping Chief Travis Tygart, Who Helped Cover Up USA Swimming Sex Abuse
by Irvin Muchnick My...
October 18 | Judge Who Is Loose-Cannon Critic of Lehigh County District Attorney Martin Breaks Promise to Testify Against Him in SLAPP Suit
by Irvin Muchnick A...
October 17 | In South African Exile, Root George Gibney Victim and Whistleblower Chalkie White Talks to the Irish Independent
by Irvin Muchnick The...
October 16 | Harvey Weinstein and George Gibney
OK, the headline is...
October 2 | Remember Dominick Bess? 14-Year-Old Bronx Football Player’s Autopsy Apparently Still Awaiting Completion
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 28 | University of California Tells Court It Expects to Complete by November Its Review of Internal Documents on Football Player Ted Agu’s 2014 Death
by Irvin Muchnick In a...
September 27 | Behold Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee’s Kneel-Down on the House Floor … and Jess Lee Brooks in the Immortal 1941 Movie ‘Sullivan’s Travels’
by Irvin Muchnick On...
September 13 | University of British Columbia Accused of Violating First Nations Human Rights Over Speech of Apparent Former George Gibney Associate John Furlong
“The University of...
September 11 | Sam Muchnick Papers Footnote: Ties to the Real Knee-Capping, Pistol-Packing Mafia … NOT
PREVIOUSLY:...
September 10 | NFL Opener Special: Dr. Joseph Maroon, at His Day Job, Argues CTE With WWE’s Baron Corbin
by Irvin Muchnick The...
September 7 | Imagine That — Ty Cobb Isn’t Such a Bad Guy (I Think). Whereas John Dowd Seems to Believe That What Pete Rose Did Is Worse Than Everything Donald Trump Has Done.
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 1 | Allentown Morning Call, After Botching Coverage of Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Case, Botches Coverage of Prosecutor James Martin’s SLAPP Suit Against Critic Bill Villa
by Irvin Muchnick As...
August 29 | Op-Dud: New York Newspapers Reject Piece About High School Football Player’s Likely Death by Exertional Sickling Attack
As this article was being...
August 28 | Introducing the Sam Muchnick Papers: Correspondence With the Department of Justice, 1956-1964
by Irvin Muchnick As...
August 25 | Alert on Football Practice Death of Bronx Teen Dominick Bess — Quite Possibly Yet Another Covered-Up ‘Heart Attack’ That Is Actually Exertional Sickling
by Irvin Muchnick As...
August 10 | Our California Public Records Act Suit For More Hidden Ted Agu Documents at Cal Proceeds, As Player Practice Deaths Continue to Roil College Football
by Irvin Muchnick This...
August 7 | Flashback: Liar-in-Chief Trump, Senator Blumenthal, And the Chicken Hawks
Donald Trump is again after...
August 6 | Ex-Cal Football Conditioning Coach Damon Harrington Is a Perfect Fit at 100% African-American Grambling — Perfectly Dangerous, That Is
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July 29 | Irish Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Denham — Sister of George Gibney’s Lawyer in Case That Dropped Charges Against Him — Is Stepping Down
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 23 | Solly Fulp — UC Berkeley’s Inside and Outside Corporate Sponsorship Maven: Complete Links
On Friday we reported that...
July 21 | Controversial UC Berkeley Administrator, at Center of Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up, Goes Through Revolving Door to Join the Learfield University Marketing Firm
by Irvin Muchnick A...
July 20 | USA Gymnastics Adds Another Self-Styled Watchdog
“Child advocate, former...
July 16 | Flashback: 1995 Witness-Tampering Investigation of the Company of Trump’s Small Business Administration Chief
Text of New York Post on 1995...
July 15 | Flashback: When Trump Small Business Administration Chief Linda McMahon’s Husband Vince Stole Frank Deford’s Shoes
When Linda McMahon’s...
July 15 | Flashback: Trump Crony Vince McMahon Says, ‘See Ya Later, Congress.’
Muchnick Flashback:...
July 15 | Flashback: Donald Trump, James Comey, Vince McMahon — And the Meaning of ‘I Am Not Under Investigation’
Donald Trump, James Comey,...
July 11 | George Gibney FOIA Case, ‘Muchnick v. Department of Homeland Security,’ Remains in Federal Mediation
In response to readers who...
July 3 | “I Was 11. I Didn’t Fully Understand” … Irish news site Broadsheet
‘I Was 11. I...
July 3 | Multiple Corroborations of Existence of Burlington Hotel Pool Include a Photo of George Gibney With 11-Year-Old Swimming Star — And Future Whistleblower — Gary O’Toole
In the previous post we told...
July 3 | New 1982 Sexual Molestation Allegation Surfaces Against George Gibney — Former Irish Olympic Swim Coach and Subject of Concussion Inc.’s FOIA Suit
Complete chronological...
June 30 | Remember the Cal Football Strength and Conditioning Program Review 2.0? The University Is Betting That the Public Won’t
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 28 | USA Gymnastics Does the USA Swimming ‘Safe Sport’ Two-Step. But Congress Is Needed to Oversee Youth Sports Sex Abuse.
by Irvin Muchnick In a...
June 7 | Donald Trump, James Comey, Vince McMahon — And the Meaning of ‘I Am Not Under Investigation’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 30 | Frank Deford, Mozart of Sportswriters
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 28 | Murray Stephens Flashback 5: Where Is the International Swimming Hall of Fame on the Induction of Alleged Sex-Abuser Coaches?
Concussion Inc. has reported...
May 23 | Murray Stephens Flashback 4: Writer Tim Joyce Reviews the Story He Broke in Baltimore Swimming — And the Failure of Anyone Else to Report It
Concussion Inc. has reported...
May 19 | Murray Stephens Flashback 3: ‘Public Documents on North Baltimore Aquatic Club Sex Abuse Allegations Dangle in the Unhelpful Ozone’
Concussion Inc. has reported...
May 17 | Murray Stephens Flashback 2: Police ‘Searching’ For USA Swimming’s 2010 Letter About Sex Abuse Allegation That Led to Departure of North Baltimore Aquatic Club’s Hall of Fame Coach
Last week Concussion Inc....
May 15 | Murray Stephens Flashback 1: Baltimore County Police Acknowledged Letter From USA Swimming About ‘Alleged Incident’ at Michael Phelps Club
Last week Concussion Inc....
May 12 | University of California in Settlement Talks With Muchnick in Public Records Lawsuit For Additional Documents Related to Ted Agu Football Death
Counsel for the University of...
May 11 | Hall of Fame Coach Murray Stephens — Accused Sex Abuser Who Founded Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club — Resurfaces After Years Underground
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 8 | R.I.P. J Michael Kenyon — VERY Last of the Damon Runyon Characters
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 30 | ‘Lawsuit Against UC Regents Emblematic of Issues Facing College Football’ (full text from the Daily Cal)
This article was originally...
April 27 | Swim Coach Chris DeSantis: American Swimming Coaches Association ‘Waste of Money’ Run By ‘Con Man’
Reprinted with...
April 25 | Muchnick Op-Ed in Daily Cal on Public Records Act Lawsuit For Documents in 2014 Ted Agu Football Death
The Daily Californian, the...
April 24 | USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus Dies of Cancer; Presided Over 20 Years of Sex Abuse Cover-Ups
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 19 | Full Text of Complaint in California Public Records Act Lawsuit ‘Muchnick v. University of California’
PREVIOUSLY: Muchnick Sues...
April 18 | Muchnick Sues University of California For Additional Public Records in 2014 Death of Football Player Ted Agu
Author and journalist Irvin...
April 16 | New York Times Appears One-and-Done With the Olympic Sports Sex Abuse Story
by Irvin Muchnick Two...
April 7 | Flashback: ‘My Life of “O’Reilly”‘ (in honor of the current major advertiser exodus from ‘The O’Reilly Factor’)
The essay below was...
April 5 | Reviewing the Reasons USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus Should Be Fired During Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Probe of Amateur Sports Sex Abuse (Part 2, the Everett Uchiyama Cover-Up)
PREVIOUSLY: Call For...
April 4 | Reviewing the Reasons USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus Should Be Fired During Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Probe of Amateur Sports Sex Abuse (Part 1, the Will Colebank Cover-Up)
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 3 | San Francisco Chronicle Reporters May Also Have Received UC Berkeley Public Records Act Materials That Were Withheld For Nearly a Year from Concussion Inc.
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April 2 | Flashback — Denver Post: ‘Abuse in Youth Sports an Issue For Congress’
The essay below was...
April 2 | Call For Dismissal of USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus Now Accompanies Heat on USA Gymnastics
by Irvin Muchnick In...
March 30 | Cal Football Strength and Conditioning Program Review 2.0 Continues to Lurch Through Delays and Confusion
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March 27 | UC Berkeley’s Accounting of Concussion Inc.’s Public Record Act Requests In 2014 Death of Football Player Ted Agu Is Unclear, Untimely, Unreasonable
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March 15 | Germantown Academy Families: Forum on Fixing Bullying Climate at School Where Shoulberg Coached Swimming Didn’t Go Well
by Irvin Muchnick A...
March 9 | Tamara Holder, Who Just Settled a Sexual Assault Claim Against Fox News, Is the Only TV Journalist So Far Who Has Covered Our George Gibney FOIA Case
Tamara Holder, the former...
March 7 | USA Swimming Papers: FBI Documented Future USOC Drug Czar Travis Tygart Enabling Flight to Venezuela of Criminal Sex Abuser at His Alma Mater
by Irvin Muchnick A...
March 5 | Four Years Before Indianapolis Star Acquired USA Gymnastics Cover-Up Files, Concussion Inc. Reported FBI-Subpoenaed USA Swimming Cover-Up Files
by Irvin Muchnick The...
March 5 | Thomas R. Burke of Davis Wright Tremaine Directs Opposition to Trump Government’s Appeal of Concussion Inc.’s Win in George Gibney FOIA Case
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 1 | Abusive Swim Coaching Legend Dick Shoulberg’s Germantown Academy Gets a Fresh Coat of Psychobabble
by Irvin Muchnick Does...
February 28 | UC Berkeley Campus Newspaper Confirms That Public Records Office Had Already Given It Police Incident Report on Football Player’s 2013 Attack on Teammate
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February 26 | Congressman George Miller´s Failed 2013-14 Investigation of USA Swimming Sex Abuse: Comprehensive Chronological Links
Congressman George...
February 21 | Muchnick Interview on Olympic Sports Body Sex Abuse on Orlando’s 96.9 The Game
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February 21 | Can Senator Dianne Feinstein Find Success on Oversight of Olympic Sports Body Sex Abuse, Where Congressman George Miller Failed?
At 7:17 EST this morning, on...
February 20 | More Breaking Major Media Coverage of the Olympic Sport Governing Bodies’ Sex Abuse and Cover-Up Scandals
PREVIOUSLY: Senator Feinstein...
February 19 | Trump’s Russia Ties Included Promoting MMA Great Fedor Emelianenko
by Irvin Muchnick The...
February 18 | Senator Feinstein Seeks Tougher Law For National Sports Governing Bodies’ Handling of Sex Abuse Cases
This is a coup for the...
February 15 | George Gibney Cited in New Irish Magazine Article on How Coverage of Non-Catholic Abuses Tends to Be Muted
Complete chronological...
February 14 | New Expose of Abuses in Taekwondo Highlights Need to Revisit the Stevens Amateur Sports Act
by Irvin Muchnick Will...
February 12 | UC Berkeley Dribbles Out More on Scandalous Background of Football Player Ted Agu’s Death — The Only Case This Material Makes Is the One For Fuller Disclosure
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February 10 | BREAKING — Newly Produced UC Berkeley Police Incident Report Details 2013 Football Player Assault of Teammate at Campus Simpson Training Center
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February 10 | Liar-in-Chief Trump, Senator Blumenthal, SCOTUS Nominee Gorsuch, And the Chicken Hawks
by Irvin Muchnick One...
February 8 | “Secrecy fight over sports coach in abuse case” — Times of London, Irish edition
“US officials are...
February 7 | Irish Prime Minister Urged to Address George Gibney in St. Patrick’s Day White House Meeting With Trump
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 6 | Some More Thoughts on the Ongoing Legal Battle For Disgraced Irish Olympic Swim Coach George Gibney’s American Immigration Records
PREVIOUSLY: What’s At...
February 6 | What’s At Stake in Trump Government’s Appeal of Our Win in George Gibney FOIA Case, ‘Muchnick v. Department of Homeland Security’
by Irvin Muchnick The...
February 3 | 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Briefing Schedule For ‘Muchnick v. Department of Homeland Security’
As reported earlier today,...
February 3 | Federal Government Appeals Gibney FOIA Case Order, Dashing Hope For Quick Access to Rapist Irish Swimming Coach’s American Immigration Records
The U.S. attorney’s...
January 31 | WWE’s Jimmy Snuka Tribute; Jim Ross’s Defiant Defense of It — Followed By His Confused Apology
Concussion Inc.’s 2013...
January 29 | The Constitutional Crisis Begins
I am proud that my son Jacob,...
January 28 | Muchnick on Wrestling Observer and ‘What’s the Story?’ Podcasts; Controversy Over Jim Ross Remarks on WWE’s Jimmy Snuka Tribute
Concussion Inc.’s 2013...
January 24 | As George Gibney FOIA Case Winds Down, Remember This Address of the Rapist Irish Olympic Swim Coach: PO Box 1235, Calistoga, California
PREVIOUSLY: In Long and...
January 23 | On Eve of Senate Hearings on Linda McMahon As Head of Small Business Administration, Muchnick Quoted in Washington Post and Los Angeles Times
“Linda McMahon, who...
January 23 | University of California-Berkeley Tries to Restart From Scratch on Production of Documents Related to Ted Agu Death Under Football Coaches Sonny Dykes and Damon Harrington
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January 21 | P.S. on Central Florida Football Death => Ted Agu Death at Cal => Oregon Rhabdo Outbreak
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January 21 | Sports Columnist Aptly Links Central Florida Football Death to New Outrage Over Oregon Rhabdo Outbreak — But Ignores Ted Agu Death at Cal, an Even Better Link
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January 19 | Concussion Inc.’s Inaugural Address
by Irvin Muchnick For...
January 18 | With National Focus on New Oregon and Northern Michigan Cases, Heat Is on Cal Football For Honest Second Review of Strength and Conditioning Program
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January 17 | Oregon Football Players’ Hospitalization Takes Ted Agu Death at Cal to Today’s Headlines
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January 16 | Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Is Dead. But the Corrupt Cop and District Attorneys Who Let Snuka Off the Hook in Nancy Argentino’s Death Live On.
Concussion Inc.’s 2013...
January 15 | Jimmy Snuka Dies
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January 13 | UC Berkeley Says It Is Looking For the Public Records That Define the Scope of the Upcoming Review 2.0 of the Cal Football Strength and Conditioning Program
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January 13 | Fabulist Canadian Olympics Chief John Furlong and Abuse of First Nations Children: Comprehensive Links
Rapist Swim Coach George...
January 13 | University of British Columbia’s Reversal on John Furlong Speech Cancellation Leaves Open Questions About Its New First Nations Center
Complete chronological links...
January 11 | USA Swimming’s Chief Executive Perjuror, Chuck Wielgus, Announces Retirement
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 10 | What I Mean When I Say That Sonny Dykes and Damon Harrington and the University of California Killed Ted Agu
Concussion Inc.’s ebook...
January 9 | “John Furlong versus First Nations alleged victims: Let both sides be heard”
Joan McEwen,National Observer...
January 9 | Your Newspapers of Record on Legacy of Death and Cover-Up in Sonny Dykes’ University of California Football Program
Irvin Muchnick...
January 8 | BREAKING: Cal Fires Football Coach Sonny Dykes — Program Killed Player in 2014 And Covered Up Circumstances
News of dismissal is...
January 4 | More Relevant Than Ever — ‘JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold Story of Nancy Argentino’s Death in Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’s Motel Room’
Concussion Inc.’s 2013...
January 4 | In Long and Winding George Gibney Saga, Month of January Is No Time For a Lull
Complete chronological links...
January 3 | Muchnick Flashback: ‘Superfly Snuka and the Death of Nancy Argentino’
Headline links to our quarter...
January 3 | Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder: Case Dismissed
...
January 1 | Important Reading During the Pendency of Our George Gibney FOIA Case
“Two Irish Girls Who...

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December 29 | Ignore Backlash Propaganda — Canadian Olympic Honcho John Furlong’s Accusers Are Telling the Truth About Their Dual 1969 Presence at the Missionary School Seat of His Abuse of Native Children
by Irvin Muchnick A...
December 27 | Protest by Natives Alleging Canadian Olympic Mogul John Furlong’s Abuse Appears to Have Scuttled His Speaking Appearance at University of British Columbia
by Irvin Muchnick The...
December 22 | Sports Medicine Expert Directing Do-Over Review of Cal Football Conditioning Program Offers No Evidence That This One Will Be Any Different Than the One That Covered Up Ted Agu Death
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December 21 | More New Cal Football Death Cover-Up Documents: Vice Chancellor Limited Scope of ‘Review’ and Allocated Only 20 Hours of Work For Co-Investigator
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December 20 | BREAKING: UC-Berkeley Releases Three More Documents on the Post-Ted Agu Death Internal Investigation Referred To As ‘The “Review”‘
Details Wednesday here at...
December 19 | This Is What a Cover-Up Looks Like: Cal AD Sandy Barbour Gets Briefed in 2014 on “the ‘Review’” of the Football Conditioning Program That Killed Ted Agu
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December 16 | Work on UC Berkeley’s ‘Review’ Following Death of Football Player Ted Agu Took All of One Day And Was Directed by University Lawyer and Athletic Department, Internal Emails Reveal
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December 15 | AFTER 8-MONTH DELAY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RELEASES TO CONCUSSION INC. SOME INTERNAL DOCUMENTS IN SCANDAL OF FOOTBALL PLAYER TED AGU’S 2014 DEATH
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December 13 | Concussion Inc. Is Back Up and Running After Being Hacked
Concussion Inc. was hacked...
December 9 | “Gibney papers must be released, judge rules” — Times of London, Irish edition
“US officials have been...
December 8 | “DHS must release immigration docs on coach accused of assault” — Law360
“The government may not...
December 7 | Lake Babine and Burns Lake First Nations Victims Take Canadian Government to Human Rights Commission Over Inaction on Abuse By Olympic Potentate John Furlong
by Irvin Muchnick The...
December 7 | Full Text of U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer’s Final Order in FOIA Case ‘Muchnick v. Department of Homeland Security’
Below is the full text of the...
December 7 | Final Court Order For Government Production of George Gibney Immigration Records
LAST NIGHT THE NEWS BROKEthat...
December 6 | JUDGE BREYER ISSUES ORDER COMPELLING FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE GEORGE GIBNEY IMMIGRATION RECORDS TO CONCUSSION INC.
Complete chronological links...
December 5 | Government Declines Judge Breyer’s Suggestion to Release George Gibney Immigration Documents; Requests ‘Final Order’ From Court
Complete chronological links...
December 2 | Government’s Response to Court’s Order on George Gibney FOIA Documents Is Due Monday
by Irvin Muchnick Next...
December 2 | Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Travesty Resumes
Irvin Muchnick...
December 1 | University of California Promises Release of Some Documents on Ted Agu Death in Sonny Dykes’ Football Program ‘Prior to the Holiday’
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December 1 | While Parents Weigh Withholding Consents For Youth Football, NFL Has a Joe Camel Strategy
“Hooked for Life:...
November 30 | Campaign Against Youth and High School Football Gains Momentum — But Its Spiritual Godfather, Bennet Omalu, Is Missing in Action
PREVIOUSLY: “Whatever...
November 30 | VICE Sports With a One-Two Punch on the Lunacy of High School Football
Matt Chaney,...
November 27 | HBO’s ‘Real Sports’ Breaks Major Story of Massachusetts Mayor’s Proposal to Ban Youth Football — Buried Inside More About the Successes and Failures of ‘Safe’ Tackling
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 26 | Flashback: CTE Detection Venture Capital Quest Helps Explain What Went Haywire at Bennet Omalu Foundation
See...
November 26 | Bennet Omalu Foundation Is Officially Killed Following Concussion Inc.’s Reports on Its Inactivity
PREVIOUSLY: “Whatever...
November 25 | Twitter Busts Fake Account That Was Harassing Mothers of Dead Football Youth
Update on the mysteriously...
November 23 | Ireland’s Broadsheet With More on the Conflicts of Interest of Country’s Supreme Court Chief Justice — Sister of the Lawyer Who Manufactured Dismissal of George Gibney Case
Complete headline links to...
November 22 | Tonight on HBO’s ‘Real Sports’ — The Dangers of Youth Football
Below is the trailer....
November 22 | University of Pittsburgh: We’re Trying to Find Out What’s Going on With the Bennet Omalu Foundation and Its Dead Website
PREVIOUSLY: “Whatever...
November 21 | Bennet Omalu Foundation’s Twitter Account Appears To Be Scrubbed
PREVIOUSLY: “Whatever...
November 20 | ‘Concussion’ Movie Director, Along With Doc Portrayed by Alec Baldwin, Are Out at University of Pittsburgh’s Inactive Bennet Omalu Foundation
PREVIOUSLY: “Whatever...
November 19 | Preview of Sunday at Concussion Inc.
Irvin Muchnick“@irvmuch...
November 14 | Whatever Happened to the Bennet Omalu Foundation at the University of Pittsburgh?
by Irvin Muchnick The...
November 10 | R.I.P. Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen, the great...
November 10 | Why I’m Fighting For More Public Records in the Scandal of Ted Agu’s 2014 Death in Cal Football
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November 9 | Whitewash 2.0: Cal Rolls Out Fresh-Scrubbed ‘Independent Review’ of Football Conditioning Program Where Assault and Death Occurred
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November 6 | Reprint of Sunday Times of London Article: ‘Gibney Papers Set to Be Released’
Below is the full text of the...
November 6 | Irish-American News Site IrishCentral Reproduces SF Chronicle Coverage Under Headline “Judge demands US authorities explain why they let in alleged Irish pedophile George Gibney”
...
November 5 | “Gibney papers set to be released” — Sunday Times of London
“A federal judge in...
November 4 | Two Key Takeaways From Judge Breyer’s Ruling on Release of George Gibney’s U.S. Immigration Records
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 4 | Government, Muchnick Agree on 30-Day Deadline For Responding to Court Directive to Release Gibney Immigration Records
by Irvin Muchnick My...
November 3 | “Judge warns U.S. over Irish immigrant’s sex-abuse case” — San Francisco Chronicle
A Bay Area federal judge says...
November 3 | Full Text of U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer’s Decision in FOIA Case ‘Muchnick v. Department of Homeland Security’
Below is the full text of the...
November 3 | “Light Shined on Olympic Coach’s Sex-Abuse Case” — Courthouse News Service
...
November 3 | BREAKING — JUDGE BREYER ORDERS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE GEORGE GIBNEY IMMIGRATION RECORDS
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 1 | UC Berkeley Chancellor Dirks Makes Suckers Out of Public and Media With Still-Unlaunched Review of the Football Conditioning Program That Killed Ted Agu
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October 30 | On RTE Radio’s ‘This Week’ in Ireland, Muchnick Discusses Judge Breyer’s Tentative Order to U.S. Government to Release Some of George Gibney’s Immigration File
...
October 29 | Minute Entry For Judge Breyer’s ‘Tentative’ Ruling on Release of George Gibney Immigration Records; Muchnick Again on RTE Radio’s ‘This Week’
Complete headline links to...
October 28 | Federal Judge to Issue ‘Tentative’ Order Signaling Partial Disclosure of George Gibney Immigration Files, As Both Sides Agree to Bring FOIA Case to Resolution
Complete headline links to...
October 27 | Decisive Federal Court Hearing Friday in FOIA Lawsuit For Rapist Olympic Swim Coach George Gibney’s American Immigration Records; Muchnick Interview on Irish Radio’s ‘Newstalk Drive’
Complete headline links to...
October 26 | Football Historian Matt Chaney Aids Researchers Uncovering Long-Buried Cases of Sickle Cell Trait Death
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October 24 | Days Before FOIA Hearing on Rapist Irish Olympic Swim Coach Gibney’s American Immigration File, 500 March in Dublin on 30th Anniversary of Philip Cairns Disappearance
Complete headline links to...
October 21 | Sonny Dykes-Damon Harrington Cal Program Is Responsible For the Only Sickle Cell Trait NCAA Division I Football Death This Decade
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October 20 | Sickle Cell Trait — Killer of Ted Agu and Eric Goll — Accounts For Roughly Half of College Football Deaths. But Raising Awareness Is a Political Football.
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October 16 | As American Court Ponders Release of Rapist Irish Olympic Swim Coach Gibney’s Immigration Records, Many Shout Across the Atlantic: ‘Remember Philip Cairns’
Complete headline links to...
October 13 | Review 2.0 of Cal Football Strength and Conditioning Program Is Still a Work-in-Non-Progress
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 11 | California Newspaper Publishers Association Lobbying Against the Kinds of Public Records Delays Evident in UC Berkeley’s Foot-Dragging on Documents About Football Player Ted Agu’s Death
by Irvin Muchnick On October...
October 10 | What I Did With My Weekend
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October 5 | In Apparent Violation of NCAA Rules, Nebraska College Claims It Didn’t Know of Football Player’s Ted Agu-Like, Sickle Cell-Caused, Conditioning Death
by Irvin Muchnick The...
October 3 | Why My Experience With Trump Pals Vince and Linda McMahon’s Taxes Makes Me Identify With Susanne Craig of the New York Times
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 1 | Nebraska College Football Player’s Practice Death in August Echoed That of Ted Agu at Cal
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 1 | University of California Offers Odd Defense of Delays in Release of Public Documents on Football Player Ted Agu’s Death
by Irvin Muchnick The...
September 30 | Media Tip-Toe Back Toward Coverage of Olympic Sport Sexual Abuse. Will They Get It Right This Time and Talk About Federal Oversight?
SEE ALSO: Muchnick’s...
September 29 | What Cal Deputy AD Made During Cover-Up of Football Player Ted Agu’s Death: $227,879, Plus Potential $60,000 in ‘Performance Bonuses’ and ‘Family Membership in a Sport Club’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 27 | Cal Football Strength and Conditioning Program Review Launch Delayed Another Week
“eBook Bonus:...
September 26 | UC Berkeley Plays Games With Release of Information on Ted Agu Football Death and Assistant Coach-Incited Player Beating
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September 25 | Muchnick on ‘This Week’ on RTE Network in Ireland Discussing FOIA Case For George Gibney’s American Immigration Records
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September 24 | Cal Projects Details Next Week on Plan For Second Internal Review of Bears Football Strength and Conditioning Program
University of...
September 24 | Irish TImes: “US court to hear case on Olympic coach George Gibney”
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September 23 | Casey Batten — Cal Football Doctor Who Covered Up Ted Agu’s Death — Falls Upward, to the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 21 | Joe Bernal — Banned Former Olympic, Harvard, Club Swimming Coach — Has Dropped Out of Sight: Boston Globe
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 20 | Arrivederci, Santa Clara Sports Law Symposium
by Irvin Muchnick Your...
September 19 | UC Berkeley Athletics Deputy Solly Fulp Pulled Down $345,178 During Year of Cover-Up of Football Player Ted Agu’s Death
CONCUSSION INC. ACQUIRES...
September 17 | Retired UC Berkeley Official Provides Full Timeline of Cal Football Death Cover-Up Figure Solly Fulp’s Move to Director of University Sponsorship Deals
PREVIOUSLY: CONCUSSION INC....
September 16 | Federal Court Hearing Set Next Month on Possible Release of Immigration Documents on Rapist Former Irish Olympic Swim Coach George Gibney
Complete headline links to...
September 15 | Cal Football Scandals: Deputy AD Who Directed Ted Agu Death Cover-Up Got $230,000 Contract, Plus $50,000 ‘Sign-On Bonus,’ For New and Unadvertised UC Berkeley Job
PREVIOUSLY: CONCUSSION INC....
September 10 | Did UC Berkeley Deputy AD Get Golden Parachute For Slow-Walking Investigations of Football Coach-Inspired Player Beating and Ted Agu Death?
PREVIOUSLY: CONCUSSION INC....
September 8 | As More Info Emerges on Cal Football’s Ted Agu Death Cover-Up, University Dithers With ‘Do-Over’ Review of Assistant Coach Damon Harrington’s Conditioning Program
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September 7 | See It Now — Full Transcript of Whistleblower’s Suppressed March 2014 Statements to Campus Police on How Cal Football Killed Ted Agu
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September 7 | Quick Hits From Whistleblower’s Suppressed 2014 Statement to UC Berkeley Campus Police on the Football Strength and Conditioning Program That Killed Ted Agu
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September 6 | CONCUSSION INC. ACQUIRES TRANSCRIPT OF WHISTLEBLOWER’S INTERVIEW WITH CAMPUS POLICE REGARDING CAL FOOTBALL COACH SONNY DYKES’ ASSISTANT DAMON HARRINGTON
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September 3 | The Mother of All Class-Action Lawsuits Comes Down the Pike — Against Pop Warner Football
by Irvin Muchnick In an...
September 1 | Whistleblower’s Complaint to UC Berkeley Campus Police Regarding Assistant Football Coach Harrington’s Incitement of Player-on-Player Beating Is 40-Page Transcript
“eBook Bonus:...
August 25 | Update on Disputed Public Documents Related to Ted Agu Death in University of California Football
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August 24 | Table of Contents of the New eBook ‘TED AGU PAPERS’ — Football Death Cover-Up at University of California
This is the table of contents...
August 22 | Irish Independent’s Paul Kimmage: ‘How did Pat Hickey become the most hated man in Irish sport?’
The latest from the...
August 22 | Note to Readers Who Pre-Ordered ‘THE TED AGU PAPERS’
Due to a technical issue with...
August 22 | eBook Bonus: Introduction to ‘Ted Agu Papers,’ Cal Football Death Cover-Up
This is the introduction to...
August 18 | Will UC Berkeley Chancellor Dirks’ Resignation Spur Further Investigation of the Agu Football Death Cover-Up — Or Just Take the Wind Out of It?
Concussion Inc.’s ebook...
August 17 | UC Berkeley Chancellor Dirks, Who Presided Over Cover-Up of Football Player Ted Agu’s Death, to Resign in 2017
Nicholas Dirks, the embattled...
August 16 | Lawyers For Assailant in Germantown Academy Lawsuit Regarding Athlete-on-Athlete Abuse Threaten Muchnick a Second Time
Complete headline links to...
August 16 | USA Track & Field CEO Max Siegel Sprints to Front of Pack in Multiple Personal Income Streams With Conflicts of Interest
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 12 | Canadian Sports Minister Carla Qualtrough: Go Ask USA Swimming About Why Abusive Brazilian Coach Alex Pussieldi Has Access to Olympic Venues
Links to Concussion...
August 10 | While Olympics Use Up All the Oxygen, Take in Our Live Investigative Threads on George Gibney, Alex Pussieldi, Dick Shoulberg, Cal Football Death Cover-Up
– Rapist former Irish...
August 8 | No One in USA Swimming’s Florida Branch Will Confirm or Deny That Abusive Brazilian Coach Alex Pussieldi Is Back in Good Standing
Links to Concussion...
August 5 | ‘TED AGU PAPERS’ Now Available For Pre-Order on Amazon Kindle
THE TED AGU PAPERS: A Black...
July 28 | San Francisco Chronicle Cannot Be Only ‘Public’ With Access to Whistleblower Player’s Report to Police on Cal Football Assistant Coach Damon Harrington
Concussion Inc.’s ebook...
July 27 | ‘The Ted Agu Papers: A Black Life That Mattered — And the Secret History of a Covered-Up Death in University of California Football’ To Be Published August 22
Concussion Inc. has set...
July 26 | On Eve of Olympics, Has Abusive Brazilian-American Coach Alex Pussieldi Just Been Reinstated by Florida Gold Coast Swimming?
Links to Concussion...
July 24 | With Clearer Evidence of Damon Harrington Cover-Up, Scandal of Ted Agu Death in Cal Football Takes a Dark Turn
“Explainer: How...
July 23 | ‘With Clearer Evidence of Damon Harrington Cover-Up, Ted Agu Death in Cal Football Takes Dark Turn’
Look for the story under this...
July 22 | Cal Football Source: Review of Strength Coach Harrington Invited Interview of J.D. Hinnant, Criminal Assailant of Fabiano Hale — But Not of Hale
“Explainer: How...
July 22 | University of California Gives Up ‘Attachment’ to Review of Football Assistant Coach Damon Harrington (Which Shows Little); Promises Additional Public Records ‘On a Rolling Basis’
“Explainer: How...
July 21 | Is University of California Committing Public Fraud in Cover-Up of Football Player Ted Agu’s Death and Sonny Dykes’ Strength Coach Damon Harrington?
“Explainer: How...
July 21 | Is University of California Committing Public Fraud in Cover-Up of Football Player Ted Agu’s Death and Sonny Dykes’ Strength Coach Damon Harrington?
Details later today here at...
July 20 | Dr. Tanji — Author of Whitewash ‘Review’ of Cal Football Strength and Conditioning Assistant Damon Harrington — Says He Has No Records on It
“Explainer: How...
July 17 | Australian-Brazilian Coach-Abuser Scott Volkers Is Banned From the Rio Olympics — But Not From Pre-Games Training of Brazil’s Olympic Swimmers
Remember this?...
July 15 | Scandal of Canadian Olympic Chieftain John Furlong’s Abuse of Missionary School Students Explodes As Native Groups Mobilize
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 13 | UC Davis Promises Decision by July 19 on Release of Additional Records on Dr. Tanji’s 2014 Review of Berkeley Football Assistant Coach Damon Harrington
“Explainer: How...
July 12 | Chancellor Dirks Says Police Found That Football Strength Coach Damon Harrington Did ‘Nothing Wrong.’ Whom Did They Interview and When Did They Interview Them?
“Explainer: How...
July 10 | As University of California Re-Ups Football Strength Coach Damon Harrington, Here’s Inventory of Documents Neither Released by Public Officials Nor Published by SF Chronicle
“Explainer: How...
July 6 | THE CHINA SYNDROME
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July 6 | JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold Story of Nancy Argentino’s Death in Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’s Motel Room
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July 6 | While Cal Faculty Petition to Sack Football Strength Coach Damon Harrington, Larger Corruption Story Is in Still-Withheld Public Documents
“Explainer: How...
July 4 | What Is the Basis For UC Berkeley Assertion That Football Coach Sonny Dykes’ Assistant Damon Harrington Did ‘Nothing Wrong’ in 2013 Player-on-Player Assault?
“Explainer: How...
July 3 | UC Berkeley Chancellor Promises a Do-Over of Whitewash Review of Football Coach Sonny Dykes’ Maniac Strength Assistant Damon Harrington
“Explainer: How...
July 1 | Player’s Statement About Cal Football Coach Damon Harrington — Concealed by Campus Police and Not Sought by County Prosecutor — Holds Key to Unlocking Scandal of Ted Agu’s Death
“Explainer: How...
June 30 | University of California Releases 2014 Internal Review of Football Strength Coach Damon Harrington; Asserts That Player’s Police Statement Is Exempt From Public Disclosure
“Explainer: How...
June 30 | San Francisco Chronicle ‘Big-Foots’ Concussion Inc.’s Investigation of University of California Football’s Ted Agu Death Scandal — And Continues to Tell Only Half the Story
“Explainer: How...
June 29 | San Francisco Chronicle Comes to Life: ‘Critics Question Cal’s Probe Into Football Coach’s Actions’
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June 29 | University of California Releases Football Strength Coach Harrington’s ‘Player Contract’ — Not Same as the One Published by Concussion Inc., and It Just Raises More Questions
“Explainer: How...
June 28 | Muchnick’s CareerPro Inc. Interview (full text)
Below is the reprint of an...
June 27 | Cal Football Spokesperson: We’re Looking Into Questions About Strength and Conditioning Coach Damon Harrington’s ‘Winter Workout Contract’ With Players the Season Ted Agu Died
“Explainer: How...
June 26 | See It Now — Cal Football Strength Coach Damon Harrington’s ‘Winter Workout Contract,’ Including ‘Grave Digger’ Drill and Regular ‘Massive Punishment Session’
Concussion Inc. just reported...
June 25 | TED AGU PAPERS: Cal Football Strength Coach Damon Harrington’s 2014 ‘Winter Workout Contract’ Included ‘Massive Punishment Session Before Entire Team’ — Plus Extreme Drill Called ‘Grave Digger’
“Explainer: How...
June 25 | Exclusive at Concussion Inc. Sunday: The Internal Cal Football Strength Program Document That University and Coach Damon Harrington Illegally Withheld From Discovery in Ted Agu Family Wrongful Death Case
While you wait for...
June 23 | John Gerdy on Baylor’s Epic Failure
by Irvin Muchnick John Gerdy...
June 21 | ‘Coaching, Concussions, Careers + Culture’ — Muchnick Interview With John M. O’Connor of CareerPro Inc.
Thank you to John M....
June 20 | Will Maniac Damon Harrington Still Be Cal Football’s Strength and Conditioning Coach As of July 1?
“Explainer: How...
June 17 | In Record-Setting Quick Succession, Cal Basketball Coach Cuonzo Martin Cleared of Sexual Harassment Cover-Up, Inked to New Multimillion-Dollar Deal
by Irvin Muchnick In the...
June 16 | Ireland’s ‘Broadsheet’ Connects George Gibney and Irish Swimming Abuse Scandals to One of the Country’s Most Sensational Murder Cold Cases
Complete headline links to...
June 12 | Case of Stanford Swimmer-Rapist Brock Turner Is Only Loosely Connected to the Systematic Abuse Crimes of USA Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick Many...
June 10 | Canadian Government, Misrepresenting Record, Dismisses Pleas of Indian Victims of Olympic Lord of the Ring John Furlong; Continues to Ignore Appeals to Intervene on Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick Carla...
June 8 | Drug Police Exec Jeff Novitsky Flies to Canada and ‘Formally Educates’ Brock Lesnar on USADA Policy in Advance of UFC 200
PREVIOUSLY: ‘Brock...
June 7 | USADA Has Not Spoken So Far on the Evident Irregularity of Brock Lesnar’s ‘Look, Ma, No Testing’ Return to UFC
by Irvin Muchnick In raising...
June 6 | Comeback of WWE’s Brock Lesnar at UFC 200 Makes a Mockery of USADA Drug-Testing Protocols
by Irvin Muchnick The...
June 6 | Mystery Deepens Over What Happened With Cal Football Player’s Statement to Police After Ted Agu’s Death Regarding Strength Coach Damon Harrington’s Bizarre Methods
“Explainer: How...
June 3 | Final Disputed George Gibney Document Is 2010 Memorandum Requesting Investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Complete headline links to...
June 3 | Dave Meltzer, Dean of Wrestling Journalists, Reports Skepticism Toward Jimmy Snuka’s Mental Incompetence Finding, Expresses Sympathy For Victim’s Family
Headline links to our 24...
June 2 | Jimmy Snuka’s Dementia Deathlock Is Lehigh County District Attorney’s Shame
Headline links to our 24...
June 1 | Matt Chaney at Vice Sports: ‘Teddy Roosevelt Loved Football, Except When It Brutalized His Son’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 29 | TED AGU PAPERS: County Coroner Testified That Cal Doctor’s First-Day Spin, Plus Concealment of Players’ Police Statements, Impeded Death Investigation
“Explainer: How...
May 23 | TED AGU PAPERS: Berkeley Campus Police Withheld From Alameda County Sheriff and Coroner 112 of 141 Pages of Death Investigation — Including Statements of Two Football Teammates
“Explainer: How...
May 23 | Ireland’s ‘Broadsheet’ With Coverage of George Gibney FOIA Fight End Game
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May 22 | Judge Breyer Brings George Gibney FOIA Dispute Close to Resolution
Complete headline links to...
May 20 | Muchnick Interview About Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Case on Ottawa Radio
Thanks to Mark Day and...
May 19 | Australian-Brazilian Swim Coach-Abuser Scott Volkers Barred From Rio Olympics — How About Brazilian-American Swim Coach Abuser Alex Pussieldi?
“The plea of Australian...
May 18 | How Much Longer Can San Francisco Chronicle and Other Major Media Remain ‘One and Done’ With Back Story of Ted Agu’s Criminal Death Under Cal Football Coaches Sonny Dykes and Damon Harrington?
“Explainer: How...
May 17 | TED AGU PAPERS: Another Player Testifies to Lies and Evasions of Cal Football Coach Sonny Dykes and Staff
“Explainer: How...
May 16 | TED AGU PAPERS: Close Friend Describes Multiple Collapses During Fatal Drill ‘Like an Army Movie’; Coach Harrington’s Taunt ‘Berkeley Was Making Us Soft’; Transfer in Disgust After Cal Lied to Players
“Explainer: How...
May 13 | Three Deaths Linked To Navy SEAL Training — And One Death (So Far) Linked to University of California Football
What is alike and what is...
May 12 | UC Davis Starts Public Records Act Clock For Request on Dr. Tanji’s Emails With Cal Officials on Review of Football Strength Coach Damon Harrington
“Explainer: How...
May 11 | TED AGU PAPERS: Player Describes Cal Football Strength Coach Damon Harrington’s ‘Punishment Drills’ and ‘Swagger Games,’ Obsession With ‘Down South Mental Toughness’
“Explainer: How...
May 10 | If Prosecutors ‘Deferred,’ Rather Than ‘Dropped,’ Cal Football ‘Code Red’ Assault Case, Then It’s Time to Investigate New Evidence of Strength Coach Damon Harrington’s Incitement of Criminal Vigilante J.D. Hinnant
“Explainer: How...
May 10 | Resetting the Cover-Up of Cal Football’s ‘Code Red,’ Death-Defying Strength and Conditioning Coach Damon Harrington — In Five Tweets
Irvin Muchnick...
May 9 | UPDATE — Alameda County District Attorney: ‘We Have Not Seen’ Cal Football Player’s 2014 Police Statement on How Strength Coach Damon Harrington Inspired J.D. Hinnant’s ‘Code Red’ Assault
“Explainer: How...
May 9 | District Attorney Joins UC Berkeley Police in Refusing to Explain Follow-Up to Witness Statement on Football Strength Coach Damon Harrington’s ‘Code Red’ in Player Assault
“Explainer: How...
May 8 | Australian Olympic Chief Asks Brazil to Bar Swim Coach/Sex Offender Scott Volkers. Why Haven’t Canadian and U.S. Officials Asked For Same on Alex Pussieldi?
Links to Concussion...
May 5 | American Swimming Coaches Association Chief John Leonard — No. 1 Suspect For Facilitating Irish Rapist George Gibney’s Visa Application — Is Changing His Tune on Abusers in the Ranks
Complete headline links to...
May 4 | USA Swimming Is Lying About a Dick Shoulberg Investigation. And It Dragged Its Feet in Announcing Joe Bernal’s Lifetime Ban. What Do They Have in Common?
What USA Swimming’s Ban...
May 3 | What USA Swimming’s Ban For Sexual Misconduct of Joe Bernal — David Berkoff’s Old Harvard Coach — Tells Us About the Ongoing Cover-Up of Monster Club Coach Dick Shoulberg
Complete headline links to...
May 3 | Reprint of Irish News Site Broadsheet.ie’s Timeline on Rapist Irish Olympic Swim Coach George Gibney — And His Two Decades As a Guest of the American Government
Complete chronological...
May 2 | Role of Ex-Golden State Warriors Conditioning Coach in ‘Review’ of Cal Football’s Harrington Deepens Mystery of Accountability For 2013 Player-on-Player Assault and 2014 Ted Agu Death
“Explainer: How...
May 2 | ‘The Chief Justice, Her Brother, And How George Gibney Got Away’
Complete headline links to...
May 2 | USA Swimming Bans David Berkoff’s Harvard Coach Joe Bernal — Increases Heat on Berkoff’s Club Coach Dick Shoulberg
Complete headline links to...
May 1 | Paging UC Davis Sports Medicine Specialist Dr. Jeffrey Tanji; ‘Reviewed’ Cal Football Strength Coach Damon Harrington After Player-on-Player Assault and Ted Agu Death
“Explainer: How...
April 29 | George Gibney FOIA Latest: Parties to Confer With Judge Breyer on May 20
Complete headline links to...
April 28 | Cal Campus Police Gave Media Incomplete Account of Football Coaches’ Role in Investigation of 2013 Player-on-Player Assault
“Explainer: How...
April 27 | TED AGU PAPERS: Cal ‘Suspended’ Football Strength Coach Damon Harrington For One Day After Complaint About His ‘Style’
“Explainer: How...
April 26 | Cal Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, UC Prez Janet Napolitano Duck Accountability For Football Assistant Damon ‘Stanford Has Its Cock in Your Ass’ Harrington and Head Coach Sonny Dykes
“Explainer: How...
April 25 | Did Cal Football Coach Sonny Dykes Reward Player Who Cold-Cocked Teammate Three Months Before Ted Agu’s Death in a ‘Punishment Drill’?
“Explainer: How...
April 23 | TED AGU PAPERS: Cal Football Teammate Went to Police Month After Player’s Death; Detailed Strength Coach Harrington’s Role in Earlier Player-on-Player Assault
“Explainer: How...
April 22 | Concussion Inc. Introduces ‘The Ted Agu Papers’ — Secret History of the 2014 Death of University of California-Berkeley Football Player
“Explainer: How...
April 22 | Congresswoman Speier Tells Ireland’s O’Sullivan She Is ‘Monitoring’ George Gibney FOIA Case
Complete headline links to...
April 22 | Concussion Inc. Tells Judge Breyer We Believe Government’s Production of George Gibney Documents Is Inadequate
Complete headline links to...
April 19 | Reprint of Sunday Times of London Article: ‘Gardai Eased Gibney US Visa Application’
Below is the full text of the...
April 18 | Cal Football Coach Sonny Dykes’ Salary: $2,525,000 in 2019 Plus Up to $600,000 in Incentive Bonuses — Here’s His Contract
“Explainer: How...
April 16 | ‘Gardai eased Gibney US visa application’ — Sunday Times of London
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April 15 | U.S. Government’s New George Gibney Papers To Be Covered by Sunday Times of London; Plus Other New Irish Press
Complete headline links to...
April 14 | P.M. Notes on the UC-Berkeley Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settlement With Ted Agu’s Family
“Explainer: How...
April 14 | UC-Berkeley’s $4.75 Million Wrongful Death Settlement With Ted Agu’s Family Is an Atrocious Deal For the People of California
“Explainer: How...
April 14 | Cal Settles Agu Lawsuit for $4.75 Million. News Link Below. Analysis Here to Follow.
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April 14 | San Francisco Chronicle Refuses to Confirm It Knew of the Cal Strength Coach Incident Three Months Before Football Player Ted Agu’s Death
“Explainer: How...
April 13 | New U.S. Government George Gibney Papers: Disgraced Irish Rapist Appears to Have Attached to His Visa Application an Offer For an American Coaching Job
Complete headline links to...
April 13 | BREAKING: U.S. Government Releases Revised Index of Withheld Information on Rapist Irish Swim Coach George Gibney — Now 99 New Pages of Redacted Records
Complete headline links to...
April 12 | George Gibney, Rapist Former Irish National Swim Coach, And His 20+Year American Odyssey: Comprehensive Headline Links
Why Is George Gibney –...
April 12 | San Francisco Chronicle Defends Against Straw-Man Criticism — Says Its Story on Death of Cal Football Player Ted Agu Had No Factual Errors
“Explainer: How...
April 12 | Cal Strength Coach Damon Harrington’s Salary: $150,000 Plus $8,000 Bowl Bonus — Here’s His Contract
“Explainer: How...
April 10 | Explainer: How ‘Insider’ Access Made San Francisco Chronicle and Berkeley J-School Miss Real Story Behind Death of Cal Football’s Ted Agu
Complete headline links to...
April 8 | Canadian Media Coddle Liar-Abuser Olympic Potentate John Furlong — Now Floating the Idea of a Calgary Winter Olympics Bid
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 8 | Guess Who’s Sitting on the Depositions in the Ted Agu Football Death and Won’t Publish Them? San Francisco Chronicle and UC-Berkeley Journalism School
Cal-Berkeley Journalism...
April 7 | Cal-Berkeley Journalism School Program Lets San Francisco Chronicle Exploit Leaked Depositions For Half-Ass Story on Ted Agu Wrongful Death — Won’t Release Them in Full
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April 6 | Canadian Writer Laura Robinson: Protection of Olympic Chief John Furlong ‘Sets Back Judicial and First Nations Relationships By Decades’
We’ve been telling you...
April 5 | Public Information Principle Is at Stake in the University of California-Ted Agu Family Wrongful Death Settlement
Complete headline links to...
April 3 | Memo to Cumulus Media, Dismantler of KFOG Radio
Atlanta-based Cumulus has...
April 1 | Stream Audio of Muchnick Discussing NHL and NFL Litigation Latest on Toronto Radio
From Wednesday’s Jim...
March 31 | University of California Says There Are ‘No Secret Terms’ in Ted Agu Football Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settlement — But Difficult Questions Persist in the End Game
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 31 | New York Times Out-Insults the NFL — And Changes Nothing in the National Football Debate With Its Equivocal, High-Level Coverage
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 28 | USA SWIMMING LIES — CLAIMS ‘NO INVESTIGATION’ OF SICKO GERMANTOWN ACADEMY COACH DICK SHOULBERG
Complete headline links to...
March 28 | While Media Promote ‘Infancy’ of CTE Research, Youth Football Players Are Reduced to Laboratory Rats
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 25 | The Criminal Death of Cal Football Player Ted Agu: Headline Links to Our Coverage
University of...
March 25 | As Cal Football Settles Family Lawsuit Over Ted Agu’s Wrongful Death, Head Coach Sonny Dykes and Conditioning Coach Damon Harrington Must Be Fired
by Irvin Muchnick Concussion...
March 25 | Settlement Reached in Cal Football Player Ted Agu’s Family’s Wrongful Death Lawsuit
The parties in the Ted Agu /...
March 25 | Swimming World Magazine Drops Alex Pussieldi — But Canadian Government Remains Mum on Call to Block His Olympic Media Credentials
Links to Concussion...
March 25 | When and Why Did the American Academy of Pediatrics Reverse Its 1957 Position Against Youth Football?
From the invaluable Katherine...
March 24 | It’s a Bad Season For Dick Shoulberg’s Protégé, David Berkoff — Old Harvard Swim Coach Joe Bernal Is Also Under a Cloud
Complete headline links to...
March 23 | Federal Court Deadline Approaches For Additional Information From Government on Rapist Former Irish Olympic Swim Coach George Gibney’s American Immigration Files
by Irvin Muchnick As we...
March 21 | Additional Notes on Sicko Swim Coach Dick Shoulberg at the Criminally Negligent Germantown Academy
Complete headline links to...
March 21 | 2013 Letter to Swim Parents by Germantown Academy Head of School Admitted ‘Many Incidents of Hazing’ in ‘Past Few Years’
Complete headline links to...
March 18 | April 18 Trial Date Set in Cal Football Player Ted Agu Family’s Wrongful Death Suit
The Superior Court in Alameda...
March 18 | Swimmer Expelled From Dick Shoulberg’s Germantown Academy After Locker Room Incident Is Now at Bolles School in Jacksonville
Complete headline links to...
March 17 | Canadian Government Sports Ministry Fields Multi-Pronged Appeals on Global Sports Abusers John Furlong and Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 17 | In Demise of Public Football, We’ll Know There’s Been a Game-Changer When There’s Been a Game-Changer
by Irvin Muchnick Earlier...
March 15 | Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Trial Delay Combines With District Attorney’s Defamation Lawsuit to Expose Rot at Core of Lehigh County Criminal Justice
Headline links to our 24...
March 14 | University of Florida’s Alex Lebed Swam ‘Unaffiliated’ in 2014 National Meet After Getting Thrown Out of Germantown Academy — So Much For His Suspension by USA Swimming
Complete headline links to...
March 11 | University of Florida, Like Yale, Remains Mum on Championship Athlete With Hovering Misconduct Allegations
Complete headline links to...
March 10 | In USA Swimming’s Scattershot Prosecutions of Abusive Coaches, One Thing Is Clear: Safety of Kids Is Not a Priority
by Irvin Muchnick Rumors are...
March 9 | Exclusive: University of Florida Coach Gregg Troy Was Investigated For a 2013 Complaint to the Athletic Department by a Female Swimmer
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 8 | More Info on Adult Arrest of ‘A.L’ — Dick Shoulberg’s Germantown Academy Swimmer Who Had Been Accused of Athlete-on-Athlete Abuse
Complete headline links to...
March 8 | Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Competency Hearing Delayed in Nancy Argentino Murder Case
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March 8 | USA Swimming’s ‘Spotlight’ Sequel Forges On: Developmental Coach of the Year Banned For ‘Past Incident’
by Irvin Muchnick Tim...
March 5 | George Visger Beats Travelers Insurance in Court — Will Get Long-Overdue Coverage For Brain Treatment Program
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 29 | Courthouse News Service Covers Our Win in FOIA For George Gibney’s Immigration Files
Judge Orders DHS to Provide...
February 27 | Congratulations to Irish Legislator Maureen O’Sullivan, Leader of Quest For Justice For George Gibney’s Victims
“Incredible —...
February 26 | ‘A.L.,’ the Abusive Swimmer at Dick Shoulberg’s Germantown Academy Program, Seeks Expungement of His Criminal Record
Complete headline links to...
February 25 | University of Florida Responds to Concussion Inc.’s Report on Former Germantown (Dick Shoulberg), Now Gators (Gregg Troy) Swimmer
Complete headline links to...
February 25 | Judge Breyer Rules For Muchnick in First Round of George Gibney FOIA Case; Orders Government to Improve Explanations of Withheld Documents
Complete headline links to...
February 24 | Named Assailant in Germantown Academy Swim Abuse Lawsuit Is Part of Coach Dick Shoulberg’s Historical Pipeline to Gregg Troy at the University of Florida
Complete headline links to...
February 23 | In Deposition, Dick Shoulberg — Germantown Academy’s Hypocrite Deluxe — Said Never Discussed Abuse Issue With David Berkoff, Never Looked at USA Swimming Banned List
Complete headline links to...
February 22 | Who Killed Fran Crippen? Death of Dick Shoulberg Swimmer Not Coach’s Fault — But It Is Another Indictment of Organized Swimming Leadership’s Moral Bankruptcy
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 19 | What Ireland’s 1998 Murphy Commission Said About Now U.S.-Harbored Rapist Swim Coach George Gibney
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 17 | Dick Shoulberg’s Germantown Academy Conducts Bullying Survey (Which of Course Has Nothing to Do With Multimillion-Dollar Lawsuit For Swimmer-on-Swimmer Abuse)
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 16 | Explaining Shakeup After Abuse Turmoil at Dick Shoulberg’s Germantown Academy, School Suggested Problem Was Lax Academic Standards
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 15 | Swim Abuse Scandals of Dick Shoulberg’s Germantown Academy: Complete Links to Our Coverage
Paging Legendary Coach...
February 15 | Abuse-by-Proxy Is the Legacy of Dick Shoulberg of Germantown Academy — USA Swimming’s Joe Paterno
by Irvin Muchnick Their...
February 13 | See It Now — Germantown Academy Lawsuit Complaint With Allegations of Horrid Abuse at Swim Legend Dick Shoulberg’s Program
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February 12 | Iconic Dick Shoulberg’s Program at Philly Area’s Germantown Academy Is Newest Blot on USA Swimming’s Abuse Record
by Irvin Muchnick As the...
February 11 | George Gibney FOIA Hearing Now Set For February 26 in Federal Court in San Francisco
U.S. District Court Senior...
February 10 | Brazilian Abuser Alex Pussieldi’s Victim and Business Partner Leo Martins Banned by USA Swimming — Is Pussieldi’s Own Bust in Sight?
by Irvin Muchnick In a...
February 8 | The Quest For George Gibney Justice in Ireland and Accountability in the U.S. — Complete Links to Our Coverage
Why Is George Gibney –...
February 8 | 20 Years And Counting After Rapist Irish Swim Coach George Gibney Won Safe Harbor in the U.S. — And Still Searching For Our First American Hero in This Shameful Story
by Irvin Muchnick As noted in...
February 8 | Muchnick on Fox News’ ‘Sports Court’ With Tamara Holder, Discussing FOIA Fight For Rapist Irish Swim Coach George Gibney’s U.S. Immigration Files
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February 6 | On Super Bowl Eve, Only Two Things Are Clear
1. In today’s NFL...
February 4 | Cal Football Strength Coach Named in Ted Agu Family’s Wrongful Death Suit — Yet Damon Harrington (Unlike the Head Athletic Trainer) Remains on the Job
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 3 | Muchnick Quoted in Connecticut Newspapers’ Story on Linda McMahon-Donald Trump Relationship
“‘They’re...
January 31 | My Memoir For Vanderbilt University Alumni Publication
My sort-of alma mater,...
January 30 | EXCLUSIVE: Cal Football Strength Coach — Focus of Family’s Wrongful Death Suit — Also Central Figure in Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of 2013 Locker-Room Punching Incident
by Irvin Muchnick The...
January 29 | Reprint No. 3 of My Five Now-Censored Articles For MomsTeam on the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandals
PREVIOUSLY: — “As...
January 26 | Newsweek Europe Apologizes — To the Smear Artist! — For Facilitating Exposure of ‘Concussion’ Movie Partner MomsTeam’s Smear of CTE Victim
by Irvin Muchnick Newsweek...
January 25 | Now-Censored 2012 MomsTeam Article on the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandals
PREVIOUSLY: “As...
January 23 | Abused Former John Furlong Students File Complaint Against Canadian Judge Who Shut Out Their Testimony in Defamation Suit
...
January 15 | Jimmy Snuka March Murder Trial Date Delayed For Competency Hearing
...
January 14 | As ‘Concussion’ Movie Boomlet Draws to a Close, We Reset Our Coverage of Sexual Abuse in Swimming
Concussion, with Will Smith...
January 11 | On Eve of State of the Union, Know That ‘Concussion’ Hero Bennet Omalu Was Always Better Connected Than He Let On
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 8 | How Chris Nowinski Describes the Fractured Concussion Debate, And How I Do
by Irvin Muchnick Nowinski,...
January 7 | Bennet Omalu Foundation’s Hybrid ‘T22’ Model Exposes Mixed Messages of Someone Who Should Be Speaking With Full Throat As a Public Intellectual
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 6 | P.S.: West Virginia University Says Omalu-Bailes Brain Institute Is Independent
Our story yesterdayon the...
January 5 | Venture Capital For CTE Detection Key to ‘Concussion’ Movie’s Bennet Omalu’s Ethics-Challenged University of Pittsburgh Foundation
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 5 | George Gibney Cohort John Furlong’s First Nations Victims Appeal to Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau
by Irvin Muchnick Our...
January 5 | Cosby Arrest Wasn’t Only Good News Over Holidays — U.S. Speedskating Great Andy Gabel’s Membership Is Terminated
by Irvin Muchnick U.S....
January 4 | Historian Matt Chaney’s ‘Football Papers’ Project — Brain Injury Findings Are a Story As Old As the Invention of the Huddle
by Irvin Muchnick We...
January 3 | Guest Column by Katherine Snedaker of Pink Concussions on “Omalu: The Force Awakens”
As football historian Matt...
January 1 | From ChaneysBlog: 1900-1968 News Line of Football Brain Damage and Policy-Making
1900-1968 NEWS LINE OF...
January 1 | ICYMI: Our Series on How the ‘Concussion’ Movie Devolved From a Humanist Project to a Money Grab
In 2007, the time of the...

2015 (240)

December 31 | P.S. on ‘Concussion’ Movie-MomsTeam Tandem Going From Bad To Worse: Exactly What Mother of CTE Victim Told Newsweek Europe
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 31 | Behind-the-Scenes Story of ‘Concussion’ Moviemakers’ Smears of CTE Victim’s Mother, Via Marketing Partner MomsTeam — Even Worse Than We Thought
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 30 | ‘Concussion’ Movie Director Peter Landesman Responds to Our Report That Marketing Partner Smeared CTE Victim’s Family
Peter Landesman: “You...
December 30 | P.S. on MomsTeam Smears
Regarding our post earlier...
December 30 | ‘Concussion’ Movie Partner MomsTeam Smeared CTE Victim Family to Newsweek Reporter — Also Exploited and Mocked Swimming Sex Abuse Victim
by Irvin Muchnick Our recent...
December 26 | ‘Concussion’ Movie Better Than Expected — But What Matters Now Is Bennet Omalu Foundation’s Complicity With Youth Football
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 21 | Will the Real Bennet Omalu Please Stand Up?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 18 | In His Own Words: What Bennet Omalu Said to Me in 2011 About the ‘CTE Discovery’ Controversy
by Irvin Muchnick...
December 18 | Introducing Our Coverage of Bennet Omalu’s CTE Discovery Authenticity Mess
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 16 | ‘Concussion’ Movie Realizes Its Vision — Job For Ridley Scott’s Wife at University of Pittsburgh’s Bennet Omalu Foundation
“Extreme corruption...
December 15 | On Eve of ‘Concussion’ Movie, the Affiliated Bennet Omalu Foundation Raises Questions of Both Science and Ethics
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 15 | Later Today: Concussion Inc.’s Full Coverage of Troubling Questions Surrounding the New Bennet Omalu Foundation
Follow us on Twitter:...
December 14 | ‘Concussion’ Movie Producers Play Dumb on Why Omalu Foundation Board Includes Pop Warner Football’s ‘No Youth Deaths’ Truther
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 13 | What Is Pop Warner Shill Julian ‘No Youth Football Deaths’ Bailes Doing on the Board of the Bennet Omalu Foundation?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 11 | Holy Plot Twist: ‘Concussion’ Movie Director Peter Landesman Tells Us, ‘I Never Heard of MomsTeam’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 10 | ‘Concussion’ Movie Hero Bennet Omalu’s Old Colleague, Julian Bailes, Has Become the New Leading ‘Dr. No.’ of Youth Football Shilling
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 8 | Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Trial Set For March 2016
...
December 8 | Flashback: ‘Concussion’ Hero Omalu Must Speak Out Against Movie’s Disastrous Deal With MomsTeam
‘Concussion’...
December 7 | Bravo For Bennet Omalu Times Essay, ‘Don’t Let Kids Play Football.’ But Why Are ‘Concussion’ Producers Playing Ball With MomsTeam?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 6 | Matt Chaney on Football’s New Rules and Better Helmets … in 1903
With the imminent release of...
December 3 | First Nations Complainants Ask Canadian Prime Minister to Bar Olympic Boss John Furlong Pending Hearing of Abuse Allegations
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 2 | Jimmy Snuka Ex-Girlfriend: ‘Nancy’s Head Hit the Bathtub’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 30 | ‘Why the Jimmy Snuka Murder Case Prosecutor’s Gag Order Worked’ (full text)
This article was originally...
November 27 | Flashback: ‘Concussion Inc.’ Author Muchnick Interview by ‘Spiral of Denial’ Author Matt Chaney
Matt Chaney Interview With...
November 23 | ‘Concussion’ Movie’s Subject — NFL Whistleblower Bennet Omalu — Needs to Speak Out Against Disastrous Partnership with Football Industry-Friendly MomsTeam
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 22 | Irish Swim Coach Rapist George Gibney Applied For U.S. Citizenship in 2010, Government’s Index of Withheld Documents Shows
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 19 | John Ruger — The U.S. Olympic Committee Athlete Ombudsman Who Didn’t Ombuds
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 17 | ‘Why the Jimmy Snuka Prosecutor Gag Order Worked’ … today at WrestlingObserver.com
WHY THE JIMMY SNUKA...
November 13 | Interview on the Chauncey DeVega Podcast
...
November 12 | In the George Gibney FOIA Case, We Argue in Federal Court For the Public Interest in Releasing More Material From His 102-Page Immigration File
“This FOIA case...
November 10 | ‘We Are All Mizzou’ — But Football’s Revolution Will Not Be Televised, There or Anywhere
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 9 | Crying ‘Wolfe’: Football Hijacks a Social Victory
Irvin Muchnick...
November 8 | Rapist Swim Coach George Gibney Appears to Have Overlapped at Ireland’s Newpark School With Controversial Vancouver Olympics Chief John Furlong
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 5 | Olympic Hopeful Turned 50-Year Abuse Survivor — In an Exclusive Interview, Speed Skating’s 1960s Golden Girl, Vickie Swanson, Explains Why She Disappeared
by Irvin Muchnick Heading...
November 2 | Our 25 Years of Coverage of the Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Case: Headline Links
The 2013 ebook, JUSTICE...
November 2 | Two Footnotes on Today’s Jimmy Snuka Murder Case Developments
1. I now know for a fact that...
November 2 | Behind Gag Order in Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Trial: Fear of Reporting and Commentary on Prosecutorial Misconduct
by Irvin Muchnick P.S....
October 31 | Georgia Swimming Official Whines About Brandon Drawz Coverage — Then Walks Back the Criticism and Offers Nothing
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 29 | Brandon Drawz Waits For His Next Opening in USA Swimming Bureaucracy After Internal ‘Investigation’ Clears Him
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 27 | Law Enforcement Records on George Gibney, Plus a Job Offer to Him, Among Documents Still Being Withheld by the Federal Government As My FOIA Case Proceeds in San Francisco Federal Court
by Irvin Muchnick The U.S....
October 26 | Before Next Month’s Superfly Snuka Murder Arraignment, Speculation Intensifies Over Involuntary Manslaughter Count
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 23 | Sources: USA Swimming Has ‘Investigated’ Brandon Drawz, Protégé of CEO Chuck Wielgus
by Irvin Muchnick In...
October 19 | Reprint of Sunday Times of London Article: ‘George Gibney Rape Victim Had Secret Abortion in UK’
Below is the full text of the...
October 18 | IRISH SWIMMING OFFICIAL ARRANGED SECRET ABORTION FOR GEORGE GIBNEY’S 1991 FLORIDA RAPE VICTIM — Sunday Times of London
by Irvin Muchnick “A...
October 16 | BREAKING: Significant Progress in the Two-Continent Fight to Bring Rapist Irish Olympic Swim Coach George Gibney to Justice
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 15 | Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer: Jimmy Snuka Murder Story Exposes ESPN ‘News’ Brand in Their Deal With WWE
This is reprinted with...
October 14 | Why the Allentown Morning Call Is Part of the Jimmy Snuka Murder Story — In a Bad Way
by Irvin Muchnick I have...
October 13 | ‘Is Involuntary Manslaughter Count the Poison Pill of Lehigh County’s Corrupt Prosecution of Jimmy Snuka?’ (full text)
This article was originally...
October 12 | ‘We’re Beginning to Learn Ugly Truths About the 32-Year Delay in Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’s Murder Indictment’ (full text)
This article was originally...
October 8 | ‘Jimmy Snuka Murder Trial: Is Involuntary Manslaughter Count the Poison Pill?’ … Now at WrestlingObserver.com
by Irvin Muchnick The...
October 8 | Muchnick Discusses Snuka Case, Concussions, His Uncle, And Other Topics on the ‘Jim Cornette Experience’ Podcast
...
October 7 | WFMZ-TV: Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Agrees to Bypass Preliminary Hearing in Murder Case
...
October 7 | On Day of Jimmy Snuka’s New Hearing in 1983 Murder Case, Headline Links To Our 23 Years of Coverage
The 2013 ebook, JUSTICE...
October 5 | ‘We’re Beginning to Learn Ugly Truths About the 32-Year Delay in Jimmy Snuka’s Murder Indictment’ … today at SLAM! Wrestling
The better-late-than-never...
October 4 | Muchnick to Be Interviewed This Week on Jim Cornette’s Podcast; Listen to Cornette’s Recent Discussion About Jimmy Snuka Case With Dave Meltzer
Jim Cornette, the classic and...
October 4 | Guest Column: The Latest History Lesson From Matt Chaney, Football’s Cassandra
Brain Injury in American...
October 3 | More of Matt Chaney, Football’s Cassandra (Part 1)
Tomorrow Concussion Inc. will...
October 2 | Lehigh County District Attorney’s Assertion Doesn’t Put to Rest Questions About the Unethical, Unprofessional 32-Year Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Investigation
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 2 | Exclusive: District Attorney Martin Was First Assistant D.A. When Jimmy Snuka Wasn’t Charged in 1983 (Another Teensy Fact the Allentown Morning Call Forgot)
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 30 | Allegations of Conflicts and Influence-Peddling in Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office Are As Old As the Jimmy Snuka Murder Cold Case Itself
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 30 | Police Report on USA Swimming’s Brandon Drawz: “Impersonated a police officer.”
...
September 29 | Police Report on USA Swimming’s Brandon Drawz: “He told her not to talk to the ‘fucking police,’ and I began to notice that he was intoxicated.”
...
September 29 | See It Now — 2007 Indianapolis Police Arrest Report on Brandon Drawz, USA Swimming Steering Committee Chair
P.S. 3/23/23: We have...
September 28 | The Cop Who Lied in 1992 About the Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Case: Complete Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage
The 2013 ebook, JUSTICE...
September 28 | Lehigh County Wants Court to Rush Superfly Snuka Murder Trial … After 32 Years of Their Own Foot-Dragging
by Irvin Muchnick Proponents...
September 25 | History of Violent Con Man Brandon Drawz — Teacher’s Pet of USA Swimming Boss Chuck Wielgus — Comes Into Focus on Eve of Aquatic Sports Convention
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 24 | Snuka Cold-Case Murder Detective, Who Lied About Investigation in 1992, Retired From Whitehall Police Three Days Before Starting With D.A.’s Office in 2003
by Irvin Muchnick Whitehall...
September 23 | Allentown Morning Call: ‘Prosecutors move to speed up Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka trial’
...
September 23 | Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka’s Family Sets Up a GoFundMe Campaign For Him — Has Raised $320 So Far
...
September 23 | Lehigh County: Snuka Murder Case Detective Procanyn Moved From Whitehall Township Police to District Attorney’s Office on the Eve of Another Cold Case Homicide Trial
by Irvin Muchnick As noted...
September 23 | Controversial Jimmy Snuka Murder Case Detective Is One of Several Musical Chairs and Revolving Door Figures in Lehigh County Criminal Justice
by Irvin Muchnick Before the...
September 20 | Football Notes: ‘Concussion’ Movie Controversy Hype, ‘New’ CTE Brain Findings, ‘Old’ Matt Chaney Research on What Has Been Long Known
CONCUSSION INC.: The End of...
September 18 | USADA’s Travis Tygart — Past USA Swimming Sex Abuse Cover-Up Counsel — Still Won’t Answer the Transparent Question Raised by the Mayweather IV Controversy
by Irvin Muchnick Earlier...
September 16 | Pre-Trial Wrangling in Jimmy Snuka Murder Case
by Irvin Muchnick Courthouse...
September 13 | USADA’s Travis Tygart Has No Defense — On Either the Mayweather Doping Fiasco Or the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Cover-Ups
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 11 | ‘Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka Murder Indictment Asks Some of the Right Questions — Also Begs a Few Big Ones’ (full text from Wrestling Observer Newsletter)
The article below is...
September 9 | Details For Ordering ‘JUSTICE DENIED: THE UNTOLD STORY OF NANCY ARGENTINO’S DEATH IN JIMMY SNUKA’S MOTEL ROOM’ — All Proceeds to a Women’s Shelter
JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold...
September 8 | Jimmy Snuka Is Busted For a 32-Year-Old Murder. Now, What About the Cop Who Lied About the Investigation 23 Years Ago?
By Irvin Muchnick ...
September 6 | Muchnick Profile by Paul Kimmage, Irish Independent: ‘Awful truth is hidden in plain sight’
I am deeply honored —...
September 5 | Reporter’s Notebook: Jimmy Snuka Murder Indictment, 96 Hours Later
The 2013 ebook,JUSTICE...
September 4 | TSN1050 Toronto: “Muchnick on Jimmy Snuka murder case”
...
September 3 | Muchnick in Wrestling Observer Newsletter And on Wrestling Observer Radio, Discussing Jimmy Snuka Murder Indictment
In the current issue of the...
September 2 | Daily Beast: ‘Family begged girl to ditch brutal Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’
For over two decades...
September 2 | ‘Look, I’m in the Garbage Business …’ — WWE Boss Vince McMahon in 1983 on the Jimmy Snuka Homicide Allegation
According to [Argentino...
September 2 | One of Nancy Argentino’s Two Sisters Talks About the Snuka Murder Indictment With ABC7 News in New York
...
September 2 | New Jersey Journalist Randy Miller: ‘My role in the murder case against Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’
...
September 1 | Allentown Morning Call: “Author who penned book about Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka discusses arrest”
...
September 1 | New Upload of Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka Grand Jury Presentment — Now With the Evidence Attachments
...
September 1 | Snuka Indictment: See District Attorney’s Press Release and Grand Jury Presentment
Release by James Martin,...
September 1 | After Snuka Grand Jury Presser in Pennsylvania Later Today …
Follow Concussion Inc. for...
September 1 | Newspaper Reports Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka To Be Charged With Third Degree Murder, Involuntary Manslaughter in 1983 Nancy Argentino Death
...
August 28 | USA Swimming’s Brandon Drawz Sucker-Punched a 67-Year-Old Coach at a Portland Pool — Two Months Before His 2007 Arrest in Indianapolis
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 27 | What We Know About USA Swimming Consigliere Brandon Drawz’s 2007 Arrest in Indianapolis for Domestic Violence, Battery, Public Intoxication, Resisting Arrest
By Irvin Muchnick ...
August 25 | See It Now — Documenting the 2007 Night USA Swimming Potentate Brandon Drawz Spent in the Indianapolis Jail
By Irvin Muchnick ...
August 24 | Full Text of Letter Calling for USA Swimming Investigation of Board Member Brandon Drawz
Dear Mr. Muchnick, I have...
August 24 | Parent Letter Campaign Asks USA Swimming For Investigation of Brandon Drawz — Based on Concussion Inc.’s Report of His 2007 Domestic Violence Arrest in Indianapolis
By Irvin Muchnick A letter...
August 24 | Jock-Sniffing Inc.: Santa Clara Sports Law Symposium’s New Keynote Speaker Is the Local Super Bowl Booster
By Irvin Muchnick ...
August 20 | Flashback — Denver Post: “Abuse in Youth Sports an Issue For Congress”
The essay below was...
August 20 | Did USOC Burn Already Burn Through $5.2 Million For Its New Nonexistent Sex Police?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 17 | George Gibney, Hiding in Plain Sight in Florida, Ducks Confrontation With Child Watch Organization
by Irvin Muchnick Evin Daly,...
August 14 | So Many International Swimming Sex Abuse Cover-Ups, So Little Time …
Chronological headline links...
August 14 | Swimming World Magazine: We’re Reassessing Alex Pussieldi As Brazil Correspondent
by Irvin Muchnick The CEO of...
August 14 | With Peeping Tom Swim Coach Alex Pussieldi Still on the Loose, the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics Have a Human Sewage Problem, Too
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 10 | To End the George Gibney Misery, Good People in America Must Reach Across the Water to Good People in Ireland
Complete chronological links...
August 10 | Reprint of Sunday Times of London Article: ‘Swimmer Says Gibney Obtained Visa in Lottery’
Below is the full text of the...
August 8 | Sunday Times of London: “Swimmer says Gibney ‘gained visa in lottery'”
CHALKIE WHITE, who has...
August 7 | Matt Chaney, Football’s Cassandra, Roasts ‘Heads Up’ Chicanery on ESPN
by Irvin Muchnick Concussion...
August 6 | U.S. Government Answers Muchnick’s George Gibney FOIA Court Complaint
The government today filed...
August 6 | Roundup of Irish and U.K. Coverage of George Gibney Investigation and Our FOIA Litigation in the U.S.
by Irvin Muchnick While...
August 3 | Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Grand Jury Report Being Reviewed by Supervising Judge
by Irvin Muchnick We have...
August 3 | Reprint of Sunday Times Article on Irish Parliament’s Maureen O’Sullivan’s Letter Asking 107 American Congresswomen For Support in Getting to the Bottom of the George Gibney Story
Below is the full text of the...
August 2 | ‘US lawmakers urged to release Gibney ’s files’ — Sunday Times of London
“MAUREEN...
July 31 | USOC Admits ‘Frustration’ With Delayed Safe Sport Agency Start-Up
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 30 | IrishCentral: ‘How did an indicted Irish pedophile manage to get a US green card?’
(Below, the opening...
July 29 | Pennsylvania Grand Jury Decision Imminent in 1983 Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Homicide Investigation
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 28 | Irish Legislator to Representative Speier and More Than 100 Women in U.S. Congress: Help Us Get Justice in the Matter of Swim Coach George Gibney
by Irvin Muchnick Immediately...
July 28 | Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Rapist Former Irish National Swim Team Coach George Gibney in America: Complete Links
Why Is George Gibney –...
July 28 | BREAKING: Irish Times Reports ‘Appeal For Transparency’ on Sponsorship of George Gibney’s American Green Card
by Irvin Muchnick Irish...
July 23 | Meet Retired Pro Hockey Goon Allan Grobensky — ‘Unfortunately We Need a Martyr’ For Traumatic Brain Injury in Collision Sports
by Irvin Muchnick You meet...
July 22 | Nancy Hogshead-Makar: Women’s Sports Advocates in ‘Difficult’ Wait-and-See Mode on Sex Abuse Oversight
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 21 | Update on George Gibney Criminal Investigation in Ireland
by Irvin Muchnick While the...
July 18 | Irish Independent Covers Our George Gibney FOIA Lawsuit
“Authorities in the US...
July 15 | Court Pleading in Gibney FOIA Appeal
Immediately below is the text...
July 14 | New Beneficiary for Royalties From Jimmy Snuka-Nancy Argentino eBook ‘JUSTICE DENIED’
The family of Nancy Argentino...
July 14 | U.S. District Court Senior Judge Charles Breyer to Preside Over Gibney FOIA Case
Irvin Muchnick v. U.S....
July 13 | Missing and Exploited Children Experts: The Silent Start-Up of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s ‘National Center for Safe Sport’
by Irvin Muchnick In February...
July 10 | Update on Hollywood Stuntwoman Leslie Hoffman’s Disability Case
It’s almost five years...
July 8 | U.S. Speedskating Activist’s Letter to Congresswoman Jackie Speier’s Office: GAO Sex Abuse Report Stinks. Congresswoman to Activist: [nothing].
Eva Rodansky, the former...
July 7 | Courthouse News Service Reports Our Federal Court Appeal For Rapist Former Irish National Swim Team Coach George Gibney’s U.S. Immigration Records
by Irvin Muchnick On July 1,...
June 30 | Congress to USA Swimming’s Abuse Survivors and Supporters: Go Take a Flying Leap Off the George Miller Bridge
by Irvin Muchnick Yesterday,...
June 29 | Unaccountably, Congressman Miller’s Successors Pronounce Satisfaction With GAO’s Vacant Report on Amateur Sports Sex Abuse
by Irvin Muchnick As reported...
June 29 | Your Tax Dollars at Work: ‘GAO Makes No Recommendations’ on Sex Abuse in Amateur Sports
...
June 29 | Australian Swim Coach Brian King Banned From Training Children
...
June 25 | Serious FBI Investigation Is in the Cards — But It Ain’t USA Swimming Sex Abuse
by Irvin Muchnick Because a...
June 24 | Exchange With Jim Thompson of the Positive Coaching Alliance Regarding the Santa Clara University Institute on Sports Law and Ethics, the ‘Gold Sponsor’ San Francisco 49ers, and Soccer
Irvin Muchnick’s book,...
June 23 | Jock-Sniffing Inc.: 49ers Blitz Credibility of Santa Clara Sports Law Symposium
by Irvin Muchnick Any day...
June 22 | Scott Volkers, Australian-Brazilian Accused Molester Swim Coach, Turns Up at Santa Clara Meet — One More Reason Why Our George Gibney FOIA Litigation Is Important
by Irvin Muchnick We...
June 12 | Federal Court Appeal Next After Government Denies Internal Appeal For Release of Rapist Irish National Swim Team Coach George Gibney’s American Immigration Records
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 4 | ‘Global Soccer Arrests Give Hope For Investigating Corruption in Swimming’ (full text)
Originally published May 28...
June 2 | ‘Director’s Cut’ of Muchnick’s Op-Ed at the Denver Post: ‘USA Swimming’s Wielgus Has No Credibility — Reform Is a Job For Congress’
Last week the Denver Post...
June 2 | Ding-Dong, the Wicked Witch Is Dead at FIFA
But Chuck Wielgus,...
June 1 | Federal Government Updates on Swimming Investigations
by Irvin Muchnick Government...
June 1 | Chaos Continues For USA Swimming’s $23,000 Study at Indiana University — Now Pulled From Coach Association Website Pending ‘Peer Review’
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 28 | ‘Global Soccer Arrests Give Hope For Investigating Corruption in USA Swimming’ — today at Beyond Chron
The Swiss bust and...
May 27 | ‘Global Soccer Arrests Give Hope for Investigating Corruption in Swimming — Where Someone Died’
The headline above will be...
May 26 | ‘Abuse in Youth Sports an Issue for Congress’ — today at the Denver Post
by Irvin Muchnick The May 15...
May 21 | Muchnick Appeals Government’s Rejection of George Gibney Immigration Records FOIA
Concussion Inc. today...
May 14 | U.S. Speedskating Dissidents Resubmit Proposal to Ban Accused Molester Andy Gabel
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 7 | Michael Crowe, Defrocked American Team Speedskating Coach, Now Has the Same Job in Canada
by Irvin Muchnick Last...
May 5 | U.S. Government Asserts Blanket Privacy Redactions of Rapist Irish National Swim Team Coach George Gibney’s Immigration Files — FOIA Appeal Is Likely
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 4 | Flashback: Is USA Swimming Sexual Abuse a ‘Sports Welfare’ Issue?
With our coverage of the...
May 2 | ‘Brandon Drawz Out as Executive Director of SwimMAC’
SwimSwam rushed over as soon...
April 29 | SwimMAC Website Seems to Confirm Our Report That Brandon Drawz Is Out
by Irvin Muchnick In...
April 28 | FBI Offers Reward For ‘Most Wanted’ John Trites — Case Exposed Unindicted Perjury of USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 27 | From the Irish Independent — Gary O’Toole, the Swimmer Who Busted George Gibney
“Who do I admire? Gary...
April 27 | American Swimming Coaches Association Chief Blows Off Complaint About Con Man-Abuser Brian King
by Irvin Muchnick A...
April 26 | Comprehensive Links to Our Coverage of Michael Phelps Coach Bob Bowman’s Time at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 24 | John Gerdy Has One Record Stephen Curry Will Never Top: Sports Sanity Advocacy
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 23 | Instead of Partnering With the White House on Anti-Abuse PR, USA Swimming Needs to Find and Support Its Own Legacy Victims – And End the Local Practice of Victim-Shaming
by Irvin Muchnick The...
April 22 | Dani Bostick: How I Came to Name My Swim Coach Molester – And What Happened After That
(Last week we introduced you...
April 21 | Rowdy Gaines, ‘Swimming’s Greatest Ambassador,’ Needs to Explain His and USA Swimming’s Association With the Criminal, Fly-by-Night ‘National Swimming Center Corporation’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 20 | Sources: Shady USA Swimming Board Figure Brandon Drawz Fired at Prominent North Carolina Program
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 19 | Con Man-Abuser Brian King’s Penn State Swimming Stint Is More Evidence of NCAA Coaches’ For-Profit Allegiance With the American Swimming Coaches Association
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 17 | Penn State: 2010 Firing of Assistant Swim Coach – Australian-American Abuser and Con Man Brian King – Was ‘Confidential’
by Irvin Muchnick Penn...
April 16 | Abuse Allegations Against Fraudulent Australian Swim Coach Brian King Include His Murky Dismissal at Penn State
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 15 | Introducing Danielle Bostick – Survivor of the Rick Curl Generation of Abusive USA Swimming Coaches
by Irvin Muchnick...
April 12 | Rapist Irish National Swim Team Coach George Gibney’s American Odyssey Begins — And May End — In Florida
by Irvin Muchnick If...
April 6 | With Capitol Hill in Holding Pattern on Amateur Sports Abuse Investigations, Here’s a Glimpse of the Testimony to Congressman Miller
by Irvin Muchnick At...
April 5 | Update (Not) on USA Swimming’s Alex Pussiedi Investigation
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 2 | New Arizona Law to Close ‘Greg Winslow Loophole’ For Swim Coach Abuse
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 30 | “’Concussion Inc.’ is an informative take on the effort to convince the public football is safe” — author John Gerdy
The full text of what...
March 28 | Irish Times: ‘Detective Appointed to Look Into George Gibney Case’
by Irvin Muchnick A...
March 23 | Colorado Child Protection Ombudsman Decides (Reasonably) Not to Intervene in Arvada Public Record Matter – All Eyes on Our Fed FOIA Request for George Gibney’s Immigration Files
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 23 | USA Swimming Marketing Conference Features USA Today Reporter – Newspaper Management Justifies Her Participation in Wake of Sex Abuse Scandals
by Irvin Muchnick...
March 19 | U.S. Immigration Agency Official: ‘Final Review’ For Release of George Gibney Files Is Under Way
In an email today to...
March 18 | A Note on My Uncle, Irvin Bernard Figus – Killed 70 Years Ago Today at the Battle of Remagen – And the Sister Who Loved Him
Please indulge a diversion...
March 18 | Colorado Child Protection Ombudsman May Ask to Inspect 1995 Arvada Police Report of Sexual Assault Complaint Against Ireland and USA Swimming’s George Gibney
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 17 | GAO Report on Federal Law’s Sexual Abuse Reporting Requirements in Amateur Sports May Be Imminent
by Irvin Muchnick A...
March 16 | Reprint of Sunday Times Article on ConcussionInc.’s Reports of Investigations of George Gibney by Colorado Police
Below is the full text of the...
March 16 | “[Muchnick’s] arguments will resonate, not only with football aficionados …” — Publishers Weekly
Full text of the Publishers...
March 16 | Irish Legislator Seeks Assistance on George Gibney From Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congresswoman Jackie Speier
by Irvin Muchnick The Irish...
March 15 | “Disgraced coach Gibney investigated in America” – Sunday Times of London
by Irvin Muchnick...
March 12 | Preview of Coming Attractions on George Gibney / USA Swimming Sexual Abuse Scandal
Follow @irvmuch on Twitter....
March 10 | Congresswoman Speier Needs to Do Better Than Congressman Miller on USA Swimming Sex Abuse. Waiting Around For the GAO Report Isn’t Good Enough.
by Irvin Muchnick With the...
March 10 | Irish Legislator: George Gibney Prosecution Follow-Up Being Pursued in Both Ireland and U.S.
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 9 | What ‘The Matheny Manifesto’ Gets Wrong About the Power Struggle Between Coaches and Parents in Youth Sports
by Irvin Muchnick Mike...
March 8 | Matt Chaney Interview With Muchnick on ‘Concussion Inc.: The End of Football As We Know It’ (full text)
As part of his February 28...
March 6 | Roundup of New Media Coverage of Irish National Team and USA Swimming Rapist Coach George Gibney
CONCUSSION INC. See complete...
March 6 | Reprint of Sunday Times Article on Muchnick’s Freedom of Information Request For Rapist Irish and USA Swimming Coach George Gibney’s American Immigration Records
Below is the full text of the...
March 5 | Irish Times: Minister of Justice to Discuss Legislator’s Appeal For Extradition of George Gibney
Sportswriter Johnny Watterson...
March 5 | What Complicates American Prosecution of Irish National Team and USA Swimming Coach George Gibney For His 1991 Rape on American Soil
by Irvin Muchnick Activists...
March 4 | Link to Irish Times Story on Irish Parliament’s Maureen O’Sullivan’s Appeal For Extradition of George Gibney
Independent TD seeks...
March 4 | Status of Our Freedom of Information Act Request For George Gibney’s Immigration Files — Now Being Closely Watched in Both Ireland and U.S.
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 4 | Wheat Ridge (Colorado) Police: We Destroyed 1998 Report on George Gibney
by Irvin Muchnick As...
March 4 | While You Were Sleeping: George Gibney / USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal Is Now a Two-Continent Affair
Member of Irish Parliament...
March 4 | See It Now – Irish Legislator O’Sullivan, Journalist McCarthy, Whistleblower Parent Discuss the Quest For George Gibney Justice on TV3’s ‘Tonight With Vincent Browne’
The panel discussion begins...
March 3 | Tuesday Night Notes on the Exploding George Gibney / USA Swimming Story on Two Continents
* Following Irish Independent...
March 3 | Member of Irish Parliament Calls on Government to Seek George Gibney’s Extradition From the U.S.
by Irvin Muchnick The Irish...
March 3 | Here’s the 2000 Wheat Ridge (Colorado) Police Report on Rapist Irish National Team and USA Swimming Coach George Gibney
by Irvin Muchnick Today...
March 3 | ‘CONCUSSION INC.’ Featured in Star and OK! Magazines
CONCUSSION INC.: The End of...
March 2 | House Education and Workforce Committee Begins Fielding Requests For Release of Information From Congressman Miller’s 2013-14 Interviewees
by Irvin Muchnick The...
March 2 | George Gibney Swimming Abuse Cover-Up Featured Tonight on Irish TV
“DOCUMENTARY:...
March 2 | Matt Chaney Talks With Muchnick About ‘Concussion Inc.’ Book As Part of New Article on NFL’s ‘Inept Care and Record-Keeping’ in Player Deaths
The writings of my friend...
March 1 | “Alleged abuser Gibney’s green card queried” — Sunday Times of London, Irish Edition
“An American journalist...
February 27 | BREAKING: Arvada (Colorado) Police Say George Gibney Left North Jeffco Swim Team As Early As 1995, Following Sexual Harassment Incident And Exposure of His Irish Past
by Irvin Muchnick I just...
February 27 | Meanwhile, Back at the Alex Pussieldi Ranch …
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 26 | What’s Ahead in the George Gibney / USA Swimming Investigation
by Irvin Muchnick *...
February 25 | More Info on George Gibney at the USA Swimming Club in Denver, As Public Records Requests Escalate
Concussion Inc.’s...
February 25 | George Gibney’s USA Swimming Club in Denver Claims ‘No First-Hand Knowledge’ of His Dismissal and Notice to Others in 2000
Concussion Inc.’s...
February 24 | Archdiocese of Denver ‘No Comments’ Irish Coach George Gibney – Plus Other New Notes on USA Swimming’s Cover-Up
Concussion Inc.’s...
February 24 | Colorado Police Confirm Basics of Concussion Inc.’s George Gibney Reporting; Questions Persist on USA Swimming’s Cover-Up Role
Senator Dianne Feinstein of...
February 23 | Rapist Irish National Coach George Gibney in Colorado in 2000 – Coached For USA Swimming Club, Claimed To Be on Board of At-Risk Youth Center, Traveled to Peru With a Priest
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 22 | How Former USA Swimming President Dale Neuburger Responded To an American Court To Questions About Rapist Irish Coach George Gibney – Now Living in Florida With a Green Card
The following text is an...
February 20 | Muchnick Tells Magazine: ‘I Emphatically Do Not Find USOC’s National Center for Safe Sport To Be Credible’
Reprinted with permission...
February 19 | Senator Feinstein Leads Congressional Group Assisting Concussion Inc. in FOIA Request For Former Irish Coach George Gibney’s U.S. Immigration Records
PREVIOUSLY: Why Is George...
February 18 | U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Offers Confused Initial Response to FOIA Request For Rapist Irish Coach George Gibney’s Visa and Green Card Files
PREVIOUSLY: Why Is George...
February 17 | Now at WrestlingObserver.com — The Op-Ed Piece on the Jimmy Snuka Grand Jury That Was Censored by the Allentown Morning Call
The essay below, by the...
February 13 | Why Did the Allentown Morning Call Censor an Op-Ed by Nancy Argentino’s Sisters on the Jimmy Snuka Grand Jury Investigation?
by Irvin Muchnick The...
February 13 | Katherine Starr of Safe4Athletes Takes the Easy Way – Settles For a Title on the Advisory Board of USOC’s New Sex Police
by Irvin Muchnick I wrote...
February 12 | UPMC’s Dr. Maroon — ‘The White Coat Who Put the “Inc.” in “Concussion Inc.”‘
[T]hings only got better...
February 8 | Table of Contents of ‘CONCUSSION INC.: The End of Football As We Know It’
CONCUSSION INC.: The End of...
February 3 | The Lessons — And Shrugs — Of the Julian Edelman Incident at the Super Bowl
CONCUSSION INC.: The End of...
February 1 | It’s Super Bowl Sunday — And ‘CONCUSSION INC.’ Publication Day
You can pre-order CONCUSSION...
January 29 | On Eve of Super Bowl, Coach at Tom Brady’s Old High School Shows Just How Easy It Is to Be a ‘Football Safety Hero’
Irvin Muchnick’s book...
January 27 | Why Is George Gibney — No. 1 At-Large Pedophile in Global Sports — Living in Florida? And Who Sponsored His Green Card?
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
January 25 | Second Concussion Lawsuit Against WWE Is Not Impressive
Two former pro wrestlers...
January 24 | A Good Week For Sex Abuse Enablers Joe Paterno and USA Swimming’s Chuck Wielgus
The late Joe Paterno, chief...
January 20 | Book Bonus: Introduction of Irvin Muchnick’s New Book ‘CONCUSSION INC.: The End of Football As We Know It’
Irvin Muchnick’s book...
January 15 | Our Complete Series Resetting the Federal Investigations of USA Swimming in 2015
“How the USA Swimming...
January 15 | 2015 Reset: Congresswoman Jackie Speier Takes Over on Sports Sex Abuse Issue
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES:...
January 14 | 2015 Reset: Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Interest in USA Swimming Sexual Abuse Investigations
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES:...
January 13 | In the Randy Smith Case, USA Swimming Delivers Yet Another Non-Resolution – Further Proof That Congressional Intervention Is Needed
The Western Massachusetts...
January 12 | 2015 Reset: Topical Guide to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandals
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES:...
January 10 | Irish Times, Seat of Global Sex Abuse Coverage, Says USA Swimming ‘May Be Largest Abuse Scandal in the History of Sport’
Dublin’sIrish Timesis...
January 9 | 2015 Reset: Muchnick-Joyce Interview With Outside Magazine
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES:...
January 8 | A Twitter Exchange on the Timeline of USA Swimming Sex Abuse Story
Irvin Muchnick“@irvmuch...
January 8 | 2015 Reset: Does Outside Magazine’s USA Swimming Sex Abuse Article Mean Real Accountability Is at Hand?
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS...
January 7 | 2015 Reset: Congressman Asks FBI to ‘Fully Investigate USA Swimming’s Handling of Child Sexual Abuse’
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES:...
January 6 | 2015 Reset: ‘How the USA Swimming Sexual Abuse Scandals Became a Federal Case’
Concussion Inc. begins the...
January 5 | Grand Jury Extended in Pennsylvania Investigation of Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Role in Nancy Argentino’s 1983 Death
by Irvin Muchnick The office...

2014 (337)

December 24 | George Visger’s Holiday Gift From Travelers Insurance: They Stopped Paying His Medical Bills
George Visger is a former pro...
December 22 | Oregon’s Tualatin Hills Swim Club Needs to Explain the Firing of Coach Linck Bergen – Son of Disgraced Hall of Famer Paul Bergen
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 20 | With Congresswoman Speier Leading the Fight on USA Swimming Sex Abuse, Will ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’ Awake From Its Five-Year-Long Slumber?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 19 | CONGRESSWOMAN JACKIE SPEIER TAKES OVER FROM CONGRESSMAN GEORGE MILLER ON SPORTS SEX ABUSE ISSUE
Congressman George Miller,...
December 18 | What the Former USOC Athlete Ombudsman Probably Knows About Swimming Abuse – What He Surely Knows About Speedskating Abuse
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 17 | As Full Story of USOC Athlete Ombudsman Ouster Remains Concealed, Some Athletes’ Advisory Council Members Protest Terms of Successor’s Hire
by Irvin Muchnick The...
December 16 | Olympic Swim Coach Jack Bauerle Fined And Suspended For Major Violations With His Georgia Star Chase Kalisz – One of North Baltimore Aquatic Club’s Finest
PREVIOUSLY: Chase...
December 11 | If Allegations Against U.S. Speedskating’s Andy Gabel Are True, They Are Crimes – Not Just ‘Crossing That Line’
by Irvin Muchnick As we...
December 10 | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center – Where Concussion Inc.’s Solution Is Concussion Inc.’s Problem
by Irvin Muchnick Like...
December 8 | C.M. Punk Puts Spotlight Back on Dr. Maroon’s Team and WWE ‘Wellness Policy’
by Irvin Muchnick The...
December 5 | Speedskating Chief Told Anti-Abuse Activist To Send Andy Gabel Media Inquiries To Him — Then Weaseled When We Called Him About It
PREVIOUSLY:...
December 3 | Perfect Stocking Stuffer: Pre-Order ‘CONCUSSION INC.: The End of Football As We Know It’
Though my third book,...
December 3 | U.S. Speedskating’s Andy Gabel Decision Shows How Molesters in That Sport, As in Swimming, Continue to Roam Free
PREVIOUSLY: Swimming’s...
December 2 | Speedskating’s Andy Gabel Has a Playbook For Sex Abuse Accusers: Threaten to Sue Them
PREVIOUSLY: Swimming’s...
December 1 | Swimming’s Chuck Wielgus Stands Fully Exposed As a Cover-Up Creep – But Whatever Happened to Speedskating Hall of Famer Andy Gabel?
by Irvin Muchnick At this...
November 29 | Topical Guide to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandals
by Irvin Muchnick Tim Joyce...
November 25 | ‘Should USA Swimming Go Down?’ – Outside Magazine Interviews Muchnick & Joyce on Federal Investigations of the Sex Abuse Scandals
A conversation with Irvin...
November 24 | Defrocked USA Swimming Olympic Head Coach Mark Schubert Settles Abuse Whistleblower Lawsuit; Case Revealed Schubert’s Spying on Rival Coach
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
November 21 | Concussion Inc.’s Lawsuit Against Fort Lauderdale For Withheld Alex Pussieldi Public Documents Concludes With City’s $5,000 Payment to Muchnick’s Attorneys in Miami
by Irvin Muchnick The City of...
November 20 | Senator Feinstein Signals Interest in Congressman Miller’s USA Swimming Sex Abuse Investigations
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
November 17 | On ANOTHER Comment Board, Inscrutable David Berkoff Changes His Tune Again – Praises Outside Magazine Article on Sex Abuse, Criticizes USA Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick Over the...
November 15 | “Are we just interested in castrating all the men around here?” – USA Swimming Vice President David Berkoff’s Shockingly Tasteless Comment
by Irvin Muchnick In...
November 14 | USA Swimming, Hustling to Keep Up With the Sex-Abuse Posse, Bans Dustin Perry, the Poor Man’s Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick Tim Joyce...
November 12 | We Told You What They Were Going to Tell You, We Told You, And We Told You What They Told You
‘Article in New Issue...
November 12 | Outside Magazine’s USA Swimming Sex Abuse Article: Is This Just a 2010 Media Hit Reset – Or Is Real Accountability At Hand?
by Irvin Muchnick...
November 11 | Outside Magazine Article on USA Swimming Sex Abuse Now Online
...
November 11 | ‘Article in New Issue of Outside Magazine Boosts Fed Investigations of USA Swimming’ … today at Beyond Chron
by Irvin Muchnick The...
November 7 | Nancy Hogshead-Makar’s New Advocacy Group, Champion Women, a Welcome Voice in the Fight to Hold USA Swimming Accountable
Look for the December issue...
November 7 | As World Awaits Outside Magazine Article on USA Swimming Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up, Questions Still Swirl Around Chuck Wielgus Role in a $23,000 Grant to Indiana University’s Counsilman Center
Look for the December issue...
November 6 | Outside Magazine’s Table of Contents Listing for December Issue Article on USA Swimming Sex Abuse
Unprotected There’s a...
November 6 | Miami Herald’s Jack Nelson Obit Doesn’t Mention Diana Nyad Abuse Allegations. Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel’s Does.
Look for the December issue...
November 5 | This Tells You All You’ll Need to Know About USA Swimming’s Whining About the Upcoming Article on Sex Abuse/Cover-Up in Outside Magazine
USA Swimming president Jim...
November 5 | USA Swimming Gets A Head Start on Damage Control for a Long Article on Sex Abuse and Cover-Up, “Unprotected,” in the December Issue of Outside Magazine
by Irvin Muchnick Concussion...
November 5 | How Jack Nelson’s Death Is Being Covered; What Congressman Miller Told the FBI About Nelson’s Fort Lauderdale Swim Team
by Irvin Muchnick As...
November 5 | Jack Nelson, Hall of Fame Swim Coach Accused of Molesting Diana Nyad, Dies
Jack Nelson was three days...
November 5 | ‘NFL Releases New Study on Long-Term Damage of Concussion Research’
Funny stuff from the...
October 29 | ‘The NFL Concussion Settlement Is Pure Evil’
A thorough and powerful...
October 28 | Cover of Forthcoming ‘Concussion Inc.: The End of Football As We Know It’
“As fans, do we just...
October 28 | WWE Wrestler’s New Concussion Lawsuit Recalls Company’s NFL Link and Its Own Corporate and Individual Lies
CONCUSSION INC: The End of...
October 26 | San Jose Mercury News Management Investigating Reporter Elliott Almond’s Twitter Smear of Muchnick Regarding USA Swimming Story
by Irvin Muchnick An...
October 26 | Flashback: How the USA Swimming Sexual Abuse Scandals Became a Federal Case
How the USA Swimming Sexual...
October 25 | Concussion Inc.’s Tim Joyce: ‘Congress and the USA Swimming Scandals’ … today at TheHill.com
“… [T]he USA...
October 24 | Quote of the Week
“[Dear FBI Director...
October 24 | San Jose Murky News: Paper Duped by USA Swimming on Story of Congressman Miller and FBI Investigations of Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up
by Irvin Muchnick A shoddy...
October 23 | As Congressman Miller Pushes the FBI on USA Swimming Sexual Abuse, What Happened With the Olympic Athlete Ombudsman?
by Irvin Muchnick Congressman...
October 23 | Congressman Miller, the FBI, and USA Swimming Sexual Abuse: Comprehensive Links
Muchnick & Joyce podcast...
October 22 | Muchnick & Joyce Podcast Discusses Letters Between Congressman George Miller and the FBI Regarding USA Swimming Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up
http://youtu.be/M7BhE-i8ygE...
October 22 | CONGRESSMAN MILLER TO FBI: ‘FULLY INVESTIGATE USA SWIMMING’S HANDLING OF BOTH PAST AND PRESENT CASES OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE’
Muchnick & Joyce podcast...
October 20 | USA Swimming Sports Medicine/Science Committee, Where Indiana Researcher Serves, Meets About As Often As the Safe Sport Committee – Somewhere Between Rarely And Never
PREVIOUSLY: Questions...
October 17 | Open Letter to Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie: Answer the Questions Surrounding USA Swimming’s $23,000 Grant Via the American Swimming Coaches Association
PREVIOUSLY: Questions...
October 16 | More on Joel ‘No Big Deal’ Stager’s ‘Independent’ Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming
PREVIOUSLY: Questions...
October 15 | Indiana University Researcher Responds – Not At All Adequately – To Our Story on the Grant From Chuck Wielgus of USA Swimming Via the American Swimming Coaches Association
by Irvin Muchnick Joel...
October 15 | Questions Surround $23,000 Grant to American Swimming Coaches Association From USA Swimming’s Wielgus
by Irvin Muchnick Last week...
October 14 | Swimming World Magazine Checks Out (False) Rumor That FBI Raided USA Swimming Offices
by Irvin Muchnick The...
October 13 | Bum of the Month Club: While It Holds Its Breath on Next Moves From Congress and FBI, USA Swimming Makes Georgia Coach No. 108 on Banned List
by Irvin Muchnick The real...
October 10 | Newly Unredacted Fort Lauderdale Document on Alex Pussieldi Adds to Evidence of Cover-Up By City, Club, USA Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick Yesterday a...
October 9 | Florida Judge Orders City of Fort Lauderdale to Remove Two Redactions From Alex Pussieldi Documents
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 9 | Why Did Vice Sports Ice Our Story on Federal Investigations of USA Swimming Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up? An Intriguing Inside-the-Media Tale
by Irvin Muchnick Two...
October 9 | Forbes’ ‘Real Clear Sports’ Features Muchnick & Joyce on Federal Investigations of USA Swimming Sexual Abuse
Real Clear...
October 8 | Listen to Muchnick’s Interview About Federal Investigations of USA Swimming, On 740 The Game in Orlando
The 12-minute audio clip is...
October 8 | American Swimming Coaches Association Magazine Presents …Tribute to Disgraced USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus
by Irvin Muchnick The...
October 8 | Muchnick to Discuss Michael Phelps, USA Swimming on Orlando’s 740 The Game
Irvin Muchnick will talk...
October 7 | How the USA Swimming Sexual Abuse Scandals Became a Federal Case
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
October 6 | As Michael Phelps Checks Into Rehab, He and Coach Bob Bowman Face Multiple Challenges
Shortly after this item was...
October 5 | Developing: Departure of USOC Athlete Ombudsman Raises Questions of Timing With Federal Investigations
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
October 5 | Offspeed Pitch: My Son Nate’s Contrarian Take on the Hong Kong Protests
We interrupt our regularly...
October 4 | George Visger, NFL Brain Trauma Victim – And Concussion Inc. Author – On Opting Out of the Class Action Settlement
George Visger was a member of...
October 1 | What’s Up Between the Women’s Sports Foundation and USA Swimming?
by Irvin Muchnick We...
October 1 | Michael Phelps DUI, Yadda Yadda Yadda
...
September 29 | Revisiting Jovan Belcher
by Irvin Muchnick In a...
September 29 | Summary of Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of FBI and USA Swimming Sex Abuse
On January 31, 2013, we...
September 29 | Chronological Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of the FBI and USA Swimming Sex Abuse
Attention, Open Amateur...
September 28 | EXCLUSIVE: FBI OFFICIALS SPOKE WITH USA SWIMMING REGARDING SEX ABUSE
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
September 22 | October 1 Hearing Date Set in Muchnick’s Public Records Suit Against Fort Lauderdale on Alex Pussieldi Document Redactions
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 19 | Will Presumptive USA Swimming Board President Mary Jo Swalley Disclose Her Relationship With Suspended Dirty Old Man Coach Bill Jewell?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 17 | USA Swimming’s Prospective New Board President Mary Jo Swalley – And the ‘Mary Jo Swalley Rule’
(This posts corrects a...
September 16 | And Now For a Word From Our USA Swimming Sponsors
Follow us on Twitter at...
September 16 | Sex Abuse Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Former USA Swimming National Team Coach Mark Shubert: Complete Links
Yesterday we broke the story...
September 15 | Jury Trial Next in Sex Abuse Whistleblower Coach’s Lawsuit Against Former National Olympic Swim Team Coach Mark Schubert
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
September 14 | Closing the Loop: 49ers President Took No Questions on Domestic Violence at Santa Clara Sports Law Symposium
by Irvin Muchnick As...
September 12 | Olympic Anti-Doping Icon Travis Tygart and the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Cover-Up: Complete Links
EXCLUSIVE: Travis Tygart,...
September 11 | No Fireworks With Travis Tygart at Santa Clara Sports Law Symposium – But Olympic Drug Czar Still Needs to Answer Questions About His Work For USA Swimming in Sex Abuse Complaints
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 9 | With USA Swimming’s Old Lawyer Travis Tygart – Plus the 49ers’ President – Speaking Thursday, Santa Clara Sports Law Symposium Could Be Liveliest Yet … Or Lamest
by Irvin Muchnick For...
September 9 | Making the Cyberspace Rounds: A New Travis Tygart / USA Swimming Sexual Abuse Meme
PREVIOUSLY: EXCLUSIVE: Travis...
September 8 | Ex-Flack For USADA’s Travis Tygart Trolls Concussion Inc. Following Questions About Tygart’s Previous Work on Sexual Abuse Cases As a Lawyer For USA Swimming
PREVIOUSLY: EXCLUSIVE:...
September 4 | Olympic Anti-Doping Chief Tygart Investigated Fugitive Sex Abuser Coach For USA Swimming; Ban Not Announced For 8 Years And He’s Probably Still Coaching in Venezuela
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
September 3 | EXCLUSIVE: Travis Tygart, Head of Olympic Anti-Doping Agency, Investigated Sexual Abuse Cases For USA Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick ...
September 3 | Flashback: Wes Welker Suspension Recalls Our 2011 Coverage of How Football Players Beat the Concussion Tests By Abusing Ritalin
Yesterday the National...
August 13 | Is WWE Taking Care of Brain-Injured Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat?
by Irvin Muchnick In...
August 8 | Summer 2013 Flashback: USA Swimming’s Big-Money PR Campaign to Combat ‘Perceptions’ and Ward Off Congressional Investigations
Summer 2013 Flashback: USA...
August 8 | June 11 Flashback: ‘With New Public Petition Calling For Congress and Chuck Wielgus Prosecution, USA Swimming’s Sex Abuse Victims Keep USOC From Changing the Subject’
NEXT — Summer 2013...
August 8 | Court Ruling Seems Near in Dispute Over Public Records on Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick On...
July 24 | Muchnick in the Christian Science Monitor on California’s New ‘Football Safety’ Law
CONCUSSION INC: The End of...
July 17 | Detective in 2008 Roberto Caragol Case: ‘The Investigation Did Not Expand Into Additional Suspects’ (i.e., USA Swimming’s Alex Pussieldi)
by Irvin Muchnick and...
July 11 | Time For Women’s Sports Foundation to Disclose Financial Ties to USA Swimming and U.S. Olympic Committee
by Irvin Muchnick It’s...
July 9 | Government Probe of Swimming Australia Coach Sex Abuse Blows Congress Out of the Water on USA Swimming – While All Lanes Lead to Alex Pussieldi’s Brazil
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 7 | Australia’s Royal Commission Shows the Way For U.S. Congress – Turns Attention From Catholic Church Priests to Swimming Coaches
by Irvin Muchnick Per capita,...
July 1 | Will the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Next Move on Coach Sex Abuse Be a Disastrous One That Lets USA Swimming Wiggle Off the Hook?
by Irvin Muchnick The...
June 30 | Florida Judge Is Conducting ‘In Camera’ Review of City of Fort Lauderdale’s Redactions of Documents on USA Swimming’s Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 27 | What Next Week’s Florida Court Hearing on Fort Lauderdale’s Public Records on Abusive USA Swimming Coach Alex Pussieldi Still Won’t Cover
by Irvin Muchnick No...
June 26 | Why Next Week’s Court Hearing on City of Fort Lauderdale’s Deletions of Public Records on Alex Pussieldi Matters For the Federal Investigations of USA Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick Next...
June 24 | Summer 2013 Flashback: USA Swimming’s Big-Money PR Campaign to Combat ‘Perceptions’ and Ward Off Congressional Investigations
EXCLUSIVE: Internal USA...
June 24 | As Women’s Sports Foundation Nibbles at USOC’s Dangling Carrot, Quest to Fully Engage Congress on USA Swimming Sexual Abuse Proceeds Without Their Help
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 21 | Petition 2.1: Swimming Victims’ Plea For Congressional Intervention Gets a Healthy Reboot – But Still Not an All-In Effort by the Women’s Sports Foundation
by Irvin Muchnick Obviously...
June 19 | USA Swimming Asked Why They’re Withholding Media Credentials. Answer: Because.
by Irvin Muchnick As noted...
June 19 | Swimming Abuse Victims Petition to Congress Stalls — With No Help From the Women’s Sports Foundation
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
June 18 | So, How Did It Go Last Weekend at the International Swimming Hall of Fame?
by Irvin Muchnick As...
June 17 | ‘Muchnick v. Fort Lauderdale’ Is Only One Aspect of the Hunt for Documentation of the USA Swimming Cover-Up of Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick As noted...
June 16 | June 30 Florida Court Hearing Set in Alex Pussieldi Public Records Fight With City of Fort Lauderdale
Broward County Circuit Court...
June 16 | USA Swimming Bars Media Credentials For Muchnick at This Weekend’s Santa Clara Grand Prix
by Irvin Muchnick My...
June 13 | As Demands Multiply For Wielgus Resignation, Prosecution, Congress – Let’s See What USA Swimming Does About Alex Pussieldi and Dustin Perry
by Irvin Muchnick Even...
June 12 | Joyce Flashback: The Day Debbie Phelps (Michael’s Mom) Hung Up on Me When I Asked Her About Sexual Abuse in Swimming
by Tim Joyce With the...
June 11 | Court Case on Fort Lauderdale’s Public Records on Alex Pussieldi Moves Forward
by Irvin Muchnick Fort...
June 11 | Text of the New Petition by USA Swimming Abuse Victims — Directed to the Congressional Olympic and Paralympics Caucus
...
June 11 | What I Told Publishers Weekly in 2010 About the Legacy of the ‘Freelance’ Case
PW: What do you hope your...
June 11 | Here’s How Publishers Weekly Covered the Final Settlement in ‘Freelance’
“Twenty Years Later,...
June 11 | Read Muchnick’s 2012 Ebook, PENN STATE IN THE POOL: The Cover-Up of the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal — Proceeds to Be Offered to Promote Victims’ Petition to Congress
by Irvin Muchnick In light of...
June 11 | Smoking Gun in the Perjury Case Against Chuck Wielgus, USA Swimming’s Chief Executive Since 1997
by Irvin Muchnick As...
June 11 | With New Public Petition Calling for Congress and Chuck Wielgus Prosecution, USA Swimming’s Sex Abuse Victims Keep USOC From Changing the Subject
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
June 10 | ‘Freelance’ Copyright Class Action Settlement Approved – 13 Years After Supreme Court’s ‘Tasini’ Ruling, Nine Years After Muchnick Slate Objected to Terms
Judge George Daniels of U.S....
June 10 | Still Awaiting Meaningful Words or Deeds From Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on the USA Swimming Alex Pussieldi Cover-Up in Her District
by Irvin Muchnick The...
June 10 | Dustin Perry, the Poor Man’s Alex Pussieldi, Faces USA Swimming Ban Hearing — With No Apparent Witnesses
by Irvin Muchnick Yesterday...
June 10 | Add a New Charge Against Chuck Wielgus and USA Swimming: Clumsy and Paranoid Hacking of Critics’ Computer
by Irvin Muchnick A Colorado...
June 9 | Dustin Perry, the Poor Man’s Alex Pussieldi: Complete Links to Our Coverage
In the previous post we...
June 9 | EXCLUSIVE: Abusive Coach Dustin Perry, ‘Poor Man’s Alex Pussieldi,’ Up Before USA Swimming’s National Board of Review
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
June 9 | Awaiting Response From House Education and Workforce Chair Kline on Congressman Miller’s Request For Hearings on Sexual Abuse
Yesterday we reported that...
June 8 | Congressman Miller Presses for Hearings — ‘Disappointed’ by ‘More Allegations About Sexual Abuse of Minors by Swim Coaches With Inconsistent Responses by USA Swimming’
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
June 7 | Tomas Victoria, Business Partner of USA Swimming Covered-Up Human Trafficker Alex Pussieldi, Rattles His Saber in an Email to Muchnick
by Irvin Muchnick Last night...
June 6 | Keep Signing the Anti-Chuck Wielgus Petition — His Hall of Fame Induction Is Moot But, Outrageously, He Still Has His Job
by Irvin Muchnick The...
June 6 | We’re Sorry to Have to Act Like It Begins to Matter That USA Swimming’s Chuck Wielgus Says He’s Sorry
by Irvin Muchnick In a...
June 6 | Dear Chuck Wielgus, USA Swimming: Apology Not Accepted. It’s Too Late. And You’re a Perjuror. Resign Today.
THE CHUCK WIELGUS BLOG:...
June 5 | Judge Assigned to Muchnick Suit Against City of Fort Lauderdale in Alex Pussieldi Open Records Dispute
by Irvin Muchnick On...
June 5 | Clumsily, But on the Right Track, Florida TV News Says of Chuck Wielgus, ‘From Hall of Fame Induction to Possible Indictment’
...
June 5 | What the Campaign to Keep USA Swimming’s Chuck Wielgus Out of the Hall of Fame Accomplished – What Remains To Be Done For Criminal Accountability and Federal Oversight
Complete links to Concussion...
June 3 | Read It Now — South Florida New Times Cover Story on Muchnick-Joyce Investigation of USA Swimming’s Alex Pussieldi Cover-Up at the Site of the Hall of Fame
“An Underage Sex...
June 2 | BULLETIN: WIELGUS WITHDRAWS
NO HALL OF FAME FOR CHUCK...
June 2 | This Week From New Times Weekly in South Florida: The Alex Pussieldi Story
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 2 | Reprinting Our May 29 Commentary, ‘Chuck Wielgus Belongs in the Hall of Justice, Not the Hall of Fame’
(The public petition against...
June 2 | Sources: USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus Considers Voluntarily Withdrawing Induction Into the International Swimming Hall of Fame
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 2 | ‘I Have Heard That Everett Uchiyama Works at a Country Club in Colorado Springs’ (2 – The Lies of Chuck Wielgus and USA Swimming)
by Irvin Muchnick As the...
June 1 | Orlando Sentinel Columnist: ‘Shameful Swimming Legacy Involving Sexual Abuse Deserves No Honor’
The full text of this piece...
June 1 | In First Weekend, Petition to Block Hall of Fame Induction of USA Swimming’s Chuck Wielgus Clears 500 Supporters
...
May 31 | ‘Julia’s Story’ at the Top of the New Online Petition Protesting @USA_Swimming’s Chuck Wielgus in the International Swimming Hall of Fame
Julia’s Story I was...
May 31 | And Don’t Forget the Petition Against Abusive Speedskating Hall of Fame Coach Andy Gabel
This one now has more than...
May 31 | Petition to Block Chuck Wielgus From International Swimming Hall of Fame Now Online For Public Supporters
You can co-sign at...
May 30 | Why Would They Want to Bring Up Will Colebank? (1 – The Lies of Chuck Wielgus and USA Swimming)
by Irvin Muchnick Late...
May 30 | Yahoo Sports Columnist Adelson Interviews Swimming Hall of Fame Board Member Opposed to Chuck Wielgus Induction – Meanwhile, Hall Prez and Board Chair Are Missing in Action
by Irvin Muchnick One...
May 30 | Yahoo Sports Covers Chuck Wielgus Hall of Fame Protest
“Petition calls for USA...
May 30 | Read the Chuck Wielgus Defense to the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Then Follow Concussion Inc.’s Upcoming Series on the Documented Background of His Lies.
Below is the full text of the...
May 30 | JOYCE: Abuse Victims’ Anti-Chuck Wielgus Swimming Hall of Fame Petition Is Just the Start
Complete headline links to...
May 30 | Done in By Hubris, USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus Flails Before the Inevitable Verdict in the Court of Decent Public Opinion
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 29 | USA Today Covers Chuck Wielgus Swimming Hall of Fame Protest
“Citing abuse cases,...
May 29 | International Swimming Hall of Fame CEO: Women’s Sports Foundation’s Anti-Chuck Wielgus Petition ‘Raises Disturbing, Grave Questions’
by Irvin Muchnick...
May 29 | Obama, Cheerleader-in-Chief, Holds Worthless ‘Concussion Summit’
Irvin Muchnick@irvmuch As...
May 29 | Chuck Wielgus, USA Swimming’s Executive Director of a Generation of Sex Abuse Cover-Ups, Belongs in the Hall of Justice – Certainly Not the Hall of Fame
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
May 29 | Big Names and Courageous Voices in Women’s Sports Foundation Campaign to Keep USA Swimming Chief Sex Abuse Cover-Up Artist Chuck Wielgus Out of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
For those of you who missed...
May 29 | Today at Concussion Inc.: Complete Coverage of the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Call to Rescind the International Swimming Hall of Fame Induction of USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus
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May 28 | Full Text of Sex Abuse Survivors’ and Women’s Sports Foundation’s Petition to the International Swimming Hall of Fame Regarding USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus
Following is the full text of...
May 28 | WOMEN’S SPORTS FOUNDATION COORDINATES SEX ABUSE VICTIMS’ PROTEST OF USA SWIMMING CHIEF CHUCK WIELGUS HALL OF FAME INDUCTION
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
May 28 | ‘USA’ Swimming’s ‘United States’ Sports Insurance Company – in Barbados — Goes Into ‘Run-Off Mode’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 27 | USA Swimming’s New PR Guy: ‘I’m Sure We’ll Definitely Be in Touch Soon’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 25 | USA Swimming Got SwimSwam.com ‘News’ Site to Censor a Story on FBI Investigations
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 23 | Petition to Kick Abusive Coach Andy Gabel Out of the Speedskating Hall of Fame Passes 500 Signatures. Which Name And Which Sport’s Hall Is Next?
by Irvin Muchnick On...
May 22 | MUCHNICK SUES CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE TO OVERTURN DELETIONS IN ALEX PUSSIELDI FILES
Today I filed suit in Broward...
May 22 | Incomparable Patrick Hruby of Sports on Earth Breaks Down the NFL Retirees’ Painkiller Prescription Class-Action Malpractice Lawsuit
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May 22 | Makos Swim Club (Gainesville) Update: Coach Joey Diaz Arrested a Third Time, Many More Victims Being Identified
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May 21 | Exclusive New Information From USA Swimming Safe Sport Director Susan Woessner on the Alex Pussieldi Investigation
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014...
May 21 | Protests Begin in Earnest — Women’s Sports Foundation Petition Challenges Accused Rapist Coach Andy Gabel’s Membership in the Speedskating Hall of Fame
by Irvin Muchnick In...
May 20 | Alex Pussieldi Accuser to USA Swimming: Where’s the ‘Warning Letter’? And Are You Kidding Me?
Last week Concussion Inc....
May 16 | Weekend Reading For Congressional Investigators: USA Swimming Determined ‘To Right That Wrong’ on Alex Pussieldi — But Claims It Doesn’t Know There Was a Complaint
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 16 | USA Swimming’s Response to Story of Safe Sport Director Susan Woessner’s Lie About Alex Pussieldi Investigation: None
“… I can only...
May 14 | ‘USA Swimming Safe Sport Director Susan Woessner Is Lying,’ Alex Pussieldi Accuser J.P. Cote Tells Concussion Inc.
by Irvin Muchnick Concussion...
May 10 | On Anniversary of Nancy Argentino Death, World Awaits Outcome of Jimmy Snuka Grand Jury
[originally published at...
May 9 | Open Letter to Fort Lauderdale City Officials: Stop Wasting Taxpayers’ Money on a Losing Alex Pussieldi Public Records Fight
TO: City Manager Lee R....
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May 8 | Gainesville’s Makos Club Facebook Page Had Photo of Boy Sitting in Lap of Accused Child Pornographer and Sexual Predator Assistant Swim Coach Joey Diaz
by Irvin Muchnick ...
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May 5 | Burgeoning Evidence in Gainesville Swim Coach Abuse Cases Shows Team’s Plea of Ignorance Is the Usual Bunk
by Irvin Muchnick In...
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May 5 | USA Swimming’s Task Force to Implement ‘Safe Sport Improvements’ Headed by Board Member in South Florida — Headquarters of the Alex Pussieldi Cover-Up
by Irvin Muchnick There are...
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May 2 | 11 Open Questions About USA Swimming Human Trafficker Coach Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 2 | How the New Florida and Maryland Swim Coach Sex Abuse Cases Can Do More Than Add to the Din
by Irvin Muchnick ...
May 1 | Muchnick Exchange With Fort Lauderdale Counsel: ‘Claim That Further Alex Pussieldi Documents Don’t Exist Is an Embarrassment’
Below is our email exchange...
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April 30 | Concussion Ink: YA Novelist Ty Roth Tackles Concussions in New Book
A Concussion Inc. reader, Ty...
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April 30 | U.S. Congress — And Fort Lauderdale’s U.S. Congresswoman — Must Take Sordid Human-Trafficking Tales of USA Swimming’s Alex Pussieldi Wherever They Lead
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 29 | FBI’S NORTH MIAMI OFFICE WAS TIPPED TO USA SWIMMING’S ALEX PUSSIELDI YEARS AGO
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 28 | Everyone Owns a Piece of Alex Pussieldi Human Trafficking and Sex Abuse Scandals — USA Swimming, Plus Local Police, Authorities, Schools, Media
by Irvin Muchnick As...
April 26 | FBI Has Begun Investigating USOC And USA Swimming Insurance Issues: Sources
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 25 | Two More Pervert Swim Coach Stories Break — Is Capitol Hill Paying Attention?
by Irvin Muchnick 1....
April 25 | Muchnick’s Letter to Fort Lauderdale City Manager Regarding Alex Pussieldi Public Records Dispute
Mr. Lee R. Feldman City...
April 24 | Quest Continues For Full Story of Alex Pussieldi’s Alleged Abuse of a Swimmer at Fort Lauderdale’s Pine Crest School
by Irvin Muchnick We have...
April 23 | Alex Pussieldi Allegations Would Have Threatened His U.S. Residency If They Had Risen to Level of Criminal Charges
by Tim Joyce ...
April 22 | New Times Weekly Working on Alex Pussieldi Story – Years After the Fort Lauderdale City Commissioners Packet With Info on Him ‘Probably Ended Up in the Garbage’
by Irvin Muchnick New...
April 18 | Concussion Inc.’s Timeline For Fort Lauderdale City and USA Swimming Cover-Up of Abusive Human Trafficker Coach Alex Pussieldi
FALL 2003. With assistant...
April 18 | Is Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Dean Trantalis — Vice Mayor in 2004 — Playing Dumb About the Alex Pussieldi Investigation?
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 17 | Fort Lauderdale: ‘Very Likely No Such Records Exist’ in Requests For More Alex Pussieldi Documents. Us: ‘Huh?’
by Irvin Muchnick Cole...
April 17 | From San Francisco Chronicle, a Profile in Caution in Cal Football Player Attack
by Irvin Muchnick The...
April 17 | EXCLUSIVE: With Alex Pussieldi Situation in Limbo, John Leonard’s American Swimming Coaches Association Has a New Law Firm to Troubleshoot Immigration Issues
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 16 | If New York Times did a story on USA Swimming’s Alex Pussieldi investigation as good as …
… today’s story...
April 16 | Ex-Girlfriend of Alex Pussieldi Sex-Spy Victim Is Key Witness in Unraveling Cover-Ups by USA Swimming and Fort Lauderdale Police and Parks & Rec
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 14 | Swim Fort Lauderdale Assistant Coach Denies Alex Pussieldi Accuser’s Account That He Has Special Information on Pussieldi’s Past
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 14 | Fort Lauderdale Police: Stand By For Our Decision on Release of the Verbatim Statements Accompanying the 2004 Alex Pussieldi Special Victims Unit Report
The Fort Lauderdale police...
April 11 | Reviewing the Fort Lauderdale Police Special Victims Unit File on Alex Pussieldi – Evidence Is Devastating, and More Reticent Local Witnesses Are Being Smoked Out
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 11 | Fort Lauderdale Police Sitting on Two Verbatim Statements in 2004 Special Victims Unit Investigation – One By Alex Pussieldi Himself, the Other by a Victim
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 10 | Chuck Wielgus, USA Swimming’s Perjury King, Is on the Hook, Too, in Fort Lauderdale Cover-Up of Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 9 | Ultimate Notes on the Warrior (1959-2014)
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 9 | Fort Lauderdale Police Release 2004 Special Victims Unit Report on Alex Pussieldi – First Documented Confirmation of Allegations of Sex With Underage Boys
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 9 | BREAKING — Fort Lauderdale police’s suppressed sex crimes unit report on Alex Pussieldi to be published here shortly.
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April 9 | FORT LAUDERDALE DETECTIVE WAS TOLD 10+ YEARS AGO DETAILED ALLEGATIONS OF SWIM COACH ALEX PUSSIELDI’S PEEPING TOM VIDEOTAPING
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 9 | Concussion Inc. Flashback: Harvard Hits the $100 Million Jackpot for Tiny, Misrepresented Study Glossing Over Brain Trauma
ESPN’s investigative...
April 8 | Untangling Mysterious Business Dealings of Abusive Swimming Coach Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 7 | Alex Pussieldi’s $17,750 Fine, Plus Indefinite Suspension, For 355 Violations – Read It Now
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 5 | Our (Probably) Final Take on the J.D. Hinnant Altercation With Fabiano Hale in the Cal Football Locker Room
by Irvin Muchnick As...
April 4 | Alex Pussieldi Accuser Asks USA Swimming: What About the Anti-Retaliation Rule? Swimming’s Answer: None … In More Than a Year
by Irvin Muchnick As...
April 4 | FBI Miami Office Contacts Concussion Inc. – Still Awaiting Explanation Why 2008 Investigation of Alex Pussieldi Associate Robert Caragol Dead-Ended With ‘Internet Crimes Against Children’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
April 4 | Another Alex Pussieldi Witness Ponders Concussion Inc.’s Call For More Information
by Irvin Muchnick The...
April 1 | Why Did FBI Not Explore Alex Pussieldi Connections While Busting Pine Crest School Swim Coach Roberto Caragol?
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 31 | Fort Lauderdale Police: We Were Not Involved in Child Porn and Minor Solicitation Bust of Pine Crest Swim Coach and Alex Pussieldi Colleague Roberto Caragol
by Irvin Muchnick We...
March 31 | Dear St. Thomas Aquinas Swim Coach Martin Grady: Please Clarify Your Defense of Alex Pussieldi
I apologize for misspelling...
March 28 | For Plantation Coach and Ex-Alex Pussieldi Colleague at St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Mum’s the Word
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 27 | Alex Pussieldi Social Media Activity Fuels Speculation of a Sighting in Florida – At the Same Time His Swimming Suspension Was Taking Effect
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 27 | While Fort Lauderdale Maintains Alex Pussieldi Public Records Redactions, Let’s Review What Is Known About Sex Videotaping Allegations Against Him
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 26 | Fort Lauderdale Clarifies Legal Justification for Each Redaction in Alex Pussieldi Public Records Release– And the Justification Itself Could Tell a Scandalous Story
by Irvin Muchnick The...
March 26 | New Plantation (Florida) Documents Confirm That Police Tried to Reach Only Three of Dozens of Potential Witnesses Supplied by Alex Pussieldi Accuser at 2012 Swim Meet
P.S. December 26, 2023 Bob...
March 25 | Alex Pussieldi Suspended by Florida Gold Coast Swimming — USA Swimming’s Regional Affiliate
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 25 | Public Records Fights Brew Over Alex Pussieldi Documents in Fort Lauderdale and Plantation, Florida
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 25 | DUSTIN PERRY VICTIM SPEAKS OUT
Complete links to the Dustin...
March 25 | Fort Lauderdale Documents: Parks & Rec Department Spin Focused on Pussieldi Resignation, Nelson Retirement, Coordinating the Message – Everything But Kid Abuse
PREVIOUSLY: *Pussieldi had...
March 24 | Fort Lauderdale Documents: Police Dismissed 2004 Assault Allegation With Misleading Statement That Alex Pussieldi ‘Is a Coach Overseas Now’
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 23 | Miami Herald, National Swimming Media Contributed to Legend and USA Swimming Cover-Up of Coach Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 23 | Sharon Robb, Sun-Sentinel Swimming Writer Who Covered Up For Alex Pussieldi, Is a Member of Three Florida Sports Halls of Fame
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 22 | New Fort Lauderdale Documents: Sun-Sentinel Swimming Writer Offered Alex Pussieldi Help in Preventing 2004 Assault Report From Getting ‘Out of Hand’
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 21 | New Fort Lauderdale Documents: Coach Alex Pussieldi Had Been Legal Guardian of the Mexican Swimmer in the 2004 Assault Incident
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 21 | JOYCE: Reflections on USA Swimming In-Limbo Coach Dustin Perry, As We Await Further Sightings
by Tim Joyce As we...
March 20 | See Them Now – First Installment of the File on Swim Coach Alex Pussieldi in Fort Lauderdale Public Records
by Irvin Muchnick We...
March 20 | ALEX PUSSIELDI LAWYER THREATENS MUCHNICK
Below is the text of a...
March 20 | Complete Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Embattled Swim Coach Alex Pussieldi
EXCLUSIVE: Florida Coach...
March 19 | Chase Kalisz / Jack Bauerle P.S.: Georgia Newspaper Now Reports That Suspended Coach Did Not Accompany the Women’s Team to the NCAA’s in Minneapolis
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 19 | Mystery Surrounds Status of Georgia Swim Coach Jack Bauerle – Was (Still Is?) Suspended for Doctoring Chase Kalisz’s Academic Records
by Irvin Muchnick Two...
March 17 | Germantown Academy Paterfamilias Dick Shoulberg — Just Another USA Swimming Company Man and Sex-Abuse Hypocrite
by Irvin Muchnick Next...
March 14 | Guest Columnist Eva Rodansky on Why the USOC Is To Blame For U.S. Speedskating’s Olympic Woes in Sochi
While the main focus of...
March 13 | Based on Concussion Inc.’s Reports, Alaska Swim Club Rejects Dustin Perry Coach Application
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
March 13 | New Dustin Perry Sighting: USA Swimming Job Application in Alaska
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
March 12 | Details of the Allegation Against Marie Labosky — Speedo Sales Rep, Former Swimmer and Dick Shoulberg Assistant at Germantown Academy
by Irvin Muchnick At...
March 12 | Alex Pussieldi’s 2012 Incident a Case Study of How USA Swimming and Local Police Work Together to Do As Little As Possible on Sex Abuse Complaints
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 11 | Cast of Characters in Marie Labosky Scenario at Dick Shoulberg’s Germantown Academy Reaches to Michael Phelps-Bob Bowman North Baltimore Aquatic Club
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 11 | Superlawyer Norman Tripp, Swimming Powerbroker Dale Neuburger Among Those With Local and Global Ties to Jack Nelson and Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 10 | Question About Circumstances of Departure of Coach at Dick Shoulberg’s Germantown Academy Is Turned Over to Her Lawyer
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 8 | Two Stages of Complaints About Swim Coach Alex Pussieldi Evident in Records Released by City of Fort Lauderdale
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 7 | Did Archdiocese of Miami Lie About Timing of Alex Pussieldi’s Departure From Fort Lauderdale’s St. Thomas Aquinas High School?
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 7 | Archdiocese of Miami: ‘Mr. Pussieldi Didn’t Wish to Continue Coaching at the High School Level’
Obviously in response to our...
March 6 | Alex Pussieldi Abuse Story Exposes Lobbying Partners USA Swimming and Catholic Church As Cover-Up Partners, Too
by Irvin Muchnick When it...
March 6 | Pussieldi Complainants: 2012 Florida Police Report Is Not Accurate
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 5 | See the Police Report on the Alex Pussieldi Incident in Plantation, Florida, in 2012
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 4 | USA Swimming Safe Sport Director Susan Woessner: ‘We Are Committed to Trying to Right That Wrong’ With Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 4 | Search for Fort Lauderdale City Documents Widens Net of Accountability for Abusive USA Swimming Coach Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 3 | Take the New Safe4Athletes Survey
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 3 | Pressing Fort Lauderdale City Government For the 2007 ‘Packet’ on Alleged Diana Nyad Rapist Jack Nelson, Child Abuser and Pornographer Alex Pussieldi, Drug Trafficker and Murder Accessory Cecil Russell
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 28 | EXCLUSIVE: USA Swimming’s Safe Sport Director and Assistant Failed to Act on 2012-13 Complaints About Abusive Coach Alex Pussieldi From a Florida Parent Volunteer
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 27 | Guest Column: A Swim Coach Rape Victim’s Mother Calls Out Her Local YMCA
The following, reprinted with...
February 27 | Program Note
We’ve shut down the...
February 27 | New Club, Azura Aquatics, Carries on Alex Pussieldi’s High-Powered Multinational Model in South Florida
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 25 | Update on Our Investigation of USA Swimming’s Alex Pussieldi Cover-Up
Sources at USA Swimming...
February 24 | We Forgot Swimming World Magazine — For Which Abusive USA Swimming Coach Alex Pussieldi Is Brazilian Correspondent
No comment fromSwimming...
February 24 | Who’s Protecting Abusive USA Swimming Coach Alex Pussieldi? Take Your Pick
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 23 | Abusive Coach Dustin Perry’s Name Pulled From Carson Tigersharks Website
This confirms what we...
February 23 | Continuing the Sick History of USA Swimming’s Decade-Long Alex Pussieldi Cover-Up in South Florida — Meet His Compadre Roberto Caragol
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 23 | BULLETIN: Recidivist Abuser Dustin Perry Is Out at Carson City Tigersharks — New Local Info Is From ‘Background Check,’ Not From USA Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 22 | USA SWIMMING OPENS INVESTIGATION OF ALEX PUSSIELDI IN RESPONSE TO CONCUSSION INC. REPORTS
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 18 | USA Swimming CEO Wielgus Personally Informed in 2006 of Sex Abuse Complaints Against Tennessee Coach Chris Johnson – Who Would Be Arrested in 2012 and Is Still Not Banned
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
February 16 | USA Swimming’s Alex Pussieldi and Dustin Perry Post-2010 Cover-Ups Expose ‘Safe Sport’ Program As a Fraud
by Irvin Muchnick ...
February 14 | USA Swimming Bans Greg Winslow; List Hits Triple Digits; Read Links to Concussion Inc.’s Year-Long Coverage
Greg Winslow today became...
February 14 | EXCLUSIVE: 2004-05 USA Swimming Investigation Also Opened Window on Coach Alex Pussieldi’s Videos of His Sex With Underage Boys, Sources Say
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 13 | Sources: Embattled USA Swimming Coach Alex Pussieldi Hasn’t Really Retired — He’s Just Reorganizing His Brazil-to-Florida Swimmer Pipeline
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 12 | Alex Pussieldi’s USA Swimming File: “Swimmer scared of [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] said no one would believe him”
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February 12 | Hall of Fame Swim Coach Jack Nelson — Accused Molester of Diana Nyad — Covered Up for Protégé Alex Pussieldi’s Secret Videotaping of Boys Before Retiring Himself in 2004
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 12 | Alex Pussieldi’s USA Swimming File: “Swimmer informed coach [REDACTED] about hidden camera and videotape”
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February 12 | Honored Coach Alex Pussieldi and the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Cover-Up: Complete Links
EXCLUSIVE: Florida Coach...
February 12 | Alex Pussieldi’s USA Swimming File: “Swimmers observed a tape in a VCR located in [REDACTED’S] bedroom”
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February 11 | Alex Pussieldi’s USA Swimming File: “Swimmer asked if [REDACTED] videotaped him without knowledge or approval. He said yes.”
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February 11 | Alex Pussieldi’s USA Swimming File: “Swimmer resided with [REDACTED] but moved due to [REDACTED’S] inappropriate behavior”
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February 11 | See It Now – Heavily Redacted Transcript of Allegations of Secret Bathroom Videotaping By Never-Disciplined Top USA Swimming Coach Alex Pussieldi
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 10 | Alex Pussieldi, Swim Coach Accused of Secretly Videotaping Boys Living With Him, Is a Well-Connected Figure in the Sport
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
February 8 | While Public Debates Woody Allen, a Child Protection Expert Gives USA Swimming’s Youth Coach Sex Abuse Culture a Fig Leaf, and Predators Roam Free
by Irvin Muchnick As a...
February 7 | EXCLUSIVE: Florida Coach Stayed on Pool Deck Nine Years After USA Swimming Investigation of Battery Complaint Against Him Also Revealed Secret Videotapes of Boys Living With Him
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
February 6 | Your Local YMCA: USA Swimming’s Partner in Keeping Coach Dustin Perry in Harm’s Way of Kids
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 6 | Muchnick Discusses Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Homicide Grand Jury, USA Swimming Sex Abuse With Knoxville Radio’s Tony Basilio
Tony Basilio, “Official...
February 5 | Links to Muchnick’s 22 Years of Coverage of the Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Homicide Cold Case
Author Muchnick and Nancy...
February 5 | Letter to Allentown Morning Call on Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Homicide Investigation
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February 4 | Some Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Co-Opted Child Protection Expert Victor Vieth’s ‘Independent Review’ of USA Swimming’s Safe Sport Program
EXCLUSIVE: USA Swimming...
February 4 | Complete Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Mysterious Recidivist Abusive Coach Dustin Perry
EXCLUSIVE: USA Swimming...
February 4 | Dustin Perry Trail: Illinois Swim Club Acknowledges His Presence in 2005-06, Proclaims ‘Clear Background Check,’ Otherwise Joins National Info Blackout
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 3 | How Figure Four Weekly Covers the Jimmy Snuka Grand Jury Story
With the permission of...
February 3 | ‘What might happen (probably should happen) in grand jury homicide investigation of Jimmy Snuka’ … today at SLAM! Wrestling
In a move I didn’t see...
January 31 | Prosecutor ‘Defers’ Charges in Cal Football Attack — Here’s His Full Statement to Concussion Inc.
Statement by Paul Hora,...
January 31 | ‘Irv Muchnick Looks at the Grand Jury Looking at the Snuka Case’ (full text from WrestlingObserver.com)
The essay below was published...
January 30 | YMCA Aspect of Dustin Perry USA Swimming Abuse Scandals
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
January 30 | Complete Chronological Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of the 1983 Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Homicide Investigation
Author Muchnick and Nancy...
January 29 | Katherine Starr of Safe4Athletes: ‘ExecDir of USA Swimming Allowed Unsafe Culture to Thrive’
“It’s well past...
January 29 | ‘Irv Muchnick looks at the Grand Jury looking at the Snuka case’ … at WrestlingObserver.com
Grand Jury Reopening of...
January 29 | Later Today at WrestlingObserver.com: Muchnick on the Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Grand Jury Homicide Investigation
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January 29 | New York Daily News: ‘Grand jury to probe 31-year-old death of Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’s girlfriend’
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January 29 | Coverage of Grand Jury Homicide Investigation of Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka on Allentown’s WFMZ-TV 69 News
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January 28 | Victim’s Mother Speaks Out About the Vieth Report on USA Swimming
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
January 28 | Mexican Swimmer Confirms USA Swimming Talked to Him in Investigation of Coach Dustin Perry’s Controversial History
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
January 28 | Complete Chronological Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of the 1983 Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Homicide Investigation
Author Muchnick and Nancy...
January 28 | BREAKING: PENNSYLVANIA GRAND JURY TO REVIEW 1983 JIMMY ‘SUPERFLY’ SNUKA HOMICIDE CASE
The story was just broken by...
January 28 | Victor Vieth’s ‘Independent Review’ of USA Swimming’s Safe Sport Is Out — Read It
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 26 | USA Swimming Gets Set to Release the ‘Independent Review’ That CEO Wielgus and President Stratton Were Afraid to Give Their Own Board This Weekend
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
January 26 | USA Swimming Board Meets. Where’s the Vieth Report — It Is No More in Evidence Than Abusive Coach Dustin Perry’s Lifetime Ban
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
January 24 | Make That One MORE Week For Prosecutor’s Decision in Cal Football Incident
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 24 | What the Vieth Report Won’t Talk About: Why Youth-Damaging Coaches Like Dustin Perry Remain on the Pool Decks of USA Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
January 23 | Dustin Perry — Once-Suspended USA Swimming Coach Facing Abuse Allegations in Idaho — Has a History of Boys Living With Him
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
January 22 | Is Recidivist Abusive Coach Dustin Perry Still on the Pool Deck in Carson City? USA Swimming Club’s Board Reportedly Meeting Thursday Night
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
January 21 | ASCA Hall of Famer Jack Simon Employed Suspended Coach Dustin Perry in Mexico. So Who Protects Youth Athletes? USA Swimming? ASCA? Neither?
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
January 21 | Dustin Perry — Whose USA Swimming Investigation Lags While He Takes Yet Another New Coaching Job — Ran Dryland Workouts in Idaho Out of a Mysterious Space Called the ‘Tiger Den’
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
January 21 | More Later Today on the Dustin Perry Scandal at USA Swimming …
… as the narrative...
January 20 | EXCLUSIVE: USA Swimming Allows Coach Under Investigation — With a Five-State Trail And Previous Suspension For Sexual Abuse — to Move to New Team
by Tim Joyce ...
January 20 | BREAKING: Our Tim Joyce On a New USA Swimming Investigation of a Coach Once Suspended For Sex Abuse, With a Subsequent Five-State History — And What It Means For Current Government Probes
Follow Concussion Inc. for...
January 17 | (Part 5, USA Swimming’s Burden-of-Proof Fallacy) Concussion Inc.’s Independent Preview of the ‘Independent Review’ of the Safe Sport Program
PREVIOUSLY: * Part 1,...
January 17 | (Part 4, USA Swimming Loses in California Supreme Court) Concussion Inc.’s Independent Preview of the ‘Independent Review’ of the Safe Sport Program
PREVIOUSLY: * Part 1,...
January 15 | (Part 3, Dick Shoulberg) Concussion Inc.’s Independent Preview of USA Swimming’s ‘Independent Review’ of Its Safe Sport Program
PREVIOUSLY: * Part 1, David...
January 15 | Prosecutor’s Decision Expected Next Week in Cal Football Player-on-Player Attack
by Irvin Muchnick The...
January 14 | Sun Devil Aquatics Owner Mike Chasson, Who Harbored Rapist Coach Greg Winslow, Complains to Parents: ASU ‘Is Trying to Put Our Club Out of Business’
by Irvin Muchnick On...
January 14 | (Part 2, Pablo Morales) Concussion Inc.’s Independent Preview of USA Swimming’s ‘Independent Review’ of Its Safe Sport Program
PREVIOUSLY: * Part 1, David...
January 13 | Introducing Concussion Inc.’s Independent Preview of USA Swimming’s ‘Independent Review’ of Its Safe Sport Program — Part 1, David Berkoff
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
January 10 | Chase Kalisz’s Academic Scandal at the University of Georgia Is Just One More Blemish on the North Baltimore Aquatic Club Olympic Factory
by Irvin Muchnick ...
January 8 | Michael Pliuskaitis Appeal of His USA Swimming Ban Heads to USOC As Congressional Probe Heats Up
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
January 7 | Dangling Police Investigation of Cal Football Player-on-Player Attack Only Multiplies Questions of University Cover-Up
by Irvin Muchnick We...
January 7 | Muchnick on How Sex Abuse of Youth Athletes Is a ‘Sports Welfare’ Issue … today at MomsTeam.com
“… The physical...
January 3 | Arizona State University Appears to Have Kicked Mike Chasson’s Sun Devil Aquatics — Former Home of Rapist Swim Coach Greg Winslow — Out of the Campus Aquatic Center
by Irvin Muchnick As...

2013 (532)

December 31 | As New Year Dawns, Behind-the-Scenes Drama Intensifies in Multiple Investigations of USA Swimming Coach Sex Abuse
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
December 30 | Cal Police Report on Football Teammate Player Attack Rolls Into 2014
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 26 | ESPN Needs to Tell Its Own Mitch Ivey Story in Full and Connect the Dots to Federal Investigations of USA Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick Two...
December 24 | ESPN’s Greg Winslow Coach-From-Hell Story Inexplicably Not Tied to Congressional Investigation of USA Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick...
December 21 | Four Safe and Independent Ways to Keep Reporting Sex Abuse and Cover-Up in USA Swimming During the Holiday Break
Tomorrow ESPN’s Outside...
December 19 | Oregon State Coach Liebowitz Doesn’t Just Know a Lot About That State’s Swimming Sex Abuse Scandals — He’s Also Privy to Important Info on the Cover-Up History of Rapist Hall of Famer Paul Bergen
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
December 19 | Congressman Mike Honda: ‘I Support and Stand By Congressman Miller’s Work’ on Sex Abuse in Swimming
Congressman Mike Honda, whose...
December 18 | Oregon Park District: We Are Separate From Tualatin Hills Swim Club, Knew Nothing About Paul Bergen Sex Abuse Prior to Concussion Inc. Inquiry
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
December 17 | Another Paul Bergen Victim Speaks: Filling in the Spaces in the Career of the Rapist Hall of Fame Coach
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
December 16 | Memo to Congressional Investigators: Subpoena Oregon State University’s Husband-and-Wife Swim Coach Team — Pals of Defrocked Olympic Coach Mark Schubert
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
December 15 | Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District Also Must Answer for 2010-2012 Name of Paul Bergen Swim Meet
The Tualatin Hills Swim Club...
December 13 | Portland’s Oregonian: ‘Tualatin Hills Swim Club removes Paul Bergen’s name from meet following abuse allegations’
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
December 12 | Video of 2008 Paul Bergen Interview — He of the Paul Bergen-NOT Oregon Meet This Weekend, While Congress Investigates USA Swimming Coach Sex Abuse and Cover-Up
Now for an archival...
December 12 | Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Rapist Swim Coach Paul Bergen and the Not-Paul Bergen Meet This Weekend in Oregon (in reverse chronological order)
Another Paul Bergen Victim...
December 12 | Remembering Paul Bergen, the Rapist Master of Tualatin Hills (For Whom the Thunderbolt Junior International Swim Meet Is Most Definitely NOT Named)
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
December 10 | Under Mounting Pressure, USA Swimming Tries to Explain Oregon’s 15th Annual ‘Ex’-Paul Bergen Junior International Championships
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
December 7 | Philadelphia Inquirer: Extreme Hazing Incident Might Have Precipitated Dick Shoulberg Ouster at Germantown Academy
by Irvin Muchnick I...
December 6 | Chronological Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Rapist Hall of Fame Youth Swim Coach Paul Bergen
EXCLUSIVE: USA...
December 6 | Oregon’s Paul Bergen Swim Meet, Named For a Hall of Fame Rapist Coach, Is a Week Out. Will the Consciences of Congress and the Public Be Stirred?
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
December 5 | Revered Coach Shoulberg Out at Germantown Academy; Authored Critical Memo Comparing USA Swimming to Catholic Church
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
December 4 | University of California: Campus Police Investigation of Football Player’s Attack on Teammate Expected to ‘Conclude Shortly’
by Irvin Muchnick In...
December 4 | Utah President’s ‘Apology’ to Swimmer’s Family Part of Appeal of Department of Education’s Dismissal of Greg Winslow Complaint; Winslow Assistants, Defender Remain on Staff
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
December 3 | See If You Can Follow USA Swimming’s Tortured Explanation of the Timing of Its Mitch Ivey Ban
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
December 2 | Player-on-Player Attack Suggests the Cal Football Locker Room Has a Richie Incognito Incited by a Loose-Cannon Coach
by Irvin Muchnick ...
December 1 | On Eve of Paul Bergen Junior Internationals in Portland, Olympic Gold Medalist Deena Deardurff Schmidt Begins Going Public With More Details of Bergen’s Heinous Sexual Abuse
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
November 28 | Thanksgiving Food For Thought, Part 2: What Former USA Swimming Board President Dale Neuburger Said About Mitch Ivey in Sworn Statements to a Court in 2011
As promised in the previous...
November 28 | Thanksgiving Food For Thought, Part 1: What USA Swimming CEO Chuck Wielgus Said About Mitch Ivey (and Pat Hogan) in Sworn Statements to a Court in 2010
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 27 | University of California’s Account of Teammate’s Attack on Freshman Running Back Fabiano Hale Is Full of Holes
by Irvin Muchnick Fabiano...
November 26 | Don Jacklin: Another Swim Coach, Even Older Than Mitch Ivey, With a Two-State Trail of Disturbing Anecdotes
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
November 26 | Congress Needs to Ask USA Swimming Top Exec Pat Hogan What’s the Difference Between Him and Belatedly Banned Rapist Coach Mitch Ivey
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
November 25 | With Legendary Coaches Falling, Government Investigators of Sports Sex Abuse Are in a Race to the Wall With USA Swimming’s Own ‘Independent Review’
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
November 25 | The Most Telling Concussion in Cal Football Occurred Off the Field
by Irvin Muchnick I am...
November 24 | On Deck After USA Swimming’s Mitch Ivey Ban: Paul Bergen, Jack Nelson, Murray Stephens. First on the Starting Blocks: Still-Active Bergen.
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
November 23 | Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Belatedly Banned Swim Coach Mitch Ivey
We just reported that USA...
November 23 | BULLETIN: With Congress Investigating, USA Swimming Issues Lifetime Ban of 64-Year-Old Rapist Coach Mitch Ivey
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 22 | EXCLUSIVE: USA Swimming Closed File on Heinous Coach Sex Abuse Allegations — Five Days After Victim’s Mother Discussed Case With Consultant Victor Vieth
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
November 21 | National Olympic Chief Blackmun Holds Up Sex Scandal-Plagued U.S. Speedskating — Like USA Swimming — As a ‘Model’ Governing Body. Some Model.
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
November 20 | Sports Parent Bloggers Are Failing America’s Kids in Future-of-Football Debate
by Irvin Muchnick Jim...
November 20 | ‘Wrestling Babylon’ Book Bonus: What My Uncle Sam Muchnick and I Were Doing on 11/22/63
For the 50th anniversary of...
November 19 | Feminist Majority Foundation’s Open Call to Assist Congressman Miller’s Investigation of USA Swimming
A widely distributed message...
November 19 | ‘Casualties of the Gridiron’ Video Series Kicks Off
While a few documentaries...
November 18 | Dear USA Swimming Board and Execs: Give Us a Clue As to What Whistleblower Mike Saltzstein’s ‘Agenda’ Is. Child Safety, Perhaps?
From: Irvin Muchnick To:Bruce...
November 18 | Matt Chaney With Another Peek at the Bottom Line: ‘29 Death Cases of American Football Players, 2013’
Collision deaths of American...
November 18 | Internal USA Swimming Memos Reveal That Board Members’ Concern Over Con Man Coach Was the ‘Agenda’ of the Whistleblower
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
November 15 | Finally, USA Swimming Bans Con Man James Pantera
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
November 15 | Concussion Lessons of Ex-San Francisco 49er Kyle Williams
by Irvin Muchnick I’m...
November 14 | Parents of Denial: Youth Football’s Future Takes Center Stage
by Irvin Muchnick ...
November 13 | League of Denial
by Irvin Muchnick The...
November 9 | Jimmy Snuka Homicide Investigators Make It Official: ‘We Will Not Present the Matter to the Vidocq Society’
by Irvin Muchnick As I...
November 7 | What the Positive Coaching Alliance Is Doing About Sexual Abuse — Why So Much More Needs to Be Done
by Irvin Muchnick Two...
November 6 | Cold Case Consultant’s Shutout Deepens Suspicion Jimmy Snuka Homicide Investigation Is Phony … today at WrestlingObserver.com
PREVIOUSLY: Â·...
November 5 | Bob Bowman Feb. 2012: ‘Not Held to Your Moral Superiority.’ Bob Bowman Nov. 2013: ‘Sex Abuse My No. 1 Priority.’
by Irvin Muchnick Bob...
November 4 | American Swimming Coaches Association Moves Toward Acknowledging That Dealing Directly With Children Is Kind of, Sort of, Its Mission
by Irvin Muchnick According...
October 28 | World Series Diversion
by Irvin Muchnick P.S....
October 18 | The Stultifying Banality of USA Swimming Chief Sex Abuse Cover-Up Artist Chuck Wielgus
by Irvin Muchnick The...
October 18 | Friday USA Swimming Sex Abuse Roundup
(To get on the list for...
October 18 | Record Traffic Day for Concussion Inc.
Yesterday’s visitors...
October 17 | Once Again, List of Attendees of USA Swimming Board Meetings at Country Club of Colorado When Secretly Banned Coach Uchiyama Was Aquatics Director There
* “Uchiyama Scandal,...
October 17 | Muchnick at MomsTeam.com: ‘Alleged Cover-Up of Sex Abuse By Olympic Coach Fuels Federal Investigation of USA Swimming’
America’s 400,000 club...
October 17 | FLASHBACK: Complete Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of the Lehigh County DA’s ‘Fresh Look’ at Jimmy Snuka-Nancy Argentino Homicide Investigation
Book Bonus: Introduction to...
October 17 | Lehigh County DA’s Open-Ended ‘Fresh Look’ at His Open-Ended Jimmy Snuka Homicide Investigation
JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold...
October 16 | Sports Illustrated Takes the Plunge on USA Swimming Sex Abuse
Better news than California...
October 16 | Uchiyama Scandal, Part 4: Key Witness in USA Swimming Cover-Up at Country Club of Colorado Answers Some Questions — Leaves Others Dangling
* “Uchiyama Scandal,...
October 12 | Brown Vetoes SB 131; Catholic Church, USA Swimming Money Win This One
As we were tipped at the last...
October 11 | Friday USA Swimming Sex Abuse Roundup
(To get on the list for...
October 11 | Child Protection Betrayal? California Governor Brown, Ex-Seminarian, Said to Be Considering Veto of Statute of Limitations Bill
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
October 10 | Diana Nyad Talks to Oprah Winfrey About Her Own Sexual Abuse at the Hands of Her Swim Coach
...
October 9 | No Football Concussions, No Swimming Sex Abuse Tonight …
Just Cole vs. Wainwright in...
October 9 | Uchiyama Scandal, Part 3: In 2007-10, Dozens Attended USA Swimming Board Meetings at Country Club of Colorado — Where Secretly Dismissed National Coach Was Now Aquatics Director
* “Uchiyama Scandal,...
October 9 | After ‘League of Denial’: Football, American Boys, and the Doomed Search For Moral and Ethical ‘Further Study’
Irvin Muchnick“@irvmuch...
October 8 | Uchiyama Scandal, Part 2: In 2007, USA Swimming Executive Pat Hogan Recommended Dismissed National Team Director to Country Club of Colorado
* “Uchiyama Scandal,...
October 7 | Uchiyama Scandal, Part 1: In 2006, National Team Director Resigned in Return for USA Swimming’s Promise Not to ‘Move Forward With Any Further Investigation’
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
October 5 | Flashback: Interview With Justine McCarthy, Author of ‘Deep Deception: Ireland’s Swimming Scandals’
SEE ALSO: Review of the book...
October 4 | Friday USA Swimming Sex Abuse Roundup
(To get on the list for...
October 2 | Who Will Become the 100th Coach Thrown Under the Bus by the Corrupt USA Swimming Executive Leadership’s Butt-Covering ‘Safe Sport Program’?
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 2 | Fainaru Brothers Track the Concussion Denial Family Tree, From ‘Dr. No’ to ‘Dr. No Jr.’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
October 2 | Doctors of Denial: Congress of Neurological Surgeons Gave NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a Standing Ovation
FLASHBACK OCTOBER 2011:...
October 1 | Concussion Inc.’s Tim Joyce at The Hill: ‘USA Swimming slowly sinking in a deepening pool of suspicion’
Sometimes the best PR is no...
September 30 | Countdown to SB 131 Signing and Implementation — California Sex Abuse Lawsuit Law, Opposed by USA Swimming and the Catholic Church
by Irvin Muchnick One...
September 27 | Friday USA Swimming Sex Abuse Roundup
(To get on the list for...
September 27 | Must Read at MomsTeam From Katherine Starr of Safe4Athletes
The USA Swimming youth coach...
September 25 | As Congressman Miller Presses On, Follow the Trail of USA Swimming’s Lobbying $$$
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
September 22 | Wishing Everyone a Reflective 100 Minutes With Sean Pamphilon’s ‘United States of Football’
by Irvin Muchnick Sean...
September 21 | Concussion Inc. Clears 3,000,000 Pageviews
Concussion Inc. has gone over...
September 21 | Forward Pass: Tom Hearn’s Message on Public Football in Maryland
Two weeks ago we published...
September 20 | Friday USA Swimming Sex Abuse Roundup
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
September 19 | USA Swimming’s International Sex Abuse Insurance Scam — First Five Parts of Our Series, As a Single Post
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
September 19 | Dale Neuburger — USA Swimming’s Empire-Building Board President, 1998-2002 — And the Golden Age of USSIC (International Sex Abuse Insurance Scam, Part 5)
PREVIOUSLY: *International...
September 19 | JOYCE: Uchiyama Sex Abuse Cover-Up Will Be USA Swimming’s Most Explosive Scandal Yet
by Tim Joyce ...
September 17 | Concussion Inc. Welcomes New Twitter Follower — USA Swim Safe Sport
We are happy to report that...
September 17 | Everett Uchiyama Cover-Up Exposes Hypocrisy and Insincerity of USA Swimming Chief Wielgus on Sex Abuse Issue
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
September 16 | USA Swimming’s Coach-Athlete Sex Ban: Too Little, Too Late?
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
September 13 | Washington Post Editorial: ‘Guarding young swimmers from sexual abuse’
...
September 13 | Santa Clara Sports Law Symposium
by Irvin Muchnick For the...
September 13 | Friday USA Swimming Sex Abuse Roundup
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
September 10 | Dougherty in New Jersey: The Lawsuit Settlement That Future-of-Football Commentators Should Be Talking About
“The family of a...
September 8 | USA Swimming’s Moguls Realize They’re Sitting on a Time Bomb With Sex Abuse Cases (International Insurance Scam, Part 4)
PREVIOUSLY: * International...
September 6 | Friday USA Swimming Sex Abuse News Roundup
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
September 6 | 1999: Olympic Committee Forces USA Swimming’s Offshore Tax-Dodging Subsidiary to Change Coverage (International Sex Abuse Insurance Scam, Part 3)
PREVIOUSLY: *USA...
September 4 | BULLETIN: USA Swimming and Its Lobbying Partner, Catholic Church, Lose in California Legislature — Statute of Limitations Reform Passes
In a major defeat for the...
September 3 | USSIC Stands For ‘ka-ching! in Barbados’ (USA Swimming’s Multimillion-Dollar International Sex Abuse Insurance Scam, Part 2)
PREVIOUSLY: * USA...
September 3 | USA Swimming’s Multimillion-Dollar International Sex Abuse Insurance Scam (Introduction)
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
September 2 | Maryland Parent: University Regents Should Discuss Derek Sheely’s Death and Safety in College Sports. Governor O’Malley Should Join Them.
We’ve made the point...
September 2 | Congratulations, Diana Nyad — World-Class Athlete and Abuse Survivor
On her fifth try, at age 64,...
August 31 | Orange County Register: ‘USA Swimming works to contain sex-abuse scandals’
...
August 31 | Two Reactions to USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus’ ‘We Called Congress, They Didn’t Call Us’ Blarney
by Irvin Muchnick From...
August 30 | Forget the NFL’s Dud of a Settlement — The Story Is the Slow Death of Public Football
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 30 | For Congressman George Miller and Everyone: A New Weekly Roundup of USA Swimming Sex Abuse Items
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
August 30 | USA Swimming Chief and ‘Personal Blogger’ Chuck Wielgus Assures One and All That the Congressional Investigation of His Organization Ain’t No Big Thing
Doubling down in...
August 29 | House Education and the Workforce Staff Reaffirms That Congressman George Miller Is Going the Distance on the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 28 | Concussion Inc.’s Tim Joyce at The Hill on Congress and USA Swimming Sex Abuse
“Finally, Congress...
August 28 | What to Expect Coming Out of Today’s Meeting Between USA Swimming and the Office of Congressman George Miller
by Irvin Muchnick The...
August 27 | Congressman Miller Holds the Key to Unlocking USA Swimming’s Dirty Sex Abuse Secrets
by Irvin Muchnick The...
August 27 | NPR’s Report on USA Swimming Sex Abuse on the Eve of the Meeting on Capitol Hill
...
August 26 | Congress Becomes the Third and Most Important Branch of Government With a Hand in Holding USA Swimming Accountable For Widespread Youth Coach Sex Abuse
by Irvin Muchnick On...
August 25 | A Twitter Dialogue With Dave (@EdgeOfSports) Zirin on the Crisis of Confidence at ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’
@irvmuch ESPN ombudsman...
August 25 | Politico Puts the Max Boot to Wall Street Journal’s ‘In Defense of Football’
We’ve finally found the...
August 24 | Review of News12 Phoenix 11-Minute Package on Whitney Lopus Lawsuit in Greg Winslow Case, Plus the National Swim Coach Sex Abuse Scandal
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 23 | ESPN Dissolves Partnership With PBS on Fainaru Brothers’ NFL Concussion Documentary, Blah Blah Blah
Surely you’ve heard the...
August 21 | The Definitive Essay on Homosexuality in Pro Wrestling — Keith Harris of Cageside Seats
...
August 21 | Cure For the Common Yes-to-Football Backlash Syndrome: A Dose of Matt Chaney
The hegemony of...
August 20 | Muchnick at MomsTeam.com: Congressman Miller’s Meeting With USA Swimming Must Not Be ‘One and Done’ — Public Hearings Are Needed
This week’s...
August 19 | An Open Letter to Victor Vieth, Executive Director of National Child Protection Training Center, on His ‘Independent Review’ of USA Swimming’s Safe Sport Program
Dear Mr. Vieth: Here are some...
August 19 | Developing: USA Swimming Tries to Stay Ahead of the Posse With ‘Independent Review’ of Its ‘Safe Sport’ Program
Newest PR generated by USA...
August 19 | Unanswered Questions to Dennis Goodwin, Colorado Child Protection Ombudsman
1. Has Ground Floor Media...
August 19 | ‘National Conference of State Legislatures’ (Huh?) — Yet Another Client of USA Swimming’s PR Firm, Ground Floor Media
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 18 | Original NFL Concussion Quack, Elliot Pellman, Was Commissioner Tagliabue’s Doc: ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’
It’s time for more than...
August 17 | A Twitter Dialogue on Max Boot’s Miserable Wall Street Journal Essay, ‘In Defense of Football’
“@EdgeofSports Want to...
August 16 | EXCLUSIVE: USA Swimming’s PR Firm, Ground Floor Media, Has Been Paid at Least $13,000 by the Office of the Colorado State Child Protection Ombudsman
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 16 | Year 1 of WWE’s Statement on Gay Rights — Year 2 of Its SummerScam With Politicians on the ‘Bullying’ Issue
by Irvin Muchnick Like...
August 14 | Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Ground Floor Media and Its Conflicting PR Clients — USA Swimming and the Colorado Child Protection Ombudsman
Read USA Swimming’s...
August 14 | Colorado Child Protection Ombudsman ‘Will Look Into’ Relationship With USA Swimming’s PR Firm, Ground Floor Media — Expects Full Response Later This Week
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 9 | My Struggle Continues to Help the Office of the Colorado Child Protection Ombudsman — Cheerful Client of Sex-Abuse Haven USA Swimming’s Ground Floor Media
Yesterday I presented some...
August 8 | Kevin Guskiewicz — MacArthur Genius Fellow to the World, ‘Dr. No Jr.’ to Us — Partners on Weird CTE Denial Study
by Irvin Muchnick The...
August 8 | Questions for State of Colorado’s Child Protection Ombudsman — USA Swimming’s Co-Client at Denver’s Ground Floor Media PR Firm
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 7 | Groundhog Day for Ground Floor Media — USA Swimming’s Consultant in Crisis Media Counseling and Smearing Truth-Telling Journalists
by Irvin Muchnick In...
August 6 | (V) Not Fit to Print in the Baltimore City Paper — Lifeguard-Free Death of 14-Year-Old Swimmer Goes Unreported
My post earlier today got it...
August 6 | (IV) Not Fit to Print in the Baltimore City Paper — USA Swimming National Board of Review Chair Resigns After Concussion Inc. Story
My post earlier today got it...
August 6 | (III) Not Fit to Print in the Baltimore City Paper — Two of the Bullying/Harassing Swimmer Clique Were McDonogh School Computer Thieves
My post earlier today got it...
August 6 | (II) Not Fit to Print in the Baltimore City Paper — The Baltimore County Police And the ‘Lost’ Report From USA Swimming
My post earlier today got it...
August 6 | (I) Not Fit to Print in the Baltimore City Paper — WBAL Radio Censors, Tries to Silence Reporter Tim Joyce
My post earlier today got it...
August 6 | Scandals at Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club Are Not Fit to Print in the ‘Alternative’ City Paper
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 6 | USA Swimming’s ‘Complex’ Problem of Letting Alcoholic Rapists and Con Men Coach Kids, and Hiring the Owner of ‘HookingUpWithTawnieLynn.com’ To Design Its Background Check System
by Irvin Muchnick ...
August 5 | Muchnick at MomsTeam.com — ‘USA Swimming’s Response To Sexual Abuse By Coaches: Treat It As A PR Headache’
Last week mywebsitepublished...
August 5 | JOYCE: Reading Between the Lines of USA Swimming’s PR Campaign
by Tim Joyce Reading...
August 4 | Read USA Swimming’s Shocking Internal Memo — Reducing Sex Abuse to a PR Headache
Two days ago ConcussionInc....
August 2 | Swimmer-Blogger Tony Austin on USASwimmiLeaks
...
August 2 | Follow Concussion Inc. on Twitter for Breaking News of USA Swimming’s New PR Strategy for ‘Safe Sport’
Irvin Muchnick“@irvmuch...
August 2 | EXCLUSIVE: Internal USA Swimming Memo Exposes Plan for New PR Strategy to Combat Negative ‘Perceptions’ of Safe Sport Program
by Irvin Muchnick A...
August 2 | JOYCE: Olympic Committee Scrambles to Stay Ahead of Congress on Sex Abuse
by Tim Joyce This week the...
August 1 | P.S.: Allentown Morning Call Has Not Reported District Attorney Martin’s Statements That Criticisms of Jimmy Snuka Case Investigator Gerry Procanyn Are ‘Unfounded’
JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold...
August 1 | Words of Michael Phelps’ Coach, Bob Bowman, to the Mother of the Alleged Victim in the February 2012 North Baltimore Aquatic Club Incident
“… We will not be...
August 1 | More on Harassment of the Alleged Victim Prior to the Disputed 2012 North Baltimore Aquatic Club Incident
This is adapted from a post...
July 31 | Teammate of Alleged Victim in February 2012 North Baltimore Aquatic Club Incident Confronted Coach Over Continued Harassment — Coach Threatened to Throw Him Off Team
This is adapted from a post...
July 31 | Allentown Morning Call Needs to Break Its Embargo on Calling Out Detective Gerry Procanyn in the Jimmy Snuka Homicide Investigation
JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold...
July 31 | These Scandals at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club and USA Swimming Call for Further Reporting by City Paper
by Irvin Muchnick As I...
July 30 | Baltimore’s ‘Alternative’ City Paper Sticks to the Local Script in Coverage of ‘Doe v. Muchnick’ Settlement
by Irvin Muchnick The...
July 30 | USOC’s Too-Little Too-Late ‘SafeSport Working Group’ Must Not Proceed in a Vaccum
by Irvin Muchnick As...
July 30 | Controversy Over Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Promo Appearance at New Jersey Auto Dealership
JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold...
July 30 | So Now He Tells Us: Olympic Chief Muses About New Anti-Sex Abuse Agency
Scott Blackmun, CEO of the...
July 28 | February 2012 Incident at Bob Bowman and Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club Remains Under Investigation by USA Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick We...
July 27 | Who Was Driving Jimmy Snuka’s Car After Nancy Argentino Supposedly Fell And Hit Her Head? (full text from WrestlingObserver.com)
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 26 | UltraViolet Online Petition: ‘Stop Sexual Abuse in Olympic Swimming’
The gender equality group...
July 22 | Muchnick at WrestlingObserver.com: Who Was Driving Jimmy Snuka’s Car? — Intriguing Cold-Case Question
Trying to make sense out of...
July 20 | Cageside Seats on Lehigh County D.A. on Jimmy Snuka Homicide Investigation
...
July 19 | Department of Education Office of Civil Rights Confirms That Investigation of University of Utah’s Management of Greg Winslow Complaints Remains Open
by Irvin Muchnick In...
July 18 | ‘Tenacious’ Investigator, Detective Gerry Procanyn, Told Muchnick Superfly Snuka’s Account of Nancy Argentino’s Death Never Wavered
by Irvin Muchnick The...
July 18 | Superfly Snuka’s Hometown Paper Reports Reopening of 1983 Nancy Argentino Homicide Investigation
JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold...
July 18 | Banned Virginia Coach Michael Pliuskaitis Continues to Plot Unique Challenge to USA Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 16 | United States Masters Swimming: Where Old Perverts Make Soft Landings
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 15 | ‘Doe v. Muchnick’ Lawsuit Settlement
Below is the text of the...
July 14 | Meet the New USA Swimming National Board of Review Chair — Worse Than the Old USA Swimming National Board of Review Chair
by Irvin Muchnick ...
July 14 | More Coverage of USA Swimming, in Lockstep With Catholic Church, Lobbying Against California Sex-Abuse Legislation
Scott Reid of the Orange...
July 13 | Conflicted Jill Chasson Departs As Chair of USA Swimming’s National Board of Review
by Irvin Muchnick Jill...
July 13 | USA Swimming Crosses the Rubicon By Lobbying Against California Sex-Abuse Bill — U.S. Congress Is Watching
It’s hard to overstate...
July 12 | USA Swimming Hires High-Powered Sacramento Lobbyist to Fight California Sex-Abuse Legislation — Now Officially Joined at Hip With Catholic Church
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
July 3 | Holiday Reading: ‘How We Will Know If Snuka Investigation Is Serious’ (full text from WrestlingObserver.com)
Originally published on July...
July 3 | Cageside Seats’ Keith Harris on the New Twist in the Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Homicide Investigation in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
Highly recommended:...
July 3 | Another Statement on Behalf of Utah Swim Families in Response to the University’s Greg Winslow Findings
The Jones, Davis &...
July 3 | University of Utah’s ‘Modified Limited Hangout’ on Monster Swim Coach Greg Winslow
by Irvin Muchnick A dash of...
July 3 | Statements by Whistleblower Swimmer Austin Fiascone And His Father Matt Fiascone on the University of Utah’s Greg Winslow Findings
Austin Fiascone I’d...
July 3 | JOYCE: No Accountability For Greg Winslow at Utah, As Heads Do Not Roll
The University of Utah...
July 2 | Pennsylvania District Attorney Defends Detective Who Lied in 1992 About Jimmy Snuka Homicide Investigation
by Irvin Muchnick James B....
July 1 | ‘Muchnick: How we will know if Snuka investigation is serious’ … at WrestlingObserver.com
District Attorney’s...
June 30 | Coming Monday at Dave Meltzer’s WrestlingObserver.com …
… Muchnick on the key...
June 30 | Open Letter to USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus From Mitch Ivey Victim’s Attorney
OPEN COMMUNICATION TO USA...
June 29 | Allentown Morning Call ‘Confirms’ Concussion Inc. Report That Lehigh County District Attorney Is Looking Afresh at Jimmy Snuka-Nancy Argentino Homicide Investigation
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 28 | Scratched: Bar Association Throws Out Superspy Coach Mark Schubert Lawyer’s Complaint
No doubt frustrated by the...
June 28 | EXCLUSIVE: Lehigh County Sources Say District Attorney Will Take Fresh Look at Jimmy Snuka-Nancy Argentino Case
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 27 | Detractors and Defenders of Banned USA Swimming Coach Mike Pliuskaitis Speak Out
Subsequent to the posting of...
June 26 | EXCLUSIVE: Banned Virginia Swim Coach Michael Pliuskaitis Continues Private Instruction for Kids in ‘Swim Club’ and ‘Summer League’
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 25 | ‘Doe v. Muchnick’ Lawsuit Update
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 20 | Swimming Hall of Fame Chief: ‘Substantial or Compelling Evidence’ of Inductee’s Sex Abuse Would Force It to ‘Consider All Options’
Last week I asked Bruce Wigo,...
June 20 | Congress Must Confront USA Swimming’s Sex-Abuse Enablers in Public Hearings — Not Coddle Them in Private Meetings
USA Swimming has responded to...
June 19 | After Maryland Health Department Relents, Meadowbrook Aquatic Center’s Unredacted Report on Louis Lowenthal Death Raises More Questions
Last week I settled my public...
June 19 | International Swimming Hall of Fame CEO to Muchnick: ‘Will Respond Before the Week Ends’
June 13, Muchnick to Bruce...
June 19 | USA Swimming’s Excuses on Rapist Coaching Legend Paul Bergen: (1) ‘Not a Law Enforcement Authority’; (2) ‘No Control Over Hall of Fame’
We have reported that Deena...
June 18 | ‘After Sexual Abuse Conviction, New Scrutiny on Youth Athletics’ — New York Times
By Karen...
June 18 | Mark Schubert’s Crony, Bill Jewell, Accepts Ban From USA Swimming — Further Vindication for Dia Rianda in Her Wrongful Termination-Cover-Up Lawsuit
Bill Jewell, who is up to his...
June 18 | Congressman George Miller Asks GAO to Expand Investigation into Child Abuse Reporting Laws to Include Sports
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
June 14 | Roundup of New Wrestling Media Coverage of Nancy Argentino’s 1983 Death in Jimmy Snuka’s Motel Room
JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold...
June 14 | Updated Complete Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Rapist International Swimming Hall of Fame Coach Paul Bergen
EXCLUSIVE: USA...
June 14 | SEX ABUSE VICTIM DEENA DEARDURFF SCHMIDT CALLS OUT USA SWIMMING CEO CHUCK WIELGUS FOR YEARS OF INACTION ON HALL OF FAME COACH PAUL BERGEN
Deena Deardurff Schmidt,...
June 14 | Just Another Day at the USA Swimming Office: Coach and ‘Diversity Consultant’ Ben Sheppard Banned for Sexual Misconduct
USA Swimming should save us...
June 14 | Swimming Hall of Fame Gets WaPo to Clarify That Rick Curl Is Not an Inductee – But Won’t Comment on Why Paul Bergen and Murray Stephens Still Are
Turns out that Rick Curl, who...
June 13 | Greg Winslow Victim’s Father Reacts to Arizona Prosecutor’s Clearing of Winslow on a Technicality
From William Pitts, KPNX 12...
June 12 | Taking Inventory of Government Investigations of USA Swimming
by Irvin Muchnick ...
June 10 | #1 in Wrestling Books at the Amazon Kindle Store — ‘JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold Story of Nancy Argentino’s Death in Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’s Motel Room’
In 1983, Nancy Argentino...
June 10 | Complete Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Rapist Swim Coach Mitch Ivey
Table of Contents of...
June 10 | BREAKING: USA Swimming Investigation of Rapist Coach Mitch Ivey Did Not Include Interviewing Victim
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
June 9 | Salt Lake City TV Report Keeps Embers Alive in Swim Coach Greg Winslow-University of Utah Scandal
Caroline Connolly of Fox13...
June 9 | Nancy Argentino Autopsy, Jimmy Snuka Police Interrogation — Two Key New Elements in Today’s Front-Page Newspaper Stories on the 30th Anniversary of ‘Allentownquiddick’
On May 10, Concussion Inc....
June 9 | South Jersey Courier-Post’s Cold Case Story on Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka And the Death of Nancy Argentino
‘Superfly’...
June 8 | Allentown Morning Call’s Cold Case Story on Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka And the Death of Nancy Argentino
Jimmy ‘Superfly’...
June 6 | Alaska Congressman to Swim-Abuse-Witness Constituent: ‘We Have Asked the Justice Department to Investigate’
by Tim Joyce An Alaska...
June 6 | Michael Phelps’ Coach, Bob Bowman, Talks About His Mentor, Rapist International Swimming Hall of Famer Paul Bergen
PREVIOUSLY: Re-Introducing...
June 6 | What USA Swimming CEO Chuck Wielgus Said Publicly About Rapist International Swimming Hall of Fame Coach Paul Bergen
PREVIOUSLY: Re-Introducing...
June 6 | What Rapist International Swimming Hall of Fame Coach Paul Bergen Is Up to These Days
PREVIOUSLY: Re-Introducing...
June 6 | Muchnick Flashback: A Few Words About ID’ing Sex-Abusing Swimming Coaches
With the previous post, we...
June 6 | Re-Introducing Rapist Hall of Fame Swim Coach Paul Bergen — By Comparison, Newly Convicted Rapist Coach Rick Curl Is Small Potatoes
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
June 4 | MUCHNICK APPEALS MARYLAND HEALTH DEPARTMENT REDACTIONS OF REPORT ON DEATH OF NORTH BALTIMORE AQUATIC CLUB’S LOUIS LOWENTHAL
Concussion Inc. today filed a...
June 3 | Greg Winslow/Utah Whistleblower Fiascone: ‘Pervasive Disregard For Student-Athlete Welfare’
In the previous postwe...
June 3 | EXCLUSIVE: University of Utah Under Investigation by Department of Education For Its Handling of Complaints About Swim Coach Greg Winslow’s Abuse
Concussion Inc. has learned...
June 3 | The Damage Done: The OTHER ‘Other Woman’ Talks About Rapist Coach Rick Curl and the University of Maryland’s Wider Circle of Harm
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
June 3 | Senate’s 20 Women Flex Muscle on Sex Assaults in Military — Is USA Swimming’s Failure to Protect Kid Athletes From Abusive Coaches Next?
The headline above speaks for...
June 3 | USA Swimming Vice President David Berkoff Claims He Didn’t Know Rapist Coach Rick Curl Was Back From Australia
Hall of Fame swimmer and USA...
June 2 | Remembering USA Swimming Background Check Guru Barry Nadell — He of the Side Business ‘Hooking Up With Tawnie Lynn’
USA Swimming’s...
June 2 | Concussion Inc. Flashback: USA Swimming’s Crack Background Check System Springs a Tiny Leak — San Diego Con Man Coach James Pantera
EXCLUSIVE: Mysterious,...
June 2 | South Dakota Newspaper Visits the Background-Check-Free Swim Coaching Career of Rapist Judge Chuck Baechler
Last November we reported...
June 2 | Complete Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of USA Swimming Vice President David Berkoff
‘Olympic Gold Medalist...
June 2 | David Berkoff: Just Another USA Swimming Leader Who Accepts All the Responsibility and None of the Blame
The only reason the ongoing...
May 31 | USA Swimming’s New Paranoid Court Filing Reinforces FBI Investigation of Coach Sex Abuse Cover-Ups
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
May 31 | Minutes of Rapist Rick Curl’s Local Swim Committee: ‘Many “Attackers” Looking to Blame USA Swimming’
Shortly after admitted rapist...
May 30 | University of Maryland’s Rick Curl Scandal Highlights Collusion of College Sports Programs in the Generation-Long Sexual Abuse By Many Youth Swim Coaches
by Irvin Muchnick The...
May 29 | Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, BakerHostetler Law Firm Give Concussion Inc. Pro Bono Support in ‘Doe v. Muchnick’
Our representation in the Doe...
May 29 | USA Swimming Lies About Greg Winslow Investigation — Says He Can Only Be on ‘Watch List’
USA Swimming is telling...
May 28 | USA Swimming Sponsor CeraVe: We Take Sex Abuse Scandals ‘Seriously And Are Weighing Next Steps’
Concussion Inc.’s Tim...
May 28 | ‘Missoula swim coach mired in national sexual abuse case’
“Denying knowledge of...
May 28 | JOYCE: Time For USA Swimming and the Olympics to Feel a Financial Impact From Sex Abuse Cover-Up?
by Tim Joyce Last week...
May 27 | Will Jill Johnson Chasson, Chair of USA Swimming’s National Board of Review, Recuse Herself From Investigations of North Baltimore Aquatic Club?
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May 27 | The Many-Splendored Lies About and Cover-Ups of Sex Abuse by USA Swimming and Its CEO, Chuck Wielgus
Yesterday my colleague Tim...
May 26 | WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL CALLS FOR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF USA SWIMMING
“[Kelley] Currin is...
May 26 | JOYCE: USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus’s Web of Denials Doesn’t Even Come Close to Plausible
by Tim Joyce Avoiding...
May 24 | WaPo With Major New University of Maryland Angle in Rick Curl Story
U-Md.: Curl sex abuse was...
May 24 | From the Archives: The Strange Journey of USA Swimming’s David ‘Blastoff’ Berkoff — Now David ‘Backoff’ Berkoff
Resolving Conflict in...
May 24 | Mark Schubert — Who Falsely DENIED Hiring a Private Investigator to Follow Sean Hutchison — Now ASSERTS He Hired P.I. to Track Rapist Rick Curl
See how they run. With Rick...
May 24 | Holiday Weekend Reading: Our April 2012 Ebook ‘PENN STATE IN THE POOL: The Cover-Up of the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal’
Including facsimile...
May 24 | Flashback 8/23/12: David Berkoff’s Smoking-Gun 2010 Email on USA Swimming’s Widespread Knowledge of Coach Rick Curl’s Sexual Abuse
EXCLUSIVE: Full Text of 2010...
May 24 | Flashback 9/20/12: ‘USA Swimming Apologist David Berkoff Should Blast Off’
In the Next Stage of Rapist...
May 24 | Karen Crouse of The New York TImes Gets the Rick Curl Story Right
“Abuse Victim Seeks...
May 23 | Katherine Starr of Safe4Athletes: ‘When Did the System Fail Kelley Davies Currin and the Rest of Us?’
by Katherine Starr Reprinted...
May 23 | Kelley Davies Currin: With Justice Levied Against Rick Curl, Hold Congressional Hearings and Hold Accountable USA Swimming’s s Chuck Wielgus, David Berkoff, Mark Schubert
In the previous post we...
May 23 | Kelley Currin to Rick Curl Sentencing Judge: ‘This Is My Victim Impact Statement’
Below is the full text of...
May 22 | Preliminary Injunction Hearing Postponed
Federal Judge William D....
May 22 | Mark Schubert’s Crony, Bill Jewell, Faces USA Swimming Hearing on Sexual Misconduct Charges
Scott Reid of the Orange...
May 21 | Complete Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Rapist Swim Coach Rick Curl
Washington Post: Prominent...
May 21 | Rapist Swim Coach Rick Curl’s Sentencing Hearing Thursday
The sentencing hearing for...
May 20 | USA Swimming President Dale Neuburger Even Played Dumb About the Firing of His Own Son’s Coach Following a Swimmers-on-Swimmer Sex Assault
My colleague Tim Joyce points...
May 20 | Maryland Health Secretary Has Power to Intervene in Investigation of Death of North Baltimore Aquatic Club’s Louis Lowenthal — He’s Just Not Exercising It
I continue to probe public...
May 20 | Swimming’s Harassment of Critics and Whistleblowers Includes Failed Bar Association Complaint Against Victims’ Attorney
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May 18 | WWE Funds Concussion Studies … Ho-Hum
Like the National Football...
May 17 | Congratulations to Cal Women’s Assistant Swim Coach Kristen Cunnane on Her Apology and $2.85 Million Settlement From the Moraga School District
I have not met Kristen...
May 15 | JOYCE: North Baltimore Aquatic Club … Back to Where This All Started
“You may think you know...
May 14 | Read It Now — Olympic Coach Mark Schubert’s Private Eye’s Report on the Cohabitation of Rival Coach Sean Hutchison And His Swimmer
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
May 14 | Our Work to Expose the Criminals of USA Swimming Continues
by Irvin Muchnick No...
May 14 | Judge Rejects Restraining Order Against Concussion Inc.; Muchnick Agrees to Take Down References to Accused Minors
by Irvin Muchnick At...
May 13 | Keith Harris of Cageside Seats on ‘Justice Denied,’ Ebook About Nancy Argentino’s Death in Jimmy Snuka’s Motel Room
“Irv Muchnick publishes...
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May 13 | Muchnick Radio Interview on New Lawsuit by Family of Hockey’s Derek Boogaard
The family of Derek Boogaard...
May 12 | For Mother’s Day, Some More Daughter-Abuse Developments at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club
In Maryland, the news...
May 10 | Now on Amazon Kindle: ‘JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold Story of Nancy Argentino’s Death in Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’s Motel Room’
In 1983, Nancy Argentino...
May 10 | Half a Year After Louis Lowenthal Drowned at Michael Phelps’ Home Training Facility, Maryland Officials Still Won’t Say Who Polices Public Pools And to What End
The guts of the...
May 9 | Program Note on Tomorrow’s Publication of ‘JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold Story of Nancy Argentino’s Death in Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’s Motel Room’
In association with the...
May 9 | Book Bonus: Introduction to New Ebook ‘JUSTICE DENIED’ — Story of Nancy Argentino’s 1983 Death in Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka’s Motel Room
JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold...
May 7 | Preview of Ebook on Nancy Argentino Death in Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka’s Motel Room … Today at SLAM! Wrestling
“Revisiting Jimmy...
May 4 | Sun Devil Aquatics’ Pool Rental Contracts With Arizona State University
Arizona State University has...
May 3 | So Far, WWE Is No-Commenting the Revival of the Jimmy Snuka-Nancy Argentino Story
As we announced last week,...
May 2 | Hmmm … How Much Does an Arizona State University Get Paid for a Sun Devil Aquatics Pool Rental Contract Like That?
The father of the woman...
May 1 | Greg Winslow Victim’s Father: What’s Holding Up the Maricopa County Attorney?
Father of swim victim...
April 30 | Snuka Ebook Production Slows New Content at Concussion Inc.
Obviously, there’s a...
April 25 | Author Muchnick and Nancy Argentino Family to Publish Ebook, “JUSTICE DENIED,” on 30th Anniversary of Jimmy Snuka Incident — Benefit For My Sisters’ Place Women’s Shelter
MEDIA INQUIRIES:...
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April 24 | Meadowbrook Aquatic Center License Renewal Did Not Include Accountability for Lifeguard Lapse in Louis Lowenthal Drowning
The Baltimore Health...
April 24 | Godspeed to Robert Lipsyte, Granddaddy of REAL Sports Journalism, on His New Post as ESPN Ombudsman
Hell froze over yesterday...
April 24 | Utah Mailbag: ‘What Was Hope a Month Ago Is Turning to Despair’
From a parent of a victim of...
April 24 | John Kass, Chicago Tribune: ‘Football Is As Dead as the Marlboro Man’
...
April 23 | Are the University of Utah and the Arizona Prosecutor Running Out the Clock on Greg Winslow Scandals?
Collaborator Tim Joyce and I...
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April 22 | Questions About USA Swimming National Board of Review Chair Jill Chasson Go Deeper Than Her Marriage to Sun Devil Aquatics Owner Mike Chasson
by Irvin Muchnick Last...
April 18 | Baltimore Mailbag: Swimmers Gone Wild at Out-of-Town Meet. Or As They Call It at the Club Made Famous By Michael Phelps … April.
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April 17 | Baltimore Health Department: Mark Your Calendars
“We have received your...
April 17 | Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake and Health Commissioner Barbot Join Doomed Game of Running Out Clock on Interest in Teen Swimmer Louis Lowenthal’s Wrongful Death at Michael Phelps Swim Club
by Irvin Muchnick...
April 16 | ‘Audrie Pott’s Parents Ask For Classmates Who Saw Photo of Alleged Sexual Assault to Come Forward’
...
April 15 | Paging Baltimore’s Health Commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, on Response to Louis Lowenthal Death and Public Information Request for Meadowbrook Aquatic Center’s Public Pool License Applications
Commissioner Barbot: Please...
April 15 | Abused Swimmer Jancy Thompson in Sacramento Tuesday For State Senators’ News Conference on Bill Extending Statute of Limitations in California
Concussion Inc. is the middle...
April 14 | Bruno Sammartino’s Fellow WWE Hall of Famer, Larry ‘Abdullah the Butcher’ Shreve, Is Confirmed to Have Hepatitis C — Probably Infected Other Wrestlers in Blood Matches
A couple of years ago, as he...
April 14 | Abuse Evidence Is Clear (Part 2, USA Swimming’s Cover-Up of Norm Havercroft’s Molestations of Jancy Thompson)
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES:...
April 13 | Deadspin: Costas Slams CBS Over Gutless Masters Coverage. Concussion Inc.: Muchnick Slams NBC Over Gutless USA Swimming Coverage
@Deadspin12 Apr Bob Costas...
April 13 | Muchnick Exchange With Maryland Health Department on Continuing Questions in Louis Lowenthal Drowning at Meadowbrook Aquatic Center
DR. CLIFFORD S. MITCHELL,...
April 12 | Introducing Our Series on Miscarriage of Justice in Cover-Up of Coach Norm Havercroft’s Molestation of Swimmer Jancy Thompson — And Need to Change Sex Abuse Laws in California and Elsewhere
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 12 | Six Weeks and Counting on Decision to Charge Greg Winslow in Arizona
The University of Utah...
April 11 | Props to the UCLA Student Newspaper, the Daily Bruin …
… for this editorial...
April 11 | UCLA Basketball Coach Steve Alford Apologizes for Handling of Iowa Player Rape
After Steve Alford’s...
April 11 | Flashback to February: Concussion Inc.’s Exposure of the Tardy Incident Report on Lowenthal Death — Falsely Suggested Three Lifeguards Present
EXCLUSIVE: Baltimore...
April 10 | New Litigation Twist, Plus Old USA Swimming Inaction, in Whistleblower Dia Rianda’s Dispute With Olympic Coach Mark Schubert
Golden West (California)...
April 10 | Still Waiting on Maryland Health Department’s New Statement in Louis Lowenthal Death
Mr. Muchnick: We are...
April 9 | Utah Swim Whistleblower Fiascone Expects ‘Positive and Conclusive’ Resolution in Dean of Students Sideshow
Austin Fiascone — the...
April 9 | A Twitter Dialogue on Death of Michael Phelps Swim Club’s Louis Lowenthal and Maryland Secretary of Health Joshua Sharfstein’s Response
@irvmuch Aide to Maryland...
April 8 | Background Check Maven Barry Nadell Expounds on His Business ‘Hooking Up With Tawnie Lynn’ And His Role With USA Swimming’s Protection of Child Athletes
PREVIOUSLY: USA...
April 8 | Comprehensive Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Dr. Robert Cantu and Chris Nowinski
More on the Real Brain Damage...
April 8 | Thoughts on Why Cantu-Nowinski ‘Conflicts’ Are Wrong Focus in the Current Traumatic Brain Injury Debate
As an equal-opportunity...
April 8 | Maryland Public Health Agencies’ Explanations for Not Investigating Louis Lowenthal Death Don’t Hold Water — What Is Behind Their Undue Discretion?
The following text was...
April 7 | Who Says Utah Administration Remains Inactive in Winslow Investigation? Dean Conducts Harassment Hearing … Of Whistleblower Swimmer Fiascone!
Austin Fiascone, the ex-Utah...
April 7 | JOYCE: Utah AD Hill Should Follow Example of Rutgers’ Pernetti — Resign
by Tim Joyce Salt Lake...
April 7 | Flashback 2: How USA Swimming’s Background Check Guru Barry ‘Hooking Up With Tawnie Lynn’ Nadell Helped Introduce Kid Athletes to Coach James Pantera — Federal Convict And Multi-Alias Con Man
Yesterday Concussion Inc....
April 7 | Flashback 1: How USA Swimming’s Background Check Guru Barry ‘Hooking Up With Tawnie Lynn’ Nadell Helped Introduce Kid Athletes to Coach Charles Baechler — A Disbarred Rapist Judge
Yesterday Concussion Inc....
April 6 | USA Swimming’s Consultant on Coach Background Checks Registered Website and Business Names ‘Hooking Up With Tawnie Lynn’ — Explains ‘It’s Personal’
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
April 5 | Rutgers, Utah, Baltimore, And the No-Accountability Zone of Sports Potentates And Media
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April 4 | Baltimore Health Department on Louis Lowenthal Death: ‘This [Almost Nothing] Is All We Have’
Cantankerous sort that I am,...
April 3 | Paging Baltimore Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot on the Meadowbrook Aquatic Center And the Death of Louis Lowenthal
A teenager, Louis Lowenthal,...
March 31 | While Football Remakes Itself As Legal Dodgeball, the Question Remains: How Long Can a Silver Age Last?
I’m out of town this...
March 28 | ‘Bruno Sammartino’s Bad Call on WWE Hall of Fame’ (full text)
[Originally published...
March 28 | California Legislator With Oversight of Golden West College Comments on Mark Schubert-Bill Jewell ‘Investigation’
The controversy over Golden...
March 28 | Patrick Hruby: ‘The Myth of Safe Football’
...
March 27 | Great Moments in Email, Part 9: And Now for Another Word From Mr. Anonymous of the Sex Abusers’ Lobby
“Your horrible, biased...
March 27 | Ex-Utah Swimmer, Now at Purdue, Adds to Evidence of Athletic Director Chris Hill’s Laissez-Faire Attitude Toward Greg Winslow’s Extreme Creepiness
Utah swimming parent activist...
March 26 | Schubert-Jewell Whistleblower Dia Rianda’s Attorney Demands Apology From Golden West College President
Dia Rianda, the USA Swimming...
March 26 | Louis Lowenthal Death: Maryland Health Department Says Meadowbook Aquatic Center Regulation Is Delegated to Baltimore Health Department
We continue coverage of the...
March 25 | R.I.P., Anthony Lewis
I once wrote toThe New York...
March 25 | Utah Continues to Beat Up the Script of Its ‘Independent’ Probe of Greg Winslow Mess — Third Investigator Added, With Report Going to Board of Trustees
The University of Utah is...
March 25 | Utah Whistleblower: University Backs Down, Restores Scholarship With ‘Congrats’ to Swimmer Who Was Abused and Racially Taunted by Greg Winslow
Matt Fiascone, the father of...
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March 24 | California Community College’s Farcical ‘Investigation’ of Swim Coaches Mark Schubert and Bill Jewell Is a Template for Every Whitewash Institutional Probe — Like the One Now at Utah
Scott Reid of the Orange...
March 23 | Bodybuilding Guru Joe Weider Dies
Joe Weider, the retired...
March 23 | Doug Knuth, Senior Aide to Embattled Utah Athletic Director Chris Hill, Lands Top Job at Nevada and Spews Gobbledygook About the Greg Winslow Scandal
Doug Knuth, a career college...
March 22 | The Billable, Happy-Go-Lucky World of USA Swimming’s General Counsel — Richard R. “Rich” Young, Office Managing Partner, Bryan Cave Law Firm
Muchnick to Scott Ward (Head...
March 22 | Finally, St. Cloud State University Speaks on Former Employee Greg Winslow
It took all week, which...
March 22 | Safe4Athletes’ Katherine Starr’s ‘Lowlights’ From the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation Child Abuse Summit
It’s wise to approach...
March 22 | ‘Bruno Sammartino’s Bad Call on WWE Hall of Fame’ … today at SLAM! Wrestling
Since theBruno...
March 22 | Maryland Swimming Chairman: Direct Murray Stephens Questions to USA Swimming Lawyer
I asked the following two...
March 21 | Fed-Up Utah Swimmer’s Mother: ‘Lack of Communication Adds to the Pile of Disgust’
by Tim Joyce Suzanne...
March 21 | Assistant Coach Lisa Pursley Confronted Greg Winslow Over His Drinking — Then Reported It to Utah Administration
by Irvin Muchnick As...
March 21 | Whistleblower Swimmer Austin Fiascone’s Father: Utah Investigators Not Interviewing Key Witnesses — ‘Have Gone Totally Silent’
I just exchanged emails with...
March 21 | From Russia With (Understated) Hate: The Powerful Greg Winslow Critique of Utah Swimmer Vlas Lezin
Presumably, lawyers Michael...
March 20 | Before There Was Accused Sex Abuser Murray Stephens, There Was Accused Sex Abuser Everett Uchiyama — And We Know How THAT Turned Out
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March 20 | Additional Questions to USA Swimming and the McDonogh Prep School on the Activities of Coach Murray Stephens, Who Was Forced Out of Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club
TO USA SWIMMING’S...
March 20 | ‘I am out of the office attending the Safe to Compete conference hosted by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’
The headline above is the...
March 19 | EXCLUSIVE: Murray Stephens, Disgraced Founder of Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club, Supervising Son’s Workouts at Private School Pool
by Irvin Muchnick ...
March 19 | Utah Willing to Talk General Policy on Abusive Ex-Employees — But Not ASU, Scene of the Greg Winslow Crime
Earlier today we featured a...
March 19 | Why Institutions Are Unapologetic About Passing Around Pedophiles: ‘Employees Also Have Privacy Rights’
We saw it with priests in the...
March 18 | Air Force Academy/Colorado Springs Falfins, Former Greg Winslow Employer: ASU and Utah Did Not Contact Us — Learned About It ‘Through Your Blog’
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 18 | Air Force Academy, Former Greg Winslow Employer: ASU and Utah Did Not Contact Us And We Have Told Our Swimmers and Families Nothing
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 18 | More Details on ASU Police Moves in Greg Winslow Sex Abuse Investigation
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 18 | Greg Winslow’s First Swim Club, in Colorado Springs, Knows Nothing About the Sex Abuse Charges Against Him and Has Told Its Members Nothing
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 18 | ASU and Utah’s Failure to Communicate About Abusive Swim Coach Greg Winslow at End of Long Trail of Swimming’s Negligent Disregard of Athlete Safety
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 17 | JOYCE: Where Does U.S. Olympic Committee Stand on USA Swimming Sex Abuse?
by Tim Joyce ...
March 17 | Utah Parent Whistleblower: Delays of University’s New ‘Independent’ Investigation of Cover-Up of Swim Coach Greg Winslow Are Making the Damage Worse
Matt Fiascone, father of...
March 15 | Dear Sun Devil Aquatics Owner Mike Chasson: What Have You Communicated to Your Families About the Greg Winslow Sex Abuse Charges? Answer: (sound of crickets chirping)
Yesterday I emailed Mike...
March 15 | Why I Don’t Call Utah’s Athletic Director ‘Dr.’ Chris Hill
When I started reporting the...
March 15 | ‘Utah Investigations Will Determine Athletic Director Chris Hill’s Legacy — And More to the Point, His Job’
Decent analysis by Kurt...
March 15 | But Have We Really Seen the Last of Banned Molester Swim Coach Ad’m Dusenbury?
by Irvin Muchnick The...
March 14 | Good Riddance, Busted-At-Last Swim Coach Sex Abuser Ad’m Dusenbury
P.S. on ‘Whatever...
March 14 | Orange County Register Reports Bill Jewell Ouster and USA Swimming’s Banning For Life of Mission Viejo Nadadores’ Molester Ad’m Dusenbury
The Orange County Register...
March 14 | Bill Jewell Out at Golden West Aquatics
Last week we got a tip that...
March 14 | Utah’s Black Swimmer, the PVC Pipe, and Greg Winslow’s Motivating ‘Go Show Them You Are My Nigga’
Continuing with the theme of...
March 14 | Did Utah Monitor Accused Rapist Swim Coach Greg Winslow in Activities With Campus-Based Youth Club? Question a Parent Asked University and NCAA — Neither Answered
“… I know that...
March 13 | Why We Don’t ‘Out’ Swim Coach Sex Abuse Victims — Why We Hope They’ll Decide to Come Forward (Part 2)
Yesterday Concussion...
March 13 | Why We Don’t ‘Out’ Swim Coach Sex Abuse Victims — Why We Hope They’ll Decide to Come Forward (Part 1)
My friend Matt Chaney...
March 13 | Mailbag: Don’t Forget NBAC, Louis Lowenthal, and the Dangers of Hypoxic Training
From a reader: I hope...
March 12 | ‘The Utah Swim Scandal … A Theory’
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March 12 | Utah Assistant Swim Coach Professes Innocence: ‘I Didn’t Even Give the Swimmers Hugs’
Matt Fiascone, father of...
March 12 | Concussion Inc.’s Independent Investigation of Utah’s Independent Investigators of the University’s Failed Outside Investigation of the Scandal of Abusive Coach Greg Winslow
As reported yesterday,...
March 11 | Dear ASU President Crow and Athletic Director Patterson: Please Answer a Few Questions From YOUR End of the Investigations of Accused Sex Abuser Swim Coach Greg Winslow
Below is the main text of an...
March 11 | University of Utah Hires ‘Independent’ Greg Winslow Investigators to Investigate ‘Outside’ Investigators Who Screwed Up the ‘Inside’ Investigation
This is straight out of the...
March 11 | Was Utah Athletic Director Chris Hill’s Pac-12 Bonanza the Reason Monster Swim Coach Greg Winslow Lasted So Long?
Families of athletes who were...
March 10 | Whistleblower Family Sets Friday Deadline for Steps by University of Utah to Repair Cover-Up of Accused Sex Criminal Swim Coach Greg Winslow
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 10 | Utah Athletic Director Chris Hill’s Statements on Accused Sex Abuser Swim Coach Greg Winslow Only Raise More Questions
by Tim Joyce Embattled...
March 10 | What USA Swimming REALLY Fears About the Greg Winslow Sex Abuse Scandals in Arizona and Utah
by Irvin Muchnick The...
March 9 | Father of Utah Swim Coach Greg Winslow Whistleblower: ‘Now I’m Not Stopping at an Apology’
...
March 9 | JOYCE: New Details Make Clear Greg Winslow Scandal Goes Straight to the Top
by Tim Joyce One has...
March 9 | Complete Links to Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of the Utah Swim Coach Greg Winslow Sex Abuse Scandal and Cover-Up
EXCLUSIVE: Greg Winslow,...
March 9 | Greg Winslow Firestorm: Fingers Point to Utah Athletic Director Chris Hill in Abuse Cover-Up
In the space of one week, the...
March 8 | Utah, Arizona, Baltimore, Colorado Springs, USAS, NCAA, ASCA … No Matter the Venue or the Alphabet Soup, It’s Big Swimming and the Olympic Brand Under Siege
Last week’s and this...
March 7 | ‘Charlie King Was Another Victim of Greg Winslow’
We’ve been pretty hard...
March 7 | Stunner: Wisconsin – La Crosse Chancellor Says Only That ‘Alleged Events’ Involving Swim Coach — Former Assistant to Accused Sex Criminal Greg Winslow — ‘Occurred at Another University’
Institutions of higher...
March 7 | Utah Sources: Recent Departure of Associate Athletic Director Was Tied to Unraveling Swim Coach Greg Winslow Sex Abuse Scandal
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
March 7 | Greg Winslow Files: Complete Series As a SIngle Post
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
March 6 | Statements from UNC and Associate Head Swim Coach Mike Litzinger, Utah Head Coach Predecessor to Accused Sex Abuser Greg Winslow
Statement From University of...
March 6 | Greg Winslow Sex Abuse Scandal Mailbag: Clear Details (Which We’re Not Publishing) on Another Victim on the Utah Women’s Swim Team
As Tim Joyce and I wrote...
March 6 | Summary of Arizona State University Police Report Recommending Sex Abuse Charges Against Swim Coach Greg Winslow
Following is the full text...
March 6 | Greg Winslow Files: Part 6 — Alleged Victim of Utah Swim Coach in Arizona Is No Isolated Case
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES...
March 5 | Greg Winslow Files: Part 5 — Predecessor Swim Coach at Utah, Mike Litzinger, Left Under a Similar Cloud of Allegations
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES...
March 5 | Utah Responds: Our Greg Winslow Investigator Is a Sex-Crimes Specialist
In the previous post we raise...
March 5 | Greg Winslow Files: Part 4 — Timing of Two Female Swimmers’ Interviews in Two Investigations Is Key to Possible University of Utah Cover-Up
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES...
March 4 | Greg Winslow Files: Part 3 — Breath Drill on Mexico Training Trip Caused Swimmer’s Seizure; Incident Covered Up
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES...
March 4 | SWIM COACH GREG WINSLOW OUT AT UTAH
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March 4 | Greg Winslow Files: Part 2 — Coach Accused of Sex Abuse in Arizona Had Troubled Tenure at Utah, Including an Affair With Another Coach
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES...
March 3 | Keep Them Cards and Letters Coming … And Follow Us on Twitter
Irvin Muchnick“@irvmuch...
March 3 | Will USA Swimming ‘Safe Sport Director’ Susan Woessner Recuse Herself From the Investigation of Greg Winslow’s Alleged Sex Abuse at ASU?
As we’ve already...
March 3 | Chris Benoits and Jovan Belchers Abound in the Football-Murder Legal System
Football’s Cassandra,...
March 3 | Introducing the Greg Winslow Files: Part 1 — A Military Background, A ‘Groomed’ Marriage
Concussion Inc. here launches...
March 3 | JOYCE: Why the USA Swimming Scandal Is Worse Than Penn State
by Tim Joyce ...
March 3 | Orange County Register on How Fired Olympic Swim Coach Mark Schubert’s Associate Bill Jewell Was ‘Cleared’ in Investigation of Inappropriate Behavior at Southern California Clubs
From today’s Orange...
March 2 | More Phoenix News Media on Swim Coach Greg Winslow Sex Abuse Charges
Phoenix New...
March 2 | San Diego Swim Coach Con Man James Pantera, Volume 2
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March 1 | Yahoo Sports’ Eric Adelson Details Sex Abuse Victim’s ‘Confrontation’ Phone Call to Greg Winslow
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March 1 | Back to San Diego: Don’t Believe a Word of the Nonsense from Con Man James Pantera About Whistleblower Mike Saltzstein’s ‘Bullying’ and ‘Retaliation’
Convicted federal felon and...
March 1 | The Morning After: What Happens Next in the Story of Deposed Utah Coach Greg Winslow and the Generation-Old and Unraveling USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandals
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March 1 | Arizona State Clears Its Throat: ‘Victim Not a Student at the University’
Arizona State University...
February 28 | Utah Says Allegations Against Swim Coach Greg Winslow Caught It By Surprise. Former Swimmer Argues — Very Plausibly — That There’s a Cover-Up
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 28 | Salt Lake Tribune on Swim Coach Greg Winslow’s Suspension in Anticipation of Sex Offense Charges
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February 28 | USA Swimming’s Jill Chasson: I Would Recuse Myself From National Board of Review Hearing on Greg Winslow
In response to an inquiry by...
February 28 | BULLETIN: Utah Suspends Swim Coach Greg Winslow Pending Sex Abuse Investigation
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February 28 | EXCLUSIVE: Greg Winslow, University of Utah Coach With Deep Roots in Elite Swimming, Faces Charges of Sexually Abusing Underage Girl at Arizona State Club Program
by Tim Joyce and Irvin...
February 27 | San Diego Union Tribune Joins the Journalism Hall of Shame of Swimming Scandal Coverage
Here’s what the major...
February 27 | Further From the Maryland Health Department in Response to Our Coverage of Late, Incomplete, Inaccurate Incident Report on Baltimore Swimmer’s Death
Karen Black, spokesperson for...
February 27 | Further On the Con Man Swim Coach in San Diego — From a Parent on the Ground There
Readers with additional tips...
February 26 | San Diego School District: Con Man Swim Coach James Pantera ‘Will Not Be Hired’
San Diego Unified School...
February 26 | Better Late Than Never: Swimming World Magazine Acknowledges Story of Con Man Coach in San Diego
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February 26 | Go on Twitter, Demand San Diego School District Give a Straight Answer on the Hire of Con Man Swim Coach James Pantera — And Fire Him
San Diego Unified School...
February 26 | Dear San Diego Board of Education: Correct the School District’s Inaccurate Account of the Hire of Con Man Swim Coach James Pantera
Following is the text of an...
February 26 | San Diego School District Lied — Serra High School Website Still Lists Con Man James Pantera As Swim Coach
According to a San Diego...
February 26 | Con Man James Pantera: Current Head Swim Coach / Applicant to Be Assistant Swim Coach at San Diego’s Sierra High
This morning’s...
February 26 | Statement From San Diego Unified School District on Con Man Swim Coach James Pantera
“James Pantera has...
February 26 | Maryland Health Secretary Sharfstein: Statement Coming About Baltimore Aquatic Center Report on Swimmer Louis Lowenthal’s Drowning Death
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein,...
February 25 | AP With a Longer One on USA Swimming’s Con Man Coach in San Diego
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February 25 | San Diego School District Has to Answer, Too, For Curriculum Vitae of Con Man Serra High School Swim Coach James Pantera
While the pathetic USA...
February 25 | AP Picks Up Story of the Con Man Youth Coach Missed by USA Swimming’s Crack Background Check System
One link to the coverage by...
February 25 | More Details on Con Man San Diego Youth Swim Coach James Pantera’s Criminal Record
Here were the federal charges...
February 25 | Dear Woessner Sisters of USA Swimming’s Bloated and Overpaid Executive Staff: How Much Do You Get Paid for Jobs Like These?
Susan Woessner is the...
February 25 | USA Swimming Board Prez: ‘We Will Take Appropriate Action’ on Con Man San Diego Coach James Pantera
As reported here this...
February 25 | Paging Maryland Health Secretary Sharfstein: Still Wonder If You’re Doing Anything About Late, False Report on Death of North Baltimore Aquatic Club Swimmer Louis Lowenthal
Dear Maryland State Health...
February 25 | Read It Now — 103-Page Dossier on Con Man San Diego Youth Swim Coach James Pantera & Aliases
As submitted to USA Swimming...
February 24 | Oscar Night for USA Swimming
Irvin Muchnick“@irvmuch...
February 23 | EXCLUSIVE: Mysterious, Criminal New San Diego Youth Club Swim Coach Slips Past USA Swimming’s ‘Background Check’
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 22 | Dear Maryland State Health Chief: What Actions Are You Taking on the Incident Report of the North Baltimore Aquatic Club Swimmer’s Drowning?
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February 22 | Flashback: What Muchnick Said Two Years Ago About the Folly of Endless Football Studies
Author and New Yorker writer...
February 22 | Follow Us on Twitter
Irvin Muchnick“@irvmuch...
February 21 | New Introduction to the Digital Edition of ‘CHRIS & NANCY,’ Story of Benoit Murder-Suicide (full text)
ECW Press has published a...
February 21 | Norm Havercroft Chapter From Muchnick’s 2012 ebook ‘PENN STATE IN THE POOL’
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 21 | FBI IS INVESTIGATING USA SWIMMING AND CALIFORNIA COACH NORM HAVERCROFT
by Irvin Muchnick and Tim...
February 21 | RAPIST SWIM COACH RICK CURL FORMALLY ENTERS GUILTY PLEA — TO BE SENTENCED MAY 23
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February 21 | Reminder: FBI Is a New Resource for Swimming Sex Abuse Victims
Attention, Open Amateur...
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February 20 | Now It Can Be Told: Five Redacted Questions From Michael Phelps Swim Club’s Half-Baked Maryland Health Department Report on Drowned Teenager Louis Lowenthal
At 4:27 p.m. Eastern time...
February 20 | Life-and-Death Questions Loom Over Michael Phelps Swim Club’s Tardy, Incomplete, Inaccurate Maryland Health Department Incident Report in Louis Lowenthal Drowning
As we’ve been...
February 20 | Journalist Tim Joyce Joins Concussion Inc. As Collaborator on Swimming Story
ConcussionInc.net, which...
February 19 | What the Mindy McCready Suicide Has to Do With USA Swimming Sex Abuse
The suicide of country singer...
February 19 | In His First Column As Concussion Inc. Collaborator on Swimming Scandals, Tim Joyce Reviews the WBAL Fiasco and the Media’s Endlessly Trivial Michael Phelps Coverage
With this piece, Tim Joyce...
February 18 | Complete Links to ConcussionInc.net’s Coverage of the Death of a 14-Year-Old at Michael Phelps’ Swim Club
Michael Phelps’ North...
February 18 | EXCLUSIVE: Baltimore Pool’s Report on Lowenthal Death Was Filed Late With Health Department and Seems to Claim Three Lifeguards Were Present
“SWIMMER WHO HAD BEEN...
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February 17 | Successor to Paul Bergen — Molester of Olympic Gold Medalist Deena Deardurff Schmidt — Is Newest Addition to USA Swimming’s Banned List
USA Swimming’s second...
February 16 | More Valuable Input on Louis Lowenthal Death By Readers of Tony Austin’s Blog
From the comments...
February 15 | Release Imminent for Meadowbrook Aquatic Center’s October Incident Report to State Health Department on Louis Lowenthal Drowning
Louis Lowenthal drowned on...
February 15 | More Forensics on North Baltimore Aquatic Club Swimmer Louis Lowenthal’s October 2012 Drowning
In a comment thread at Tony...
February 15 | New ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Introduction … today at SLAM! Wrestling
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February 14 | New Digital Edition of ‘CHRIS & NANCY,’ Story of Benoit Murder-Suicide, Published by ECW Press
Friday is publication day for...
February 14 | Murmurs of Misinformation in the Baltimore Swim Cult’s — Uh, Club’s — Version of Louis Lowenthal Death
Tony Austin has analyzed the...
February 14 | Baltimore Mailbag 2: ‘Louis Lowenthal Underwater 15-20 Minutes’
Another reader: As I have...
February 14 | Baltimore Mailbag: ‘I Feel Like I’m Living in State College, Pennsylvania’
From a reader: It hit me this...
February 14 | Tony Austin: ‘Drowning Is Not a “Peaceful” Way to Pass’
Swimmer-blogger Tony Austin...
February 14 | Baltimore Sun Does the Louis Lowenthal Autopsy Once Over Lightly
The Baltimore Sun today gives...
February 13 | Full Text of Maryland Statute on Public Pool Lifeguard Requirements
Coming up soon here is more...
February 13 | Dam of Silence Is Breaking for North Baltimore Aquatic Club Parents
This is an email I just...
February 13 | Louis Lowenthal Autopsy Details
The Louis Lowenthal autopsy...
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February 12 | Great Moments in Email, Part 8
It’s always nice to...
February 12 | Deadspin Busts Ohio College Women’s Track and Cross-Country Coach. Now Multiply That By ‘X’ for the Swimming Story
Deadspin has an in-depth...
February 10 | On My Bookshelf Under ‘Fiction’: Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Lance Armstrong Autobiography, ‘Love Story’ by Manti Te’o, King & Spaulding Report on Paterno … and USA Swimming’s Newly Published ‘Safe Sport Manual’
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February 10 | Remember the Signature Pharmacy PED Scandal? Our ebook, ‘The China Syndrome’, Captures That History
Among other things, the...
February 9 | More Patrick Hruby: Hitting NFL’s Propaganda High and Low
When it comes to chronicling...
February 9 | Ode to Robert D. McFadden, Prose-Poet of New York Times Blizzard Coverage
Taking a break from this...
February 8 | Brilliant ESPN Article by Patrick Hruby Tells the George Visger Story From Head to Toe
Last year the Concussion Inc....
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February 7 | Repeating Our Call For Athlete Sexual Abuse Victims to Seek Resources and Support From the Federal Government
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February 6 | Passing Down the Swimming Wisdom From Generation to Generation
Aided by the speed of youth,...
February 6 | Kevin Guskiewicz — MacArthur Genius Fellow to the World, ‘Dr. No Jr.’ to Us — Pulls Out the Culture War-Gun Control Rhetoric to Defend Football
I’ve already skewered...
February 6 | Wrestling Legend Bruno Sammartino, Patient of Dr. Joseph Maroon, Jeopardizes Legacy in New Relationship With WWE
Bruno Sammartino, pro...
February 5 | Link to Video of President Obama’s Pre-Super Bowl Interview:
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February 5 | Complete Links to ConcussionInc.net’s Coverage of Rapist Swim Coach Rick Curl
Washington Post: Prominent...
February 5 | RAPIST SWIM COACH RICK CURL COPS GUILTY PLEA
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February 5 | Jim Nantz, Football Concussions, Female Soccer Concussions, Auto Accidents, and the Scoundrel’s Argument Against ‘Bubble-Wrapping Our Children’
Jim Nantz is just the loaf of...
February 5 | Full Text of Letter to USA Swimming on Olympic Coach Mark Schubert, the Spy Who Hated Me, Plus Other Skulduggery Unpleasant
Two weeks ago I broke the...
February 4 | Firestorm Over Jim Nantz’s Bizarre Concussion Comment on ‘Face the Nation’
Jason Lisk atUSA...
February 4 | Bob Costas Gets It: Football ‘Fundamentally Unsustainable.’ Jim Nantz Doesn’t: ‘Women’s Soccer Players Twice As Likely to Get Concussion’
Bob Costas, on NBC’s...
February 2 | Flashback: Tim Joyce on the Ken Stopkotte Case and the Plight of Swimming Whistleblowers
Yesterday we reported the new...
February 1 | Another Sex Abuse Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Swimming — This One Ups the Ante from Wrongful Termination to Malicious Prosecution
In 2010 an Indiana swim coach...
January 31 | DeMaurice Smith at Today’s NFLPA Press Conference: Toradol Is Cool So Long As Players Can Sue
From the Twitter feed of the...
January 31 | Attention, Open Amateur Sports Sex Abuse Victims — A New Federal Government Resource
Through two different sources...
January 31 | New Orleans Times-Picayune: ‘LSU cancels brain injury event, rankling organizers, Kyle Turley’
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January 31 | ‘Fight Fiercely, Harvard’ — $100 Million Crimson-NFL-NFLPA Collusion Illustrates Anew the Power of King Football
Yesterday I posted the kind...
January 30 | USA Swimming Covers Its Do-Nothingness on Widespread Sex Abuse in Its Own Ranks … By Hosting a Conference on Sex Abuse
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January 30 | Harvard Hits the Concussion Inc. Jackpot: 10 Years, $100 Million From NFL Players for a Tiny and Misrepresented Study Glossing Over Brain Trauma
The queenpin of Super Bowl...
January 29 | Tom Dempsey Tells New York Times He Was a Pro Wrestler and a Kamikaze on NFL Return Coverage. Times Buys It. Ain’t That a Kick in the Head?
In 1970 Tom Dempsey of the...
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January 27 | Obama ‘More Worried About College Than About NFL Players’
Last March I gave President...
January 26 | Swimming World Magazine Speaks: Olympic Coach Mark Schubert, the Spy Who Hated Me, Lied About Hiring Private Investigator to Follow Ariana Kukors and Sean Hutchison
Just kidding in the headline....
January 25 | Lawyer for Olympic Coach Mark Schubert, the Spy Who Hated Me, Lied to Swimming World About Private Investigator. Will Magazine Correct the Record?
In an article last October on...
January 25 | And One More Thing on the Hutchison-Kukors Affair and Olympic Coach Mark Schubert, the Spy Who Hated Me
Sean Hutchison was cleared by...
January 25 | Housecleaning Notes on Olympic Swim Coach Mark Schubert, the Spy Who Hated Me
Yesterday we told “the...
January 25 | Orange County Register: Wife of Olympic Swim Coach Mark Schubert, the Spy Who Hated Me, Works for Private Investigator
The Orange County...
January 24 | EXCLUSIVE: Olympic Coach Mark Schubert Helped Spy on World-Record Swimmer and Her Coach — Leaked Relationship Info to Washington Post
Mark Schubert, the head...
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January 23 | Breakthrough in Identifying CTE in the Living
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January 22 | A Word on Stan (The Man) Musial, Martin Luther King, and Ted Williams
Randy Shaw, publisher at San...
January 18 | North Baltimore Aquatic Club Fights ‘Shallow Water Blackout Syndrome’ (Otherwise Known As Drowning)
I have been leaked what I...
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January 18 | Michael Phelps Takes Time from His Busy Schedule for a Dip in North Baltimore Aquatic Club’s Poisoned Waters
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January 17 | Thanks to the Same Lazy Sports Media That Promoted Lance Armstrong and Manti Te’o …
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January 17 | Pennsylvania Swim Coach Kenneth Fuller Finally Pleads Guilty to Plying Student With Alcohol and Having Sex With Her
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January 14 | Medical Examiner: Baltimore Swimmer Louis Lowenthal’s Death From ‘Complications of Near-Drowning’
The Maryland medical examiner...
January 13 | Jason Taylor, American Manhood, and the Football Crisis
Robert Griffin III is a...
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January 10 | Rapist Judge’s Thick File Shows Why USA Swimming’s ‘Background Checks’ Need Congressional Foreground Check
Turns out that...
January 10 | Month 8 of Convicted Sex Offender Noah Rucker’s USA Swimming ‘Emergency Hearing’
Yesterday brought the news...
January 10 | Junior Seau’s CTE Confirmed — See News and Analysis Everywhere
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January 9 | Noah Rucker, Former Assistant Under Rapist Coach Rick Curl, Convicted of Illicit Sexual Contact With Underage Swimmer
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January 9 | Government Will Study Concussions With NFL’s Help. What’s Wrong With That Sentence?
“U.S. launches study...
January 9 | USA Swimming Opens ‘Formal Investigation’ of Rapist Judge Who Became Coach; Suggests No Censure of Colorado Club for Failing to Report Him
(This post is being emailed...
January 5 | Notre Dame BCS Title Pre-Game (Sex Crime) Notes
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January 1 | Michael Phelps’ Coach Bob Bowman Probably Not an ‘Educator’ Under Maryland Law … No Kidding
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December 31 | Scandals at Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club Must Be Heard in 2013 — In the United States Senate
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December 26 | Washington-Baltimore Region a Hotbed of Star Swimmers. (and, by the way, of child sex abuse)
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December 24 | A Holiday Message From Michael Phelps’ Coach, Bob Bowman of the North Baltimore Aquatic Club
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December 19 | So Sorry — Ira Casson, Not Elliot Pellman, Was the Original ‘Dr. No’
An alert reader of the...
December 19 | Meet the New ‘Dr. No’ of CTE — ‘MacArthur Genius Fellow’ Kevin Guskiewicz!
EDITOR’S NOTE: An alert...
December 18 | Sports Doc: Fan-Funded Humanitarian Relief for Stricken Ex-Players Is a Good Idea
In yesterday’s post I...
December 18 | Connecticut Swim Coach Arrest Takes Sex Abuse Story Closer to Zero Degrees of Separation
Later this week I’ll be...
December 17 | A Visit With the Unsinkable George Visger … And a Holiday Message to ConcussionInc.net Readers
Last week I drove up to...
December 16 | Muchnick’s ‘Edge of Sports’ Interview on Bob Costas, Jovan Belcher, Chris Benoit Now on YouTube
My interview on Dave...
December 14 | Tim Joyce Guest Column: The Search for the Truth About Sex Abuse at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club … And the Search for Michael Phelps
Editor’s note: This...
December 14 | New North Baltimore Aquatic Club Info Deepens Mystery of USA Swimming’s 2010 Letter to Police
Tim Joyce, my fellow...
December 13 | Muchnick Discusses Jovan Belcher and Bob Costas on Next Edition of Dave Zirin’s ‘Edge of Sports’
Dave Zirin interviewed me a...
December 12 | Another Prominent Swimming Coach Banned — Matt Beck in Colorado
“Highlands Ranch swim...
December 11 | ‘Concussion Liability Costs May Rise, and Not Just for NFL’ — New York Times Rushed Over As Soon As They Heard the News
“Insurers will be...
December 10 | Why Kids Burn Out in Sports
Every year, roughly 40...
December 8 | CTE Expert Omalu: Jovan Belcher’s Manner of Death Does Not Preclude Brain Study
Immediately after the Jovan...
December 7 | What Football’s ‘Spiral of Denial’ Historian, Matt Chaney, Wrote About A Kansas City Chief’s Murder-Suicide — 32 Years Before Jovan Belcher
Matt Chaney, author of the...
December 7 | Notre Dame Football Rape Reporter: ‘Why I Won’t Be Cheering on January 7’
Melinda Henneberger, the...
December 6 | Muchnick’s Toronto Radio Interview on Jovan Belcher Murder-Suicide Now on YouTube
My interview about Jovan...
December 4 | In Defense of Costas: He Was Addressing Gun ‘Culture’ — And He Is More Than Willing to Hold NFL to Account As Firmer Jovan Belcher Evidence Emerges
In the last two days...
December 4 | Muchnick Media on Jovan Belcher; Costas Side of the Gun Commentary Upcoming
Jim Richards of...
December 4 | Costas Gun Control Commentary Taps Into an Old Culture War … And Doesn’t Lay a Glove on King Football
On Monday night, Washington...
December 3 | In Jovan Belcher Aftermath, Football’s Future Is a Social Question As Much As a Medical One
Tracking the slow or fast...
December 2 | Muchnick Tweets About Corporate Media Sports Murder Self-Censorship With Dave ‘Edge of Sports’ Zirin
Dave Zirin...
December 2 | Jovan Belcher Next-Day Notes: His Brain — Like the Debate, And Unlike Duerson’s and Seau’s — Is All Over the Place
The No. 1 question I’m...
December 1 | Jovan Belcher Murder-Suicide Takes Football Another Step Closer To Its Chris Benoit
Kansas City Chiefs linebacker...
November 30 | Notre Dame Athletic Director’s Pants Smoking — Assertion of Attorney-Client Privilege With USA Swimming in Sex Abuse Doesn’t Hold Water
“Mr. Swarbrick is not...
November 29 | Notre Dame Football, USA Swimming — Partners in Lawyering Up on Sex Crimes
Here are some additional...
November 28 | EXCLUSIVE: Notre Dame Athletic Director Appears to Admit Advising USA Swimming in Sex Abuse Cases
ConcussionInc.net has learned...
November 27 | How Does Notre Dame, No. 1 in Football, Get Away With Covering Up Player Rapes?
Notre Dame will be playing in...
November 26 | Dan Pastorini Malpractice Suit Against Class Action Firm Hints Settlement Talks Already Under Way With NFL
UPDATE NOTE, 11/27/12 I need...
November 24 | Fat in the Fire: NFL Fights Obesity — Obesity Fights NFL
I have derided the National...
November 20 | Concussion Inc. Bookstore Black Friday Special
We have a special holiday...
November 19 | Notes on Sex Crimes in Sports Other Than Swimming – And a Question for the International Swimming Hall of Fame
Do we need a reminder that it...
November 16 | This Week in ‘Whither Football?’: Chaney Unbound, Goodell on a Leash
In the historiography, if not...
November 16 | Sure, Expose NFL’s Double Move on Mike Webster Brain Trauma — But Don’t Forget the Dave Duerson Bubble Screen
On ESPN’s Outside the...
November 14 | Stefan Fatsis: ‘Why Do We Let Kids Play Tackle Football? We Shouldn’t.’
Must read:...
November 14 | Background Checks? Washington State Judge, Convicted of Assaulting Woman Who Had Appeared in His Court, Went on to Become USA Swimming Coach and Official in South Dakota
How did a former judge in...
November 14 | In Community Silence on Circumstances of Baltimore Swimmer’s Death, Look to Pending Autopsy
The North Baltimore Aquatic...
November 13 | League of Fans: ‘Goodell’s New Safety Campaign Flawed’
Hats off to Ralph...
November 12 | Colorado Club Coach Who Harbored Controversial Assistant Was Himself Dumped by Colorado Springs Parks & Rec for Hitting on Lifeguards
The unsuspecting worshippers...
November 9 | Anonymous Poster: Michael Phelps WAS at Lowenthal Memorial
Since I made an issue out of...
November 7 | Key Details Still Elusive Following Yesterday’s Funeral of North Baltimore Aquatic Club Swimmer Louis Lowenthal (Which Michael Phelps and Bob Bowman Do Not Appear to Have Attended)
A moving story in the...
November 7 | Cleaning Up Youth Sports: A Job for the Senate’s Beefed-Up Women’s Caucus
From my perspective, it was a...
November 5 | Muchnick Assesses the Stakes in Tomorrow’s Election for Issues Near and Dear to ConcussionInc.net
PRESIDENCY If President Obama...
November 5 | Texas ImPACT Case Settled
Paul Anderson, whose...
November 5 | Public Documents on North Baltimore Aquatic Club Sex Abuse Allegations Dangle in the Unhelpful Ozone
Before the Sandy storm...
November 4 | What’s Known So Far About the Death of Louis Lowenthal, 14-Year-Old Swimmer at Michael Phelps and Bob Bowman’s North Baltimore Aquatic Club
Louis Lowenthal was not...
November 3 | Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club Deals With New Challenge: 14-Year-Old’s Death
Yesterday, even as I was...
November 2 | Paging Michael Phelps in Brazil: Onde Você Está (Where Are YOU) on Child Sex Abuse in Swimming?
Michael Phelps has been on a...
November 1 | Penn State Does Sex Abuse Conference Once Over Lightly
Pennsylvania’s attorney...
November 1 | New Wrestler Death: Brad Armstrong, 51
Brad Armstrong, a very...
November 1 | Tweeting Senator Richard Blumenthal And His Would-Be Colleague Linda McMahon
Irvin Muchnick...
November 1 | Another ImPACT Case Shows Where Litigation Is Going to Cripple the Football System. (Hint: It Won’t Be at the NFL Level.)
With the indictment today of...
October 31 | Irish Sex Abuse Chronicler Justine McCarthy: Concern That Swim Officials Who Participated in Cover-Up Remain in Power
As I said in a post last...
October 28 | Why My Headlines Say ‘Rick Curl, Rapist’ Rather Than ‘Rick Curl, Who Allegedly And Tragically Had a Single Lapse in Judgment Many Years Ago’
A reader who says she was...
October 27 | After Rick Curl: The Wider Net of Accountability for Swim Coach Sex Abuse
This article was originally...
October 26 | In North Baltimore Aquatic Club Sex Abuse Scenario, We Wait For More Documents and Victims to Emerge
In the wake of the Rick Curl...
October 26 | Rick Curl Arrest: Let’s Connect the Swimming Sex Abuse Dots, From Washington to Baltimore … And All the Way to Colorado Springs
I’ve been too hard on...
October 25 | The Washington Post And Its Wholly Owned Subsidiary ReachForTheSwimmingIndustryWhitewash.com
The Washington Post published...
October 25 | Complete Links to ConcussionInc.’s Coverage of the USA Swimming Cover-Up of Rapist Coach Rick Curl
Washington Post: Prominent...
October 25 | Montgomery County Police Department’s Announcement of Rapist Swim Coach Rick Curl’s Arrest
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October 24 | Police Blocking Release of Referral to Crime Against Children Unit of North Baltimore Aquatic Club Coach Sex Abuse Allegation
I have asked the Baltimore...
October 24 | EXCLUSIVE: RICK CURL FACES MARYLAND ARREST WARRANT; VIRGINIA ARREST WARRANT ALSO POSSIBLE
The State of Maryland has...
October 23 | More on Linda McMahon and WWE’s Aggressive Exploitation of State Film Tax Credits
“WWE sold millions in...
October 23 | Police Account of Processing of Sex Abuse Allegations at Michael Phelps’ Baltimore Swim Club Is As Skimpy As a Speedo Bikini
Baltimore County police...
October 22 | Baltimore County Police Now Searching for USA Swimming’s 2010 Letter About Sex Abuse Allegation That Led to Departure of North Baltimore Aquatic Club’s Hall of Fame Coach
Earlier today the Baltimore...
October 22 | Complete Links to ConcussionInc.’s Coverage of Sex Abuse Scandal at Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club
‘Swimming Coach Accused...
October 22 | EXCLUSIVE: Baltimore County Police Confirm 2010 Letter From USA Swimming Re Sex Abuse Allegation at Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club
Based on new information...
October 19 | Feds Indict Dr. Richard Rydze for Growth Hormone Trafficking — Old UPMC-Pittsburgh Steelers Colleague of ImPACT Concussion Management Charlatan Joseph Maroon
Here’s the Pittsburgh...
October 19 | Brian Lockhart of Hearst Newspapers, 2010, on the Corporate Tax Credit Trading Scam
In 2010, before there was the...
October 19 | Penn State Sex Abuse Education Conference Shuts Out Representatives of USA Swimming Victims
Below is an email exchange...
October 19 | Hearst Newspapers: WWE Tax Controversies Create ‘Political Firestorm’ for Linda McMahon Campaign
“Dems charge WWE...
October 18 | Root of ‘Linda McMahonism’ Is Secondary Market in Corporate Tax Credits. Will It Carry the Day in Campaign ’12?
Linda Edwards McMahon, the...
October 17 | WWE Chief Financial Officer Explains Connecticut Tax Dispute and Resolution
Earlier today I published a...
October 17 | EXCLUSIVE: Apparent Internal WWE Document Points to $4.4 Million State Tax Audit Settlement With Connecticut
WWE Inc., the basis of Senate...
October 17 | USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal Flashback: Muchnick’s Pre-Olympics Story — Killed by Yahoo Sports, Picked Up by MomsTeam
The decades-long saga of...
October 15 | NFL Concussion Whore Peter Berg Is Mad at Romney For Not Keeping His Pimp Catch Phrases Straight
Peter Berg, producer of the...
October 12 | NO LONGER CENSORED: Investigative Reporter Tim Joyce’s Story on Sex Abuse Allegations at Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club
Readers new to the USA...
October 10 | Muchnick to Former North Baltimore Aquatic Club Coach Paul Yetter: Let’s Talk About the Sex Abuse Allegations Against Murray Stephens
I’m trying to reach out...
October 10 | R.I.P., Alex Karras
I have a personal memoir of...
October 9 | Catching Up on News of Linda McMahon, Would-Be Stateswoman
* Chris Murphy cleans WWE...
October 8 | Representatives Baca and Woolsey Join Lofgren in Failing to Second Mike Honda’s Call for USA Swimming Sex Abuse Hearings
Last week Congresswoman Lynn...
October 8 | Did USA Swimming Lie About Telling Police the Allegations Against Coach Murray Stephens of Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club?
In 2010 or 2011, the North...
October 8 | Swimming Hall of Famer Murray Stephens Is the Coach Who Left Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club Last Year Amidst Sex Abuse Allegation
Murray Stephens, a 2010...
October 6 | Swimmer-Blogger Tony Austin: USA Swimming Has a ‘Rape and Escape’ Loophole
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October 6 | Baltimore Sun Takes a Swing at Story of Molestation of Girl Swimmers at Michael Phelps’ Club — Hits a Ringing Foul Tip
The Baltimore Sun today...
October 5 | Hearst Radio Embarrasses Itself, Pulls Entire Archive of Tim Joyce’s Articles on USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandals
Baltimore’s WBAL Radio,...
October 4 | Michael Phelps’ Coach, Bob Bowman, ‘Cannot Comment’ on Story of Sex Abuse at North Baltimore Aquatic Club. English Translation: The Story Is True.
Bob Bowman, Michael...
October 4 | A Few Words About ID’ing Sex-Abusing Swimming Coaches
Tim Joyce did an excellent...
October 4 | USA Swimming FAQ Assures ‘Board Members and Others’ That They’re Not Riding on the Titanic, They’re Just Making a Stop for Ice
I’ve been leaked a new...
October 4 | Once More With Feeling: WBAL Reinstates Story on Sex Abuse at Michael Phelps’ Swim Club — Reschedules Journalist Tim Joyce’s Radio Interview Today
In a peculiar sequence, WBAL...
October 3 | Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren: Where Do YOU Stand on Hearings Into the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal?
Last week the office of...
October 3 | ‘Swimming Coach Accused of Molestation at Michael Phelps’ North Baltimore Aquatic Club’ — Tim Joyce, WBAL
...
October 2 | Just For Fun: Review of ‘The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety’ for Wrestling Observer Website
Irv Muchnick looks at...
October 2 | Tale of Two ‘Posts’ In Enabling the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal (Part 1 – The Washington Post)
It takes a village for sexual...
October 1 | USA Swimming Pedophile Will Colebank’s 2007 Arrest Report
The Woodland Park, Colorado,...
October 1 | Banned Pennsylvania Swim Coach Kenneth Fuller Still Out on Bail Despite Evidence of Contacts With Alleged Victim
If you follow the youth...
September 29 | Weekend Reading on USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandals — From Rapist Coach Rick Curl to Congressman Mike Honda’s Interest
Links to...
September 28 | Exclusive: Congressman Mike Honda ‘Has Begun Looking Into Congressional Hearings’ on USA Swimming Sex Abuse
Yesterday I began canvassing...
September 28 | Colorado Police Change Tune, Release Record of Pedophile Ex-USA Swimming Official Will Colebank — But Not (Yet) Narrative Report of His Arrest
In the previous post I...
September 28 | Colorado Police Department and District Attorney Block Release of Arrest Record of Pedophile Ex-USA Swimming Official Will Colebank
In apparent contravention of...
September 27 | ‘Concussions, Sexual Abuse the Latest Hot-Button Issues for Youth-Sports Insurers’
From the trade magazine...
September 27 | Bully for the Congressional Anti-Bullying Caucus — And How About Hearings on USA Swimming Sex Abuse?
There’s a group of...
September 27 | Labor Hits McMahon and WWE — But Didn’t Land a Punch When It Mattered
Now, it’s all well and...
September 25 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Probes UPMC’s Dr. Joseph Maroon, Whose Renaissance Man Portfolio Includes ‘Real Estate Mogul’
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...
September 24 | Sign of the Times: ‘New Jersey High School Football Team Forfeits Out of Safety Concerns’
...
September 23 | ‘Suppose Sandusky Had Raped His Own Players?’ — The Chilling Reality USA Swimming’s Apologists Refuse to Face
For most of the last six...
September 22 | Weekend Reading: Complete Links to ConcussionInc.’s Coverage of Rapist Swim Coach Rick Curl
Washington Post: Prominent...
September 21 | Muchnick Emails USA Swimming Athlete Protection Officer and PR Director Re Banned Coaches List and Status of Ad’m Dusenbury … Standing By for Response
Below is the text of an email...
September 21 | Washington Post Drowns Itself in Non-Coverage of Indictment of Rapist Coach Rick Curl’s Underling Noah Rucker
The Vienna (Virginia) Patch,...
September 21 | Dissident NFL Retiree Dave Pear on Sean Pamphilon’s New Documentary ‘United States of Football’
Award-winning filmmaker Sean...
September 21 | Tim Joyce on USA Swimming’s Weasel Language and Blame-the-Victim Line With Rapist Coach Rick Curl
Latest from Tim Joyce. Read...
September 20 | David Berkoff Speaks! (He Should Just Shut Up and Go Away.)
David Berkoff, technical vice...
September 20 | Rick Curl, Mark Schubert, Ad’m Dusenbury, and the Sands of Time in Mission Viejo Swimming and Sex Abuse
I recently remarked on the...
September 20 | In the Next Stage of Rapist Rick Curl’s Saga, USA Swimming Apologist David Berkoff Should Blast Off
The busting of rapist coach...
September 20 | USA Swimming Mislabels Rick Curl’s Expulsion Crimes — And Cowardly Media Play Along
Twenty-four hours after USA...
September 19 | USA Swimming’s Rick Curl Timeline Is Missing Some Items on the Front End. Let Me Help.
Ever helpful to the...
September 19 | Curl-Burke Coach Noah Rucker Indicted on Underage Sex Charge
Credit to swimswam.com:...
September 19 | Justine McCarthy’s ‘Deep Deception: Ireland’s Swimming Scandals’
Last week I finally got...
September 19 | Muchnick Email to USA Swimming’s Athlete Protection Officer and PR Director … Standing By For Response
Below is the text of an email...
September 19 | After Ban of Rick Curl, ‘the Proverbial Sandusky’ — Chronological Links to ConcussionInc.’s Coverage of USA Swimming Sex Abuse and Cover-Up
‘Whatever Happened to...
September 19 | Victim’s Lawyer: ‘Rick Curl Was the Proverbial Jerry Sandusky Within USA Swimming’
B. Robert Allard, attorney...
September 19 | BULLETIN: Rick Curl Waives Hearing, Is Permanently Banned by USA Swimming
Following is the text of a...
September 19 | WBAL’s Tim Joyce Exposes USA Swimming’s Non-Denial Denial of $625,000 Agreement With Mark Schubert to Cover Up Sex Abuse
Today’s new piece by...
September 18 | Kelley Davies Currin on Tomorrow’s USA Swimming Hearing for Rick Curl
Through her attorney, Kelley...
September 18 | USA Swimming Hopes Rick Curl Hearing on Swimmer Abuse and Payoff Is a Tree Falling in the Forest
“Denying knowledge of...
September 17 | What Dia Rianda Says About Rapist Swim Coach Rick Curl in Her Lawsuit Against Mark Schubert
This blog has been reporting...
September 17 | Read It Now — Swimming Philanthropist Dia Rianda’s Lawsuit Against Olympic Coach Mark Schubert for Wrongful Termination and Retaliation
“Trust me, she...
September 17 | 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?
This morning Tim Joyce...
September 17 | Journalist Tim Joyce With a Blockbuster on Coach Mark Schubert and USA Swimming’s Web of Deceit on Sex Abuse
“All Fall Down —...
September 17 | USA Swimming Convention OK’s Coach-Athlete Sex – And Media Rubber-Stamp USA Swimming
It couldn’t get much...
September 16 | USA Swimming Convention Rejects Rule Change to Ban Coach-Athlete Relationships
From swimmer-blogger Tony...
September 14 | ConcussionInc. Flashback: Wrongful-Death Case in New Jersey Tackles High School Football and ImPACT
Originally published on this...
September 14 | USA Swimming Convention Weekend Special: Complete Links to ConcussionInc.’s Coverage of the Sex Abuse Scandal
‘Whatever Happened to...
September 13 | David Berkoff and the Aquatic Sports Convention Play Around the Edges of USA Swimming’s Toxic Sex Abuse Culture
According to swimmer-blogger...
September 12 | Matt Chaney, Dr. Bennet Omalu – Prophets Without Honor on Football Harm and Traumatic Brain Injury
Below, I’m running...
September 11 | Michael Phelps’ Coach Goes to Work for Consulting Company of Ex-USA Swimming President Dale Neuburger – Another One Who Has Problems With ‘the Truth and Nothing But the Truth’
Bob Bowman of the North...
September 11 | Rule 2: Follow the Brain Specimen Trail
The famous Rule 1 of...
September 10 | Dear Congressman Fattah: Please Explain Why NIH Funding of UPMC and ImPACT Speaks Well for New Hyped $30 Million NFL-NIH ‘Public-Private Partnership’
Congressman Chaka Fattah,...
September 8 | National Public Health Is a Cheap Date – NFL Buys Off Congress and the Media With $30 Million Grant to NIH
If the National Football...
September 8 | Indominable George Visger, With a Shunt in His Brain, Still Smarter Than Most of the Rest of Us on NFL’s $30 Million Grant to NIH
I was about to query the...
September 8 | Weekend Reading: ConcussionInc.net’s Coverage of the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal
‘Whatever Happened to...
September 7 | Three-Continent Flight From Justice of Simon ‘Danny’ Chocron — Pedophile Coach for the Bolles School Sharks
I’ve finished lobbing...
September 7 | Santa Clara Sports Law Symposium
Yesterday, for the second...
September 6 | P.S. on Rick Curl and Australia’s Carlile Swim School – And the Latter’s Role at the American Swimming Coaches Association Event
Tim Ford, CEO of the Carlile...
September 5 | Casey Barrett: Coaches Feared Being Sued by Rapist Rick Curl If They Revealed His Hush Money to Kelley Davies’ Family
“Code of...
September 5 | Helpful Pat Hogan, USA Swimming Club Development Director – Always at the Ready With a Job Reference For a Sex Abuser
No American Swimming Coaches...
September 5 | University of Florida’s Gregg Troy, Swim Coach Association Board Member and Convention Star, Knows the Sex Abuse Issue Very Well
The American Swimming Coaches...
September 4 | Australia’s Carlile Swim School: Rick Curl Was Not Our Business Partner
The chief executive officer...
September 4 | Washington Post and Other National News Media Are Missing in Action on USA Swimming Sex Abuse
Amy Shipley, the Washington...
September 4 | Accused Sex-Abusing Coach Kenneth Fuller Swiftly Added to USA Swimming Banned List – But No Announcement of Date or Outcome of His ‘Emergency Hearing’
With the national conventions...
September 3 | Busting the ImPACT Concussion Management Scam Artists
For two years I have been...
September 2 | Holiday Weekend Reading: ConcussionInc.net’s Coverage of USA Swimming Sex Abuse
‘Whatever Happened to...
September 1 | EXCLUSIVE: Reps of Rapist Coach Rick Curl’s Australian Employer Are Featured Speakers at American Swimming Coaches Association Convention
(Note: The original headline...
August 31 | ‘USA Swimming Scandal: The Curious Case Of David Berkoff’
Timothy Joyce WBAL Radio...
August 31 | Peeling ‘The Onion’ of the ImPACT Concussion Frauds
They say that when Walter...
August 31 | Get Set for the Conventions of Our Two Major National Sex Abuse-Enabling Swim Organizations. Wait! Which One Is Which?
It will be a September to...
August 30 | Safe4Athletes’ Katherine Starr: ‘Kelley Davies and I Were Two of Four Texas Teammates Who Had Been Raped by Their Youth Coaches’
Over the weekend, in a post...
August 29 | Another Sex Criminal Coach Found Right Under USA Swimming’s Nose. (In other words … it’s Wednesday.)
“Somerset YMCA swim...
August 29 | P.S. — Football Is a DEADLY Mess
Don’t look now, but...
August 29 | Football Is a Mess
George Will is saying it....
August 27 | Shoulberg Deposition in Swimming Sex Abuse Case Postponed Until October
Last Thursday I reported that...
August 26 | A Talk With Title IX Titan Donna Lopiano About Sex Crimes Against Girls in Sports
I had a long conversation...
August 26 | Bullseye: ESPN’s Peter Keating on the ImPACT Concussion Management Scam
The takedown of the ImPACT...
August 24 | Heads Up for ESPN’s Peter Keating on ImPACT
ESPN today opens a...
August 23 | ‘It Is Time for David Berkoff to Resign From USA Swimming Board’
From Tony Austin, following...
August 23 | 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?
“Denying knowledge of...
August 23 | EXCLUSIVE: Full Text of 2010 Email Confirms That USA Swimming Board Member David Berkoff Noted Widespread Knowledge of Coach Rick Curl’s Sexual Abuse
“Denying knowledge of...
August 22 | USA Swimming Board Member David Berkoff ‘Signaled Left But Turned Right’ on Coach Sex Abuse
Tony Austin, a California...
August 22 | You Don’t Need to Be Wearing a Brain-Pad™ in Order to Know the FTC Should Investigate the ‘ImPACT™ Concussion Management System’
The “concussion...
August 20 | Muchnick Exchange With Congresswoman Linda Sánchez on WWE and Bullying
On Friday, Congresswoman...
August 20 | 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
“Denying knowledge of...
August 18 | Weekend Reading: Links to ConcussionInc.net’s Coverage of USA Swimming Sex Abuse
‘Whatever Happened to...
August 17 | Accused Sex Offender Noah Rucker – From Confirmed Rapist Rick Curl’s Club – Not in New Edition of USA Swimming’s Banned Coaches List
USA Swimming’s list of...
August 16 | Why Is Harvard’s Coach a Muck-a-Muck With the American Swimming Coaches Association?
I’m exploring why the...
August 15 | 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?
So far the only precinct...
August 15 | 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
Yesterday I emailed and faxed...
August 14 | How American Swimming Coaches Association – Which ‘Does Not Deal Directly With Children’ – Helps Keep Pervert Coach Mitch Ivey Gainfully Employed
According to executive...
August 14 | Muchnick Exchange With Ira Klein of Swim Coaches Association Board
In response to...
August 13 | Dear Swim Coaches Association Board: Who Will Stand Up to the Widespread Child Sex Abuse in Your Sport?
TO: Matthew Kredich...
August 11 | American Swimming Coaches Association Executive Director Whines About ConcussionInc.’s Coverage
John Leonard, long-time...
August 11 | Paging Legendary Coach Richard Shoulberg on Why American Swimming Coaches Association Doesn’t Have Its Own Sex Abuse Banned List
Below is the email I sent...
August 10 | Witness to History: Oh, Go Ahead and Watch the Fall of the House of Football
Many males of our culture...
August 10 | Does American Swimming Coaches Association Publish List of Coaches Banned for Sex Abuse? Exec Dir: ‘No.’ Why Not?
Below is the email exchange I...
August 10 | Sex Abuse Accountability Project: Here’s Your USA Swimming Board of Directors
In the previous post I...
August 9 | Enablers From the Top: The People Accountable for the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal
I’ve been hard on USA...
August 8 | Abuse of Girl Swimmers by Their Coaches Is Not Job-Site Sexual Harassment, Requiring ‘Sensitivity Training.’ It Is Rape, Requiring Criminal Prosecution.
Readers will recall that I...
August 8 | Sex Abuse Revolving Door: Rick Curl Case Shows College Programs Share Responsibility for USA Swimming Cover-Ups
MomsTEAM.com has just...
August 8 | ‘Rick Curl Sex Abuse Case Raises New Concerns’ — Read It Now at MomsTEAM.com
For those wondering if the...
August 6 | Kelley Currin Talks About Swim Coach Rick Curl’s Sex Abuse on NPR
...
August 6 | Guest Column: ‘A Call to Action Against USA Swimming’ by B. Robert Allard
by B. Robert Allard (The...
August 4 | Remember Sarah Burt
A few days ago I pointed...
August 3 | Global Warming: Now That ‘Concussion Awareness’ Has Been Reduced to a Mascot, Let’s Talk About the Role of Football, Sports, Coaches … Priorities
Your humble blogger thinks...
August 3 | Weekend Reading: Links to ConcussionInc.net’s Coverage of USA Swimming Sex Abuse
‘Whatever Happened to...
August 3 | Sex Happens. But Why Is USA Swimming By Far the Worst National Sports Governing Body in Terms of Protecting Children?
Sex happens. At Olympic...
August 2 | The Sick and Sophomoric World of Rick Curl and His Underling Swim Coach, Noah Rucker
As reported last night, Rick...
August 1 | Washington Post: Rick Curl ‘Accepts’ Provisional USA Swimming Suspension
Here’s how The...
August 1 | Rapist Coach Rick Curl’s Victim’s Lawyer Blasts USA Swimming Procedures
Bob Allard, attorney for...
August 1 | BULLETIN: Rapist Coach Rick Curl’s USA Swimming Credentials ‘Provisionally Suspended’
USA Swimming has told Kelley...
August 1 | Notes on Another Football Suicide, O.J. Murdock
The death by self-inflicted...
August 1 | EXCLUSIVE: Attorney for Victim of Rapist Coach Rick Curl Challenges USA Swimming on Tonight’s ‘Emergency Hearing’
Below is the full text of an...
July 31 | Felony Hearing in Virginia Thursday For Swim Coach Noah Rucker – Staffer at Statutory Rapist Rick Curl’s Curl-Burke Club
Thursday, August 2, is the...
July 30 | Another Big Story on USA Swimming’s Sex Crimes
Journalist Timothy Joyce has...
July 30 | Lawyers Against Sex Abuse of Children Issue Open-Letter Appeal to NBC’s Bob Costas
PREVIOUSLY: Olympics Open...
July 30 | Four Questions They Probably Won’t Ask at Today’s Secret USA Swimming ‘Emergency Hearing’ For Statutory Rapist Coach Rick Curl
Today the eyes of American...
July 30 | Bob Costas, Face of the Olympics: ‘Where Called For, Should Have Journalism, and Judiciously Should Also Have Commentary’
Good piece today on Bob...
July 30 | The Glamorous, My-Life-Is-Better-Than-Yours World of Harvey ‘The Multi-Tasker’ Araton
@HarveyAraton Excellent...
July 29 | California Supreme Court to USA Swimming: Stop Hiding Documents in Sex Abuse Cases
On Friday the California...
July 27 | Olympics Open – Where Is NBC on the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal?
The core Olympics coverage...
July 26 | What USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus Swore, on Penalty of Perjury, About Statutory Rapist Coach Rick Curl
Below is an excerpt of the...
July 26 | Did USA Swimming Lie to Washington Post and the World About When They Learned of Sex Abuse Allegations Against Coach Rick Curl?
Bob Allard, the San Jose...
July 26 | Yahoo Sports’ ThePostGame.com Jumps Into the Pool
As Jimmy Durante said,...
July 25 | FBI Should Investigate USA Swimming For Cover-Up of Coach Norm Havercroft’s Serial Sex Abuse
On the eve of the Olympics,...
July 25 | Washington Post Bombshell on Coach Rick Curl Recalls USA Swimming’s ‘Emergency Hearing Process’ and Testy PR Director
In the previous post I...
July 25 | Washington Post: Prominent Coach Rick Curl Under Investigation For 1983 Relationship With 13-Year-Old Swimmer
Curl-Burke founder Rick Curl...
July 24 | Swimming Sex Abuse Expose Killed by Yahoo Sports — Read It Now at MomsTeam.com
Poisoned Waters Widespread...
July 23 | Penn State Busted For Enabling, Covering Up Child Molester. Now, What About USA Swimming?
My article on the continuing,...
July 21 | How Paterno Plays in St. Louis – Where I Come From
Bernie Miklasz of the St....
July 20 | Update on Publication of Swimming Sex Abuse Article
Yesterday I shared with blog...
July 19 | 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...
July 10 | Nowinski’s Concussion Awareness Group Announces Latest ‘No Strings’ Professional Sports Grant
Boston’s Sports Legacy...
June 24 | Road to Omaha: Substitute ‘USA Swimming’ for ‘Penn State’
An instructive takeout on the...
June 22 | Muchnick on Twitter: Where the Sandusky Verdict Leaves the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal
Irvin Muchnick...
June 22 | Will USA Swimming Offer Truth and Reconciliation for Coach Sex Abuse Victims?
Tonight the jury in...
June 22 | Sandusky: Guilty. Will Verdict Turn Attention to USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal?
I’ll be writing about...
June 19 | Andrew Stewart Court Win a Chink in NFL Retirement Plan’s Legal Armor
A federal district court in...
June 19 | Future of Football Notes: Steve James-Nowinski Film Confusion; Terry Bradshaw’s Serious Clowning
With resources directed to my...
June 15 | Road to Omaha: Thanks, Dave Zirin. Also, California Country Club Backs Down and Allows Abuse Survivor to Conduct Swimming Clinic
Thank you to Dave Zirin for...
June 14 | Road to Omaha: Muchnick Discusses Swimming Sex Abuse on Friday’s ‘Edge of Sports’ with Dave Zirin
In the midst of the Jerry...
June 14 | Military Suicides => Traumatic Brain Injuries in Sports Entertainment => Linda McMahon Campaign
Linda McMahon, the WWE...
June 13 | With Olympic Swimming Trials Upcoming, Follow Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse
The Jerry Sandusky trial is a...
June 11 | Nowinski to NCAA: Give Your Football Players a Surgeon General-Style Warning
Chris Nowinski and his Sports...
June 8 | NFL Concussion Megasuit: Let the Medical Literature Bibliographies Begin
Perhaps you’ve heard...
June 7 | Cal Swim Coach, Sex Abuse Survivor, Banned From Clinic at Her Old Club
“Moraga swim club bans...
June 6 | ‘Private Sneak Peeks’ of Alan Schwarz-Produced Documentary, Promoting Commercial Sideline Concussion Test, Resume Tonight
“Private sneak...
June 5 | Jahvid Best on His Concussions: It Doesn’t Get Any Stupider Than This
Jahvid Best of the Detroit...
June 3 | High School Swimming and Water Polo Coach Arrested in California – Not USA Swimming and Not Good
A swimming and water polo...
June 2 | Linda McMahon’s Wrestler Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka: Let’s Not Talk About the Past. Oh Heck, Let’s Talk About the Past.
In its editorial on the Linda...
June 1 | BountyGate Plot Twist Shows Limits of Class-Warfare Critique of Football
For the second time in less...
May 31 | Linda McMahon vs. Chris Powell: Some Would-Be Libel Defendants Have All the Luck
It’s been almost a year...
May 30 | Flashback: During 2010 Senate Campaign, Linda McMahon Called WWE Deaths ‘Fair Game’
I hope WWE lawyer Jerry...
May 29 | Splash of Sex Abuse: In Olympic Year, USA Swimming Backstrokes From Accountability
Omaha, site of the Olympic...
May 29 | Reset on Future of Football
I continue to fall behind on...
May 28 | ‘Courts Must Toughen Sanctions Against USA Swimming’s Nose-Thumbing Tactics in Sex Abuse Litigation’ (full text)
[originally published 6/25/12...
May 25 | How Do You Like That — A Sports Columnist Who Writes About Youth Football in Plain English
“A zero-tolerance...
May 25 | Great Moments on Twitter
Daniela Altimari...
May 25 | ‘Courts Must Toughen Sanctions Against USA Swimming’s Nose-Thumbing Tactics in Sex Abuse Litigation’ … today at Beyond Chron
Yet again, a California...
May 23 | Philly Columnist: New School Sex Abuse Law Needed
The arrest of Pennsylvania...
May 21 | Timeline of Alan Schwarz of The New York Times – Associate Producer of ‘Head Games’ Documentary Funded by King-Devick Concussion Test Developer
At least until the next USA...
May 19 | ‘Coming to a Theater Near You: The Football Concussion Crisis Documentaries’ (full text)
[originally published 5/15/12...
May 18 | Cover Your Ass With Both Hands: USA Swimming Adds Disclaimer to List of Banned Coaches
USA Swimming, custodian of...
May 18 | USA Swimming Families, Sponsors, Fans: End the Sex-Abuse Cover-Up
BREAKING: USA Swimming Youth...
May 18 | Guest Column: ‘USA Swimming Is Putting a Bullseye on the Backs of Our Children’
by Jeff Renwick (The author...
May 17 | EXCLUSIVE: USA Swimming’s Secret International List of Youth Swimming Figures With Abuse Allegations Who Are Not Officially Banned
In 2010, and in the wake of...
May 17 | BREAKING: USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal Widens With New Cases in Tennessee and Pennsylvania
Arrests this week of coaches...
May 16 | Number of Reasons to Be Making Excuses for ‘Head Games’ Filmmakers’ Lack of Transparency: None
The New York Times says Alan...
May 15 | My Questions To ‘Head Games’ Film Funder Steve Devick — Standing By For Response
Please tell my readers: * the...
May 15 | Bob Costas on the Background of His Interview in the Documentary ‘Head Games’
In response to my query, Bob...
May 15 | ‘Coming to a Theater Near You: The Football Concussion Crisis Documentaries’ … today at Beyond Chron
Ed. Note. Since submitting...
May 14 | Dr. Cantu, Nowinski’s Partner, Ripped King-Devick Test Last Fall (‘Game Within Head Games,’ Part 6)
The casual observer might be...
May 14 | Nowinski-Cantu-Schwarz Film Backer Is ID’d – Billionaire Pushing Sideline Concussion Test (‘Game Within Head Games,’ Part 5)
The principal funder of the...
May 12 | In Praise of Brandon Inge and John Axford
Don’t worry, readers...
May 11 | Cantu-Omalu Fight Over Seau’s Brain Highlights Gaps in New York Times Coverage and Questions About ‘Associate Producer’ Alan Schwarz’s Film (Part 4, ‘Game Within Head Games’)
An important story by San...
May 11 | ‘Let Elite Athletes Destroy Their Own Brains – But Stop Turning High School Players Into Tackling Dummies’ (full text)
[originally published 5/9/12...
May 10 | Are You Ready for Some … Flag Football? Stay Tuned. Plus: The Great Debates
This has been an important...
May 9 | Dustin Fink’s Concussion Blog: ‘Are Our Kids Guinea Pigs?… Irv Is Logistically Correct Here’
“Are Our Kids Guinea...
May 9 | ‘A Concerned Mom’: ‘Great Article by Muchnick’
From the comments log at...
May 9 | Frank Deford’s Strong NPR Commentary on Youth Football
(reprinted with permission)...
May 9 | ‘Let Elite Athletes Destroy Their Own Brains – But Stop Turning High School Players into Tackling Dummies’ … today at Beyond Chron
During the 1981 major league...
May 8 | Director Steve James: Concussion Documentary’s Funders Are Anonymous (Part 3, ‘Game Within Head Games’)
In an email, Steve James,...
May 7 | Follow Concussion Inc. on Twitter
Irvin Muchnick ”...
May 7 | New York Times Refuses to Comment on Why It Didn’t Disclose Alan Schwarz Associate Producer Role in Chris Nowinski Film
Alan Schwarz of The New York...
May 7 | Email Exchange With Alan Schwarz of New York Times, Associate Producer of ‘Head Games’ Film (Part 2, ‘Game Within the Head Games’)
Muchnick to Alan Schwarz...
May 7 | Will Nowinski Documentary Propel Concussion Debate – Or Bog It Down in Vanity? (Part 1, ‘Game Within the Head Games’)
Next Tuesday, May 15, is the...
May 6 | George Visger on Junior Seau
In the wake of Junior...
May 6 | ‘“Many Brain-Damaged Football Players Would Do It All Over Again.” And Your Point Is … ?’ (full text)
[originally published 5/3/12...
May 4 | Must Read: Q&A Between Journalist Patrick Hruby and ‘United States of Football’ Documentary Maker Sean Pamphilon
Writing for the website of...
May 4 | Muchnick Media This Week
5/3 Junior Seau suicide...
May 3 | ‘“Many Brain-Damaged Football Players Would Do It All Over Again.” And Your Point Is?’ … today at Beyond Chron
by Irvin Muchnick Ed. Note:...
May 2 | BULLETIN: Junor Seau, 43, All-Pro Linebacker, Is Dead — Probable Suicide
...
May 2 | Muchnick’s ‘One-on-One with Steve Adubato’ Interview on YouTube
Author Irvin Muchnick’s...
April 30 | Muchnick Interviewed Tuesday on PBS in New York and New Jersey
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
April 29 | Hey, Dr. Cantu — How About Getting a Word in Edgewise About Public Health
Dr. Robert Cantu, he of the...
April 29 | The Head Bone Is Connected to the Neck Bone — Second ‘Football Strength’ Clinic Upcoming
I’ve written previously...
April 27 | Panel Discussion on ‘Headstrong,’ New Play About Concussions, Now on YouTube
On Monday night I was...
April 27 | New York Times Concussion Coverage Remains Sparse, Opaque, Mysterious
Though I’m as capable...
April 26 | Nearly Two Years Later, the Name ‘Dr. Bennet Omalu’ Is Once Again Fit to Print!
New York Times op-ed...
April 24 | ECW Press Announces Revised Digital Edition of ‘CHRIS & NANCY,’ Irvin Muchnick Book on Benoit Murder-Suicide
MEDIA CONTACTS: Simon Ware,...
April 21 | Life Imitates Art Imitates Life in Ensemble Studio Theatre’s ‘Headstrong’ – Final Preview Monday in New York
On Monday night I’ll be...
April 20 | End-of-Week Thoughts on Long-Running and Unresolved USA Swimming Sex Abuse
In the previous post I...
April 20 | ‘Olympic Gold Medalist Denounced USA Swimming Child Sex Abuse – But Now Serves on its Board of Directors’ (full text)
[originally published 4/18/12...
April 19 | Un-Ringing the Bell: Lessons From ‘Eveland v. San Marcos Unified School District’
by Andrew M. Blecher, M.D. /...
April 18 | Matt Chaney: Dr. Cantu’s Latest Catastrophic Injury Report Concusses Credibility
Dr. Robert Cantu and...
April 18 | George Visger Feature From KRON4 News Now on YouTube
Concussion Inc. author George...
April 18 | Resolving Conflict in Accounts Between Olympic Gold Medal Swimmers David Berkoff and Pablo Morales
In my new ebook, PENN STATE...
April 18 | Table of Contents of ‘PENN STATE IN THE POOL: The Cover-Up of the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal’
My new ebook PENN STATE IN...
April 18 | Author’s Statement of Interest in ‘PENN STATE IN THE POOL: The Cover-Up of the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal’
My new ebook PENN STATE IN...
April 18 | ‘Olympic Gold Medalist Denounced USA Swimming Child Sex Abuse – But Now Serves on its Board of Directors’ … today at Beyond Chron
This week I published the...
April 17 | Confronting the Corporate Sponsors of USA Swimming
Yesterday a public relations...
April 17 | Lining Up the Next Week at Concussion Inc.
Some miscellaneous notes as...
April 16 | Muchnick Publishes ‘PENN STATE IN THE POOL’ – Examines Continued USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse
Review copies or interviews:...
April 15 | Note to Readers
Tomorrow — Monday,...
April 15 | Monday: Muchnick publishes ‘Penn State in the Pool’ Ebook — Continued Evasion of Youth Coach Sex Abuse at USA Swimming
...
April 15 | Riddell Helmet’s Insurers Bail, And Riddell Is Suing Them
[originally published...
April 10 | More on Next Week’s California Legislative Hearings on USA Swimming Sex Abuse
(Irvin Muchnick’s...
April 9 | Frank Deford’s Rub
The great Frank Deford sent...
April 9 | ‘Penn State in the Pool: California Legislators Plunge Into USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal’ (full text)
[originally published 4/6/12...
April 7 | Concussion Inc. Author George Visger on NFL Bountygate
George Visger, author of our...
April 6 | Read All About Filmmaker Sean Pamphilon’s Audio of Gregg Williams and Bountygate. Think About It. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. Come Back Here.
I wouldn’t be able to...
April 6 | EXCLUSIVE — ‘Penn State in the Pool: California Legislators Plunge Into the USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal’ … today at Beyond Chron
This article is adapted from...
April 5 | Background for Friday’s Exclusive on USA Swimming Sex Abuse
‘Whatever Happened to...
April 5 | ‘Penn State in the Pool: California Legislators Plunge Into USA Swimming Sex Abuse Scandal’ …
… Muchnick exclusive...
April 5 | ‘United States of Football’ Documentary Maker Sean Pamphilon Does Some Documenting
I was scheduled to be...
April 2 | PBS ‘NewsHour’ and Others Need to Get Past the ‘Filtered Cigarette’ Stage of Youth Football Helmet Technology and Hit Meters
Tonight PBS’s NewsHour...
March 31 | WrestleMania’s Burning Question: Will Triple H (a.k.a. Mr. Stephanie McMahon) Get ‘Fined’ Again for Dastardly Deeds Against the Undertaker?
World Wrestling...
March 30 | P.S. on ‘Whatever Happened to the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal?’
While I have been re-upping...
March 30 | ‘Whatever Happened to the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal?’ (full text)
[originally published 3/27/12...
March 29 | ‘NFL’s “Bounty” Game Is Savage – We Get It. Now, About the High Schools …’ (full text)
[originally published 3/23/12...
March 29 | Concussion Inc. Author George Visger Honored Today by California State Senate
Thursday is a big day for...
March 28 | Concussion Inc.’s WrestleMania Special!
The Quinnipiac Poll shows...
March 28 | Site Back Up; USA Swimming Sex Scandal Story Published Yesterday at Beyond Chron
This website is happy to be...
March 26 | R.I.P., Bert Randolph Sugar
Bert Randolph Sugar, the...
March 26 | After Eveland Cripple Settlement in California, Dougherty Wrongful-Death Case in New Jersey Tackles High School Football and ImPACT
In a better world, the news...
March 25 | Legal Secretary For Rick Santorum’s Old WWE Lobbyist Re-Re-Re-Touches Up Her LinkedIn Profile
Over the holidays I told the...
March 24 | Off-Topic But Fun: In Praise Of … Of Monsters and Men
Of Monsters and Men is my...
March 23 | ‘NFL’s “Bounty” Game Is Savage – We Get It. Now, About the High Schools …’ today at Beyond Chron
Dissident sports voices might...
March 21 | If ‘Fake’ Wrestling Had Penalties for NFL-Style Bounties …
… then someone would be...
March 20 | Concussion Inc. Ebooks: Cure for the Common Cantu Bromide
Dr. Robert Cantu, the Boston...
March 19 | 50,000+ YouTube Views for Muchnick Squaring Off With Bret Hart on ‘Nancy Grace’ in 2007
...
March 17 | Mother Jones on Muchnick on Rick Santorum and Pro Wrestling Deregulation
“Hate Pro Wrestling?...
March 15 | Bryan Donohue, UPMC’s Resveratrol Huckster and WWE Cardiologist, Takes Down His Website For Good
In previous reporting on this...
March 13 | Discussing the Future of Football With San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Bruce Jenkins
Last Saturday the San...
March 12 | While Everyone Obsesses Over Pros’ Concussion Suits, It’s the High School Litigation That Will Dethrone King Football
There is so much litigation...
March 11 | Death of Football: Dueling Tipping Points
Gregg Doyel of cbssports.com...
March 10 | ‘On MMA Superstar Ronda Rousey, NFL Bounties, and Why Broken Bones Only LOOK Worse Than Broken Brains’ (full text)
[originally published 3/7/12...
March 9 | Dear Blumenthal of Connecticut, One of the ‘Senators From Concussions’: Why is the CDC in Bed With the NFL?
Richard Blumenthal of...
March 9 | Record Day of Traffic at Concussion Inc.
Yesterday was the busiest 24...
March 9 | Make That Doug Cosbie, Not Jay Saldi – Sidebar to the Incredible George Visger Story
One of the cool things about...
March 8 | ‘Give Obama an “F” For His First Public Words on the Football Concussion Crisis’ (full text)
[originally published 3/5/12...
March 7 | Dave Duerson’s Bankruptcy and Andrew Stewart’s Case Against the NFL Retirement Plan
Stir into the stew of the...
March 7 | Concussion Inc. Flashback: ‘And the NFL Band Played On …’ (June 28, 2011)
And the NFL Band Played On:...
March 7 | ‘On MMA Superstar Ronda Rousey, NFL Bounties, and Why Broken Bones Only LOOK Worse Than Broken Brains’ … today at Beyond Chron
While the sports commentariat...
March 6 | UPMC Speaks! Concussion Recovery Predictor Has ‘No Traditional Control Group,’ Flack Admits
The University of Pittsburgh...
March 5 | ‘Give Obama an “F” For His First Public Words on the Football Concussion Crisis’ … today at Beyond Chron
The President of the United...
March 2 | Open Letter to NFL Concussion Consultant Dr. Richard Ellenbogen: ‘Speak the Full Truth to America’s Parents About the Future of Football’
Richard Ellenbogen, M.D....
March 1 | Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty in the Dave Duerson Case
Concussion Inc.’s ebook...
February 29 | Kris Dielman Retires, Four Months After Grand Mal Seizure on Team Plane
Kris Dielman has announced...
February 29 | Pittsburgh: National Capital of Concussion Inc. – And Proud of It!
Yesterday I caustically...
February 28 | UPMC Cranks Up Concussion Cure Quack Quotient – Will New York Times and Senator Udall Take Them On?
I hope Alan Schwarz, the...
February 27 | Duerson Family Lawsuit Coverage Stage 2: Let the Smears – And the Clarifications — Begin
I disagree with part of Rick...
February 27 | ‘Duerson Family’s NFL Lawsuit Is a Public Concussion Debate Game-Changer’ (full text)
[originally published 2/24/12...
February 24 | George Visger, Author of ‘OUT OF MY HEAD: My Life In And Out of Football,’ Speaks Saturday at Santa Clara Valley Brain Injury Conference
George Visger, who has lived...
February 24 | ‘Duerson Family’s NFL Lawsuit Is a Public Concussion Debate Game-Changer’ … today at Beyond Chron
The family of Dave Duerson,...
February 23 | ‘DUERSON’ by Irvin Muchnick, First Ebook Short From Concussion Inc., on Amazon Kindle
‘DUERSON’ by...
February 23 | Concussion Inc.’s Coverage of Dave Duerson Suicide and Aftermath: Complete Links
There’s No Overstating...
February 23 | DAVE DUERSON’S FAMILY SUES NFL
“Family of former Bear...
February 23 | Concussion Reform and the 2012 Elections
As readers know, I am...
February 20 | Cast of Characters in Muchnick & Roberts’ ‘CHINA SYNDROME’, New Ebook on HGH Trafficking
THE CHINA SYNDROME: How...
February 19 | Where Concussion Inc. Meets HGH, NFL, UPMC … at the Corner of ‘Cocktail’ and ‘Death’
My new book with Anthony...
February 18 | Muchnick and Roberts Publish ‘CHINA SYNDROME’ Ebook – Celebrity HGH Abuse, Bungled Signature Pharmacy Prosecution, 2008 Olympic Politics
(Requests for review copies...
February 17 | Cantu Cites ‘Widespread Support’ For Hit-Count Proposal by Quoting Himself
Boston’s Sports Legacy...
February 14 | Go Read Patrick Hruby of Yahoo Sports’ PostGame on the ‘End Game’ of Football Brain Trauma
Patrick Hruby, a columnist...
February 13 | While Nation Debates Future of Football, ‘Fan Lobby’ Plays Games
A week ago today I received...
February 12 | Matt Chaney Tells It Like It Is on 2011 Football Casualties
This introductory section...
February 10 | Footnotes on Daily Beast on Muchnick on Santorum and WWE Deregulation
My praise for today’s...
February 10 | Muchnick Quoted in Daily Beast Article on Rick Santorum’s Career As a WWE Lobbyist
“Rick Santorum, Family...
February 9 | No Answers to My Questions – Unasked by CNN – On ‘Concussion Awareness’
A few days before the Super...
February 8 | How the Cult of Experts and Professionalization Is Killing Our Kids (Part 2, The Boston Football Hit-Count Proposal)
[PREVIOUSLY: “Cantu and...
February 7 | Cantu and Nowinski Play It Safe – In the Wrong Ways (Part 1, The Boston Football Hit-Count Proposal)
For complete info on our...
February 6 | There’s No Offseason in Football – Or In Educating the Public on Child Brain Injuries
Congratulations to the New...
February 5 | ‘Super Bowl Special: NFL PR Tests Whether Best Defense Is a Good Offense’ (full text)
[originally published 2/3/12...
February 3 | Lipsyte’s Super Bowl Message: ‘Go Organize in Your Community Against Tackle Football’
In college we used to joke,...
February 3 | ‘Super Bowl Special: NFL PR Tests Whether Best Defense Is a Good Offense’ … today at Beyond Chron
by Irvin Muchnick In our new...
February 2 | Cantu and Nowinski Promise NFL-Blessed ‘Bold Initiative to Prevent Repetitive Brain Trauma.’ Hmmm …
Tomorrow in my Beyond Chron...
February 1 | Concussion Inc. Flashback: Watch Dr. Joe (“nflhealthandsafety.com”) Maroon Perform the Perfect Neurological Exam!
(The second title of the...
February 1 | From the People Who Brought You nflhealthandsafety.com: The Super Bowl Player Safety Ad!
Stefan Fatsis, with whom I...
January 30 | George Visger’s ‘OUT OF MY HEAD: My Life In and Out of Football’ Is Third Title in Concussion Inc. Ebook Series
The Concussion Inc. ebook...
January 29 | Sadly, ESPN Doesn’t Lay a Glove on Dr. Maroon, UPMC
ESPN’s Outside the...
January 27 | Will ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’ Just Recycle the Boilerplate Riddell Helmet Story? Or Will They Nail UPMC and Dr. Maroon?
ESPN’s sporadically...
January 26 | ImPACT / UPMC Flashback: Complete Coverage of the October Senate Commerce Committee Hearing
At Commerce Committee...
January 26 | Slate: ‘ImPACT Is a Huge Scam’
The second title of the...
January 25 | Dr. Joe Maroon Ain’t Jumping on No Anti-Concussion Bandwagon
Concussion Inc.’s...
January 24 | Heads Up! 49ers Write New Chapter of Their History (full text)
[originally published January...
January 24 | Senate Candidate Linda McMahon Archive: 2010 Death of WWE’s Lance Cade
Outrageous Death of Linda...
January 24 | Chris Shays’ WWE Death Number Is Debatable. WWE’s WWE Death Number Is Laughable.
(The second title of the...
January 24 | Today’s NFL and WWE News Roundup. What Do They Have in Common?
Correct answer to the...
January 23 | Just For Fun: Muchnick Reviews ‘Haywire’ Starring Gina Carano (at Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer Website)
Irv Muchnick reviews...
January 23 | Pay No Attention to the Messed-Up Web Page for UPMC Ebook
Quick note to those of you...
January 22 | NFL Conference Championship Day Special: Waiting to Hear From Child Brain Injury Expert Dr. Howard Derman
The second title of the...
January 20 | Concussion Inc. Flashback: ‘Independent Neurologists’? NFL OK’s Doctors’ ‘Sponsorship’ Relationships With Teams
The second title of the...
January 20 | Houston NFL Doc Howard Derman Complains ‘Privately’ About Muchnick Beyond Chron Column
The second title of the...
January 20 | ‘Heads Up! 49ers Write New Chapter of Their History’ … today at Beyond Chron
With the 49ers hosting the...
January 17 | Author Irvin Muchnick and Concussion Inc. Release ‘UPMC: Concussion Scandal Ground Zero’
MEDIA INQUIRIES:...
January 13 | Notes on ‘UPMC: Concussion Scandal Ground Zero’ and George Visger’s ‘OUT OF MY HEAD’ Ebooks
I am putting the finishing...
January 13 | Yet Another New Mass Action — Brent Boyd & 100-Plus Retirees vs. the NFL
(Look for our upcoming ebook...
January 12 | Chris Shays, Linda McMahon Senate Candidate Republican Opponent 2.0, Takes the Gloves Off
Look for our upcoming ebook...
January 11 | From a Reader …
Reacting to our posts about...
January 10 | The Clock Is Ticking on High School Football
Look for our upcoming ebook...
January 10 | Concussion Inc. Author George Visger Meets With Congresswoman Linda Sanchez
George Visger, the former pro...
January 5 | Independent Journalist Matt Chaney Whacks Serious Underreporting of Catastrophic Football Injuries. What Say You, Dr. Cantu?
Matt Chaney, who has been...
January 4 | 100+ Pittsburgh Partners at Rick Santorum’s Old Law Firm Remain Silent on the Eileen Wargo Concussion Inc. Stalking Affair
Look for our upcoming ebook...
January 4 | Concussion Inc. Flashback: My Weird 1988 Conversation With Then WWE Lobbyist and Now Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum
Look for our upcoming ebook...
January 3 | Once More With Feeling: My 2003 LA Times Magazine Article ‘Welcome to Plantation Football’
Joe Nocera has a good piece...
January 2 | New York Times’ Alan Schwarz Continues His Victory Lap Tour
Alan Schwarz, who created the...

2011 (468)

December 31 | Happy New Year — UPMC Ebook Coming Soon
Happy New Year, all. My ebook...
December 30 | What They’re Saying About Irvin Muchnick and Concussion Inc.
On WRESTLING BABYLON:...
December 30 | Muchnick on ‘Favorite American Sportswriting of 2011’ List
“Muchnick’s blog...
December 30 | I Reissue My Challenge to NFL’s Concussion Steward, Dr. Richard Ellenbogen
Look for our upcoming ebook...
December 29 | Screen Shot of Now-Deleted Fake Eileen Wargo Profile at LinkedIn
See...
December 29 | LinkedIn Reduces the ‘Eileen Wargo’ Population — No Comment From Linda McMahon and WWE Lawyer Jerry McDevitt’s Firm
BACKGROUND: Happy Holidays,...
December 27 | What Connects NFL, Pittsburgh Steelers, UPMC, ImPACT Applications, Dr. Joseph Maroon, WWE, Linda McMahon Senate Campaign, K&L Gates? Nothing. Everything.
BACKGROUND: Happy Holidays,...
December 26 | Happy Holidays, Football and Sports Concussion Establishment: 2012 Is the Year of the Tobacco-Style Lawsuit
“The year 2011 will be...
December 23 | WWE/Linda McMahon Lawyer Jerry McDevitt’s Secretary Eileen Wargo Is a Magician. She Both Quit K&L Gates Nine Months Ago And Still Works There!
BACKGROUND: Happy Holidays,...
December 23 | More NFL Ex-Players’ Lawsuits ‘Head’ to Court
The crack staff of Concussion...
December 22 | More on Lawyer Jerry McDevitt’s Mysterious Assistant, Eileen Wargo
BACKGROUND: Happy Holidays,...
December 22 | Concussion Inc. Flashback: Jerry McDevitt and Muchnick in the February Issue of American Lawyer Magazine
Look for our upcoming ebook...
December 22 | Dear Jerry McDevitt, Lawyer for Linda McMahon and WWE: Are You Stalking Me?
Below is the text of a letter...
December 21 | Happy Holidays, @EWKLG! Say Hello to Jerry McDevitt (And to Vince, Linda, Stephanie, and Triple H).
A warm Twitter welcome to my...
December 21 | Journalist Matt Chaney: Past Catastrophic Football Injuries Underreported, and 2011 Toll ‘Could Be a Record’
Journalist Matt Chaney,...
December 21 | Our National Sports Concussion Policy, by Default, Is an Affirmative Action Plan for ‘Professional Brain Trauma Experts’
Chris Mortensen of ESPN...
December 19 | George Visger Story in Stockton Record
The indomitable George...
December 18 | Brain Injury Expert: ImPACT Test Has ‘Limited Sensitivity.’ Yes – And the Emperor Had ‘Limited Clothing.’
In “The scariest thing...
December 16 | Concussion Inc. Book Bonus: Sidney Crosby, Hockey’s Perfect Storm, and the Corrupt Doctors at UPMC
The introduction to Irvin...
December 7 | Complete Info on Concussion Inc.’s First Three Ebooks
‘DUERSON’...
December 7 | How Many Pittsburgh Steelers Were on Toradol?
The newest lawsuit by...
December 6 | Times Series on Derek Boogaard’s CTE Ups the Ante in Hockey’s Fight With Boston Researchers
If the superb three-part New...
December 3 | Dr. Joseph Maroon and UPMC Have ‘Suspicion-Like Symptoms’
On November 1, I reported...
December 2 | There Was Just One Problem With the George Visger Ebook Announcement …
… earlier today: It...
December 2 | Concussion Inc. to Publish Retired SF 49er Super Bowl Team Member George Visger’s Memoir, ‘OUT OF MY HEAD: My Life In and Out of Football’
Media inquiries:...
November 30 | P.S. on Harvey Araton, New York Times, and Penn State Coverage
In what I am learning is his...
November 30 | Exclusive at Concussion Inc.: Documenting the Federal Government’s Multimillion-Dollar Support of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Concussion Research
The National Institutes of...
November 30 | New Concussion Class-Action Lawsuit by College Players
A very busy news day at...
November 29 | Wannabe Senator Linda McMahon, Congresswoman Diane Black, and the ‘Sports-Drug-Testing-Industrial Complex’
by Irvin Muchnick Obviously,...
November 28 | Mysteries of the Universe: When Did ImPACT Chief Mark Lovell ‘Retire’ From UPMC Concussion Program?
As I reported last week, Mark...
November 28 | Why Wait for the Pittsburgh ‘Concussion Town Huddle’? Order Our Upcoming Ebook Today
A month ago I told you of the...
November 27 | Harvey Araton Finally Gets The New York Times to Let Him Write a Penn State Column. It’s a Dud.
Ten days ago Harvey Araton, a...
November 26 | NFL ‘Legacy Fund’ to Dying-Off Population of Retirees: Happy Holidays … NOT
For anyone with an instinct...
November 23 | EXCLUSIVE: ImPACT Company Boss Mark Lovell Appears to Have Left UPMC
Mark Lovell, the...
November 23 | What They’re Saying About Irvin Muchnick And Concussion Inc.
On WRESTLING BABYLON:...
November 23 | Concussion Inc. Black Friday Stocking Stuffers
Buy DUERSON, our first ebook...
November 22 | Cites To Allentown Newspaper’s 1992 Coverage of WWE Pedophile Scandal
In , I mentioned an...
November 21 | Update on My Public Records Request to NIH for Grant Applications of ImPACT and UPMC’s Mark Lovell
Readers will recall that the...
November 20 | The Feds and the Penn State Hillbillies – Coming Soon on Blu Ray
by Irvin Muchnick The...
November 17 | BULLETIN: Bob Costas, Matt Chaney, and Muchnick Kiss and Make Up
Once back in the 1950s, one...
November 17 | ‘DUERSON,’ First Ebook Short From Concussion Inc., Now Available On Direct Order For Non-Amazon Kindle Readers
DUERSON, the new ebook short...
November 17 | ‘We Are All Penn State’ (full text)
[originally published...
November 16 | Bob Costas Responds to My Criticism of His NBC Segment on Penn State
Through his executive...
November 16 | Paging Football Coach Bob Ladouceur and Officials at De La Salle High School
Below is the text of my email...
November 15 | Harvey Araton: New York Times Spiked My Column on Penn State Football
New York Times sports...
November 15 | I Ask a Few Questions of De La Salle High School Football Coach Bob Ladouceur. I’m Waiting to Hear Back.
In my Beyond Chron column...
November 15 | My Twitter Exchange With New York Times Columnist Harvey Araton re Bob Costas and Penn State
HarveyAraton Thank you, Bob...
November 15 | ‘Case Against Public High School Football Goes Deeper than Muddled CTE Info’ (full text)
[originally published 11/8/11...
November 14 | Welcome Back, Linda McMahon!
Linda McMahon @Linda_McMahon...
November 14 | Penn State Scandal Overwhelms Other Concussion Inc. News
The outrage in State College,...
November 12 | Life (Yahoo Sports’ Michael Silver) Imitates Art (ConcussionInc.net)
“Four Questions for the...
November 11 | Four Questions for the Analysts on Tomorrow’s Penn State-Nebraska Pre-Game Show
1. Will the Nittany Lions be...
November 11 | ‘We Are All Penn State’ … today at Beyond Chron
While criminal investigations...
November 8 | Top Clips on Muchnick YouTube Channel
Confronting pro wrestling...
November 8 | ‘Case Against Public High School Football Goes Deeper Than Muddled CTE Info’ … today at Beyond Chron
The hockey community is...
November 7 | NIH Response to Muchnick FOIA Request for Public Records of ImPACT Founder Mark Lovell
Below is most of the letter I...
November 7 | Senate Candidate Linda McMahon Archive: How Joe Paterno and McMahon Are Alike, and How They’re Different
PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES:...
November 7 | Muchnick’s FOIA Request for ImPACT Founder Mark Lovell’s NIH Grant Applications
This was sent today by email...
November 5 | ‘DUERSON’ by Irvin Muchnick, First Ebook Short From Concussion Inc., Now on Amazon Kindle
In the first ebook short...
November 2 | Paging NIH Director and His FOIA Guy For a Response to Request for ImPACT Founder Mark Lovell’s $2 Million in Federal Grant Applications
Except for the fact that...
November 2 | More on Kris Dielman, ‘Independent Neurologists,’ Etc.
Mike Florio of NBC...
November 1 | Dr. Joseph Maroon Still on ‘Sports Brain Guard’ Website. So Are Kevin Guskiewicz and Julian Bailes. With or Without Permission?
An alert reader points out...
November 1 | EXCLUSIVE: ImPACT and UPMC Tell Docs and Schools Baseline Testing Is ‘Not Necessary’
In a finding that exposes...
October 31 | EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Joseph Maroon – Given a Pass at Concussion Hearing – Was a Campaign Contributor to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller
The chairman of the Senate...
October 30 | ‘How Federal Tax Dollars Rigged Sports Concussion Research’ (full text)
[originally published...
October 30 | What Was San Diego Chargers’ Kris Dielman Doing on an Airplane in the First Place?
The National Football League...
October 28 | Pittsburgh’s ‘Concussion Town Huddle’ Postponed – But Not Concussion Inc.’s!
A program entitled...
October 28 | Ugly And Getting Uglier: San Diego Chargers’ Kris Dielman Suffers Post-Concussion Seizure on Team Plane
Kris Dielman, an offensive...
October 27 | Matt Chaney and Stefan Fatsis Add Value to the National Football Debate
Matt Chaney, the...
October 26 | Random Note on What the Free-Spendin’ Linda McMahon’s Money Buys
Almost exactly a year ago,...
October 26 | ‘How Federal Tax Dollars Rigged Sports Concussion Research — A Story the Senate Commerce Committee Won’t Tell’ … today at Beyond Chron
Led by Tom Udall of New...
October 25 | Open Letter to Senator Boxer: Help Me Shake ImPACT Founder Mark Lovell’s Grant Applications Loose From NIH
BY FAX – 202-224-0454...
October 25 | Senate Commerce Committee’s Sounds of Silence on ImPACT Concussion Software Founder Mark Lovell
I look forward to reading...
October 25 | NIH Jerks Us Around on Release of ImPACT Concussion Software Founder Mark Lovell’s Shady 2002-05 Grant Applications
Yesterday I raised the...
October 24 | EXCLUSIVE: Did ImPACT Concussion Software Developer Mark Lovell Disclose Conflicts of Interest in Federal Grant Applications?
Mark Lovell –...
October 21 | ‘Independent Neurologists’? NFL OK’s Doctors’ ‘Sponsorship’ Relationships With Teams
The recent concussion...
October 20 | ImPACT Is a Sleazily Promoted ‘Anti-Concussion Product.’ So Why Won’t the Senate Commerce Committee Scrutinize It?
The approach of our...
October 19 | At Commerce Committee Hearing, Senator Udall Whiffs on Dr. Maroon’s Quackery and Distorts the Record on Dave Duerson
The Senate Commerce, Science,...
October 18 | ‘Sports Fan Lobby’ Missing in Action — Again — On Report of CDC Collusion With NFL
Last Friday I solicited...
October 18 | ‘Political Football: Centers for Disease Control in NFL’s Pocket, Too, on Concussion Issue’ (full text)
[originally published...
October 17 | Sports Illustrated Columnist: ‘Vick’s Latest Helmet Blow Raises Questions About Concussion Policy’
Will Carroll, @injuryexpert...
October 17 | Catastrophic Football Injuries 2011: Matt Chaney Breaks It Down
As is the case every Monday,...
October 15 | ‘Flowery Al Davis Tributes Downplay Dark Side of His Oakland and Raiders Legacy’ (full text)
[originally published...
October 14 | Senator Menendez and Congressman Pascrell No-Comment Report That NFL Funded Nearly Half of CDC’s Budget This Year for ‘Heads Up’
In my Beyond Chron column...
October 14 | ‘Political Football: Centers for Disease Control in NFL’s Pocket, Too, on Concussion Issue’ … today at Beyond Chron
by Irvin Muchnick What the...
October 13 | Bulletin: NFL’s Dr. Maroon’s ImPACT Works for a High School Player … to Prevent a THIRD Concussion!
I keep hammering that the...
October 12 | Minus Alan Schwarz, New York Times Football Concussion Coverage Has Evolved From ‘Flawed’ to ‘Missing in Action’
On August 2, I reported that...
October 12 | Paging Congress of Neurological Surgeons Officers and Executive Committee
I have received zero...
October 10 | Canadian Concussion Doc Blasts Cantu for ‘Thin Science’ in Rick Martin Hype
For most of 2011, I’ve...
October 9 | Senate Candidate Linda McMahon Archive: Linda and Vince McMahon Take Prideful Pens in Hand
The new entry in our series...
October 9 | ‘Congress of Neurological Surgeons KO’s Own Credibility With Standing Ovation for NFL Commissioner Goodell’ (full text)
[originally published October...
October 7 | Once Again — Deafening Silence on Concussions From the ‘Sports Fan Lobby’
Yesterday I sent this query...
October 7 | Why Public High School Football Is Doomed … Even If NFL’s Safety Double-Talk Threads the PR Needle
With a long holiday weekend...
October 6 | Deadspin Gets It Right on Chris Nowinski’s Tired Hype
Deadspin, which publishes...
October 6 | ‘9 Concussions This Year … 1 Medically Induced Coma … Junior Varsity Game Canceled Because There Aren’t Enough Healthy Players’
“Nine Priest River...
October 6 | Feds: Kids’ Traumatic Brain Injuries Up 62% Over Last Decade
The Centers for Disease...
October 6 | To Congress of Neurological Surgeons Officers and Executive Committee: What’s the Deal With Your Standing Ovation for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell?
The message below was just...
October 6 | Pro Football and Hockey CTE Findings Are Redundant
Sympathy and best wishes go...
October 5 | Senator Udall Finally Raises a Peep About Concussions
I’ve been after three...
October 5 | Dear NFL Doc Concussion Co-Chairs: Show Us Your Session at Congress of Neurological Surgeons Convention
TO: Richard G. Ellenbogen,...
October 5 | Congress of Neurological Surgeons’ ‘Conflict of Interest Disclosure Policy’
As I’ve been reporting,...
October 5 | Program Note
The comments board is clogged...
October 5 | Groundhog Day: Tom (Udall), Dick (Blumenthal), and Hank (Waxman) Still Missing in Action on Concussions
See below. And so on and so...
October 5 | P.S. to Today’s Beyond Chron Piece — 2011 High School Football Critical Brain Injury No. 9
In the previous post I link...
October 5 | ‘Congress of Neurological Surgeons KO’s Own Credibility With Standing Ovation for NFL Commissioner Goodell’ … today at Beyond Chron
As I reported on my blog, the...
October 4 | Congress of Neurological Surgeons Gives NFL Commissioner Goodell an Unprofessional Standing Ovation
Yesterday on Twitter, the...
October 3 | The Adam Ingle Story — Write Your Own Ending
On September 23, at...
October 3 | Michael Vick: ‘Over My Dead Body’
Michael Vick, at the...
October 2 | ‘San Francisco Has Front-Row Seat for Week 3 of the Michael Vick Train Wreck’ (full text)
[originally published 9/30/11...
September 30 | Update on Dave Duerson Suicide Public Records
Two days ago, in “The...
September 30 | Michael Vick Friday — Updated Complete Links to Our Coverage
NBC Embarrasses Itself,...
September 30 | Chris Nowinski With a Bullseye on Walter Payton
A new biography of Walter...
September 30 | ‘San Francisco Has Front-Row Seat for Week 3 of the Michael Vick Train Wreck’ … today at Beyond Chron
Michael Vick medical reports...
September 28 | Centers for Disease Control: No Decisions Yet on Concussion Protocol Experts Panel
I asked federal Centers for...
September 28 | Federal Centers For Disease Control Goes Into the Concussion Protocol Business
Prodded by Senator Robert...
September 28 | Still Missing in Action on Concussions: Senator Tom Udall, Congressman Henry Waxman, Senator Richard Blumenthal
Below is my email-and-fax...
September 28 | The Search for Records on Dave Duerson’s ‘Meticulously Executed’ Suicide
Dave Duerson, the former...
September 27 | Stefan Fatsis Not Only Makes the Occasional Trip to the Bathroom Like the Rest of Us. He Also Watches TV!
In Monday’s penetrating...
September 27 | Latest From Fixing Football (Middlebrow Division)
Linda Carroll and David...
September 27 | Meltzer Won’t Comment on Absence of Head Gear for 8-Year-Old Cage Grapplers in UK
Last week I touched on the...
September 27 | More From Philadelphia on the Vick Concussion Bait-and-Switch
“Vick’s...
September 26 | Most Popular Clips at Muchnick’s YouTube Channel
Confronting pro wrestling...
September 26 | Here’s Your Michael Vick Medical Report, Version 2.2
Today Philadelphia Eagles...
September 26 | Sal Marinello on Michael Vick — And Beyond
One of the wisest observers...
September 25 | Why Won’t NFL Identify ‘Independent Neurologist’ Who Cleared Michael Vick to Return to Play Today?
In two emails yesterday to...
September 24 | Wrestling Observer’s Meltzer Defends Against a Straw Man But Remains Silent on the Indefensible
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling...
September 24 | ‘While Fans Fret Over Michael Vick’s Fantasy Stats, America’s Youth Football Death and Disability Toll Mounts’ (full text)
[originally published 9/21/11...
September 23 | Ex-Ravens And Browns Lineman Orlando Brown Dead at 40
...
September 23 | Here’s the State of ‘Concussion Awareness’ in Valley Center, Kansas
“Father warns of...
September 23 | NFL Wants Disability Court Case Sent Back to its Board for Further Review. So … NFL Admits Disability Cases Need Further Review?
Ever since the February...
September 23 | Missing Teen Found — Another Example of Higher Level of Concussion Reporting
“Missing Wrentham teen...
September 23 | Michael Vick Friday — Complete Links to Our Coverage
NBC Embarrasses Itself,...
September 23 | Some Items Require No Elaboration
“Former TU linebacker...
September 22 | NFL Legacy Fund For Retirees Is Listed As ‘Doubtful’ This Week
In my support of retired...
September 22 | Goldson Affair Shows That Linda McMahon Is All Business
The Linda McMahon scandal du...
September 22 | And Now, Let’s Hear It For ‘Vestibular Disorder’ — the Sidney Crosby Disease?
ESPN’s Outside the...
September 21 | Who Foots the Bills for the Football System’s Predictable Catastrophic Medical Costs? We All Do – That Is, Until No One Does
When I argue that the...
September 21 | Here’s the State of ‘Concussion Awareness’ in Carroll County, Georgia
“Player with head...
September 21 | Missing in Action on Concussions: Senator Tom Udall, Congressman Henry Waxman, Senator Richard Blumenthal
A week ago today I emailed...
September 21 | ‘While Fans Fret Over Michael Vick’s Fantasy Stats, America’s Youth Football Death and Disability Toll Mounts’ … today at Beyond Chron
After dropping off my son at...
September 20 | Senate Candidate Linda McMahon Archive: ‘Vince Fought the Law, and the Law Lost’
Linda McMahon’s Husband...
September 20 | Introducing the ‘Senate Candidate Linda McMahon Archive’
Barely ten months after...
September 20 | Sampling the Michael Vick Concussion Coverage
What becomes most clear from...
September 19 | Paging Writer Rob Trucks – Transcribed Dave Duerson ‘Oral History’ Interview for Deadspin
For months, I’ve been...
September 19 | NFL Week 2 – Are You Ready For Some High School Football Disability and Death?
I got an email from my old...
September 19 | Jim McMahon Case Class-Action Lawyer: More Concussion Lawsuits Coming ‘Over Next Few Weeks’
From “Football Players...
September 19 | NBC Embarrasses Itself, Insults Viewers With Non-Coverage of Michael Vick Concussion
Al Michaels, Chris...
September 17 | New York Times’ Alan Schwarz Resurfaces in NPR Concussion Dialogue
On September 8, National...
September 17 | Dr. Cantu Steps on His Own Concussion Message
Dr. Robert Cantu boosted...
September 16 | ‘Is There a Veterans’ “Bonus March” in the NFL’s Future?’ (full text)
[originally published 9/13/11...
September 15 | National Collegiate Players Association President Ramogi Huma’s Statement on Concussion Lawsuit Against NCAA
Ramogi Huma, the former UCLA...
September 15 | Sports Fans Coalition: NFL Must Reconsider Player Disability Claims That Were ‘Swept Aside’
The previous post updates...
September 15 | NFL Lawyer to FoxSports.com: No Comment on Account of Dave Duerson Absence From Retirement Board Meeting
Alex Marvez, senior pro...
September 15 | Matt Chaney With an Early-Season National Roundup of Football Deaths
Taylor Branch’s new...
September 14 | Off the Radar: Ex-Player Files Class-Action Concussion Suit Against NCAA
Here’s the news release...
September 14 | ‘Duerson Lite: NFL Brain Injury Agony Continues With Death of Hall of Famer Lee Roy Selmon’ (full text)
[originally published...
September 13 | Carl Eller’s Retirees Group Sues NFLPA and ‘Brady v. NFL’ Plaintiffs
“Retirees file lawsuit...
September 13 | NFL Retiree Organizer Dave Pear to NFLPA Boss DeMaurice Smith: Dave Duerson Voted on My Rejected Disability Claim. I Want It Reopened.
Retired National Football...
September 13 | BOMBSHELL: Dr. Cantu Says No Contact Sports Under 14
“Brain Expert: Kids...
September 13 | NFL Player Care Executive Director Changes Story — Confirms That Dave Duerson Was Not at August 2010 Retirement Board Meeting
Belinda Lerner, executive...
September 13 | Taylor Branch Lite: My 2003 Los Angeles Times Magazine Article ‘Welcome to Plantation Football’
This post was originally...
September 13 | Taylor Branch Weighs In — Atlantic College Sports Article Is Good BUT …
Taylor Branch, author of the...
September 13 | ‘Is There a Veterans’ “Bonus March” in the NFL’s Future?’ … today at Beyond Chron
The blog of Dave Pear, head...
September 12 | Complete Links to Dave Duerson Coverage at Concussioninc.net
There’s No Overstating...
September 12 | Dave Duerson Was in Good Spirits at August 2010 NFL Retirement Board Meeting. OR Duerson Missed That Meeting. Which Is It?
Ever since Dave...
September 12 | Comatose Tennessee High School Football Player on Life Support
Thanks to author-blogger Matt...
September 11 | Why Wasn’t Dave Duerson at the August 2010 NFL Disability Review Board Hearing?
Yesterday I reported that...
September 10 | Duerson Apparently Did Not Review Andrew Stewart NFL Disability Claim
On August 16,...
September 9 | Stefan Fatsis to Muchnick: ‘Go Fuck Yourself’
The following email exchange...
September 9 | Unbelievable Story of SF 49er Super Bowler George Visger, Brain Damage, and NFL Callousness
There are a million...
September 9 | Sources 2.0: Muchnick About to Announce Coverage of Linda McMahon’s 2012 Senate Campaign
Author Irvin Muchnick is...
September 9 | ‘Duerson Lite: NFL Brain Injury Agony Continues With Death of Hall of Famer Lee Roy Selmon’ … today at Beyond Chron
The pro football season...
September 8 | Notes on NFLPA Boss DeMaurice Smith at Santa Clara Sports Law Symposium
Today I attended the second...
September 8 | Ric Flair: My Heart Is Fine. Really. I’m Not Kidding. I’m Not Joking. I’m Telling the Truth.
As noted last week, pro...
September 6 | Read the Retired Tampa Bay Bucs’ Lawsuit Against the NFL – Plus More on the Late Lee Roy Selmon
Those of you who want to read...
September 6 | ‘You Have a Point’ About Lee Roy Selmon Coverage — Tampa Tribune’s Joey Johnston
Yesterday I posted an item...
September 5 | Lee Roy Selmon’s Death, From a Stroke, Is Latest Cruel Irony of Football Brain Injury Saga
The grotesque twists of the...
September 2 | If It Quacks Like a Duck: San Diego Chargers’ Dr. Chao Inducted Into NFL Gallery of Medical Heroes
Deadspin, the provocative and...
September 1 | Muchnick’s Interview on Suicide of Wade Belak and Young Deaths of Other Hockey ‘Enforcers’
Irvin Muchnick’s...
September 1 | Muchnick Flashback: Is There Now a Feeding Frenzy of Concussion-Related Sports Suicides? (May 23)
[originally published May 23...
September 1 | Hockey’s Wade Belak — Probable Suicide
“The sweetest, most...
August 31 | ‘Only Let Your Kids Play Football If You Also Let Them Box’
The headline of this post is...
August 30 | Jerome Bettis Bus Makes a Stop at Concussion Inc.
Celebrity, commerce, and a...
August 29 | NFL Retirees’ ‘Legacy Fund’ Boost an Obvious Throwaway Line of Lockout-Ending CBA
Dissident National Football...
August 29 | How Did Ric Flair Fall Through the Cracks of WWE’s ‘Wellness Policy’ Cardio Screening?
Sad-sack pro wrestling legend...
August 26 | Ralph Nader’s ‘League of Fans’ Calls for Youth Concussion Testing
A new Ralph Nader group...
August 25 | Introducing the Concussion Research of Clinical Psychologist Don Brady
I am working my way through A...
August 24 | Muchnick to Sports Columnist: Is Football Sustainable? Sports Columnist to Muchnick: Yes! … Wait, Let Me Think About It
Below is an edited exchange I...
August 23 | ‘Football Media, Courts Still Not Tackling Lesson of Dave Duerson Suicide’ (full text)
[originally published 8/19/11...
August 22 | WWE Corporate Website Is Back Up!
Same as it ever was. Never...
August 22 | WWE Deep-Sixes Its Corporate Website!
In a move whose significance...
August 21 | Uh, Governor Malloy — About That Labor Department Audit of Senate Candidate Linda McMahon’s WWE …
The agonizing serial of...
August 20 | Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers and the Third Concussion That Wasn’t
Yahoo Sports’ Jason...
August 19 | ‘Football Media, Courts Still Not Tackling Lesson of Dave Duerson Suicide’ … today at Beyond Chron
Six months after Dave Duerson...
August 18 | Publishers Weekly: ‘Freelance’ Decision Effectively Kills ‘Google Books’
[cross-posted from...
August 18 | LA Weekly Article Highlights Why ‘Concussion Awareness’ Is Not the Answer
“¢ The ImPACT...
August 18 | ‘NFL Players Boss DeMaurice Smith, Eric Holder’s Pal, Major Bad Guy in National Concussion Saga’ (full text)
[originally published 8/12/11...
August 17 | Sometimes They Don’t Die From Brain Trauma: The Corwin Brown Story
...
August 17 | NFL’s Dr. Hunt Batjer, Like NFL’s Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, Contradicts NFL’s (and WWE’s) Dr. Joseph Maroon on Concussion Exam
Dr. Hunt Batjer, co-chair of...
August 17 | Houston Texans’ Cheta Ozougwu Plays a Full Quarter With a Concussion
From Mike Florio of NBC...
August 16 | Second FoxSports.com Story Today Details Challenge to NFL Disability System and Duerson’s Tainted History With It
I just posted a review of a...
August 16 | Demystifying Generic Depression Is Fine – But the Big Taboo With Duerson Was His Denial of Concussion Syndrome While on NFL Disability Board
Alex Marvez of FoxSports.com...
August 15 | Paging Sam McCullum – Dave Duerson’s Successor on NFL Disability Board
If there is a single thing on...
August 13 | Most Popular Clips at Muchnick’s YouTube Channel
Confronting pro wrestling...
August 12 | ‘Sports Concussion Crisis a Culture-Wide Problem – Maybe a Post-Ideological One, Too’ (full text)
[originally published 8/8/11...
August 12 | Concussion Blogger Dustin Fink on Austin Collie’s ‘Helmet 4.0’
Dustin Fink of the Concussion...
August 12 | ‘NFL Players Boss DeMaurice Smith, Eric Holder’s Pal, Major Bad Guy in National Concussion Saga’ … today at Beyond Chron
And now for a heartwarming...
August 10 | Concussion Guru Chris Nowinski’s Silence on Corrupt NFL Doc Maroon’s Ridiculous Statements Speaks Sad Volumes
Yesterday I asked Chris...
August 9 | Paging NFL Concussion Chief Dr. Richard Ellenbogen And His Dog-Wagging Tail, WWE’s Dr. Joseph Maroon
In a newly published...
August 8 | Two New Whoppers From the NFL’s and WWE’s Dr. Joseph Maroon
Dr. Joseph Maroon of the...
August 8 | EXCLUSIVE: 1975 ‘Lancet’ Article Yet Another Smoking Gun in Football Concussion Saga
The new lawsuit by scores of...
August 8 | ‘Sports Concussion Crisis a Culture-Wide Problem – Maybe a Post-Ideological One, Too’ … today at Beyond Chron
Writing in The Nation’s...
August 5 | Dave Duerson’s Replacement on NFL Disability Board: New Deal Isn’t Finalized, So Hold Your Fire
A war of words has erupted on...
August 5 | Muchnick Flashback: 2003 Los Angeles Times Magazine Article ‘Welcome to Plantation Football’
Below is one of the early...
August 4 | Annals of Youth Concussion Bureaucracy: Matt Chaney Covers the Waterfront
Author-blogger Matt Chaney...
August 4 | ‘Fan Accountability for Health of Performers’ (full text from Wrestling Observer website)
[originally published August...
August 4 | Your NFL And WWE Neurosurgeon, Joseph Maroon, in Action
World Wrestling Entertainment...
August 3 | ‘Five Keys to the Upcoming NFL (Concussion) Season’ (full text)
[originally published August...
August 2 | Alan Schwarz: Why I’m No Longer Writing About Concussions in The New York Times
Today I received the...
August 2 | ‘Irv Muchnick Talks Fan Accountability for Health of performers’ … at Wrestling Observer Newsletter Website
...
August 2 | New York Times’ Alan Schwarz Moves From Concussion Beat to National Education Reporter – Promotion or Exile?
In my Beyond Chron piece...
August 2 | Beyond Beyond Chron: San Francisco Chronicle on the Concussion Case
I write a lot for Beyond...
August 1 | ‘Five Keys to the Upcoming NFL (Concussion) Season’ … today at Beyond Chron
No offense to Nnamdi...
July 31 | Hollywood Stuntwoman Activist’s Fight With the Screen Actors Guild
Leslie Hoffman, a former...
July 31 | ‘Five Keys to the Upcoming NFL (Concussion) Season’ … Monday at Beyond Chron
...
July 29 | ‘NFL Fans Should Worry About More Than One Kind of “Blackout”‘ (full text)
[originally published July 26...
July 29 | Mainstream Media Pick Up Criticism of Concussion Management Software – But New York Times Remains Missing in Action
“You have some nerve...
July 28 | ‘Baseline’ Neurocognitive Gimmickry Is Nothing More Than ‘Teaching to the Concussion Test’
As the old NPR comedy radio...
July 27 | Sports Fans Coalition’s ‘Agenda’ Doesn’t Say One Word About Public Health
Brian Frederick, executive...
July 27 | Paging Senator Blumenthal – Who Accepts NFL Campaign Contributions – On His Work With the Sports Fans Coalition
The office of Senator Richard...
July 26 | Paging Dr. Richard Ellenbogen of NFLhealthandsafety.com
Dr. Richard Ellenbogen,...
July 26 | ‘Sports Fans Coalition Working With Sen. Blumenthal on NFL TV Blackouts AND Concussions.’ Discuss.
Brian Frederick, executive...
July 26 | ‘NFL Fans Should Worry About More Than One Kind of “Blackout”‘ … today at Beyond Chron
When the National Football...
July 25 | More on WWE Head Injury Risks
The encylopedically...
July 25 | Cageside Seats: ‘Mike Benoit Considering Class Action Lawsuit Against WWE’
More from Keith Harris:...
July 25 | Chris Benoit’s Father Is Watching the NFL Concussion Cover-Up Lawsuit With Keen Interest
This morning I talked with...
July 25 | ‘NFL’s “Legacy Fund” For Disabled Retirees Just a Down Payment on National Concussion Costs’ (full text)
[adapted from an article...
July 24 | Cageside Seats: ‘Should WWE Be Fearful of the NFL Concussion Lawsuit?’
Another good one from Keith...
July 24 | Blumenthal of Connecticut Is One of ‘The Senators From Concussions’
A useful report by...
July 24 | Concussion Guru Dr. Richard Ellenbogen Does a Star Turn on ‘nflhealthandsafety.com’
Earlier this year the...
July 23 | What Ottis Anderson’s Double-Clutch on the Concussion Cover-Up Suit Means for Reform
Former Super Bowl most...
July 22 | Muchnick’s Interview on NFL Concussion Cover-Up Lawsuit Now on YouTube
Irvin Muchnick’s July...
July 22 | View Full Facsimile of NFL Retired Players’ Concussion Cover-Up Lawsuit Complaint — Plus Muchnick Notes
The 86-page complaint by...
July 22 | NFL Concussion Concealment Lawsuit Notes – Including Audio of Muchnick’s Toronto Radio Interview
You can now hear my Wednesday...
July 21 | CDC’s ‘Heads Up to Parents’ Includes Keeping Half Your Head in the Sand
The National Operating...
July 21 | Open Letter to Attorney General: Don’t Let Authors Guild Hijack “Google Books” and “Freelance” Copyright Settlements’ … today at Beyond Chron
[cross-posted from...
July 20 | My Toronto Radio Interview About Concussion Lawsuit by Ex-NFLers
Today I was interviewed by...
July 20 | San Francisco 49er Forrest Blue, Dead at 65, Had Dementia Last 15 Years
Forrest Blue, a center with...
July 19 | Eller Intervenors Ready to Sign Off on End to NFL Lockout With $1 Billion ‘Legacy Fund’
Earlier today on Twitter I...
July 18 | WWE Drug Testing Again Reveals Its Transparent Opacity
World Wrestling...
July 18 | ‘NFL’s “Legacy Fund” For Disabled Retirees Just a Down Payment on National Concussion Costs’ … today at Beyond Chron
by Irvin Muchnick According...
July 15 | What They’re Saying About Irvin Muchnick
On WRESTLING BABYLON:...
July 15 | Introducing ‘Concussion Inc. … Author Irvin Muchnick’
Welcome to the new look of my...
July 11 | Timeline of Eller Lawsuit and NFL Lockout Developments
Retired players’...
July 10 | Columnist: NFL Retired Players’ Negotiations the ‘800-Pound Gorilla’ of Lockout
San Francisco Chronicle...
July 8 | No Lockout or Offseason for the NFL’s Pitt Med Center Docs Who Also Work for WWE
National Football League...
July 7 | NFL Legend John Mackey, Inspiration for Mental Disability ’88 Plan,’ Dies at 69
John Mackey, the Hall of Fame...
July 5 | Connecticut Governmental and Political Dysfunction a Recipe for Linda McMahonism – And Vice Versa
Look, gentle readers, I...
July 5 | Honor Roll: Current NFL Players Brendon Ayanbadejo and Will Witherspoon Support the Carl Eller Retirees’ Lawsuit
In my June 26 post,...
July 5 | Slouching Toward Anti-Maroonism: Some More Gentle Criticism of ImPACT Testing
From Dustin Fink’s...
July 1 | San Francisco 49er Eric Heitmann Cracks His Nuts … And Leg … And Neck … And Head?
You don’t have to be an...
June 30 | Randy Orton Interview About 2006 Drug Overdose Taken Down From Official Website
Randy Orton, with or without...
June 30 | While WWE Star Randy Orton Overdosed on Drugs, Wrestling Media and Fans Underdosed on Reality
Breaking his years-long...
June 29 | Dustin Fink’s ‘Concussion Blog’ Comments on Our Recent Posts
Irv Muchnick: Two Articles...
June 28 | And the NFL Band Played On: Concussion Crisis Destined To Become Sports World Counterpart of AIDS Saga (full text)
[originally published 6/24 at...
June 26 | WWE Releases Chris Benoit Story Figure Chavo Guerrero
As they did referee Scott...
June 26 | View the Dissident NFL Retirees’ Washington Press Conference at Dave Pear’s Blog
Two days ago I posted...
June 25 | Chicago Tribune: ‘Doubts Cast on Concussion Remedies’
Health reporter Julie...
June 24 | Former San Francisco 49er George Visger Comments on Today’s Article at Beyond Chron
This was just posted as a...
June 24 | ‘And the NFL Band Played On’ … today at Beyond Chron
And the NFL Band Played On:...
June 23 | More From Matt Chaney: ‘Research of NFL Brain Trauma Sputters Along’
Research of NFL Brain...
June 23 | ‘And the NFL Band Played On: Concussion Crisis Destined to Become Sports World Counterpart of AIDS Saga’ …
… headline of new piece...
June 22 | Meet the New NFL Concussion Czars … Same As the Old NFL Concussion Czars
We all know what happened to...
June 21 | ‘America’s Game: NFL Poised to Win Labor Battle and Lose Public-Health Fight’ (full text)
[originally published 6/16 at...
June 20 | Must Read: FoxSports’ Alex Marvez on Strength Coach Legend Kim Wood’s Neck Symposium
“NFL must help prevent...
June 20 | Comedy Central: NFL’s PR Video of Dr. Joseph Maroon Conducting the Perfect Neurological Exam
The National Football...
June 19 | In Praise of Alan Schwarz and The New York Times … And On to the Work of the NFL Concussion Committee’s New Co-Chairs
Let’s move beyond my...
June 18 | Cageside Seats: Dr. Maroon’s ImPACT Clearance of Randy Orton for Tomorrow’s WWE Pay-Per-View ‘Questionable at Best’
“Randy Orton has been...
June 17 | New York Times Blacks Out Concussion Research Pioneer Bennet Omalu – While Coddling NFL / WWE Charlatan Joseph Maroon
New York Times reporter Alan...
June 16 | Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer on Randy Orton’s Concussion and the Research of Dr. Bennet Omalu
From the June 20 issue of...
June 16 | ‘America’s Game: NFL Poised to Win Labor Battle and Lose Public-Health Fight’ … today at Beyond Chron
Those who think the...
June 15 | FLASHBACK: How The New York Times Is Fumbling the National Sports Concussion Scandal
New York Times reporter Alan...
June 15 | Columnist George Vecsey Defends New York Times Concussion Scandal Coverage: ‘What Are You Talking About?’
From: George Vecsey Subject:...
June 14 | Dave Meggyesy Challenges Sam Huff’s NFL Players Union Bona Fides
In the story here about the...
June 14 | ‘NFL Too Big to Fail — That’s Our Real National Concussion Problem’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published 6/10 at...
June 12 | Retired Wrestler Jeff Farmer: ‘Is This What Is Wrong With Me?’
Blog reader Jeff Farmer, a...
June 12 | NFL Defense: Retirement Board Trustee Dave Duerson’s Suicide Not a ‘Changed Circumstance’ For Living Mental Disability Claimants
On May 24 – the very...
June 10 | Dave Duerson Is the Pandora’s Box of NFL Mental Disability Cases – But Cowardly U.S. District Court Judge J. Frederick Motz Refused to Open It
To the best of my knowledge,...
June 10 | ‘NFL Too Big To Fail – That’s Our Real National Concussion Problem’ … today at Beyond Chron
NFL Too Big to Fail –...
June 9 | Brent Boyd Loses NFL Disability Court Case – It Shouldn’t Be the Last Round
On May 24, Judge J. Frederick...
June 8 | More of What Alan Schwarz of The New York Times Doesn’t Cover About the Inadequacy of Dr. Joseph Maroon’s ‘ImPACT’ Concussion Management
No doubt some casual readers...
June 8 | Near-Death in Japan Pro Wrestling, With Real Fallout
Other developments have kept...
June 7 | Prevention, Anyone? Cincinnati Football Strength Clinic Approach to the Concussion Problem Connects the Head to the Neck
Inevitably, my quest to...
June 7 | New York Times: No Comment on Reporter Alan Schwarz’s ‘Reasons’ for Soft Coverage of Concussion Doc Joseph Maroon
It is possible to argue that...
June 6 | More Words From a Defender of Alan Schwarz of The New York Times
On May 27, Jean Rickerson...
June 6 | My Weird 1988 Conversation With Then WWE Lobbyist and Now Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum
In 1988 I wrote an article...
June 6 | ‘How The New York Times Is Fumbling the National Sports Concussion Scandal’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published 6/3/11...
June 5 | ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’ Seems to Have Its Limits in Covering Football Scandals
On Twitter, Alex Marvez, the...
June 5 | NFL Hall of Famer John Henry Johnson Had Alzheimer’s at Age 59
John Henry Johnson, a running...
June 3 | How The New York Times Is Fumbling the National Sports Concussion Scandal … today at Beyond Chron
In a January New Yorker...
June 1 | NFL Living CTE Victim Brent Boyd: ‘Where’s the Counseling? Where’s the Support?’
On the subject of what is...
May 30 | Why Is New York Times Reporter Alan Schwarz So Defensive About NFL / WWE Concussion Profiteer Dr. Joseph Maroon?
In the course of his whiny,...
May 29 | Is There Now a Feeding Frenzy of Concussion-Related Sports Suicides? (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published May 23...
May 27 | Connecticut Department of Labor Attorney on WWE Audit
Me: “I am interested in...
May 27 | Muchnick Response to Alan Schwarz of The New York Times
Earlier today I posted an...
May 27 | Guide to This Blog’s References to Alan Schwarz of The New York Times
In the previous post I...
May 27 | Yesterday’s Post ‘Pisses Off’ Alan Schwarz of The New York Times
Today I received the...
May 26 | Chris Nowinski, New York Times’ Alan Schwarz, and the Freakonomicization of Concussions
Chris Nowinski has done...
May 26 | Connecticut Media Profiles in Caution on the WWE Independent Contractor Story
A prominent Connecticut...
May 26 | WWE Tries to Ring the Bell on Connecticut Labor Department Probe
In an obvious and ham-handed...
May 24 | Author Muchnick’s Montreal Radio Interview About Randy Savage on YouTube
Author Irvin Muchnick’s...
May 24 | Dr. Joseph Maroon & ‘Neurosurgery’ 2004: The Corrupt NFL Pellman-Casson-Lovell Research Team Weighs In
Neurosurgery, January 2004...
May 23 | Author Muchnick Interviewed on Montreal Radio About Death of Randy ‘Macho Man’ Savage
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 23 | ‘Is There Now a Feeding Frenzy of Concussion-Related Sports Suicides?’ … today at Beyond Chron
We now know that hockey...
May 21 | Boogaard: Alcohol And Oxycodone
According to new wire service...
May 20 | My Monday Piece For Beyond Chron, Plus Other Program Notes
My column “Is There Now...
May 19 | WWE’s New Health Insurance Mandate For Its ‘Contract’ Wrestlers Seems Politically Tone-Deaf
Mike Johnson of Pro Wrestling...
May 19 | Dr. Joseph Maroon & ‘Neurosurgery’ 2002: ‘Cumulative Effects’
Neurosurgery, November 2002...
May 18 | Dr. Joseph Maroon & ‘Neurosurgery’ 1999-2000: Origins of ‘ImPACT’
Neurosurgery, October 1999...
May 18 | MAROONED: The NFL/WWE Doc … the Journal Neurosurgery … Concussions for Dummies
I am completing a reading...
May 17 | Football Helmet Safety Generals Are Fighting Last War – While the Current One Kills and Stupefies Youth Athletes
The lobbying money is pouring...
May 16 | Pro Hockey Player Derek Boogaard Is Dead. So Is Amateur Football Player Nathan Stiles.
Derek Boogaard of the...
May 14 | ‘Government’s Sports Priorities Value Business Over Public Health’ (full text)
[originally published May 9...
May 13 | In Concussion Reform Advocacy, ‘Peer Review’ Is Not Always Clear Review
Activist movements have...
May 12 | Sure, ‘Change the Way Football Is Played.’ But Also Change Who Is Allowed to Play It.
Readers of this blog should...
May 12 | A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose – Until It’s CTE in a Football Player
Yesterday I apologized for...
May 11 | Will Senator Blumenthal Strut His Stuff on Sports Concussions and Pro Wrestling Regulation?
Connecticut Capitol Report...
May 11 | Clarification: The Term ‘Chronic Traumatic Encephelopathy’ Does Date Back to 1969
A couple of different...
May 9 | ‘Government’s Sports Priorities Value Business Over Public Health’ … today at Beyond Chron
Some day the next Edward...
May 8 | Top Videos at WrestlingBabylon YouTube Channel
Irvin Muchnick Confronts...
May 6 | ‘Duerson’s CTE Finding Must Change NFL Concussion Debate From Consciousness-Raising to Accountability’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published May 3...
May 5 | Duerson Legacy Belongs in a Labor Department Audit, Not in Jock Hagiography
Alan Schwarz of The New York...
May 3 | ‘Duerson CTE Finding Must Change NFL Concussion Debate From Consciousness-Raising to Accountability’ … today at Beyond Chron
Dave Duerson had CTE –...
May 2 | Dave Duerson’s CTE and the Cause of Living Brain-Injured NFL Alumni
At a just-concluded press...
April 26 | Senator Udall No-Comments Query on Investigation of Rigging of Concussion Tests
This morning I faxed the...
April 26 | ‘Blumenthal backs “misclassification” bill but ducks questions about WWE’ (Manchester Journal Inquirer)
Reprinted in full with...
April 25 | Muchnick Interviewed About WWE on Connecticut Radio Friday
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
April 25 | Ex-NFL Player Matt Bowen: I Sandbagged My Concussion Test
Continuing last week’s...
April 25 | WWE Lawyer McDevitt: Company Meets ‘Most of’ Independent Contractor Requirements
Senator Richard Blumenthal...
April 23 | Dr. Maroon’s ImPACT Testing Part of ‘Hocus Pocus Concussion Remedy’: Author-Blogger Matt Chaney
Matt Chaney’s piece...
April 23 | AP Story on Blumenthal Independent Contractor Initiative Cites WWE
“Worker...
April 23 | Recommended Reading: Cageside Seats on the WWE-Lowell Weicker Split
“Did the McMahons force...
April 22 | More on Senator Blumenthal’s ‘Payroll Fraud Prevention Act’
The blog “Independent...
April 22 | Senator Blumenthal to Discuss Independent Contractor Misclassification
MONDAY: SENATOR BLUMENTHAL TO...
April 22 | What Chris Benoit Wrote After the Funeral of Ray ‘Big Boss Man’ Traylor
The following is a transcript...
April 21 | Once Again and For the Record: TNA Is Worse Than WWE
TNA is the No. 2 wrestling...
April 21 | ‘Will Ritalin Become the Human Growth Hormone of Sports Concussion Testing?’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published April...
April 21 | In FoxSports.com Story, Doc Confirms Report on Ritalin and Beating Concussion Tests
Today’s column by Alex...
April 20 | Sad (And Getting Sadder) Story of Olympic Gold Medalist and Pro Wrestling Train Wreck Kurt Angle
From David Bixenspan of...
April 20 | Ritalin for the Once-Concussed … and the Many-Times-Concussed
Two days ago this blog broke...
April 19 | Weicker-WWE Split Was Reported April 7 by Don Michak of Manchester Journal Inquirer
Following up on my previous...
April 18 | Lowell Weicker, the McMahons’ Most Powerful Pal, Leaves WWE Board
The McMahons of Greenwich...
April 18 | ‘Will Ritalin Become the Human Growth Hormone of Sports Concussion Testing?’ … today at Beyond Chron
Here’s a story you may...
April 13 | WWE’s Edge Retires on Top. But What About the Spinal Fusion Surgery the Company Did Not Underwrite for Mid-Carder Charlie Haas?
Wrestling star Adam...
April 12 | New Wrestling Death: Chip Fairway, 38
...
April 11 | New Wrestling Death: Larry Sweeney, 29
...
April 8 | Vince McMahon and Triple H Thread the Needle on Cranial Chair Shots – Will the Old Sew-and-Sews Get Away With It?
I live 2,927 miles from...
April 7 | Chair Shots to the Head Are Fine. Just Watch Those ‘Unprotected’ Ones. Got That?
Sean Radican, who writes for...
April 7 | ‘NFL Labor Negotiations Aren’t Just a Bilateral Affair’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published April 4...
April 7 | Connecticut Sponsor of MMA Legalization Won’t Comment on Wrestling Regulation
The Connecticut state...
April 6 | Hits Keep Coming From WWE – Where They Don’t Do Chair Shots to the Head Except When They Do
A new Cageside Seats piece by...
April 6 | WWE’s Secret Weapon: The Public Hits ITSELF Over the Head With a Proverbial Chair and Forgets Everything!
Linda McMahon, unsuccessful...
April 6 | Vince McMahon ‘Fines’ His Son-in-Law Triple H for WrestleMania Chair Shot
World Wrestling Entertainment...
April 5 | Time to Stop Making Excuses for WWE’s Criminal Choreography
A guy who signed his email...
April 4 | Developing: WWE Reinstitutes Chair Shots to the Head
Paul Levesque — the...
April 4 | ‘NFL Labor Negotiations Aren’t Just a Bilateral Affair’ … today at Beyond Chron
Addicted populist poseurs...
April 2 | A Few Words About WWE Hall of Famer and Bloodlust Sicko ‘Abdullah the Butcher’
The traditional WrestleMania...
March 30 | From the Wrestling Babylon Archives
World Wrestling...
March 26 | Wrestling Note on Late Vice Presidential Candidate Geraldine Ferraro
Below I’ve corrected...
March 25 | ‘ImPACT’ of Dr. Maroon’s and Colleagues’ Writings
PREVIOUSLY:...
March 25 | Ahoy, Congress! Google Books Objector Pam Samuelson’s Policy Agenda
Cross-posted from...
March 25 | ‘It’s the Concussion Crisis, Stupid’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published March...
March 24 | FLASHBACK: ESPN’s Peter Keating Was First to Expose NFL and WWE Concussion Doc Joseph Maroon’s Conflicts of Interest
PREVIOUSLY:...
March 24 | Cageside Seats: ‘Call for WWE Wrestlers to Stand Up’
Thanks to Keith Harris of...
March 23 | Subpoena Cena: Does WWE Medical Director Joseph Maroon’s ImPACT System Manage Concussions – Or Merely ‘Manage’ ‘Concussions’?
PREVIOUSLY:...
March 23 | Introducing ‘What the Feds Must Investigate About WWE-NFL Doc Joseph Maroon’s ImPACT Concussion Product’
Government football helmet...
March 22 | WrestleMania Preview: How Wrestlers Can File Complaints With Government Agencies (Part 2 – Connecticut Labor Department)
Yesterday: Part 1, Federal...
March 21 | WrestleMania Preview: How Wrestlers Can File Complaints With Government Agencies (Part 1 – OSHA)
WrestleMania will take place...
March 21 | ‘It’s the Concussion Crisis, Stupid – Fed Probe of Football Helmet Safety Must Not Scratch the Surface’ … today at Beyond Chron
Senator Tom Udall’s...
March 18 | WWE’s John Cena Has New Concussion – Or ‘Concussion’
A story is making the rounds...
March 18 | Dear Attorney General Holder: Please Coordinate the Pending ‘Google Books’ and ‘Freelance’ Cases
Cross-posted from...
March 17 | Steal This Article: While The New York Times Sells My Copyrighted Work, Allow Me To Give It Away to You!
Cross-posted from...
March 17 | Blumenthal Joins National Concussion Debate ‘Under Pressure From Muchnick’
The Hartford Courant‘s...
March 15 | Introducing ALREADY LOCKED OUT: The NFL and NFLPA’s Rejected Disability Claims
Ever since Dave...
March 15 | ‘WWE critic: Blumenthal should repay supporters with involvement in sports concussion controversy’
(Reprinted with permission...
March 14 | Connecticut Newspaper Reports Muchnick’s Call to Senator Blumenthal on Concussions
[NOTE: The follow-up item on...
March 14 | Linda McMahon’s Scarecrow 2012 Senate Campaign
In the previous post I...
March 14 | WWE Faces Home-State Regulation Heat
Lawmakers wonder why...
March 12 | TIMEOUT! Flashback to My September 2010 Column, ‘Why an NFL Lockout Would Be the Best Thing for America’
[originally published on...
March 11 | Memo to Waxman, Udall, Blumenthal: An Agenda for Hearings on the National Concussion Crisis
This week brings welcome news...
March 9 | Concussion Research Pioneer Bennet Omalu Returns to ‘Neurosurgery’ Journal
As first reported on this...
March 8 | Concussion Inc.: CTE Expert Robert Cantu Has Confused Relationship With Xenith Helmet Company
Having lambasted Dr. Joseph...
March 7 | ‘Never Mind the Lockout – Make NFL Pay Its Fair Share of the National Sports Concussion Tab’ … today at Beyond Chron
File the National Football...
March 5 | ‘Muchnick on Duerson, CTE Consciousness, And What It Means For Wrestling’ (full text from WrestlingObserver.com)
[originally published on...
March 4 | ‘Honoring Dave Duerson: Three Things the NFL, Fans, And Sponsors Must Do’ (full text)
[originally published on...
March 3 | 10 Most-Read Posts at This Blog in February
1. Dave Duerson NFL Suicide...
March 2 | ‘Muchnick on Duerson, CTE Consciousness, And What It Means For Wrestling’ … at WrestlingObserver.com
Irv Muchnick on...
March 2 | How Many Other Players’ Applications Did Dave Duerson Reject on the NFL Disability Claims Committee?
I’ve reported that the...
February 28 | ‘Honoring Dave Duerson: Three Things the NFL, Fans, And Sponsors Must Do’ … today at Beyond Chron
The suicide of Dave Duerson,...
February 27 | ‘Three Things the NFL, Sponsors, and Fans Could Do to Honor Dave Duerson’s Legacy’
That’s the headline of...
February 27 | We Interrupt the NFL Combine News to Announce Another Death
Ricky Bell, 36, a former...
February 26 | Dave Duerson NFL Suicide Story You’ll Read Nowhere Else — In Five Parts
Duerson Suicide Shows NFL...
February 26 | Duerson Suicide Shows NFL Body Count Rising Like WWE’s – But With New Intrigue (full text)
[originally published on...
February 25 | Out of Respect for Dave Duerson, NFL Must Reopen Rejected Disability Claims
In covering Dave...
February 25 | Dave Duerson’s Posthumous ‘Deadspin’ Interview Is More Revealing Than Candid
Writer Rob Trucks interviewed...
February 24 | ‘Dave Duerson Knew Nothing About Concussions and Players’ Best Interests’ – My Exclusive Interview With Ex-Minnesota Viking Brent Boyd
by Irvin Muchnick The suicide...
February 23 | For Dave Duerson, ‘88 Plan’ Wasn’t Enough
The Dave Duerson suicide is a...
February 22 | WWE Hall of Fame Flashback: What Shawn Michaels Did to Lance Cade
“Hall of Famer Shawn...
February 22 | WWE Hall of Fame Notes: Bob Armstrong Is Going In – That’s Why Referee Scott Armstrong, Chris Benoit’s Text-Message Friend, Is Back
Sources tell me that...
February 22 | WWE Hall of Fame Notes: ‘Hacksaw’ Jim Duggan, Grandfather of the ‘Wellness Policy’
World Wrestling Entertainment...
February 22 | ‘Duerson Suicide Shows NFL Body Count Rising Like WWE’s — But With New Intrigue’ … today at Beyond Chron
The gruesome decades-long...
February 21 | ‘Duerson Suicide Shows NFL Body Count Rising Like WWE’s — But With New Intrigue’
… My Tuesday column at...
February 20 | There’s No Overstating Where the Dave Duerson Suicide Story Could Lead
Good work as usual from Alan...
February 20 | Off-Topic But Fun: My Son’s Blog From Shanghai
...
February 19 | CT Dems Run Endless Anti-Linda McMahon Campaign … While Doing Nothing About McMahonism
Connecticut State Democratic...
February 16 | Muchnick vs. WWE Lawyer Jerry McDevitt — February’s American Lawyer Magazine
...
February 15 | Did WWE’s Lance Cade Have Brain Damage? It May Not Be Too Late to Find Out
Yesterday I reviewed the...
February 14 | WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels Should Speak Up on What Happened to Lance Cade
by Irvin Muchnick Shawn...
February 11 | ‘Helmet to Helmet: FTC’s Investigation Could Be the Super Bowl for Corrupt NFL Doctors and the National Concussion Crisis’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published...
February 10 | Football Helmet Group Head ‘Has Talked With’ Senator Udall And ‘Is Encouraging’ FTC Investigation – Thanks For Nothing
Earlier this week Mike...
February 8 | EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Bennet Omalu, Barred From Publishing Chris Benoit Brain Findings in Neurosurgery, Has a New Article Scheduled for the Journal’s March 2011 Issue
(2/16/11 CLARIFICATION:...
February 7 | American Lawyer Magazine on Irvin ‘The Muckraker’ Muchnick vs. Jerry ‘The Litigator’ McDevitt
The February issue of...
February 7 | NOCSAE Head: ‘Not in Position to Speak on Behalf of the FTC’ on Helmet Safety Investigation
Michael Oliver, executive...
February 7 | Why Is Athletic Equipment Standards Group Talking in Code About FTC Investigation of NFL’s Riddell Helmets?
The National Operating...
February 7 | ‘FTC Investigation Could Be the Super Bowl for Corrupt NFL Doctors and the National Concussion Crisis’ … today at Beyond Chron
With the Super Bowl out of...
February 2 | Super Bowl Concussion Hype Week, Part 2: What’s the Deal with the NFL and the Journal Neurosurgery?
SEE ALSO: “Pittsburgh...
February 2 | Super Bowl Concussion Hype Week, Part 1: Los Angeles Times’ NFL Writer Pens a Promo for Riddell Helmets
SEE ALSO: “Pittsburgh...
January 31 | “WWE’s Dr. Maroon belongs at center of Super Bowl week concussion conversation”
...
January 31 | Pittsburgh Steelers’ Physician Joseph Maroon Key Figure in Sports Concussion Probe
After the Pittsburgh Steelers...
January 29 | WWE’s No. 2, Donna Goldsmith, Departs
Donna Goldsmith, the chief...
January 29 | Most Popular January Posts at This Blog
1. “WWE Investigation...
January 29 | Wrestling and Mainstream Media on Pittsburgh Steelers / WWE Doc Joseph Maroon …
… are both Missing In...
January 27 | Senator Blumenthal, on Judiciary Committee, Has Another Perspective on Linda McMahon
One of the committee...
January 27 | New WWE Death: Shawn Osborne, Suicide at 34
Osborne was in World...
January 26 | Wrestling Media on WWE Medical Director Joseph Maroon …
… still Missing In...
January 26 | Dr. Joseph Maroon, NFL and WWE Consultant, Does a Cameo in The New Yorker
Football and the Concussion...
January 26 | More on New Connecticut Labor Commissioner Glenn Marshall
The Carpenters Union, of...
January 25 | WWE Investigation Should Be on Track With New Connecticut Labor Commissioner
Governor Dan Malloy’s...
January 24 | Wrestling Media on WWE Medical Director Joseph Maroon …
… Missing In Action....
January 24 | Timeline of Dr. Joseph Maroon’s Work As WWE Medical Director
(See also yesterday’s...
January 23 | Sports Concussion Scandal Ground Zero: NFL and WWE Doc Joseph Maroon’s Hype Article in ‘Neurosurgery’ on Riddell Football Helmets
Alan Schwarz of The New York...
January 21 | ‘Senator Udall Has Opened the Door a Crack … It’s Up to Senator Blumenthal to Kick It Wide Open’
...
January 21 | Roundup of Coverage of Pittsburgh Steelers / NFL / WWE Doc Joseph Maroon’s Misstatements and Ethical Shortcuts on Concussion Research
On the eve of the National...
January 21 | ESPN’s Peter Keating Was First to Expose NFL and WWE Concussion Doc Joseph Maroon’s Conflicts of Interest
Previously, I have tipped my...
January 20 | NFL: Dr. Maroon’s Supplement Work OK Because He’s Not League or Club ‘Employee’
Greg Aiello, the National...
January 20 | NFL Bans Coaches From Relationships With Supplement Companies. But NFL and WWE Doctor Joseph Maroon? Ka-Ching!
ThePostGame.com is reporting...
January 19 | Linda McMahon 2012? Bring It On!
As Linda McMahon contemplates...
January 18 | In Case We Didn’t Already Know: Congressman Waxman’s 2009 Call to the White House Drug Policy Office to Investigate WWE Was a Charade
Through spokeswoman Katherine...
January 14 | New In-House General Counsel at WWE
Here is how the Connecticut...
January 14 | ‘Joseph Maroon, Doctor for NFL and WWE, Has It Every Which Way on Concussions’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published at...
January 13 | NFL: No Comment on Senator Udall’s Call for FTC Investigation of Riddell Helmet Claims from Dr. Maroon Research
Yesterday I emailed both Dr....
January 13 | Support Wrestler Mick Foley’s Work With ChildFund International in Sierra Leone
I just finished reading the...
January 13 | Why Didn’t NFL and WWE’s Dr. Maroon Speak Up About the Riddell Helmet Advertising Claims?
It’s all well and good...
January 12 | More Questions About WWE Medical Director Joseph Maroon
In response to my article...
January 11 | ‘Joseph Maroon, Doctor for NFL and WWE, Has It Every Which Way on Concussions’ … today at Beyond Chron
by Irvin Muchnick With the...
January 10 | ‘Jerry McDevitt vs. Mike Benoit’ Is Not as Important as ‘WWE Lobbyists vs. the Regulators’
A few days ago Cageside...
January 10 | WWE Pedophile Accuser Tom Cole Redux Redux Redux Redux Redux
For some unfathomable reason,...
January 7 | Steelers’ Wheel: Pittsburgh Media Are Mum on the Connections of Pitt Med Center, Pittsburgh Steelers, and WWE Scandals
The great city of Pittsburgh...
January 7 | More Cat-And-Mouse Website Games With WWE Doctor-Huckster Bryan Donohue
This blog has criticized...
January 5 | WWE Cardiologist Bryan Donohue Takes Down His Beta Website Home Pages
I’ve been criticizing...
January 5 | Dear Senator Udall: Help Coordinate Concussion and Steroid Investigations
Below is the text of a fax...
January 5 | Muchnick’s 12/31 Interview on Dave Zirin’s ‘Edge of Sports’ in Podcast Form
...
January 5 | View Dr. Bryan Donohue’s Untouched Website Templates
World Wrestling...
January 5 | Dr. Joseph Maroon’s Disturbing Pattern of Misstatements
Dustin Fink, the Illinois...
January 4 | The Concussion Blog: ‘WWE Comes Under Fire’
“WWE Comes Under...
January 4 | Pitt Med Center Doctors’ Supplement Company and WWE Ties Skirt Ethics Policy
by Irvin Muchnick After...
January 3 | ‘Bleacher Report’ Calls Linda McMahon Senate Run the Year’s Biggest Wrestling Story
...
January 3 | Dear Senator Blumenthal
Congratulations on being...

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December 30 | Benoit Book Author Irvin Muchnick Interviewed Friday on Sirius XM Radio’s ‘Edge of Sports’
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
December 26 | “Sen.-elect Blumenthal says he’s ready to fight in Washington”
Ed Stannard, New Haven...
December 24 | Cageside Seats: Autopsy Shows Heart Wasn’t Chris Benoit’s Only Enlarged Organ
“More on Benoit —...
December 24 | Murky New Chris Benoit Evidence Doesn’t Change Essence of Campaign to Regulate Pro Wrestling Occupational Health and Safety
Swinging wildly in every...
December 22 | Muchnick Flashback December 2007: WWE Dodges the Congressional Bullet
The piece below is...
December 21 | Knocking Heads Together: WWE Is the Next Frontier of Sports Concussion Reform
How grimly appropriate that...
December 20 | Muchnick Flashback (January 2010): The Second Time WWE Lawyer McDevitt Got Mad at Me
Jerry McDevitt, Lawyer for...
December 19 | Cageside Seats: ‘McDevitt Won’t Concede That Chris Benoit Had CTE’
“Jerry McDevitt tries...
December 19 | Flashback (10/2/09): American Lawyer Covers Muchnick-McDevitt Exchange on Benoit Book
...
December 18 | McDevitt-Muchnick Exchange Is A WordPress Top Post Today
Yesterday’s item at the...
December 18 | All-Time Top 10 Most Visited Posts at This Blog
1. Muchnick Book Bonus:...
December 17 | New Threats From WWE Lawyer Jerry McDevitt
Yesterday I received a...
December 14 | Muchnick Flashback: WWE Docs Governed by ‘Private’ Pitt Med Center Ethics Policy
The post below was originally...
December 13 | Wrestler Dave Taylor Discusses Just About Everything Except …
… what he and his wife...
December 13 | Keith Harris of Cageside Seats on the Lurking Death Story in Mixed Martial Arts
Yet another reason why I say...
December 8 | Blumenthal Chooses Planned Parenthood Exec for Chief of Senate Staff
Count me among those who...
December 7 | Echoes of Benoit in UFC Fighter Sonnen’s Testosterone Replacement Therapy Claim
Last week brought the story...
December 6 | Muchnick YouTube Channel’s Greatest Hits
Irvin Muchnick Confronts...
December 6 | WWE’s Holiday Gift: ‘Tables, Ladders, and Chairs’
World Wrestling Entertainment...
December 4 | Threats to This Blog
From June 13, 2009, through...
December 3 | Not Yet Clear Whether Connecticut Investigation of WWE Is Wide-Ranging and Significant
Connecticut Labor Department...
December 2 | Further Reading on WWE Wellness Policy, Concussions, Dr. Joseph Maroon, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
The cover story in the...
November 30 | How Vince and Linda McMahon’s WWE Beat the 1990s Steroid Charges: A Resource Guide
“Tampering Cloud Over...
November 30 | How the McMahons’ WWE Beat the Rap in the 1990s (Part 2, the Steroid Charges)
(YESTERDAY: Part 1, the Sex...
November 29 | How Vince and Linda McMahon’s WWE Beat the 1990s Sex Charges: A Resource Guide
“Tampering Cloud Over...
November 29 | How the McMahons’ WWE Beat the Rap in the 1990s (Part 1, the Sex Charges)
While a much more important...
November 27 | Connecticut Columnist Sketches How Linda McMahon Killed State Republican Party, But Ignores Next Step: Government Investigations of WWE
The always sharp Chris Powell...
November 25 | WWE Agent Dean Malenko’s Friendship With Late Eddie Guerrero Involved More Than I Realized
See “WWE road agent...
November 23 | Five Questions Linda McMahon Wasn’t Asked on ‘Face the State’
Linda McMahon’s...
November 22 | Report: Ex-Wrestler Dean Malenko Recently Had Heart Attack
I have been told by a...
November 22 | Connecticut Investigation of WWE Involves Unemployment Insurance Taxes
Connecticut Department of...
November 20 | Coverage in Britain’s Shortlist Magazine
This week’s issue of...
November 20 | ‘Concussion Issue Reaches Critical Mass in American Culture and Politics’ (full text)
[originally published at...
November 19 | Muchnick’s Capitol Report
Blumenthal brings Better...
November 19 | Linda McMahon’s Second Act
Linda McMahon, losing Senate...
November 19 | Connecticut: No Complaint Paper Trail in WWE Independent Contractor Investigation
This morning I got an email...
November 18 | WWE a Beneficiary of Connecticut Film Tax Credits
World Wrestling...
November 18 | Muchnick’s Public Records Request in Connecticut Investigation of WWE
Yesterday I reviewed the...
November 17 | What Is the Status of the State of Connecticut’s WWE Investigation?
There are two open government...
November 16 | Late Lance Cade Might Beg to Differ Over Whether WWE’s ‘Raw’ Belongs on Daily Beast List of TV’s Most Dangerous Shows
As noted here yesterday, pro...
November 15 | Where Is WWE in Daily Beast Ranking of TV’s Most Dangerous Shows?
The Daily Beast today...
November 14 | Cageside Seats Post-Election Rap
I talk at length about the...
November 12 | Political Commentator: Will Blumenthal Succeed Feingold As ‘Conscience of the Senate’?
“Who Will Replace Russ...
November 12 | “Muchnick says Blumenthal has ‘moral obligation’ to investigate sports concussions”
Thanks to Tom Dudchik of...
November 12 | ‘Concussion Issue Reaches Critical Mass in American Culture and Politics’ … today at Beyond Chron
Have you seen the new TV...
November 11 | Thoughts on Mick Foley’s Interview on TSN’s ‘Off the Record’
Wrestler-author Mick Foley,...
November 9 | Linda McMahon Is Determined to Run for Something Again
In her first post-election...
November 8 | ‘Road Map to New Government Investigations of Pro Wrestling’ … full text from Wrestling Observer website
[originally published on the...
November 4 | WWE Spokesman: ‘Fans Know When Politicians Are Just Dishing Out BS’
The Hearst Connecticut...
November 4 | Wrestling Journalist Caldwell: Blumenthal Off to ‘Less-Than-Flying Start’ on Regulation
James Caldwell of Pro...
November 4 | Substitute ‘Wrestlers’ for ‘NFL Players’ in This Story, and You’ll Get the Scale of the Problem
“For N.F.L. Players,...
November 3 | Wrestling Journalist Dave Meltzer on Regulation Prospects
From the new issue of...
November 3 | Blumenthal Asked About Wrestling Regulation at First Post-Election Press Conference
From the blog coverage by...
November 3 | ‘Road Map to New Government Investigations of Pro Wrestling’ … at Wrestling Observer website
Irv Muchnick talks fallout of...
November 3 | Linda McMahon Is Not ‘Going to Fade into the Woodwork’ – Threat or Promise?
Linda McMahon, co-founder of...
November 2 | Linda McMahon Loses
We won’t know the final...
November 1 | Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News Is Such a Sensitive Young Man
Glad to see that Mike Lupica...
October 31 | Linda McMahon No-Shows ‘WWE Fan Appreciation Night’ in Hartford
Senate candidate Linda...
October 30 | Muchnick Book Bonus: Senate Candidate Linda McMahon’s 2007 Televised Tribute to a Murderer
A facsimile of Chapter 6 of...
October 29 | Wrestler and Bestselling Author Mick Foley Supports Linda McMahon, Without Supporting Her
It’s a good thing Mick...
October 29 | EXCLUSIVE: Linda & Vince McMahon and Rudy Giuliani — And the McMahons’ Defense Lawyer’s ‘Fixer’ Husband — Go WAY Back Together
“Thank you Mayor Rudy...
October 29 | Is Vince (a) Helping or (b) Hurting Linda? Correct Answer: (b)
The headline is my response...
October 29 | Linda McMahon’s WWE and Connecticut Cops – Both Off Duty and On Duty
The death rattle of Linda...
October 28 | Dave Meltzer Still Ain’t Ready for Reform
World Wrestling...
October 28 | Blumenthal Has Solid Lead: CT Capitol Report
http://ctcapitolreport.com...
October 28 | Politico Story on Harry Reid’s Supporters at UFC
I’m quoted in a new...
October 27 | Pro Wrestling Torch Covers Mike Benoit Press Conference and Linda McMahon’s Reaction
...
October 27 | Linda McMahon Uses Stephanie in Another New Commercial. Did Mom Teach Daughter to Lie to Congress?
Stephanie McMahon Levesque,...
October 27 | George Will, ‘The Guy With the Bow Tie,’ Now Likes Linda McMahon, But It Wasn’t Always So
George Will, the syndicated...
October 27 | Mike Benoit Press Conference Transcript
The transcript of the press...
October 27 | Author Muchnick Interviewed Thursday on Connecticut Radio
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
October 27 | Stand Up for Pro Wrestling Reform
The Linda McMahon campaign...
October 27 | Recommended Reading: Pro Wrestling Torch on Vince McMahon’s Election Publicity Stunt
“Sec. of State...
October 26 | Mike Benoit in Connecticut Media Notes
Local television coverage of...
October 25 | Richard Blumenthal on Pro Wrestling Regulation
In a statement issued to...
October 25 | More Mike Benoit Coverage — Plus This Blog’s 2008 Story About WWE’s FBI Agent Private Investigator
For more on today’s...
October 25 | Connecticut Newspapers’ Blog Coverage of Chris Benoit’s Father in Connecticut
“Michael Benoit, father...
October 25 | Chris Benoit’s Father in Connecticut Today to Speak Out on Senate Candidate Linda McMahon’s WWE Death Mill
The real Linda McMahon...
October 24 | Bad Week for Vince McMahon Ends Badly – Brock Lesnar Loses UFC Title and His Staged Staredown with the Undertaker Is Meaningless
Brock Lesnar, the former...
October 23 | Five Things You Need to Know About the Final Week of the Richard Blumenthal / Linda McMahon Connecticut Senate Campaign
1. The race is over. Richard...
October 22 | Planned Parenthood Becomes the ACORN Bogeyman of Linda McMahon’s Dying Campaign
Ben Smith of Politico.com got...
October 22 | Another Linda McMahon Obstruction-of-Justice Story Being Blacked Out
“Text of New York Post...
October 22 | New Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Ad Targets Linda McMahon’s Obstruction of Justice
...
October 22 | Rick Santorum Talks to The Philadelphia Inquirer About Lobbying for Linda McMahon’s WWE in the 1980s
“Conn. Senate race a...
October 21 | ‘Connecticut Has Dodged a Bullet. Now, Can We Defeat “Linda McMahonism”?’
[originally published at...
October 21 | In Pennsylvania, Wrestling Deregulation Is Tied Up With Another Small Piece of Linda McMahon Baggage: Obstruction of Justice
The Linda McMahon camp is...
October 20 | Stand Up for Muchnick and Buy My Book CHRIS & NANCY
My book CHRIS & NANCY:...
October 20 | Why Richard Blumenthal Isn’t Complaining That Much About WWE’s In-Kind Corporate Contributions to Linda McMahon
Today the story that no one...
October 19 | Correction: One UFC Death
After my post earlier today,...
October 19 | Devastating Linda McMahon Attack Video by Democratic Party
“Linda McMahon Ducking...
October 19 | Politico.com on the Truth About WWE And UFC
How many epistemologists can...
October 19 | I Just Got a Fundraising Pitch From Rahm Emanuel. But the Dems Won’t Get a Dime From Me Until They Produce Joe Lieberman!
How I get on these lists,...
October 18 | Maybe ‘Stand Up for WWE’ Campaign Isn’t About Linda McMahon’s Senate Race
Vince McMahon’s...
October 18 | Muchnick Flashback: Some Grist for Linda McMahon’s Husband’s ‘Stand Up for WWE’ Campaign
Vince McMahon wants the...
October 18 | Vince McMahon’s ‘Stand Up for WWE’ Expands Corporation’s Non-Hostile Takeover of Linda McMahon’s Senate Campaign
World Wrestling Entertainment...
October 18 | Connecticut Has Dodged a Bullet. Now, Can We Defeat ‘Linda McMahonism’? … today at Beyond Chron
World Wrestling...
October 17 | Watch Linda McMahon Fidget Under Questions About Her Bankruptcy and WWE ‘Wellness Policy’
The New Haven Register has...
October 16 | Phil Mushnick, New York Post: ‘What McMahon’s Campaign Won’t Tell You’
...
October 16 | Atlanta Newspaper Revisits Chris Benoit Story With Brain Trauma Perspective
The Atlanta...
October 16 | WWE Medical Director ‘Dishonest,’ Say 76% in Wrestling Observer Reader Poll
Dr. Joseph Maroon, medical...
October 16 | All-Time Top 10 Most Visited Posts at This Blog
1. Muchnick Book Bonus:...
October 16 | ‘We Need to Be Challenging Dick Blumenthal If He’s Elected’
“Vince McMahon fights...
October 15 | Linda McMahon in the Bunker
“McMahon tightens media...
October 15 | Irv Muchnick to Michelle Obama: Don’t Visit Vince McMahon in Stamford — After All, He Wouldn’t Come to My Book Reading
Linda McMahon’s husband...
October 15 | Vince McMahon Reached Out to Concussion Activist Chris Nowinski
Chris Nowinski, the Harvard...
October 15 | Linda Loses: Why Vince McMahon Blew a Gasket Yesterday
Beyond sharing my amusement...
October 14 | Wrestling Journalist Meltzer: WWE Medical Director’s Quote Is ‘Mind-Boggling’
Here’s Dave Meltzer (at...
October 14 | Linda McMahon (Or, At Least, Her Husband Vince) Loses It
Even while acknowledging that...
October 14 | Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s Linda McMahon Attack Ad
And then there are days when...
October 14 | Linda McMahon at the Precipice
Ted Mann of the New London...
October 14 | Deaths in Linda McMahon’s Pro Wrestling Industry Do Not = Steroids. The Death Pandemic Is ‘Steroids-Plus’
Daniela Altimari has a good...
October 14 | Muchnick YouTube Channel’s Greatest Hits
Irvin Muchnick Confronts...
October 13 | EXCLUSIVE: Linda McMahon’s WWE Kept Vince’s Rape Accuser Employed Longer Than Geraldo Lawsuit Suggests
As noted here earlier, Jerry...
October 13 | Further Reading on ‘The Consequences of Death’ at Linda McMahon’s WWE – ‘A Very Sad Thing’
“‘The...
October 13 | Linda McMahon’s ‘Consequences of Death’ Not Important Enough for the Wrestling Media to Emphasize, Either
Pro Wrestling Torch wraps up...
October 13 | Calmly Exposing Linda McMahon’s Portfolio of WWE Deaths Isn’t ‘Dramatic’ Enough for the Connecticut Media
Connecticut political...
October 12 | Linda McMahon’s Lawyer Threatens Libel Suit Against Talking Points Memo
Talking Points Memo has...
October 12 | Video of Linda McMahon’s Statement, ‘The Consequences of Death Is a Very Sad Thing’
...
October 12 | Linda McMahon: ‘The Consequences of Death Is a Very Sad Thing’
LINDA McMAHON, AT...
October 12 | ‘That Wellness Policy Is Not Working Too Well’
RICHARD BLUMENTHAL AT...
October 12 | Richard Blumenthal / Linda McMahon Debate Wrap
Ann Nyberg was an overmatched...
October 12 | Tonight Is Last Blumenthal-McMahon Debate; Let the Debate Over the Number of Debates Begin
Connecticut Public...
October 12 | Hype for Debate No. 3 Is Behind the Reality Curve of Linda McMahon’s Shrill Last Lap
The third live debate between...
October 10 | Linda McMahon Will Have to Settle for the Booby Prize on November 2
If the U.S. Senate election...
October 7 | Maybe Brent Musburger Is Angling For a Job With Linda McMahon
Proving once again that...
October 6 | Muchnick Flashback: When Linda McMahon’s Husband Stole Frank Deford’s Shoes
[Originally published on this...
October 6 | Linda McMahon’s Values ‘Fall Short of Decent’
“McMahon’s values...
October 6 | Linda McMahon, Stop Trying to Bully Your Unpaid Media and Own Up to Your Minimum Wage Gaffe
Linda McMahon stuck her foot...
October 5 | Lost Colony Entertainment Plans Film on Benoit Murder/Suicide
...
October 5 | For All You Linkaholics, Columnist Rick Green With 2-Minute Drill on Linda McMahon
Hilarious — and I say...
October 5 | Minimum Wage Gaffe Is Linda McMahon’s Fatal Turnover
As usual, Chris Powell of the...
October 5 | Do the 60-Minute Test – Blumenthal Was Fine And McMahon Seems to Have Little Left in the Tank
Linda McMahon was by no means...
October 4 | Muchnick’s Full Real-Time Twitter Log of Debate Commentary
First exchange + Blumenthal...
October 4 | Preview of Twitter Coverage of Tonight’s Richard Blumenthal / Linda McMahon Senate Campaign Debate
The first Senate campaign...
October 4 | What Linda McMahon’s Senate Campaign ISN’T About, And What It IS About
What the foray into national...
October 3 | Connecticut Columnist: Can Richard Blumenthal Use Debate to Rewrite Linda McMahon’s ‘Story Line’?
“Monday’s Senate...
October 2 | ‘Only a Fox News Debate Stands Between Wrestling Mogul Linda McMahon and the U.S. Senate’ (full text)
[originally published at...
October 1 | OOPS – I Confused New Haven Register and New Haven Independent … Cancel That Last Post
From my California outpost,...
October 1 | This post has been removed.
SEE THE NEXT POST FOR...
October 1 | Sound Advice to Linda McMahon From a Friend
I’ve needled a certain...
October 1 | ‘Linda McMahon, Laughing in the Face of History’
“Linda McMahon,...
October 1 | Muchnick to Do Live Twitter Commentary on Monday’s Blumenthal-McMahon Debate
Author and journalist Irvin...
October 1 | Can You Smell What Linda McMahon’s $50 Million Is Cooking? Roll Call’s Story on Linda’s Lobbying Lie Is Buried
Except for a single tweet by...
October 1 | Muchnick Flashback: ‘Wow, That Lloyd Grove of The Daily Beast Sure Types Fast’
I have nothing but sympathy...
October 1 | Hearst Reporter Lockhart Closes the Loop on Linda McMahon’s ‘Second’ Bankruptcy
Brian Lockhart, the Hearst...
October 1 | Rick Green (Hartford Courant) Has Best Takeout of Linda McMahon Minimum Wage Flap
“Linda McMahon...
October 1 | Linda McMahon Bankruptcy Story Gets Full Treatment in Hearst Connecticut Newspapers
Brian Lockhart of Hearst is...
September 30 | Background on Roll Call Expose of Linda McMahon’s Lie About Lobbying
FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THIS...
September 30 | ‘Worse Than Minimum-Wage-Gate’: Linda McMahon Lied About Lobbying $$$
Roll Call just broke a huge...
September 30 | Reviewing Today’s Developments: Linda McMahon Is Uninformed and Lame on the Minimum Wage, and She Calls WWE ‘A Small Business’
Nothing is inevitable –...
September 30 | LINDA McMAHON: ‘WWE IS A SMALL BUSINESS’
McMahon makes the remark...
September 30 | Linda McMahon ‘Minimum Wage’ Transcript Proves She Said What She Meant and She Meant What She Said
Ted Mann of the New London...
September 30 | Connecticut Columnist: ‘Linda McMahon Steps In It. Her $$$taff Jumps Into Action’
From the blog of the Hartford...
September 30 | P.S.: Linda McMahon on the Minimum Wage
Ben Smith of Politico.com...
September 30 | Linda McMahon, WWE ‘Independent Contractor’ Death Merchant, Is Wobbly on the National Minimum Wage
McMahon said she didn’t...
September 30 | Richard Blumenthal Has a Strong Foundation for Making Linda McMahon’s Record as WWE’s Chief Executive the Focus of Monday’s Debate
It’s going to take an...
September 30 | More Material for Connecticut Media Seeking ‘Traction’ on Linda McMahon’s WWE Death Mill
“Linda McMahon’s...
September 30 | Why Are the Hardest-Hitting Linda McMahon Stories Not Getting Play in Connecticut?
This one isn’t quite...
September 29 | P.S. on Mick Foley’s Position on Wrestlers as Independent Contractors
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling...
September 29 | Linda McMahon’s Unstoppable Political Machine Extends All the Way to Mankind and Doink the Clown
Two incidents inside the...
September 29 | Highly Recommended Reading on Concussions in Mixed Martial Arts
“Why I have chosen to...
September 29 | NY Times: ‘Wrestling Becomes a Campaign Issue’; CT Capitol Report on NY Times: ‘Voters Not Responding to Wrestling Attacks’
We have cognitive dissonance...
September 28 | Muchnick on Brian Lockhart on ‘Teflon Linda’ McMahon
The thoughtful Brian Lockhart...
September 28 | Muchnick’s Free Lesson to Richard Blumenthal on How to Cut a ‘Heel Wrestling Promo’
Buoyed by the recent Supreme...
September 28 | Only a Fox News Debate Stands Between Wrestling Mogul Linda McMahon and the U.S. Senate
It’s not exactly...
September 27 | ‘McMahon Mails First, Checks Results Later’
Seriously funny stuff from...
September 27 | ‘Only a Debate Moderated by a Fox News Guy Stands Between Wrestling Mogul Linda McMahon and the U.S. Senate’ … tomorrow at Beyond Chron
Irvin Muchnick’s...
September 27 | Connecticut Media Show a Pulse on Linda McMahon Bankruptcy Story
Daniela Altimari, on the...
September 27 | Hey, Congressman Anthony Weiner — Respond to My Email and I’ll Respond to Yours
The gall of Congressman...
September 24 | The Awl Hearts Muchnick
From “The Anticipation...
September 24 | Two and a Half Strangled Cheers for Linda McMahon
No one following this blog...
September 23 | All-Time Top 10 Search Engine Terms for Directing Visitors to This Blog
(aside from “Irv...
September 23 | WWE’s Christian Has Torn Pec — Another Triumph of the Linda McMahon ‘Wellness Policy’
World Wrestling Entertainment...
September 23 | ‘I’ve Never Been Investigated by Richard Blumenthal’ – The Diabolical Political Genius of Linda McMahon
Ladies and gentlemen of...
September 23 | Linda McMahon Suckers Richard Blumenthal in Pointless JFK Ad Controversy
The flap over the use or...
September 22 | Linda McMahon on the Pain and Humiliation of Licking S&H Green Stamps
Linda McMahon clearly...
September 21 | Great Moments in Email, Part 7
Letter to the editor of...
September 21 | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf … or Linda McMahon or Tina Brown?
While appreciating the...
September 20 | New York Magazine: Linda McMahon Issue Is That WWE Is Deadly, Not Tacky
“Richard Blumenthal has...
September 20 | ‘Why a 2011 NFL Strike or Lockout Would Be the Best Thing for America’ … today at Beyond Chron
Why a 2011 NFL Strike or...
September 19 | Dear Tina Brown: Will The Daily Beast Correct Its Inaccurate Account of Senate Candidate Linda McMahon’s 1976 Bankruptcy?
The following letter was...
September 19 | Connecticut Columnist: ‘How Many Times Did Linda McMahon Go Bankrupt?’
David Collins, a columnist...
September 19 | Concussion Saga of a Backup Baseball Catcher
...
September 17 | Obama Came and Went; Linda McMahon Will Sink Only With Death News and Negative TV Ads
No, I didn’t really...
September 16 | ‘Blumenthal Says He Has Nothing to Do With State WWE Audit’
New blog post by Brian...
September 16 | WWE ‘Wellness Policy’ Bans Somas – Pain Medication or Party Drug?
In his 2007 interview by the...
September 16 | It’s the Breakthrough Year of Concussion Awareness in Sports — Will Connecticut Do Its Part?
Alan Schwarz of The New York...
September 15 | Intrigue Deepens in Story of State Investigation of WWE and the Connection – If Any – to the Linda McMahon Senate Campaign
Brian Lockhart, the Hearst...
September 15 | 88% Say WWE Wrestlers Are Employees: Wrestling Observer Poll
From...
September 15 | Wrestling Observer Advocates ‘WWE Study the Issues’; Pro Wrestling Torch Advocates Schedule Reform; I Advocate Regulation
Yesterday I posted this note...
September 15 | How Linda McMahon Will Try to Spin the State Investigation of WWE – Why the Spin Will Fail
World Wrestling...
September 15 | ‘Brain Damage’ Is No. 2 Trending Topic at Yahoo
...
September 14 | ‘Entirely Appropriate’ to Examine Anew WWE’s Independent Contractor Practices
Here is how I am quoted at...
September 14 | Wrestling Journalist De-Spins WWE Response to Independent Contractor Story
From James Caldwell of Pro...
September 14 | What President Obama Should Say When He’s in Connecticut
At last word, President Obama...
September 14 | Let Me Say This Again: I Don’t Give a Crap Who Wins the Senate Election in Connecticut
If Linda McMahon wins, but...
September 14 | Connecticut Is Investigating WWE’s Use of Independent Contractors
From the blog of Brian...
September 14 | Brain Disease Finding in College Football Suicide
Much as I hate to crash the...
September 14 | Wrestler Matt Hardy’s Physical Condition and Strange Behavior Challenge the ‘Wellness Policy’ at Linda McMahon’s WWE
I don’t pretend to...
September 13 | Linda McMahon ‘Kicked Dirt on the Graves’ of Other Dead Wrestlers Besides Lance Cade. See ‘Benoit, Chris’ and the 2007 ‘Good Morning America’ Interview.
Seven months ago this blog...
September 12 | Lowell Weicker With Words of Humility and Truth
This has nothing to do with...
September 11 | All-Time Top 10 Most Visited Posts at This Blog
1. Muchnick Book Bonus:...
September 11 | All-Time Most Visited Post at This Blog
Muchnick Book Bonus:...
September 10 | Yale Prof Calls Independent Contractor Scheme at Linda McMahon’s WWE ‘Immoral’; Wrestling Writer Agrees
Read James Caldwell of Pro...
September 10 | Muchnick’s 8/31 Radio Interview in Waterbury in Podcast Form
The podcast of Irvin...
September 9 | In Response to Mick Foley on the Media on Linda McMahon
Pro wrestling star and...
September 9 | Of Course, No One Cares About the Deaths in Linda McMahon’s Wrestling Company — Except for Those Who Do
I’ve been hearing a lot...
September 9 | More on the 2008 Meeting of Linda McMahon’s WWE Medical Director at the West Virginia Brain Institute
In an email exchange this...
September 8 | Blumenthal’s ‘Counter-Judy’ Campaign Commercial
I begin by apologizing for my...
September 8 | Will Connecticut Media Be a Day Late and a Dollar Short on Tall Tale of Linda McMahon’s Bankruptcy?
It’s been almost a week...
September 7 | Fairfield Weekly: ‘Linda McMahon Did Or Should Have Understood WWE’s Lethal Culture’
“The Business of...
September 7 | Linda McMahon’s WWE Invoked ‘Death Clause’ in Owen Hart Lawsuit — Then Made a Virtue Out of the Necessity of Its $18 Million Settlement
The headline over...
September 7 | Start of NFL Season Highlights Significance of Fate of Linda McMahon’s Senate Campaign
In an insightful column...
September 7 | Muchnick Flashback — EXCLUSIVE: Linda McMahon’s WWE Medical Director Met With Chris Benoit Brain Experts in 2008
The following item was...
September 6 | New Laws of Cyberjournalism: Linda McMahon, Your Ads Look Mahvelous!
A blog reader writes,...
September 5 | It May Just Come Down to the Blumenthal-McMahon Debates
To read Kevin Rennie, the...
September 4 | Connecticut Newspaper Report on WWE’s Contract Death Clause Now Online
The full text of...
September 3 | ‘Is MMA Safer Than Pro Wrestling?’ at Wrestling Observer Website
Thanks to Dave Meltzer,...
September 3 | Linda McMahon & WWE Full of Bull in Response to Connecticut Newspaper ‘Death Clause’ Story
In his article today in the...
September 3 | Linda McMahon’s Defense of WWE Contract Death Clauses Is, ‘We Don’t Really Mean It’
Don Michak of the Manchester...
September 2 | Linda McMahon’s Senate Bid ‘Ultimate Steroid Test for Society’
An excellent one by Gwen...
September 2 | Wow, That Lloyd Grove of The Daily Beast Sure Types Fast!
“The Wrestler Could...
September 2 | Still More Grist for the Linda McMahon Bankruptcy Mill
Once upon a time Linda...
September 2 | More on Linda McMahon and the ‘1970s’ Bankruptcy (Bankruptcies?)
With admirable wit and grace,...
September 2 | My Exchange About Linda McMahon on Twitter With Lloyd Grove of The Daily Beast
irvmuch Was Linda McMahon...
September 2 | Has Linda McMahon Been Bankrupt TWICE? Or Is She Lying About the Circumstances?
All right, so The Daily Beast...
August 30 | ‘Linda McMahon Picks Up Some More Baggage: Body Bags’ … today at Beyond Chron
“Linda McMahon’s...
August 29 | Story Behind Friend Judy of Linda McMahon’s New Campaign Commercial
Even when Linda McMahon uses...
August 29 | Death Once Again Becomes the Linda McMahon Campaign
There are so many awful...
August 28 | Great Moments in Email, Part 6
“Burt” at...
August 27 | Strong Piece on Connecticut TV on Linda McMahon vs. Chris Nowinski
On this evening’s WTNH...
August 27 | Linda McMahon’s WWE Talent Contract Death Clause
WRESTLER, on behalf of...
August 27 | ABC’s Mike Benoit Interview a Missed Opportunity
The best that can be said...
August 26 | Author Muchnick’s Interview About Wrestler Lance Cade’s Death and Linda McMahon Campaign Now at YouTube
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
August 26 | Watch Chris Benoit’s Father Tonight on ABC’s ‘Nightline Prime’
A preview at West Virginia...
August 26 | Must-Read Blog by Ted Mann of New London Day — Follow-Up to His Story on Lance Cade and Linda McMahon
“More on Lance Cade,...
August 26 | Outrageous Death of Linda McMahon’s WWE Wrestler Lance Cade: A Resource Guide
AUGUST 18 FAIR GAME –...
August 26 | The Hill: Dead Wrestler Lance Cade Story ‘Among Worst Yet for Linda McMahon … Hard for Her to Ignore’
“Father of dead...
August 26 | More on Ohio Columnist B.J. Bethel And Chris Benoit
Well ahead of the...
August 26 | Atlantic Monthly: Dead Wrestler Story ‘Devastating’ For Linda McMahon
“Dead Wrestlers...
August 26 | New York Times: Debate Over Wrestlers’ Deaths Enters a Senate Race
“Politics, Wrestling...
August 26 | Linda McMahon Lied, Dead Wrestler Lance Cade’s Father Tells Connecticut Newspaper
“Dead wrestler’s...
August 25 | Wrestling Journalist James Caldwell Breaks Down the Head Chair Shot on Chris Kanyon
“It’s frightening...
August 25 | Video of the Sick Head Chair Shot on the Late WWE Wrestler Chris Kanyon
...
August 25 | Remember – Lance Cade Is the 4th Untimely Ex-WWE Wrestler Death During Linda McMahon’s Senate Campaign
My “It’s the...
August 24 | WWE Edits Auction Page of Lance Cade Death Chair
World Wrestling Entertainment...
August 24 | Did Linda McMahon’s Daughter Commit Perjury in Her Congressional Testimony?
Originally published here on...
August 24 | Linda McMahon’s Husband Lied to CNN in 2007 About WWE’s Elimination of Chair Shots to the Head
From transcript of CNN...
August 24 | Tom Dudchik of Capitol Report Joins the Lance Cade Death Chair Auction Fray
“SHOCK: Chair used to...
August 24 | Colin McEnroe Picks Up My Story of WWE’s Auction of the Lance Cade Death Chair
“Further proof of the...
August 23 | EXCLUSIVE: Chair Used to Batter the Late Wrestler Lance Cade Was Autographed by Shawn Michaels and Auctioned by WWE for $315
According to the Internet...
August 23 | Connecticut Public Radio’s Colin McEnroe on WWE’s Not-So-Wellness Program
Colin McEnroe, who today...
August 23 | My Interview With British Sports Blogger Richard Thomas
RT Sports Interview With...
August 21 | Wrestling Journalist David Bixenspan Truth-Squads WWE’s Attack on Chris Nowinski
David Bixenspan of Cageside...
August 21 | Early Weekend Notes
LANCE CADE STORY HAS TRACTION...
August 20 | Mike Benoit (Chris Benoit’s Father) on Lance Cade’s Death
The Lance Cade story has been...
August 19 | Pro Wrestling Torch With Excellent Follow-Up to My Story on Charlie Haas and Linda McMahon
“Charlie Haas tells his...
August 19 | New Haven Independent Editorial: ‘Voters Should Question Linda McMahon About Wrestlers’ Deaths’
“Voters Should Question...
August 19 | Deadspin Covers Lance Cade Death And Linda McMahon’s Campaign
“Masked Man,” the...
August 19 | A Little Side Question For That Devout Christian, Shawn Michaels
Shawn Michaels destroyed the...
August 19 | Keith Harris of Cageside Seats With More on Lance Cade
The ever-valuable Keith...
August 19 | Late Lance Cade: ‘Addict’ (Linda McMahon’s Dismissal) Or Untreated Brain Trauma Victim (Plenty of Circumstantial Evidence)?
The new issue of Dave...
August 19 | Concussion Activist Chris Nowinski Speaks Out on Linda McMahon
Chris Nowinski — the...
August 18 | Treatment of WWE Performer Charlie Haas Is a Study of Linda McMahon’s Character
“Who knows what causes...
August 18 | FAIR GAME — Linda McMahon Answers the Question of Systematic Death for Entertainment Industry Profits With … Another Question
Linda McMahon now calls...
August 17 | Was It ‘Lou Gehrig’s Disease’ Or Brain Trauma? A Fascinating New Study
Alan Schwarz of The New York...
August 16 | Muchnick YouTube Channel’s Greatest Hits
Irvin Muchnick Confronts...
August 16 | Ohio Columnist Cuts to the Chase on Linda McMahon, While National Media Fiddle
Though recognizing how the...
August 15 | Wrestlers Rescue (cont.)
Keith Harris of Cageside...
August 15 | Connecticut Senate Race Pits Richard Blumenthal, Democrat, Versus Linda McMahon, DemocratRepublican
Maureen Callahan’s...
August 13 | Dave Meltzer at Yahoo: ‘Wrestler’s Death Could Affect McMahon’s Run’
Dave Meltzer, the Wrestling...
August 13 | More on Ex-WWE Wrestler Lance Cade, Dead at 29
From wrestling journalist...
August 13 | Unless He Focuses on Linda McMahon’s WWE Death Mill, Blumenthal Can’t Win By Attacking Wrestling
Democratic Party kitsch kings...
August 13 | Former WWE Wrestler Lance Cade, 29, Dead — ‘Heart Failure’
Lance McNaught, 29, who...
August 11 | ‘They Tried Culture Wars with Linda McMahon – Now How About the Issues?’
...
August 9 | ‘Linda McMahon Campaign Coverage: A Guide for the Perplexed’ (Final Pre-Primary Reprint)
Originally published here on...
August 7 | Dave Meltzer’s Coverage of Politico Article on Linda McMahon and the WWE Ring Boy Scandal
The August 9 issue of Dave...
August 7 | The Punditocracy Gets Sharper on Linda McMahon
“Linda McMahon is hit...
August 6 | Part 2 of Profiles in Caution With the Wrestling Media and Dawn Marie’s ‘Wrestlers Rescue’
On July 18 this blog reported...
August 5 | Phil Mushnick And Linda & Vince McMahon And Me
In the next posts I’ll...
August 3 | Politico’s Story on Linda McMahon’s Management of the Wrestling Pedophile Ring Story Closes the Subject … For Now
The credibility of chief...
August 2 | Pedophile Accuser’s 1993 Complaint Against Linda McMahon’s Wrestling Company
I have uploaded an extremely...
August 2 | Politico Writer Touts Fuzzy WWE Pedophile Scandal Story As ‘Being Promoted by Both Linda McMahon and Dems’
On Twitter, Shira Toeplitz, a...
August 2 | Another Connecticut Newspaper Editorial: ‘When People Die, It’s Not Just a Soap Opera’
The editorial pages of...
August 1 | Politico Is Latest Media Outlet to Bury the Lead of Its Own Linda McMahon Scandal Story
Seems pretty basic to me: Tom...
July 30 | Syllabus for Further Reading on Politico’s Story About Linda McMahon and the WWE Pedophile Scandal
Ben Smith and Maggie Haberman...
July 30 | Newspaper Endorsement Scorecard: One More for Rob Simmons, One for Linda McMahon
Newspaper editorial...
July 29 | Small Correction on Missy Hyatt Statement
I understand that I was...
July 29 | Commentator Suggests Linda McMahon Has Her Opponents’ Number: $50 Million
It would be foolish not to...
July 29 | Hartford Courant Endorses Linda McMahon’s Opponent in Republican Primary
With leaps of logic that make...
July 29 | Mike Aldren’s Statement on Dawn Marie and Wrestlers Rescue
I wish to respond to Dawn...
July 28 | More Thoughts on Dawn Marie, Wrestlers Rescue, And the ‘Wrestling Media’
Wrestlers Recue is at best...
July 28 | Missy Hyatt on Dawn Marie
Below is a statement Missy...
July 27 | Connecticut Newspaper Editorial: Linda McMahon’s ‘Half-Truths and Outright Falsehoods’ on Steroids
“Steroid issue not...
July 27 | Letter From a Lawyer And My Reply
Email to John C. Hegarty...
July 27 | Dawn Marie Denounces Reports Questioning ‘Wrestlers’ Rescue’
Wade Keller of Pro Wrestling...
July 27 | Yo, Congressman Anthony Weiner of the House Judiciary Committee
The questions below were...
July 27 | Latest on NFL Concussion Policies
“N.F.L. Asserts Greater...
July 27 | More on Dawn Marie … And Then Back to the Über Carnies
Few stories here have...
July 27 | Linda and Vince McMahon Take Prideful Pens in Hand
The other day, after...
July 26 | Vince McMahon Talks to Hearst
“InVincible: WWE Boss...
July 25 | Linda McMahon’s Would-Be Spoiler, Rob Simmons, Is Straight Out of a Gore Vidal Play
A Hartford Courant editorial,...
July 24 | Ricky Steamboat Out of the Hospital
According to journalist Dave...
July 22 | Linda McMahon’s Opponents Think the Women’s Vote Is Her Kryptonite. Her Market Research Knows It’s Her Secret Weapon.
One faith I try to keep with...
July 22 | I Hereby Classify Death as the Ultimate ‘Chronic Injury’
Ever eager to distance...
July 22 | Connecticut Columnist: ‘Is Anything Beyond Decency’ for Linda McMahon?
“Is anything beyond...
July 22 | Watch Linda McMahon’s Wrestler Ricky Steamboat Get Beaten to Within an Inch of His Life Last Month on ‘Raw’ by Inexperienced Fellow ‘Soap Opera’ Cast Members
YouTube links to the video of...
July 22 | Muchnick’s Letter to Weekly Standard About Linda McMahon
As soon as its excellent...
July 22 | Linda McMahon Sends in the Goons on Richard Blumenthal
“If I was stalked, so...
July 22 | And More Ricky Steamboat
Once again I’m pulling...
July 21 | Dave Meltzer Reports Ricky Steamboat ‘Still in Hospital and in Great Head Pain’
The weekly update on Ricky...
July 21 | WSJ Columnist Thomas Frank Does Good Culture-Mongering on Linda McMahon — But It’s Still Just Culture-Mongering
As I’ve said till...
July 20 | Dissident Wrestling Journalists Tell Linda McMahon Story More Faithfully Than the Leading Ones
Dave Meltzer – who, I...
July 19 | Muchnick Flashback: Linda McMahon’s Despicable June 2007 ‘Good Morning America’ Interview
Originally posted here on...
July 19 | Hot Tip to ‘Good Morning America’ — Show Linda McMahon’s 2007 ‘Good Morning America’ Interview
It’s nice that...
July 18 | New York Times Falls for Both the Little Carnies and the Über Carnies
From Great Britain, Mike...
July 18 | Greatest Hits on the WrestlingBabylon YouTube Channel
Irvin Muchnick confronts...
July 18 | Linda McMahon News Roundup
A good one from David Collins...
July 17 | Smart Guy, That Chris Powell of the Manchester Journal Inquirer
Keep working hard and maybe...
July 16 | More Linda McMahon/NYT Fallout: Salon Magazine With Smug Liberal Standup Joke 27-C
What’s next? The lame...
July 16 | How About ‘Corporate Success Story Or Death Merchant’?
In its wisdom, Connecticut...
July 16 | Mike Benoit on The New York Times on Linda McMahon
Earlier I commented on the...
July 16 | Second Mixed Martial Arts Death: Brain Hemorrhage
Mixed martial artist Michael...
July 16 | New York Times Sets a New World Record: 2,300 Words on Linda McMahon – Not One of Them ‘Benoit’ or ‘Death’
The New York Times has...
July 15 | Jiu-Jitsu? A Scenario for a Double-Agent Twist on ‘Mothers Opposing McMahon’
Believe me when I say that I...
July 15 | ‘Is Anyone Not Clear?’
The Twitterer @thetrough...
July 15 | Wrestling Newsletter Writer Thinks He Has Proof That ‘Mothers Opposing McMahon’ Is a Democratic Front Group
A couple of days ago I passed...
July 14 | Another Wrestler Suicide Attempt
British wrestling journalist...
July 14 | Linda McMahon’s Role in the WWE Pedophile Scandal Still Hangs, Unpublished, in the Politicos’ Air
The overall excellent new...
July 14 | Superb Weekly Standard Article on Linda McMahon
“WrestleMania in...
July 13 | Mothers Opposing McMahon?
The Hartford Courant‘s...
July 13 | WWE Board Member Lowell Weicker Takes Responsibility for Everything Except Being a WWE Board Member
I see that Lowell Weicker,...
July 12 | More Concussions, You Say? I Don’t Remember No Concussions
Q Are you aware of any...
July 11 | Muchnick Flashback — ‘Linda McMahon Campaign Coverage: A Guide for the Perplexed’
Originally published here on...
July 10 | More Chilling NFL Concussion Anecdotes
Catching up on some old...
July 10 | Concussions? I Don’t Remember No Concussions.
Q Are you aware of any...
July 10 | Linda McMahon Mingles Among the People, With Whom Her ‘Image’ Remains Good
Ted Mann of The Day in New...
July 9 | Now Don’t You Go Accusing Linda McMahon’s Daughter of Lying to Congress …
On December 14, 2007,...
July 9 | Now Don’t You Go Accusing Linda McMahon’s Son-in-Law of Using Steroids …
Paul “Triple H”...
July 8 | Muchnick Queries Congressman Anthony Weiner of the House Judiciary Committee
I’ve put the following...
July 8 | WWE: No More Legend Beatdowns After Steamboat (Unless, That Is, They’re Really Important to the Plot)
Want to know what Senate...
July 8 | What Linda McMahon and Her Husband Told CNN in 2007 About Concussions and Pro Wrestling Chair Shots
World Wrestling...
July 7 | Meltzer Handles Steamboat Story Ably in New Wrestling Observer
More expansive and less...
July 7 | More on Chavo Guerrero’s 2004 Concussion
Important new information (at...
July 7 | NFL Explains: Maroon Still on Committee, Only Concussion ‘Leadership’ Has Changed
In the last post I tried to...
July 7 | NFL Spokesman Aiello: WWE Medical Director Maroon Still ‘Works With’ League Concussion Committee
National Football League...
July 6 | Do WWE Doctors Serve WWE Wrestlers? Or Just WWE?
The purpose of PR is to emit...
July 6 | What Chavo Guerrero Told Chris Benoit’s Dad About His Own Concussion and Bleeding on the Brain
I hope that Mike Benoit,...
July 5 | Connecticut Post Editorial Fingers Weicker’s WWE Ties
An editorial in today’s...
July 5 | Connecticut Newspaper Editorial: Source of Linda McMahon Profits Is Less Important Than Opponents’ Hypocrisy
Please do not construe this...
July 4 | Ricky Steamboat Case Puts Linda McMahon Campaign Spotlight on Pro Wrestling Brain Injuries
Last week the national media...
July 3 | Ricky Steamboat Thoughts (Part 2, Chris Benoit’s Father Comments)
I solicited the following...
July 3 | Ricky Steamboat Thoughts (Part 1, Medical Update)
According to Dave Meltzer at...
July 2 | Michael Steele’s Words: War By Other Means
On his Connecticut tour,...
July 2 | Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat in Intensive Care
All of us who have been...
July 2 | Yo, NFL Spokesman Greg Aiello — What’s Up With WWE Medical Director Joseph Maroon?
This is the text of a fax...
July 2 | Linda McMahon’s Body Count – Dead People – Remains a Taboo Subject
Now The Wall Street Journal...
July 1 | Talkin’ Linda McMahon and ‘Character and Integrity’ with Chris Benoit’s Father
Mike Benoit – Chris...
July 1 | Transcript of GOP National and State Chairs Denying Linda McMahon’s Problems
Ken Dixon of the Hearst...
June 30 | WWE Board Member Lowell Weicker Spins for Linda McMahon
Former Connecticut senator...
June 30 | Muchnick Book Bonus – ‘The (Thwak!) Deregulation of (Thump!) Pro Wrestling (The Bureaucrats Behind Hulk Hogan)’
Originally published in The...
June 30 | Linda McMahon Wants Your Vote … For Real!
Smart people – who are...
June 28 | Pro Wrestling Torch Mentions Dr. Joseph Maroon Issue
I believe James Caldwell of...
June 28 | Brain Injuries in Linda McMahon’s WWE and the NFL – Where Sports and ‘Sports Entertainment’ Overlap
Drs. Julian Bailes and Bennet...
June 28 | My Take on Fedor’s Loss and ‘Mixed Martial Arts Randomness’
“No-Longer Invincible...
June 27 | Background on Martha Hart’s Suit Against Linda McMahon and WWE
Linda McMahon, the...
June 27 | My Coverage of Fedor Emelianenko’s Shocking Loss
Fedor’s mystique...
June 25 | ‘Voters Must Weigh McMahon Business Experience’
Letter to the editor in the...
June 24 | People Died on Linda McMahon’s Watch, And That Ain’t No Soap Opera
Slick as owl shit, like the...
June 23 | Don’t Exaggerate Ulterior Motive of Martha Hart’s WWE Lawsuit
Though Hartford Courant...
June 22 | What Matters About Owen Hart’s Widow’s New Suit Against Linda McMahon and WWE
The latest intrusion of...
June 22 | Two New Takes on Linda McMahon: The $$$ Analyst and the Frother
The Connecticut...
June 20 | Dr. Joseph Maroon Sighting in Excellent New Haven Register Article on WWE and Steroids
Ed Stannard, metro editor of...
June 19 | Don’t Look Now, But Another Pro Wrestler Just Died Young
Michael Verdi (“Trent...
June 19 | Sounds Like Vince McMahon Got a Facelift
From British journalist Mike...
June 17 | Best Explanation of Bryan Danielson Firing Is Classic Vince McMahon Weirdness
I’ve held off on an...
June 16 | NFL ‘Maroons’ WWE’s Medical Director
The Linda McMahon story...
June 11 | Did He Or Didn’t He? John Cena’s Soap Opera Concussion
World Wrestling...
June 10 | What Congressional Investigators Asked Linda McMahon About John Cena, WWE’s No. 1 Star
The Ted Mann story in The Day...
June 9 | What Happened to Vince? Your McMahon Campaign Tabloid Teaser for This Week
Dave Meltzer’s...
June 9 | Linda McMahon’s Lawyer: She Didn’t Know WWE Steroid Doc Was Dealing Right at the Arenas
Ted Mann of The Day in New...
June 7 | What’s the Deal with Linda McMahon and Women?
As Linda McMahon’s...
June 3 | NFL Severs Relationships With Past Concussion Docs — Does That Apply to WWE Medical Director Joseph Maroon?
Alex Marvez, the senior pro...
May 31 | Richard Blumenthal’s Vietnam Semantics vs. Linda McMahon’s Insultingly Bad Business Memory
The occasion of Memorial Day...
May 30 | Welcome to Linda McMahon’s Wide World of XFL Politics
Anyone expecting me to take a...
May 28 | Forget Linda McMahon’s Daughter’s Bare Nipple – Take a Look at Her Sleazoid Son-in-Law’s ‘Nutritionist’
With a salaciousness that...
May 27 | Let’s Match Up the Records of ‘War Liar’ Blumenthal and ‘Panderer’ McMahon
I think everyone will agree...
May 27 | Muchnick Flashback — ‘Linda McMahon Campaign Coverage: A Guide for the Perplexed’
Originally published here on...
May 27 | Take The New York Times’ Gail Collins on Linda McMahon … PLEASE!
Today New York Times op-ed...
May 25 | Hearst Picks Up WWE Exec Sexual Harassment Story
The Connecticut Post and...
May 25 | Richard Blumenthal Campaign Clears Its Throat in First Linda McMahon Attack
According to...
May 25 | Rob Simmons Quits Senate Race
As announced today. The...
May 24 | Once Again, Chris Powell of the Manchester Journal Inquirer Gets Linda McMahon Right
I don’t know Chris...
May 24 | Lowell Weicker, Dan Malloy, Barack Obama – Three Illustrations of How Linda McMahon’s Money Makes Her the Ultimate Insider
With her Republican...
May 22 | Linda McMahon Wins at Republican State Convention
And Rob Simmons, her main...
May 21 | ‘Connecticut Senate Race Turns Up Trio of Vietnam War Sanctimony’ … today at Beyond Chron
http://tinyurl.com/2ewzgj3...
May 19 | ‘Connecticut Senate Race Serves Up a Trio of Vietnam War Sanctimony’ … Friday at BeyondChron
...
May 18 | Chris Benoit’s Father Adds His Voice to Connecticut Senate Campaign
YOUR VIEW: MICHAEL BENOIT...
May 18 | Linda McMahon Takes a Stroll Down Schadenfreude Lane
Maybe it’s because she...
May 17 | Quality and Quantity of Linda McMahon’s WWE Job-Creation Machine Come Under Scrutiny
In the old Woody Allen joke,...
May 15 | Muchnick Book Bonus: ‘In Bed With the WWF – Sex and Scandal in Pro Wrestling’
With the Connecticut...
May 15 | Connecticut Newspaper Columnist on What’s Different and What’s the Same About Linda McMahon
Highly recommended reading:...
May 13 | WWE and General Counsel ‘Have Parted Ways Amicably’
World Wrestling Entertainment...
May 13 | Linda McMahon’s WWE and ESPN — Connecticut Cohorts in ‘Sports Entertainment’ and Sexual Harassment
“Popular culture has...
May 12 | Legal Trade Press Picks Up WWE Exec Sexual Harassment Story
The website of Corporate...
May 12 | Follow-Up Notes on the Sexual Harassment Scandal at Senate Candidate Linda McMahon’s WWE
“Popular culture has...
May 11 | Questions for Senate Candidate Linda McMahon About WWE Executive Jared Bartie’s Reported Dismissal for Sexual Harassment
The following text was...
May 11 | Questions for WWE About Its General Counsel and Sexual Harassment Allegation
The following text was...
May 10 | WWE Sex Harassment Exec Appears to Have Been Terminated
A second knowledgeable source...
May 10 | Source: WWE’s General Counsel Suspended for Sexual Harassment
According to a World...
May 7 | Jim Leeson, 1930-2010
I invite blog readers to take...
May 6 | Linda McMahon with Rudy Giuliani — the Ultimate Outsider
Linda McMahon on Twitter:...
May 4 | ‘Connecticut’s Meg Whitman Clamps Media in Wrestling Sleeperhold’ (full text)
[originally published at...
May 3 | Linda McMahon’s Scandals Are Softballs Blumenthal Will Knock Out of the Park
While leaving little to the...
May 1 | David Patterson Is the Governor of New York State
Not the mayor of New York...
April 30 | Dear Glenn Thrush of Politico.com: Did Linda McMahon Campaign Plant Your Story on Her Steroid-Doc Memo?
As the following email text...
April 30 | Who Will Be the First to Resolve the Conflicts in Linda McMahon’s Spin of Her Steroid-Doc Memo?
While Joseph Pulitizer and...
April 30 | Is Linda McMahon Just Like Ronald Reagan — Or Fatty Arbuckle?
Glenn Thrush of Politico.com...
April 29 | Hartford Courant’s Rick Green: There’s No Media Blackout on Linda McMahon Prosecutor Tip
Hartford Courant...
April 29 | Tied for the Most Important Post in the History of My Blogs
My other son, Jacob...
April 29 | Linda McMahon’s ‘Media Sleeperhold’ … today at Beyond Chron
Connecticut’s Meg...
April 28 | Canvassing the Senate Candidates on the Linda McMahon Memo
Sent to the Linda McMahon,...
April 27 | Linda McMahon and the Annals of Jurisprudence
“A former Philadelphia...
April 26 | Linda McMahon Halts ‘Voter Bounty’; Now … What About the Tip on the Steroid Doc?
Congratulations to Brian...
April 24 | Linda McMahon ‘Voter Bounty’ Story Is a Reminder That WWE Was Built by ‘Legal Payola’
While we wait to see if the...
April 22 | Promo for Linda McMahon Story in Sunday’s Hearst Newspapers Promises a Bunch of Nothing
“Hearst readies...
April 22 | I Ask U.S. Attorney in Pennsylvania About Linda McMahon Steroid Doc Tip Report; No Response
[by fax April 20, 2010] Mr....
April 21 | Linda McMahon Memo Story Leaves Just a Few Open Questions – The Five W’s
We’re deep into the...
April 20 | Steroid Doc Prosecutor Accused of Tipping McMahons Says, ‘No Comment’
I emailed James J. West, the...
April 20 | Linda McMahon’s Role in the WWE Pedophile Scandal: Additional Resources
In a 2007 Internet radio...
April 19 | How Linda McMahon Managed the WWE Pedophile Scandal’s Damage Control
(I emailed invitations to...
April 17 | Here’s How a CEO Senate Candidate Responded to Charges of Wrongdoing on Her Corporate Watch (Hint: It’s Not Linda McMahon)
The Associated Press reports...
April 17 | Most Important Post in the History of My Blogs
My son Nate has published an...
April 16 | Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer: Missing in Action
In the previous post I gently...
April 16 | Call to Connecticut Newspapers on Linda McMahon Scandal: More Reporting, Less Gum-Flapping
This blog just posted a link...
April 16 | Norwich Bulletin: ‘McMahon Owes State an Explanation’
“Our view: McMahon owes...
April 15 | Text of New York Post on 1995 Witness-Tampering Investigation of McMahons’ Lawyer’s Husband
Below is the text of the...
April 15 | ‘Tampering Cloud’ Over Linda McMahon’s Company’s 1994 Federal Trial (New York Post, 11/22/95)
I have posted a crude...
April 15 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice? (13th in a series – A Story Only Newspapers and Bloggers Can Tell)
“[Vince] would like you...
April 14 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice? (12th in a series – I Ask WWE Lawyer Jack Krill About Tip on Steroid Doc; No Response)
April 13, 2010 John P. Krill,...
April 14 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice? (11th in a series – Pro Wrestling Torch’s 1995 Coverage of Laura Brevetti/Martin Bergman Scandal)
Below is a 1995 article from...
April 14 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice? (10th in a series – Defense Lawyer Laura Brevetti’s 1995 Response to Report on Her ‘Fixer’ Husband)
“[Vince] would like you...
April 13 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice (9th in a series — ‘The Day’ Editorializes)
“[Vince] would like you...
April 13 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice? (8th in a series – Some of These Allegations Are Hardly ‘Revisits’)
“[Vince] would like you...
April 12 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice? (7th in a series – Read the Full Article on the ‘Fixer’ at the McMahons’ 1994 Federal Trial)
“[Vince] would like you...
April 12 | Linda McMahon Campaign Coverage: A Guide for the Perplexed
TED MANN, New London Day:...
April 11 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice? (6th in a series – McMahon Defense Lawyer’s Husband Floated a $350,000 Offer to the Prosecution’s Star Witness)
“[Vince] would like you...
April 11 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice? (5th in a series – Open Questions From the New London Day Investigation)
“[Vince] would like you...
April 10 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice? (4th in a Series — New London Day With Intriguing Follow-Up Story)
Ted Mann and The Day have...
April 10 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice? (3rd in a series – The Wrestling Media Know Where the Bodies Are Buried)
” [Vince] would like...
April 10 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice? (2nd in a series – ‘The Day’ After)
” [Vince] would like...
April 9 | Did Linda McMahon Obstruct Justice? (1st in a series)
“At no time did they...
April 9 | New Linda McMahon Bombshell to Drop Sunday
I have learned...
April 9 | Retired Wrestler Lance ‘Storm’ Evers on Brain Trauma and the Death of Chris Kanyon
Pro wrestler Lance Evers...
April 8 | Here’s the Difference Between Politics As Usual and the Über-Carny
Hartford Courant columnist...
April 8 | No WWE Lobbying? Why, Rick Santorum Handled the Account!
Jennifer Dlouhy of Hearst...
April 7 | Muchnick’s Connecticut Public Radio Interview in Podcast Form
The podcast of CHRIS &...
April 6 | Read WWE Cardiologist Bryan Donohue’s PR For Yourself
...
April 6 | WWE Cardiologist Bryan Donohue’s Supplement Company Has PR Firm That Doesn’t Disclose His Equity Interest
What most fascinates me about...
April 6 | Muchnick’s Full Interview Wednesday on Connecticut Public Radio’s ‘Where We Live’
The full interview on Where...
April 5 | Muchnick’s 3/24 Radio Interview in Waterbury in Podcast Form
The podcast of CHRIS &...
April 5 | Muchnick Interviewed in Publishers Weekly
Author and activist Irvin...
April 5 | Review Reset: What the Critics Are Saying About Irvin Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’
“Great read for anyone...
April 4 | Was Linda McMahon’s Resignation from Connecticut Ed Board Linked to Courant’s Story Today?
When you are as busy as I...
April 4 | Read Linda McMahon’s Full January 2009 ‘Background Information Questionnaire’
The Hartford Courant, which...
April 4 | Hartford Courant Story Questions Linda McMahon’s 2009 Representations
Jon Lender of the Hartford...
April 4 | Newest Linda McMahon Scandal Bread Crumb: ‘Independent’ Contract of Dead WWE Wrestler Chris Kanyon
The suicide Friday of former...
April 3 | Another Dead Wrestler: Chris Kanyon
World Wrestling Entertainment...
April 2 | Dear Pitt Chancellor Nordenberg: What’s the Deal With Your Med Center Docs and Linda McMahon’s WWE?
...
April 2 | Linda McMahon, the Waxman Investigation, the State Board of Education Seat, and the Senate Run
Connect the dots,...
April 1 | ‘WWE Was Willing to Look the Other Way to Compete for Profits’
James Caldwell of Pro...
April 1 | Muchnick Accountability Watch: Did Vince McMahon Try to Turn Himself ‘Babyface’ at WrestleMania?
A month and a half ago I...
March 31 | WWE Medical Team Bios — 5 Out of 8 Are from Pitt Med Center
The bios of the professionals...
March 31 | WWE’s Docs Governed by ‘Private’ Pitt Med Center Ethics Policy
This blog is exploring how a...
March 30 | WNPR’s John Dankosky Blogs About Having Linda McMahon on ‘Where We Live’
“McMahon on Steroids,...
March 30 | Oh, Chair Shots Are OK — Just Not to the Head
Regarding the previous post,...
March 30 | Linda McMahon’s 64-Year-Old Husband Takes 14 Chair Shots at WrestleMania
Presumably with the input of...
March 30 | Linda McMahon Audio from Connecticut Public Radio’s ‘Where We Live’
The podcast of Linda...
March 30 | Umaga Autopsy Turns Focus to Linda McMahon’s WWE Cardio Program and Docs
The death last December of...
March 29 | Irvin Muchnick’s Connecticut Tour Media Roundup
This list will be updated as...
March 25 | Stamford Advocate’s Coverage of Borders Book Signing
Priceless stuff from Brian...
March 25 | Muchnick Media Leading Up to Tonight’s Event at Borders in Stamford
* live interview with Lee...
March 25 | Courant’s Capitol Watch Blog Reviews ‘Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ Story
On the day of my event at...
March 24 | Muchnick Interviewed by New Haven Advocate
“Senator Piledriver:...
March 24 | Great Moments in Email, Part 5
From Dona Berry: “My...
March 24 | Rick Green, the Desperate Connecticut Columnist/Blogger, Strikes Again
“WWE RED ALERT! The...
March 23 | Muchnick Featured in Hartford Courant
“WWE Critic Takes Shots...
March 23 | Muchnick’s WTNH Interview on YouTube
Irvin Muchnick’s...
March 23 | Muchnick Interviewed on Channel 8 News in New Haven
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
March 22 | Hearst Blogs Borders Events
Thanks to Magdalene Perez of...
March 21 | Linda McMahon and the ‘Fatty Arbuckle Defense’
Kevin “Don’t Call...
March 19 | How NOT to Get a Gig With WWE’s Crack Medical Team
I haven’t yet told you...
March 19 | NFL Says WWE’s Medical Director Still on Concussion Committee
I called the office of...
March 19 | Watch the Cardiovascular Health Consultant for Linda McMahon’s WWE Pimp an Unregulated Supplement on YouTube
As I have been reporting for...
March 19 | Linda McMahon ‘Has Considered’ Having Vince Answer Steroid Questions
Embedded in today’s...
March 18 | Eddie ‘Umaga’ Fatu Autopsy: 406 Pounds, Enlarged Heart
I have uploaded a facsimile...
March 18 | Where Does WWE’s ‘Medical Director’ Fit in Shakeup of NFL’s Concussion Committee?
The New York Times‘...
March 17 | Linda McMahon the One Candidate Who’s a Policy Machine – Go Figure
As Alanis Morrissette sang,...
March 17 | Muchnick Flashback: ‘Superstar Snuka and the Death of a Groupie’
The article below –...
March 16 | WWE Bans Chair Shots for Safety … Except When They’re Absolutely Essential to the Plot
While I was busy cutting and...
March 16 | Congressman Bobby Rush’s Communications Director Flips Out
I’m used to bizarre...
March 16 | Drugs in D.C. Are Dead, But There Are Always Concussions in Connecticut
Daniela Altimari blogs at the...
March 16 | Congressman Bobby Rush Confirms That Investigations of WWE Are Dead
The office of Congressman...
March 16 | Muchnick in Live Interview Today on Hardcore Sports Radio
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
March 15 | Mr. Linda McMahon, Sexy Bastard
In its second investigative...
March 13 | Kate Snow Leaves ABC … But Not for Linda McMahon’s Campaign
When I saw the headline that...
March 13 | Jodi Latina Is No Lackey — She’s a Paid Linda McMahon Flack!
The things you learn too late...
March 13 | P.S.: Meg Whitman / Linda McMahon
In the previous post on this...
March 13 | Meg Whitman, in California, Models Better Behavior for Linda McMahon in Connecticut
I live in California. The...
March 11 | Full Story on WWE, Bret Hart, and Lloyd’s of London
Keith Harris posted a comment...
March 11 | Linda McMahon Coverage Getting Tougher, But Media Still Need to Flip Their Priorities
A story in today’s...
March 11 | Linda McMahon Strongly Denies That She Is a Kevin Rennie Mouthpiece
Hearst newspapers in...
March 10 | Did Bret Hart Get Lloyd’s of London Insurance for WrestleMania?
In 1997 Bret Hart, once upon...
March 10 | Latest Drugs ‘n’ Wrestling News
Jesse Haggard has become the...
March 10 | Linda McMahon’s WWE Programming Is Rated PG (Plenty Gall)
In case anyone missed the...
March 9 | Still Waiting on Congressman Bobby Rush
Continuing our story on what...
March 9 | Dan Malloy on WWE
Following up on the previous...
March 9 | Four Questions for Connecticut Gubernatorial Candidate Dan Malloy
Tomorrow Dan Malloy, the...
March 9 | So That’s What the WWE Flack Was Talking About
World Wrestling Entertainment...
March 9 | Greenwich Newspaper Editorial Nails Linda McMahon’s Real Problem
The national media, from ABC...
March 8 | Query to Congressman Bobby Rush: What Happened to YOUR WWE Steroid Investigation?
Below is the text of my fax...
March 8 | Timeline of Collapsed Federal Investigation of Drug Policies at Linda McMahon’s WWE
A week ago Brian Lockhart of...
March 6 | Dave Meltzer Is Quite a Bit Better on ‘10 Questions to Linda McMahon’ (6th in a series)
PREVIOUSLY: Introducing...
March 5 | ‘If Linda McMahon Is P.T. Barnum, Connecticut in More Trouble Than We Know’ (full text)
[originally published at...
March 5 | Atrocious Occupational Health and Safety Standards of Linda McMahon’s WWE a Public Health Issue (5th in a series)
PREVIOUSLY: Introducing...
March 4 | Brian Lockhart and Hearst Pointed Readers to the Entire Waxman Committee Primary-Source Record (4th in a series)
PREVIOUSLY: Introducing...
March 4 | Hearst Story on Waxman Committee Dropping the Ball on WWE Investigation Is Unimportant – Just Take Dave Meltzer’s Word for It (3rd in a series)
PREVIOUSLY: Introducing...
March 4 | WWE Corporate Flack Is One of the Hardest Jobs in America (2nd in a series)
PREVIOUSLY: Introducing...
March 4 | Introducing ‘WWE Responds to Hearst’s Story on the Abortive Waxman Committee Steroid Investigation’ (1st in a series)
On Thursday night, I’m...
March 4 | P.S.: Link to Rob Simmons’ New Letter to Linda McMahon
...
March 4 | Rob Simmons’ Questions to Linda McMahon: Once More With Feeling
Yesterday’s letter to...
March 4 | Linda McMahon And $$$ Focus of CNN Report
Correspondent Randi Kaye...
March 3 | … But I’m Looking Forward to the NEXT Meltzer Newsletter
Today’s Wrestling...
March 3 | Dave Meltzer Fumbles Umaga Story
The new issue of the...
March 3 | Linda McMahon Opponent Sends Her ‘Ten Questions’
Rob Simmons, Linda...
March 3 | Supreme Court’s ‘Muchnick’ Ruling Keeps Dream of a Fair Royalty System Alive
[cross-posted from...
March 2 | Linda McMahon Ducks Questions About Ducking Questions
Great stuff from Paul Bass of...
March 2 | SUPREME COURT KEEPS REED ELSEVIER V. MUCHNICK ALIVE
[cross-posted from Freelance...
March 2 | Supreme Court Denies Hustler Magazine Bid to Review Nancy Benoit Photo Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court...
March 1 | Umaga’s WWE ‘Wellness’ Scorecard
A journalistically challenged...
March 1 | Sunday Hearst Story on Linda McMahon/WWE/Steroids Now Online
WWE steroid investigation: A...
March 1 | Resetting Muchnick Blog’s Monday 3/1/10 Links
The shorthand snipr links for...
March 1 | UK’s Sun Picks Up Umaga Story
The British newspaper The...
March 1 | EXCLUSIVE: WWE Wrestler ‘Umaga’ Died of ‘Acute Toxicity’
The results are in for the...
March 1 | Muchnick Flashback: ‘See Ya Later, Congress …’
[originally published at...
March 1 | View Hearst’s Sunday Story on Linda McMahon and the Aborted WWE Federal Steroid Investigation
The crack staff of Wrestling...
February 28 | Who Quashed Federal Steroid Investigation of WWE? McMahon Campaign’s Open Question
A political insider pointed...
February 28 | Will Hearst Newspapers’ Linda McMahon Story Be a Game Changer?
Brian Lockhart of the...
February 27 | WWE Releases Scott Armstrong, Recipient of Chris Benoit’s Final Text Messages
World Wrestling Entertainment...
February 26 | How Linda McMahon’s WWE ‘Handled’ The Undertaker’s Heat
All of today’s talk...
February 26 | Reporter Confirms Linda McMahon ‘Press Wrangler’ Is State Party Chief’s Wife
Joseph Cole, the Valley...
February 26 | How to Handle Linda McMahon’s Handlers
Joseph Cole of the Valley...
February 26 | ‘If Linda McMahon Is P.T. Barnum’ … today at Beyond Chron
I’ve spent months...
February 25 | Muchnick Interview Likely To Air 3:30 p.m. Friday on ESPN Radio/Bakersfield
Irvin Muchnick’s taped...
February 25 | ‘Hearst Readies McMahon Steroids Story’
That’s the main...
February 25 | WWE, TV-PG, and TV-14
Quite frankly (as Vince...
February 24 | WWE Cites ‘Miscommunication,’ Says TV-14 Listing Was a Mistake
World Wrestling Entertainment...
February 24 | EXCLUSIVE: Senate Candidate Linda McMahon’s WWE Quietly Shifts Programming Back to TV-14
CLARIFICATION: See next post,...
February 24 | ‘If Linda McMahon Is P.T. Barnum, Then Connecticut Is in More Trouble Than We Know’
The above is the headline of...
February 23 | Linda McMahon Chronicles: Strange Tale of the Stamford Police and the ‘Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ (Part 4 — Conclusion)
This post concludes the...
February 22 | Muchnick Interview Thursday on ESPN Radio in Bakersfield
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
February 22 | Washington Post and Linda McMahon: Bird-Cage-Liner Notes
The Linda McMahon profile in...
February 21 | Washington Post Profile of Linda McMahon Proves That Wrestling Is Real – It’s Journalism That’s Fake (Part 1)
About nine-tenths of the way...
February 21 | ‘Simmons still fuming over Morning Joe snub; carries around Muchnick’s book…’
The above is the headline...
February 19 | Linda McMahon’s WWE Needs a Declaration of Dependence
James Caldwell of Pro...
February 19 | Will ‘Heel’ Vince McMahon Turn ‘Babyface’ After WrestleMania to Support Linda’s Campaign?
On Raw, Linda McMahon’s...
February 18 | What the Critics Are Saying About Irvin Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’
“Great read for anyone...
February 18 | Kelly Kelly Skit Was PG-PG Dumb-Dumb. (And By the Way, WWE Death Touches Her, Too.)
Senate candidate Linda...
February 17 | Wrestler Dave Taylor, Bearer of Benoit Secrets, Now With WWE’s Rival
British wrestler Dave Taylor,...
February 17 | ‘If Linda McMahon Manufactured Cigarettes, We Wouldn’t Be Having This Discussion’
Hartford Courant editorial...
February 16 | Profile of Mr. Suzan Bibisi, Husband of Linda McMahon’s Campaign Staffer
There’s a nice piece in...
February 16 | What I Want to Ask Former Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy
A couple of Democratic...
February 16 | Linda McMahon’s $1 Million Checking Account
With the hook of Linda...
February 12 | ‘Wrestling Media’ School Mainstream Media
Let’s go back for a...
February 12 | Media on Linda McMahon: Getting Better
Confronting an absurdly...
February 12 | Hartford Courant’s Rick Green on Linda McMahon’s ‘Mean-Spirited Fiction’
Chilling. Compelling. See...
February 10 | Further Notes on the WWE Wrestlers and Applied Pharmacy
Some clarification on the...
February 9 | Six WWE Performers Were Customers of Newly Convicted Applied Pharmacy
Several principals of the...
February 7 | Memo to Courant’s Rick Green: Four Questions for Linda McMahon
Hartford Courant columnist...
February 6 | Great Moments in Email, Part 4
From Gilbert Anthony Navarro...
February 5 | ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Author Muchnick’s Connecticut Borders Tour Concludes in Farmington, March 27
Contacts: Simon Ware,...
February 5 | For Linda McMahon’s WWE, Depraved Is As Depraved Does
A couple of days ago I...
February 4 | Correct Date of Linda McMahon ‘GMA’ Interview: June 28, 2007
A couple of yesterday’s...
February 4 | Linda McMahon’s Despicable June 2007 ‘Good Morning America’ Interview
In the kind of move that has...
February 3 | Linda McMahon and ‘Fragile X Syndrome’ (Part 5)
PREVIOUS POSTS IN THIS...
February 3 | Linda McMahon and ‘Fragile X Syndrome’ (Part 4)
PREVIOUS POSTS IN THIS...
February 3 | Linda McMahon and ‘Fragile X Syndrome’ (Part 3)
PREVIOUS POSTS IN THIS...
February 3 | Linda McMahon and ‘Fragile X Syndrome’ (Part 2)
PREVIOUS POSTS IN THIS...
February 3 | Linda McMahon and ‘Fragile X Syndrome’ (Part 1 )
INTRODUCTION Far from the...
February 3 | Program Note: Blog Series on Stamford Police and ‘Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ Interrupted by Breaking News
There is still one part to go...
February 2 | Hartford Courant’s Rick Green Pushes Muchnick Challenge to Linda McMahon
Rick Green, a columnist for...
February 2 | Linda McMahon Invited to Muchnick Book Signing for ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ in Stamford
Linda McMahon —...
January 31 | Linda McMahon Chronicles: Strange Tale of the Stamford Police and the ‘Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ (Part 3)
PREVIOUS POSTS IN THIS SERIES...
January 31 | Hartford Courant’s Rick Green Stirs the Pot Again
“Muchnick Wants Piece...
January 31 | Linda McMahon’s Amended FEC Filing Shows How Her Campaign and WWE Are Joined at the Lip
The first analysis I’ve...
January 31 | Ode to Norah Jones’ ‘Chasing Pirates’
The advantage of blogging is...
January 31 | Don’t Sniff at Linda McMahon — Cover Her
In a column in Sunday’s...
January 30 | Review Reset: What the Critics Are Saying About Irvin Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’
“Great read for anyone...
January 29 | Linda McMahon Chronicles: Strange Tale of the Stamford Police and the ‘Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ (Part 2)
PREVIOUS POSTS IN THIS SERIES...
January 29 | East Coast Journalist: ‘West Coast author who is dogging Linda McMahon coming to Stamford’
I greatly appreciate the...
January 29 | ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Author Muchnick at Borders in Stamford, Connecticut, March 25
Contacts: Simon Ware,...
January 29 | ‘After Massachusetts, All Eyes Turn to Connecticut’ (full text)
[originally published at...
January 28 | Linda McMahon Chronicles: Strange Tale of the Stamford Police and the ‘Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ (Part 1)
INTRODUCTION Chapter 9 of...
January 28 | WWE Stars Chris Jericho And ‘Hurricane’ Helms Arrested
TMZ.com was the first to...
January 27 | Sports Concussions Reach the Connecticut Legislature
The Hartford Courant‘s...
January 27 | ‘Connecticut Newsmakers’ Makes None
I took a pass on commenting...
January 27 | CHRIS & NANCY Is No. 2 in Pro Wrestling at Amazon
Irvin Muchnick’s CHRIS...
January 27 | ‘You’ll absolutely love this book’ … PWMania.com
“Since that day in 2007...
January 25 | Linda McMahon’s Opponent Continues to Hammer WWE on Talent Health and Safety
For the second straight...
January 23 | Jerry McDevitt, Lawyer for Linda McMahon’s WWE, Gets Mad at Me Again (Part 3)
JERRY McDEVITT SPINS...
January 22 | Jerry McDevitt, Lawyer for Linda McMahon’s WWE, Gets Mad at Me Again (Part 2)
JERRY McDEVITT PLAYS THE...
January 21 | ‘All Eyes Turn to Connecticut Senate Race’ … today at Beyond Chron
“Scott Brown’s...
January 21 | Jerry McDevitt, Lawyer for Linda McMahon’s WWE, Gets Mad at Me Again (Part 1)
INTRODUCTION For those of us...
January 21 | Linda McMahon Campaign and WWE Play Shell Game With Media Inquiry
Here’s a story about...
January 20 | FLASHBACK: ‘K&L Gates in Bizarre WWE Smackdown’
Before taking the full plunge...
January 20 | K&L Gates: We Did No Washington Lobbying on Behalf of WWE in 2009
Jerry McDevitt,...
January 20 | Wrestling’s Jim Cornette Rips the McMahons
Simon Rothstein of UK’s...
January 20 | Muchnick’s Beyond Chron Piece to Analyze Linda McMahon Senate Race After Scott Brown Win
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
January 19 | Did Linda McMahon’s WWE Do No Federal Lobbying in 2009 – Or Just Not Report Any?
I am trying to figure out...
January 18 | ‘The King’ Lambastes Linda McMahon’s ‘Face the State’ Performance
And you thought I was...
January 18 | What the Critics Are Saying About Irvin Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’
“Great read for anyone...
January 18 | Vince McMahon to Frank Deford: ‘I Have Proof I’m Not a Mobster!’ (Part 3 of 3)
In February 1992 Linda and...
January 18 | Frank Deford, the ‘Wrestling Media,’ and Me (Part 2 of 3)
To state the painfully...
January 18 | When Linda McMahon’s Husband Stole Frank Deford’s Shoes (Part 1 of 3)
On Sunday’s Face the...
January 17 | Linda McMahon’s Opponent Says Her ‘Face the State’ Remarks Don’t ‘Face the Truth’
The campaign of Rob Simmons,...
January 17 | Linda McMahon: ‘I’ve Worked and Been in a Business That Is Very Testosterone-Loaded’
Linda McMahon’s...
January 15 | Linda McMahon’s WWE Past Matters: Connecticut Political Journalist
Brian Lockhart of the...
January 14 | Linda McMahon Steroid-Death Q’s Take Up ‘Entire Segment’ on ‘Face the State’
Linda McMahon taped Face the...
January 14 | Linda McMahon, Über-Carny
Linda McMahon — who...
January 14 | ‘Linda McMahon Is in This Fight to Stay — Get Over It, People’ (full text)
[originally published at...
January 13 | Panelists Named for Linda McMahon’s ‘Face the State’ Interview
Dennis House, host of Face...
January 13 | The Suicide Attempt (Part 2 – Randy Orton, Poster Boy for Linda McMahon’s WWE ‘Wellness Policy’)
In April 2006 World Wrestling...
January 13 | Randy Orton, Poster Boy for Linda McMahon’s WWE ‘Wellness Policy’ (Part 1)
The wrestling fan...
January 13 | Pro Wrestling Occupational Health and Safety Is Officially a U.S. Senate Race Issue
Just over two and a half...
January 13 | Susan Bysiewicz & Linda McMahon’s $$$
Susan Bysiewicz,...
January 13 | Dan and Susan Are the Tip of Linda McMahon’s Iceberg in State Politics
I want to call attention to...
January 12 | Linda McMahon and the Anatomy of a Network TV News Dud
Early Saturday morning in...
January 12 | ABC News Denies Airbrushing Linda McMahon Transcript — Fine, Then Publish the Whole Thing
ABC News has responded, but...
January 12 | How Linda McMahon Will Try to Answer – But Fumble – ‘The Question’
One of the most eagerly...
January 11 | Tony ‘Ludvig Borga’ Halme Committed Suicide: Finnish Newspaper
Ilta-Sanomat, a tabloid...
January 11 | Paging David Westin, President of ABC News
Your humble blogger emailed...
January 11 | Ask the Candidates: What Do You Think About Linda McMahon and Death in Pro Wrestling?
[the text below was emailed...
January 11 | Wrestling Journalist Calls Borga Death ‘Another Example of Bill Coming Due’
In an email to me, James...
January 10 | Newest WWE Casualty: Tony ‘Ludwig Borga’ Halme, 47
Tony Halme, a main event star...
January 10 | Puff-Piece Trilogy: ABC News’ Softball Linda McMahon Interview With Kate Snow
Yesterday the co-anchor of...
January 10 | ABC News’ Kate Snow Twitters About Clowning Around with Linda McMahon
Yesterday Kate Snow, the ABC...
January 10 | ‘The Question’ – Senate Candidate Linda McMahon (Still) Can’t Answer It (complete 7-part series as a single post)
Last Monday this blog, in...
January 9 | ABC News’ First Pass at Linda McMahon Coverage Is a Dud
The ABC evening news had a...
January 9 | ‘Two Words: Public Relations’ – Vince McMahon on Why WWE Underwrites Drug Rehab for Ex-Wrestlers
Monday – Senate...
January 8 | ‘Linda McMahon in Race to Stay — Get Over It’ … today at Beyond Chron
Wrestling’s Linda...
January 8 | Facsimile of WWE Talent Contract
Monday – Senate...
January 7 | Review Reset: What the Critics Are Saying About Irvin Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’
“Great read for anyone...
January 7 | Sorry — Make That 11 Dead Performers From 1991 WrestleMania
Blog reader Keith Harris...
January 7 | Mixing it Up With Hartford Courant Blog Commenters
Two days ago Hartford Courant...
January 7 | UK’s Sun Picks Up Linda McMahon / Death in Wrestling Angle
Simon Rothstein, in a piece...
January 7 | WrestleMania 1991 Early Deaths 7-10 (Curt ‘Mr. Perfect’ Hennig, Ray ‘Big Boss Man’ Traylor, Brian ‘Demolition Crush’ Adams, Sherri ‘Sensational Sherri Martel’ Russell)
Monday – Senate...
January 6 | With Chris Dodd Out, Whom Does Lowell Weicker Endorse?
In the coverage of Senator...
January 6 | Clarification: WWE Corporate Website Isn’t Hiding
It looks like I erred in the...
January 6 | What Dodd’s Withdrawal Means for Linda McMahon Out-of-State Watchers: Nothing
Out here in California, the...
January 6 | Muchnick’s sportstalkNETWORK.com Interview in Podcast Form
CHRIS & NANCY author...
January 6 | WrestleMania 1991 Early Deaths 4-6 (John ‘Earthquake’ Tenta, Michael ‘Road Warrior Hawk’ Hegstrand, Ray ‘Hercules’ Fernandez)
Monday – Senate...
January 5 | ‘Muchnick Won’t Back Down. What Will Linda McMahon Do?’
That’s the headline...
January 5 | WrestleMania 1991 Early Deaths 1-3 (Dino Bravo, Kerry ‘Texas Tornado’ Von Erich, Davey Boy ‘British Bulldog’ Smith)
Monday – Senate...
January 4 | Senate Candidate Linda McMahon Has No Good Answer to This Question (Part 1 – Introduction)
TODAY – Part 1,...
January 4 | ‘WWE lawyer Jerry McDevitt read this cover to cover and so should you’ … FloridaWrestlingFans.com
Full text of Alan...
January 4 | Linda and Vince McMahon’s WWE: Good for Connecticut but Bad for Humanity?
An article today in...
January 2 | Type “http://wwecorp.com” — Find Out How Rey Mysterio Hates Batista!
World Wrestling Entertainment...
January 2 | Senate Candidate Linda McMahon and WWE’s Steroid ‘Therapeutic Use Exemptions’
Retired wrestler Bret Hart...
January 1 | Chris Benoit’s Father Reads CHRIS & NANCY, Offers Some Corrections
Mike Benoit, Chris’s...

2009 (559)

December 30 | Paging Dr. Joseph Maroon, Medical Director for Senate Candidate Linda McMahon’s WWE
We still haven’t heard...
December 30 | Great Moments in Email, Part 3
“DiRT” (email...
December 29 | Muchnick Interview Wednesday on SportsTalkNetwork.com
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
December 29 | Why Linda McMahon’s WWE Wrestlers Won’t Unionize: The Bret Hart Story
Last night, on USA...
December 28 | Hartford Courant Blog Picks Up ‘Vince Fought the Law’ Series
Hartford Courant “CT...
December 28 | Linda McMahon’s Husband Vince Fought the Law, and the Law Lost (complete text as a single post)
“Linda McMahon’s...
December 27 | Linda McMahon’s Husband Vince Fought the Law, and the Law Lost (Part 7 – Conclusion)
Monday – Part 1, Dr....
December 26 | Linda McMahon’s Husband Vince Fought the Law, and the Law Lost (Part 6 – Waxman Committee Interview)
Monday – Part 1, Dr....
December 25 | Linda McMahon’s Husband Vince Fought the Law, and the Law Lost (Part 5 – Aftermath)
Monday – Part 1, Dr....
December 24 | George Michael (r.i.p.) and Pro Wrestling
Allow me to add my...
December 24 | Linda McMahon’s Husband Vince Fought the Law, and the Law Lost (Part 4 – The Defense Lawyer, the ‘Fixer,’ and the Playboy Model)
Monday – Part 1, Dr....
December 23 | Linda McMahon’s Husband Vince Fought the Law, and the Law Lost (Part 3 — 1994 Drug Trial)
Monday – Part 1, Dr....
December 22 | Linda McMahon’s Husband Vince Fought the Law, and the Law Lost (Part 2 — 1992 Drug and Sex Scandals)
Monday – Part 1, Dr....
December 21 | Obama’s Shame – ‘Christmas Gift’ to WWE’s GOP Senate Candidate Linda McMahon (full text)
[originally published at...
December 21 | Linda McMahon’s Husband Vince Fought the Law, and the Law Lost (Part 1 — Dr. George Zahorian)
TODAY – Part 1, Dr....
December 20 | ‘Linda McMahon: Can She Shake the WWE Image?’
The headline over this post...
December 20 | Linda McMahon Profile in Hartford Courant
The Sunday Hartford Courant...
December 18 | Review Reset: What the Critics Are Saying About Irvin Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’
“Great read for anyone...
December 18 | First Brain-Trauma Syndrome Reported in Hockey
Reggie Fleming, a former...
December 18 | Linda McMahon Campaign Enters its Post-Obama Phase
President Obama’s...
December 18 | ‘Most important wrestling book in years’ … critic Derek Burgan
Full text of wrestling media...
December 17 | Obama and the Linda McMahon Troops Tribute: Dumb and Dumber
In the wake of the following...
December 17 | ‘Obama’s Shame’ in the Linda McMahon Fiasco … today at Beyond Chron
Obama’s Shame –...
December 17 | A Sucker Born Every Minute: Obama Falls for Linda McMahon’s ‘Geraldine Ferraro Statue of Liberty Play’
I am not here to join the...
December 16 | Senate Candidate Linda McMahon’s WWE Lies to ESPN (Part 2)
This blog reported two days...
December 15 | Barack Obama Meets Milan Kundera
Our commander-in-chief caps...
December 15 | Teflon Linda McMahon ‘Defines Deviancy Down’
Had he not worn a bow tie,...
December 14 | EXCLUSIVE: Linda McMahon’s WWE Medical Director Met With Chris Benoit Brain Experts in 2008
In a December 9 article at...
December 13 | Muchnick’s CBC ‘Daybreak Alberta’ Interview in Podcast Form
CHRIS & NANCY author...
December 12 | Jerry McDevitt Wild Card: How Does the McMahon Family’s Favorite Legal Attack Dog Play in Plainfield?
Jerry McDevitt, a partner in...
December 11 | Chris Benoit’s Dad to Author Muchnick, Part 2: WWE/McMahon Lawyer McDevitt and the Pennsylvania Coroner
Mike Benoit, father of the...
December 11 | Chris Benoit’s Father’s Bombshell: ‘We Still Have Seven Years to Decide on Whether to Sue WWE’
The previous post publishes...
December 11 | Author Muchnick’s Email Exchange With Chris Benoit’s Father
Most of the exchange below...
December 10 | Linda McMahon, Pro Wrestling’s Drug Culture, and WWE Attack Dog Jerry McDevitt
I’ve said repeatedly...
December 9 | Senate Candidate Linda McMahon, Former Senator Rick Santorum, and Pro Wrestling Deregulation
The tale of deregulation in...
December 9 | More on the Real Brain Damage Caused by Linda McMahon’s Fake Wrestling
Pop quiz: What’s the...
December 9 | Review Reset: What the Critics Are Saying About Irvin Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY’
“Great read for anyone...
December 8 | Linda McMahon Goes All Little Peggy March on Your Humble Twitterer
All right — so no one...
December 8 | Umaga Death Is Newest Doubletalk Challenge for Linda McMahon and WWE
Tolstoy said every unhappy...
December 8 | ‘Great read for anyone who cares about wrestling or is interested in true crime’ – Bookgasm.com
Full text of Eric...
December 7 | Politico.com Throws Some Jabs at Linda McMahon
Politico.com’s...
December 7 | WRESTLING BABYLON Blog Now at Connecticut Capitol Report
Our blog has been picked up...
December 7 | Bruno Sammartino Most Prominent Name in Linda McMahon-Bashing Article
The Hill, a Washington...
December 7 | Enough Umaga Crocodile Tears, Wrestling Fans — What Are You Going to DO About Wrestling’s Death Culture?
Jeuron Dove, writing on the...
December 7 | P.S.: Senate Candidate Linda McMahon, Jeff Hardy, et al.
An alert blog reader points...
December 7 | Senate Candidate Linda McMahon, Jeff Hardy, Umaga, Eddie Guerrero, and Chris Benoit
World Wrestling...
December 6 | Muchnick’s Pro Wrestling Year in Review
In which we breach...
December 5 | WWE’s McMahon Fares Well in Connecticut Survivor Series (full text)
[originally published at...
December 5 | Source: Politico.com Is Readying Unflattering Piece on Linda McMahon
I have learned exclusively...
December 4 | Dave Meltzer Obsesses Over Timeline … of When Umaga Was Pronounced Dead
One of the major findings of...
December 3 | WWE’s McMahon Fares Well in Senate Survivor Series (today at Beyond Chron)
World Wrestling Entertainment...
November 28 | Chris Benoit Story Takes Dave Meltzer & Company Out of Their Comfort Zone
SEE ALSO: Podcast of...
November 28 | Muchnick’s Interview on ‘UnderScore’ (Hardcore Sports Radio) in Podcast Form
The November 23 interview of...
November 27 | An Exchange with Sean Radican of Pro Wrestling Torch
Sean Radican (Pro Wrestling...
November 27 | CHRIS & NANCY Holiday Errata Project
Earlier this month Dave...
November 23 | Muchnick Interview Today on Hardcore Sports Radio
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
November 19 | Author-Blogger Anthony Roberts on Brock Lesnar
See “Brock Lesnar...
November 18 | Another Linda McMahon Senate Campaign Note
Last week USA Today did a...
November 18 | Superstar Billy Graham, Disgruntled Former Independent Contractor
The retired wrestler...
November 16 | ‘The Agassi Exception’ … Today at Beyond Chron
“The Agassi Exception:...
November 14 | In Answer to James Caldwell’s Question …
“What do you...
November 14 | Thank You, James Caldwell of Pro Wrestling Torch
I opened my email this...
November 13 | Dave Meltzer’s Weak Defense of CHRIS & NANCY Review Blackout
Dave Meltzer, by far the most...
November 12 | ‘Muchnick goes where no one else cares to go’ — Sacramento News & Review
Full text of Mark...
November 12 | Dave Meltzer’s Correspondence With Me Exposes ‘Uncomfortable But Necessary Question’
As I’ve been discussing...
November 11 | Voices of Sanity on Dave Meltzer’s CHRIS & NANCY Review Blackout
I was clearly unfair in...
November 11 | Wrestling Observer Discussion Board: Into the Den of the Wolves in Sheeps’ Clothing
Yesterday your humble blogger...
November 10 | CHRIS & NANCY — A Guide for the Perplexed
CHRIS & NANCY: The True...
November 9 | Dave Meltzer, CHRIS & NANCY, and Me (Part 2)
As noted in the first post of...
November 8 | Wrestler-Broadcaster Adam Firestorm Commits Suicide at 32
Adam Dykes, who worked for...
November 8 | Dave Meltzer, CHRIS & NANCY, and Me (Part 1)
Dave Meltzer, publisher of...
November 6 | Muchnick Internet Interview Friday; Links to CHRIS & NANCY Reviews
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
November 5 | ‘Muchnick provides a great public service’ — Beyond Chron
Full text of Randy...
November 2 | Muchnick’s GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com Interview in Podcast Form
Irvin Muchnick’s...
November 2 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Final Twitter Feed, November 2
Follow @irvmuch at Twitter....
November 2 | Muchnick’s Challenge to Wrestling Internet Radio Host Gary Cubeta
FOR FURTHER BACKGROUND, SEE:...
November 1 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for November 1
For a live feed of this...
November 1 | Just for Fun — Looking Back at ‘Night and the City’
I have a piece at SLAM!...
October 31 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 31
For a live feed of this...
October 31 | Let’s Not Go Reflecting on the ‘Fan Community’ Or Anything
In the chapter of CHRIS &...
October 31 | CHRIS & NANCY Dustup at Fan Discussion Board
For an absolutely hilarious...
October 31 | Benoit Book Author Muchnick Interviewed on CBC Radio’s ‘Daybreak Alberta’
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
October 31 | Muchnick’s Iowa Radio Interview in Podcast Form
Irvin Muchnick’s...
October 31 | CHRIS & NANCY: The Great Debate
A guy named Gary Cubeta, who...
October 30 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 30
For a live feed of this...
October 29 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 29
For a live feed of this...
October 28 | Who Was Chris Benoit’s WWE Diva Mistress? A ‘Shocking Omission’ in SLAM! Wrestling Review
Several months ago...
October 28 | SLAM! Wrestling’s Muchnick Benoit Book Review a Flawed But Valuable Resource
The headline is cheeky...
October 28 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 28
For a live feed of this...
October 28 | Muchnick Radio Interview Thursday; Links to CHRIS & NANCY Reviews
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
October 28 | “Incredibly well researched … incredibly valuable resource” — SLAM! Wrestling
Full text of the SLAM!...
October 27 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 27
For a live feed of this...
October 26 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 26
For a live feed of this...
October 25 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 25
For a live feed of this...
October 24 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 24
For a live feed of this...
October 24 | Someone Was in Bed With a Publicist on This One
“The WWE is now rated...
October 23 | Muchnick’s Calgary Radio Interview in Podcast Form
Irvin Muchnick’s...
October 23 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 23
For a live feed of this...
October 22 | Syndicated Columnist Marvez Interviews Author Muchnick
Alex Marvez, wrestling...
October 22 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 22
For a live feed of this...
October 22 | Benoit Book Author Muchnick in Live Interview on Calgary Radio
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
October 21 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 21
For a live feed of this...
October 20 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 20
For a live feed of this...
October 19 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 19
For a live feed of this...
October 18 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 18
For a live feed of this...
October 17 | ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Is Hottest Independent Wrestling Book at Amazon
Just a day after it began...
October 17 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 17
For a live feed of this...
October 16 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 16
For a live feed of this...
October 16 | News Notes from the WWE Royal Family
Shane McMahon, Vince’s...
October 16 | Muchnick’s KRON 4 Interview on YouTube; Links to CHRIS & NANCY Reviews
Irvin Muchnick’s...
October 15 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 15
For a live feed of this...
October 15 | Here’s My Captain Lou Albano Anecdote
In 1985 an attention-starved...
October 14 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 14
For a live feed of this...
October 14 | Muchnick’s KRON 4 Interview Is Wednesday at 6:45 p.m.
Author Irvin Muchnick’s...
October 14 | “Immensely interesting and readable” — Writer Anthony Roberts
Full text of writer Anthony...
October 13 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 13
For a live feed of this...
October 13 | Muchnick’s KRON 4 Interview Postponed
Today’s live interview...
October 12 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 12
For a live feed of this...
October 12 | Benoit Book Author Muchnick in Live Interview with Gary Radnich on KRON 4
Benoit Book Author Muchnick...
October 11 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 11
For a live feed of this...
October 10 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 10
For a live feed of this...
October 9 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 9
For a live feed of this...
October 8 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 8
For a live feed of this...
October 8 | “Incredible retelling … Highly recommended” — Georgia Wrestling History
Full text of the Georgia...
October 7 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 7
For a live feed of this...
October 6 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 6
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October 5 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 5
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October 4 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 4
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October 3 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 3
For a live feed of this...
October 2 | American Lawyer Covers Muchnick-McDevitt Exchange on Benoit Book
Am Law Daily, the blog of...
October 2 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 2
For a live feed of this...
October 1 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for October 1
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September 30 | WWE on Muchnick’s CHRIS & NANCY — The Twitter Daily Dozen for September 30
For a live feed of this...
September 30 | CHRIS & NANCY Author Muchnick’s Twitter Feed Publishes WWE Critique
CHRIS & NANCY Author...
September 25 | Connecticut Senate Race Is a Royal Rumble (full text)
[originally published at...
September 22 | ‘Connecticut Senate Race Is a Royal Rumble’ … today at Beyond Chron
Connecticut Senate Race is a...
September 21 | CHRIS & NANCY Table of Contents And Complete Preview
Benoit Book Table of Contents...
September 20 | Muchnick Review of Chris Hedges’ ‘Empire of Illusion’ … full text from SLAM! Wrestling
[originally published at...
September 16 | Chris Nowinski Discusses Wrestlers’ Concussions on Toronto Radio
Chris Nowinski, the retired...
September 16 | Another Independent Wrestler Dies of Apparent Brain Injury
James Caldwell of Pro...
September 16 | Linda McMahon Throws Her Hat — and Baggage — Into the Ring
It’s official: World...
September 16 | CHRIS & NANCY Author Muchnick Reviews Chris Hedges’ ‘Empire of Illusion’
Irvin Muchnick, author of the...
September 11 | Jeff Hardy Arrest — You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Jeff Hardy, a WWE star who...
September 10 | New Wrestler Death
Peter Goodman, 29, who...
August 30 | Muchnick.net Releases Intro of Benoit Book
Muchnick.net Releases Intro...
August 29 | ‘When Daniel Puder Hurt Kurt Angle’ … full text from SLAM! Wrestling
[originally published at...
August 27 | WWE’s Rey Mysterio Suspended — Also Linked to Benoit’s Doc
WWE has announced the 30-day...
August 27 | CHRIS & NANCY Ships to Printer — Here’s the Back Cover
Irvin Muchnick’s CHRIS...
August 26 | Wikipedia Changes Edit Procedure — Too Late for the ‘Benoit Hacker’
Wikipedia has announced that...
August 24 | Muchnick Article on Daniel Puder at SLAM! Wrestling
“Five years after he...
August 24 | CHRIS & NANCY Author Muchnick on ‘UnderScore,’ Hardcore Sports Radio
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
August 23 | CHRIS & NANCY Photo Preview Brings Muchnick.net Record Traffic
CHRIS & NANCY Photo...
August 22 | Vince McMahon’s Campaign Contributions
VINCE McMAHON, THE CHAIRMAN...
August 22 | Senate Candidate Linda McMahon’s (CEO of WWE) Campaign Contributions
LINDA McMAHON, CEO OF WORLD...
August 21 | ‘Gina Carano Date Night in San Jose: Hit Movie, Unhappy Ending’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published at...
August 21 | ‘Cyborg Pummels Carano, Makes History’ (full text from SLAM! Sports)
[originally published at...
August 19 | CHRIS & NANCY, Story of Benoit Murder-Suicide, Includes 16-Page Color Photo Section
CHRIS & NANCY, Story of...
August 17 | Muchnick Coverage of Gina Carano vs. Cris Cyborg
Gina Carano Date Night in San...
August 14 | Mrs. McMahon Wants to Go to Washington
Linda McMahon, Vince’s...
August 10 | New York Post’s Mushnick on ‘Boring’ Steroid Issue
From the column in...
July 29 | Muchnick Book Club: QUEEN OF THE RING by Jeff Leen
I’m most of the way...
July 28 | Wrestling Babylon YouTube Channel Adds Classic Muchnick Interview Clips
The Wrestling Babylon channel...
July 27 | Chris Hedges’ New Jeremiad … And a Plague of Chrises
Chris Hedges has published a...
July 27 | Damien Steele Was 34
Touching up our earlier item,...
July 26 | Damien Dothard (“Steele”) Cause of Death: Aneurysm
Here are full details on the...
July 26 | (Very Little) More on Dead Wrestler Damien Steele
I have just a few nuggets of...
July 24 | Another Dead Wrestler — Damien Steele
A wrestler on the Georgia...
July 17 | Meltzer on Lesnar — Read and Learn
Frank Deford has called Dave...
July 17 | ‘Brock Lesnar: Fusion Sports Star’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published at...
July 14 | ‘Brock Lesnar: Fusion Sports Star’ … today at Beyond Chron
“Brock Lesnar: Fusion...
July 9 | ‘Buddy Rogers: Most Influential Wrestler of the 20th Century’ (full text from Wrestling Observer online)
[originally published on July...
July 7 | ‘Buddy Rogers: Most Influential Wrestler of the 20th Century’ … at Wrestling Observer online
Irvin Muchnick’s guest...
July 1 | Phil Mushnick Foreword to Irvin Muchnick’s Benoit Book
Phil Mushnick Writes Foreword...
June 25 | Gina Carano Doesn’t Exist in the East Bay Express
Last week the East Bay...
June 24 | Muchnick / Bret Hart CNN Exchange Popular at YouTube
The clip from the June 29,...
June 22 | Historical Footnote on Wrestler Brian Blair
Brian Blair, a retired...
June 21 | Donald Trump, WWE, And the SEC
In a Friday piece headlined...
June 17 | ‘No WWE in Benoit Wrongful-Death Suit’ (full text from SLAM! Wrestling)
[originally published on June...
June 17 | WrestlingBabylon / Chris & Nancy YouTube Channel Launched
A channel collecting the...
June 17 | ‘Steroid Cloud Hovers Over Baseball’s Feel-Good Stories’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published at...
June 15 | Great Moments in Email, Part 2
An anonymous correspondent...
June 15 | Cruel Irony: Misawa’s Real Cause of Death Is ‘Better’ Storyline
According to Japanese news...
June 15 | ‘Steroid Cloud Hovers Over Baseball’s Feel-Good Stories’ … today in Beyond Chron
“Anyone who cares about...
June 15 | Wrestling Observer: Misawa Death WAS An Industrial Accident
The Wrestling Observer...
June 14 | ‘Second Anniversary of Benoit Tragedy’ (full text from SLAM! Wrestling)
“Second anniversary of...
June 14 | Fox 5 Atlanta’s ‘New’ Benoit-Astin Revelations Are Old News
On the Friday newscast on...
June 13 | Japanese Wrestling Great Mitsuharu Misawa Dies in the Ring
Mitsuharu Misawa, the biggest...
June 12 | Chris Benoit’s Diva Mistress Was Not Victoria
On her MySpace blog, TNA...
June 12 | Coverage of Benoit Wrongful-Death Suit (at SLAM! Wrestling)
On Wednesday the family of...
June 11 | Nancy Benoit’s Family Sues Dr. Astin
The Atlanta...
June 11 | ‘Requiem for Black Oak Books’ (full text from Beyond Chron)
[originally published at...
June 11 | Batista, Master of the Torn Triceps … And Bicep
WWE star Batista is out of...
June 10 | Great Moments in Email
SHAWN RYU: Hello, I read your...
June 10 | Benoit Anniversary — Why It’s Important (at SLAM! Wrestling)
The second anniversary of the...
June 9 | ‘Requiem for Black Oak Books’ … today at Beyond Chron
Yet another venerable...
June 6 | ECW Press Catalogue Page for ‘CHRIS & NANCY,’ Story of Benoit Murder-Suicide
The ECW Press catalogue page...
June 5 | Obama on the Wrestlingization of America
“I don’t find...
June 4 | CHRIS & NANCY Now Available at Amazon France
CHRIS & NANCY: The True...
May 27 | CHRIS & NANCY Interview on WOC-AM, Davenport, Iowa
My interview about CHRIS...
May 27 | ‘Sex, Lies, and Moneyball’ at Beyond Chron
My new piece for Beyond...
May 21 | Technical notes
After some hiccups, the...
May 21 | CHRIS & NANCY Pre-Orders
CHRIS & NANCY has an...
May 21 | Benoit.com Redesign
The http://benoitbook.com...
May 21 | ECW Press Releases Cover of Irvin Muchnick’s ‘CHRIS & NANCY,’ Story of Benoit Murder-Suicide
See the new CHRIS & NANCY...
May 21 | Meltzer: Other Astin Dead Patient Was Probably Sherri Martel
In the current Wrestling...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/12/09: Benoit Doc’s Sentence: 10 Years
Dr. Phil Astin, who...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/11/09: ‘Manny Being Canny: The Myth of the Ramirez Drug Suspension (full text)
‘Manny Being Canny: The...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/10/09: ‘CHRIS & NANCY’ Amazon Pre-Order Links for Canada, Britain, Germany, Japan
‘CHRIS &...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/8/09: Link to ‘Manny Being Canny’ at Beyond Chron:
Link to ‘Manny Being...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/8/09: Kitsch King Obama’s BCS BS (full text)
Kitsch King Obama’s BCS...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/7/09: Benoit Author Muchnick on the Manny Ramirez Story — Tweet By Tweet
Benoit Author Muchnick on the...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/5/09: ‘Kitsch King Obama’s BCS BS’ (at Beyond Chron)
‘Kitsch King...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 4/30/09: Amazon Announces Pre-Orders for ‘Chris & Nancy,’ Story of Benoit Murder-Suicide
The Amazon page for...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 4/25/09: My Life of ‘O’Reilly’: A Memoir
[originally published at...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 4/20/09: Bill O’Reilly And Me (At Beyond Chron)
Bill O’Reilly And Me...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 4/17/09: About That Amazon Advance Listing …
Amazon has some errors in its...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 4/14/08: McMahon Family Dynasty in Decay (From Wrestling Observer)
McMahon Family Dynasty in...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 3/6/09: ‘Mixed Martial Arts Hits a Speed Bump’ at Beyond Chron
‘Mixed Martial Arts...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 3/6/09: In Other News …
Readers of this blog probably...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 1/13/09: McDevitt Cites Error in ‘Wrestling Babylon’ Death List, and Meltzer Clarifies
From the excellent coverage...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 1/10/09: Reprint of SLAM! Wrestling Column ‘See Ya Later, Congress …’
Reprint of SLAM! Wrestling...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 1/6/09: WWE’s Dr. Ray Doesn’t Get It
Another opening into the...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 1/6/09: Paining by Numbers: How WWE Compartmentalizes Death
I’ve been harsh on the...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 1/5/09: When Vince McMahon Stole Frank Deford’s Shoes
One of the stranger passages...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 1/5/09: How Vince McMahon Outfoxed Congress … at SLAM! Wrestling
How Vince McMahon Outfoxed...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 1/3/09: House Committee Report on Wrestling, Drugs, Death — A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Congressman Henry Waxman,...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 12/20/08: Von Erich Pastor Was Mentor of Obama Invocationist Rick Warren
This is not an editorial...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 12/17/08: Nancy Benoit Food-Poisoning Rumor Confirms Importance of Wikipedia Story
Even many who admire the...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 12/16/08: Who Let the Benoit Dogs Out? Probably Themselves
With other and more...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 12/8/08: Cross-posted from freelancerights.blogspot.com
Cross-posted from...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 12/6/08: Reprint of SLAM! Wrestling Column ‘The Unbearable Ambiguity of Benoit’
Reprint of SLAM! Wrestling...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 12/5/08: What the ‘Unbearable Ambiguity of Benoit’ Debate Is About
A few further thoughts on the...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 12/4/08: Feedback on SLAM! Wrestling Article
Much of the feedback is...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 12/2/08: ‘The Unbearable Ambiguity of Benoit’ at SLAM! Wrestling
But the Benoit family tragedy...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 10/21/08: Open Letter to the Benoit Wikipedia Hacker
Open Letter to the Benoit...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 11/21/08: Detective Defends Forensic Exam of Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’s Computer. I Don’t Buy It.
This morning Detective...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 11/21/08: Where Are They Now? Congressman Bobby Rush
In February — remember the...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 11/18/08: Yo, Connecticut Cops — Help Us Out on Your Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Investigative Gaps
Below are the texts of a...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 11/18/08: More on the Second Benoit Wikipedia Edit
My Australian mate emails...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 11/17/08: And Now for the SECOND Benoit Wikipedia Edit
Little noticed in the...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 11/17/08: Cross-posted from freelancerights.blogspot.com
Cross-posted from...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 11/14/08: WRESTLING BABYLON Up to No. 2 Again at Amazon Canada
WRESTLING BABYLON Up to No. 2...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 11/13/08: Stamford Police Chief Questioned on Failure of Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Investigation
Below is the text of author...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 11/12/08: Muchnick Analysis of Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Police Video
Like so much of the Chris...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 11/11/08: Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Police Video Is Up
Benoit Wikipedia Hacker...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 11/9/08: ‘See for Yourself’ — Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Police Video Coming Soon
‘See for...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 11/7/08: Q&A at Wrestling Observer on Release of the Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Police Video
After a four-month fight with...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 10/31/08: Stamford Police Say They Will Release Full ‘Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ Video
The public release of a...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 10/30/08: No Settlement
After vaguely agreeing that...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 10/29/08: Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Police Video … Settlement?
Yesterday the Stamford...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 10/22/08: Author Muchnick’s Draft Statement of Facts in ‘Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ Police Video FOI Case
Below is the text of an...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 10/22/08: What It Would Take to Settle the Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Police Video Dispute
I suggested a settlement...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 10/16/08: New Free Shipping Offer on Canadian Orders
With Amazon Canada again...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 10/15/08: Date Set for ‘Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ Police Video Hearing Before Connecticut FOI Commission
The Connecticut Freedom of...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 10/10/08: Preview of Stamford PD’s ‘Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ Defense Before Connecticut FOI Commission
The corporation counsel’s...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 10/9/08: Benoit Author Muchnick Requests Expedited Hearing on ‘Wikipedia Hacker’ Police Video
Below is the text of Irvin...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 10/1/08: WWE Is the Source for BOTH Benoit Timelines
I have intriguing new...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 9/25/08: Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Video Dispute: What Is Stamford PD’s Defense?
The ombudsman assigned to my...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 9/24/08: Benoit Wikipedia Hacker: Muchnick Proposes Stipulations to Stamford PD Before FOI Hearing
In anticipation of the...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 9/17/08: Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Update: Author Muchnick Appears Headed for FOI Commission Hearing
Below is the text of Irvin...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 9/2/08: Benoit Author Muchnick’s Dispute with Stamford Police Is on Connecticut FOI Commission Docket
Author Irvin Muchnick’s...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 8/22/08: Randy Orton’s … Motorcycle Accident (Wink, Wink)
Last September this blog ran...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 8/9/08: Reprint of SLAM! Wrestling Column ‘Strange Case of the Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’
Reprint of SLAM! Wrestling...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 8/7/08: Obama Need Not Worry As McCain Woos ‘Wrestling Demographic’
Obama Need Not Worry As...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 8/6/08: Media Coverage of Benoit Author Muchnick’s Connecticut Information Appeal for Wikipedia Hacker Police Video
Media Coverage of Benoit...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 8/5/08: McCain, Obama, and the ‘Wrestling Vote’ — Today at Beyond Chron
McCain, Obama, and the...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 8/4/08: ‘Strange Case of the Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ at SLAM! Wrestling
‘Strange Case of the...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 8/1/08: Benoit Author Muchnick Radio Interview Links
Benoit Author Muchnick Radio...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 7/31/08: Quiet on Capitol Hill
The Senate Office of Public...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 7/31/08: Author Muchnick Discusses ‘Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ in Radio Interview
Author Irvin Muchnick...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 7/29/08: What the Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Police Video Should Tell Us – But Probably Won’t
What I hope to accomplish by...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 7/28/08: Benoit Author Muchnick Appeals to Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission for Release of Wikipedia Hacker Police Video
The author of a forthcoming...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 7/26/08: Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Video: Appeal Planned to Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission
As noted earlier, the...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 7/23/08: Fayette County Sheriff’s Lawyer on Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Video: ‘I’m Not Being Stubborn. (Maybe I Am.)’
Fayette County...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 7/16/08: Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Police Video Snippet (Part 3 – Why We Should Care)
No one is saying that Matt...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 7/16/08: Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Police Video Snippet (Part 2 – Stonewall)
Greenberg was named for the...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 7/16/08: Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Police Video Snippet (Part 1 – Transcript)
In this post, I will...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 7/11/08: Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Video Interview Search Reset
More information on the role,...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 7/7/08: Benoit Wikipedia Hacker: Tale of the Tape
The saga of the missing...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 7/3/08: Benoit Wikipedia Hacker: What Happened to the Police Video?
I’m waiting for the Fayette...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/25/08: ECW Press Authors Win Wrestling Journalism Award
ECW Press Authors Win...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/25/08: Benoit & Wikipedia: Fayette County Sheriff Looks to Stamford Police for Video of Hacker Interview
In response to my application...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/19/08: Background of McDevitt Retraction and Apology
Background of McDevitt...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/19/08: Retraction and Apology to WWE Lawyer Jerry S. McDevitt
Retraction and Apology to WWE...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/19/08: WWE Lawyer Jerry McDevitt’s June 18 Letter to Author Muchnick
WWE Lawyer Jerry...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/17/08: Benoit and Wikipedia (Yes, Again)
Benoit and Wikipedia (Yes,...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/17/08: WWE’s McDevitt (Part 3 of 3): Lawyer Garbles Discussion of Chavo Guerrero and the ‘30-Hour Gap’
WWE’s McDevitt (Part 3...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/17/08: WWE’s McDevitt (Part 2 of 3): Lawyer Disputes Record of Federal Search Warrant of Dr. Astin
WWE’s McDevitt (Part 2...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/17/08: WWE’s McDevitt (Part 1 of 3): Lawyer Gives Misleading Account of Contact with Albany DA
WWE’s McDevitt (Part 1...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/16/08: WWE Lawyer Jerry McDevitt’s Second Letter to Author Muchnick
WWE Lawyer Jerry...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/16/08: WWE Lawyer Jerry McDevitt’s Letter to Author Irvin Muchnick, And Muchnick’s Reply
WWE Lawyer Jerry...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/12/08: Special on WRESTLING BABYLON Orders for Canadians
Special on WRESTLING BABYLON...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/12/08: Review of ‘Ring of Hell’ by Matthew Randazzo
Review of ‘Ring of...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/8/08: Reprint of Wrestling Observer Website Column on Benoit Anniversary Investigative Questions
Reprint of Wrestling Observer...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/7/08: Reprint of SLAM! Wrestling Column on Benoit Doc Astin’s Indictment
The new indictment of Dr....
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/4/08: Benoit: Did the Sheriff Ever Even Ask Verizon for the Voicemail?
One fairly important reason...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/3/08: ‘Benoit’s Dr. Astin — Pusher to the Stars” at SLAM!
“The new indictment of Dr....
May 20 | ARCHIVE 6/2/08: Chris Benoit’s Father on the Astin Indictment
Chris Benoit’s Father...
May 20 | Benoit.com Redesign
The http://benoitbook.com...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/31/08: Benoit Whitewash in Northern Georgia Continues With New Indictment of Dr. Astin
As usual, the media reports...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/29/08: NBC Cancels ‘Dateline’ Piece on Benoit
In the last days, NBC has...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/29/08: Dean Malenko References in Sheriff’s Benoit Report: Zero. Interviews of Dean Malenko by Sheriff’s Investigators: Zero.
The 52-page case summary has...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/28/08: Benoit Got Calls from Dean Malenko, Too
A little more on our previous...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/27/08: Benoit Home Up for Sale
Yesterday Fox 5 Atlanta...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/27/08: French TV Script on Wrestling Deaths Is Translated Online
An English translation of...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/25/08: French TV Report on Wrestling Deaths Is Online
The French television report...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/25/08: Benoit Calls From WWE Stopped Two Hours Before First 911 Call
The following chronology of...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/25/08: Meltzer: No Calls to Benoit from Scott Armstrong ON MONDAY
Dave Meltzer responded to our...
May 20 | ARCHIVE 5/23/08: Not Fit to Print in The New York Times (cont.)
The New York Times has not...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/23/08: More on the Old Business of the Benoit Tribute
More on the Old Business of...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/22/08: Meltzer Analyzes Additional Cell Phone Log
No sooner did I post the...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/22/08: Tips for the Wrestling Media on How to Improve Your Benoit Coverage
The sad truth is that most...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/21/08: William Regal Suspension
WWE is getting good press for...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/21/08: Author Muchnick on French TV Sunday
Author Irvin Muchnick is...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/20/08: BENOIT Is No. 1 Wrestling Book at Amazon Canada
BENOIT Is No. 1 Wrestling...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/20/08: Benoit Phone Data Evidence Scandal: Verizon Cited a Text Message
Yet more information...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/18/08: Meltzer Is Confirmed Correct — WWE Wrestler Says Some of His Texts to Benoit Didn’t Show Up
A WWE wrestling colleague of...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/17/08: Benoit Text Messages: We Probably Don’t Have All of Those, Either
I now notice that one of my...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/16/08: Who Said Everything Out of Dennis Fagan’s Mouth Was Worthless?
As Fagan points out in this...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/15/08: Reprint of SLAM! Wrestling Column on Benoit Investigation
Reprint of SLAM! Wrestling...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/15/08: Ex-FBI Agent, Working for WWE, Poses as Benoit Family Investigator
The list of people who...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/15/08: Second-Day Notes on Benoit 911 Instant Analysis
My comment that the details...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/15/08: Why the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office Could Use a Credibility Transfusion Along About Now
So Detective Harper was...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/15/08: Benoit, the Fayette County Sheriff, and Scott (Armstrong) James’ Non-Statement Statement
At seven months and...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/14/08: Benoit 911 Calls: Instant Analysis
Some first thoughts on the...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/14/08:Still More Benoit 911: WWE Security Chief Sounds Truly Clueless
I have now acquired what I am...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/14/08: Channel 2/Atlanta Story with Benoit Answering Machine Audio Is Confirmed to Be Self-Generated Fluff
I earlier wondered aloud if...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/13/08: Got Tips for the Chris Benoit Investigation?
Got Tips for the Chris Benoit...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/12/08: Wrestling Observer Online Columnist: ‘Muchnick Is Hot on the Trail of Something’
Joe Babinsack, a columnist at...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/11/08: Benoit — The Scandal Wrestling Fans Wish Would Go Away
The Fayette County...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/10/08: Columnist Reflects on Benoit Anniversary
James Caldwell, a columnist...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/10/08: So Maybe It Was Just an Independently Dumb TV News Report. You Decide.
I’ve been open to the...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/9/08: Benoit Voicemail Scandal: Was the Atlanta TV Report Planted?
Everyone already knows that I...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/8/08: Mr. Kennedy Cops to ‘Mistakes’
Catching up on...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/8/08: Back to Daniel Benoit and Fragile X Syndrome
A subject of great...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/7/08: Benoit: What the Missing Voicemail Evidence Would Explain
As I said a couple of days...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/7/08: Benoit: Speaking of Those 911 Calls …
Wrapping up the current...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/7/08: Benoit: The Sheriff’s Flawed Report and Andrews International
In the coming days I’m...
May 19 | ARCHIVE 5/5/08: Benoit Voicemail Scandal — Complete Rundown
It’s just about time to...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 5/5/08: Dave Meltzer Misses the Point on Benoit Voicemail
In a comment on his update...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 5/5/08: Scott James = Scott Armstrong
Greg Oliver, wrestling...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 5/4/08: Benoit Lost Voicemail Is Fishy: Evidence Expert
My probe of the mystery of...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 5/3/08: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick Interviewed for French TV Documentary
Irvin Muchnick was...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 5/2/08: WRESTLING BABYLON Is No. 1 Wrestling Book at Amazon Canada
WRESTLING BABYLON Is No. 1...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 5/2/08: Yo, Channel 2/Atlanta — Was the Benoit Story Your Bright Idea?
Yesterday I emailed Tom...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 5/2/08: Highly Recommended Baltimore Sun Story on WWE Post-Benoit
Highly Recommended Baltimore...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 5/1/08: Channel 2 Ignores Eddie Guerrero Messages
The report on WSB-TV, Channel...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 5/1/0: Benoit Voicemail Mystery: Seeking a Tech Expert
One blog reader’s response...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 4/30/08: Memo to Channel 2/Atlanta and to Wrestling Writers: The Story Is the Missing Benoit Cell Voicemail
I hope Jason Powell — as...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 4/29/08: Verizon Won’t Comment — It’s Up to the Sheriff to Explain
A spokesperson for Verizon...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 4/28/08: Muchnick Email/Fax to Fayette County Sheriff Randall Johnson
Below is the text of the...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 4/27/08: Benoit Investigation Reset
Chris Benoit murdered his...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 4/26/08: Benoit: Sheriff’s Refined Cell Phone Log Quits at Page 13 of 15
As I’ve reported, the...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 4/23/08: Benoit: The Sheriff’s Cell Phone Call Log Stops Abruptly on Sunday
There’s one further problem...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 4/23/08: Benoit: What Happened to the Cell Phone Voicemail?
What about the actual audio...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 4/23/08: Benoit: Fayette County Sheriff Offers No Explanation for the Guerrero-James ‘30-Hour Gap’
I turn with great reluctance...
May 18 | ARCHIVE 4/23/08: Benoit’s Home Answering Machine Still Had Eddie Guerrero’s Last Messages
In addition to getting the...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/22/08: More Benoit 911: Calls from WWE Security Chief and VP Hering
I have acquired additional...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/22/08: French Documentary on WWE Is in the Works
I chatted today with a French...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/21/08: Chris Jericho Cracks the Credibility Barrier
Chris Jericho in Britain’s...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/19/08: Magazine Article About Wrestling Deaths
The April issue of Autograph...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/14/08: Author Muchnick Interviewed on KRLD 1080 in Dallas
Author Irvin Muchnick was...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/11/08: WWE Spent at Least $260,000 Lobbying on Capitol Hill in 2007
The Center for Responsive...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/11/08: ‘WWE Steps Up to the Plate’ on Concussions
Chris Nowinski has heard from...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/11/08: Chavo Guerrero and Scott James: Why What They Could Be Hiding About Benoit Matters
As a journalist examining the...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/11/08: New Tag Team: Chavo and Scott, “The As-Yet-Unnamed Wrestlers”
Not since the Midnight Rider...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/10/08: Preview of New Benoit Evidence
I’ve applied to the Fayette...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/9/08: Chavo Guerrero’s Info Is No Joking Matter
In the last post I had some...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/9/08: Memo to Vince McMahon: Don’t Blame Chavo Guerrero — He’s Not My Source
A blog reader speculates that...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/9/08: Audio of Author Muchnick’s Radio Interview
Irvin Muchnick’s interview...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/9/08: There’s Support for WWE’s Sunday Benoit Timeline, After All
Tantalizing new information...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/8/08: Chris Benoit’s Father on Tracy Smothers and Concussions
Much of the discussion about...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/7/08: Author Muchnick to Discuss Benoit Developments in Radio Interview
Author Irvin Muchnick will...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/7/08: Latest from Wrestler Drug Central
Last night Fox5 News in...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/6/08: Is WWE Exec Carl DeMarco Trying to Cover His Tracks?
Someone with a lot more...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/6/08: Josh Stewart of the Long Island Press Pulls a Punch at Your Humble Blogger
On Friday I received a...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/5/08: Dave Meltzer: ‘The McMahon Family Itself Had to Know’
The April 10 issue of the...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/4/08: Benoit: Who Let the Dogs Out?
Let’s be careful with how...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/4/08: What Scott James Said About Benoit Also Supports the Daily News Timeline
What Chavo Guerrero told the...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/4/08: Chavo Guerrero’s Statements to Fayette County Sheriff Cast Doubt on WWE’s Benoit Timeline
So even though Chavo Guerrero...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/3/08: EXCLUSIVE: WWE Knew Chris Benoit Was the Perpetrator Before Staging ‘Monday Night Raw’ Tribute
Back on June 25, 2007,...
May 14 | ARCHIVE 4/2/08: Blog technical note
Blog technical note...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 4/2/08: Paging WWE, New York Daily News, Dean Malenko With Benoit Questions (WDMKABAWDHKI, Part 4)
Below is my email exchange...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 4/2/08: Dennis Fagan, Andrews International Security Firm, and WWE (WDMKABAWDHKI, Part 3)
“I run security for World...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 4/1/08: Fayette County Sheriff Didn’t Tell WWE ‘Double Homicide/Suicide’ on June 25. Yes, But … (WDMKABAWDHKI, Part 2)
On Monday I talked with...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 4/1/08: Introducing ‘What Did McMahon Know About Benoit and When Did He Know It?’ (WDMKABAWDHKI)
Three days ago World...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 3/31/08: Muchnick’s Open Letter to Scott James and Chavo Guerrero: What REALLY Happened After You Got the Chris Benoit Texts?
Dear Scott and Chavo: I...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 3/30/08: My Kind of WrestleMania Note — Thank You to Andrea Adelson of the Orlando Sentinel
Readers of this blog know...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 3/29/08: Scott James, Chavo Guerrero – Keys to Unlocking WWE’s Implausible Benoit Timeline
On Thursday night this blog...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 3/28/08: Benoit 911 Call: WWE Security Chief Gave Wrong Day of Wrestler’s Last Message
MARCH 28, 2008 – In the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 3/26/08: Chase Tatum, 34, Is Latest Pro Wrestling Casualty
The countdown to next...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 3/13/08: Mise-en-Cena
Wade Keller of Pro Wrestling...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 3/11/08: Jeff Hardy — Another Lamb to Slaughter?
Jeff Hardy has been suspended...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 3/5/08: Wrestling Is Back on the Congressional Radar Screen
No less Byzantine than the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 3/3/08: Orlando Sentinel Exaggerates WWE Profits by $134.8 Million
As blog readers know, I’ve...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 3/3/08: Ambiguity on Jake Roberts and the WWE Hall of Fame
Jake Roberts’ camp is...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 3/2/08: What is the Orlando Sentinel’s Deal With WWE?
The managing editor of the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 2/29/08: Muchnick to Orlando Sentinel: Here’s the Real WrestleMania Story
Below is my email to Mark...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 12/29/08: Mark Kriegel, FoxSports.com: ‘Nothing Fake About Wrestling’s Juicing Problem’
Mark Kriegel of FoxSports.com...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 2/28/08: Author Muchnick To Discuss Congress and Pro Wrestling in Radio Interview
Author Irvin Muchnick will...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 2/28/08: Footnotes on Yesterday’s Congressional Steroid Hearings
I commend the complete...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 2/28/08: ‘McMahon Botches His Spot, and Congress Is Back’ at SLAM!
Irvin Muchnick’s analysis...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 2/16/08: Clemens’ Fake Records, Wrestling’s Real Deaths
If Jake “The Snake”...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 2/7/08: Author Muchnick in CBC’s ‘fifth estate’ Benoit Documentary
The Canadian Broadcasting...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 1/9/08: WrestlingObserver.com: ‘Best Pure Writer Known to the Wrestling Industry’
Joe Babinsack, in a very nice...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 12/30/07: Some More 2007 Wrestler Deaths — Running Total is Now 21
I thank Rich Tate of...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 12/29/07: P.S. List of Wrestlers Under Age 50 Who Died in 2007
I’m getting immediate...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 12/29/07: List of 11 Wrestlers Under Age 50 Who Died in 2007
I’ll go out on a limb here...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 12/29/07: Why Wrestling Dodged the Congressional Bullet
In an Orwellian world where...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 12/26/07: Greg ‘Mr. Gillis’ Gillies Is 11th Pro Wrestler to Die Young in 2007
Greg Gillies, 44, a...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 12/26/07: Congressional Non-Hearings Explained in New SLAM! Wrestling Column
What happened to the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 12/20/07: Are the Congressional Wrestling Hearings Dead?
The answer to that question...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 12/11/07: Dave Sheldon Was 54 Years Old
We earlier reported the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 12/4/07: Review of BENOIT in Canada’s Quill & Quire
BENOIT: Wrestling with the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 12/3/07: Mr. Kennedy Still Can’t Shut Up
Because he has the trust of...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/30/07: Bret Hart on Steroids
As someone who has been...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/28/07: Dave “Angel of Death” Sheldon Is 11th Pro Wrestler to Die Young in 2007
Dave Sheldon, 43, who...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/26/07: Batista, Master of the Torn Triceps
Blog reader Jake Butikas (a...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/25/07: Batista P.S.
A blog reader points out that...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/25/07: Batista: Touchy, Touchy
Mike Mooneyham of the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/23/07: Holiday Shopping
Both WRESTLING BABYLON...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/19/07: WRESTLING BABYLON home page redesigned
WRESTLING BABYLON home page...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/19/07: USA Today Weighs in Again
“Doping still an issue in...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/18/07: Congressional Hearings on Wrestling Confirmed for Early 2008 — Baltimore Sun
Congressman Bobby Rush of...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/15/07: EXCLUSIVE: My Memo to Congressmen Waxman, Davis, Rush, and Stearns
TO: Congressman Henry Waxman,...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/14/07: Bruce Mitchell’s Cena/CNN/Meltzer PW Torch Column Is Viewable for Free
Wade Keller, the grand pooh...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/14/07: PW Torch: WWE Blackballed Dave Meltzer from CNN’s ‘Death Grip’
Your intrepid blogger’s...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/14/07: Another Cena/CNN Bullseye …
Another Cena/CNN Bullseye...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/14/07: Feedback on Bret Hart
Interesting column on SLAM!...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/13/07: ‘Hitman Is Off-Target’ at SLAM! Wrestling
Bret Hart is criticized for...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/12/07: Buckle Up for the Post-Cena/CNN (And Oh, by the Way, Post-Benoit) Period
As the dust settles on Death...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/10/07: Pro Wrestling Torch: Cena Should Agree to Random Independent Drug Testing
Wade Keller of Pro Wrestling...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/10/07: Cena and CNN and Me
On July 31 I had an...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/10/07: How CNN Screwed Up With John Cena
The World Wrestling...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/10/07: John Cena’s ‘Poison Pill’ CNN Interview
World Wrestling Entertainment...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/8/07: John Cena: ‘I Can’t Tell You That I Haven’t, But You’ll Never Be Able to Prove That I Have’
On tonight’s Death Grip:...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/7/07: Bret Hart’s Selective Steroid Commentary
At the end of my largely...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/6/07: Wrestling Author Muchnick in CNN Documentary
Author Irvin Muchnick is...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/4/07: Vince McMahon, Mr. 400 Percent
It’s always amusing to see...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 11/3/07: Review of Bret Hart’s ‘Hitman’
Review of Bret Hart’s...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 10/30/07: Vince McMahon & Joe Lieberman: Morality Play Tag-Team Partners
Sun-tzu, the great Chinese...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 10/28/07: Benoit & Orton & Drugs & Suicide … Let’s Go Over it Again
In the current issue of the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 10/26/07: WWE Lobbying: How SmackDown Does SuckUp
Hearings on drugs and death...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 10/26/07: Byrd Flies With Sports’ Newest Scam: ‘Hormone Replacement Therapy’
(First published October 24...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 10/23/07: The Lost Art of Reading
A guy named Mike Jenkinson...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 10/21/07: Why Walk on Eggshells About Chris Benoit?
I observe that almost...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 10/20/07: Lex Luger Hospitalized
Former wrestler Larry Pfohl...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 10/19/07: WWE Lawyer McDevitt ‘Not Going to Dignify the Crap’ About Chris Benoit’s Concussions
An extraordinary article in...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 10/19/07: Co-Author Muchnick Discusses ‘BENOIT’ in Radio Interview
Irvin Muchnick, one of the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 10/3/07: BENOIT Already Being Reordered by Booksellers
BENOIT: Wrestling With the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 10/3/07: Cena & Steroids
John Cena, World Wrestling...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/28/07: Brian Adams: Overdose
The coroner has ruled that...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/28/07: Crossing the T’s on Fragile X
them to...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/26/07: BENOIT Ships; Huge Canadian Pre-Orders
BENOIT: Wrestling with the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/26/07: Congressional Wrestling Investigations Intersect with ‘Operation Raw Deal’
“Congressman demands...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/24/07: ‘BENOIT’ co-author Oliver on ET Canada
Entertainment Tonight Canada...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/24/07: Randy Orton Fans Shoot the Messenger
Much of the reaction to the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/22/07: Vince McMahon: ‘An Inordinate Number of Wrestlers Have Passed Away’
“Over the last ten years,...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/21/07: Politico.com on the Congressional Wrestling Hearings
Politico.com on the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/19/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick on ‘Figure Four Daily’ with Bryan Alvarez
Irvin Muchnick — author of...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/19/07: Orton: Further Notes
Brian Stull invited me onto...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/18/07: Orton ‘Legend Killer’ Reference Was Overstated
Readers have pointed out that...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/18/07: P.S. — Randy Orton’s Grandfather’s Words
In 1987 I covered the...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/18/07: Did Randy Orton Attempt Suicide?
A rumor is swirling that...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/14/07: WWE Death-O-Mania!
Two committees of the House...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/13/07: Correction: Congressman Tom Davis Is From Virginia
In my Beyond Chron piece...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/13/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick’s Essay, ‘WWE Death-O-Mania!’, at BeyondChron.org
“WWE Death-O-Mania!” is...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/10/07: Not Fit to Print in The Washington Post
After doing a preliminary...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/7/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Reviewed in New Zealand
The website New Zealand Pro...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/5/07: Preview of Findings on Chris Benoit’s Brain
Michael Benoit, father of...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 9/2/07: Bracing for a Benoit Bombshell
The investigations of pro...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 8/31/07: WWE Suspends 10; Congressional Hearings Now Certain
World Wrestling Entertainment...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 8/19/07: ‘Josh Kornbluth Show’ Replay — Monday, August 20, KQED-TV in San Francisco
WRESTLING BABYLON author...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 8/16/07: Benoit / Wrestling Deaths Article in Today’s Washington Post
The Washington Post today has...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 8/13/07: Wrestling Death No. 10 in 2007: Brian ‘Crush’ Adams
Brian Adams, who wrestled as...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 8/9/07: Second Congressional Letter to WWE
Pro Wrestling Torch’s Wade...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 8/8/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Reviewed at PopMatters.com
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 8/2/07: Congressman Stearns’s Commitee Also Sends Letter to WWE
The New York Daily News...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/28/07: Second Congressional Committee Probes WWE’s Drug Culture
In a letter released today by...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/26/07: Correction on Date of WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick’s Interview on KTRS St. Louis
WRESTLING BABYLON author...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/25/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick on KTRS St. Louis, Thursday, July 26
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/21/07: P.S. From Georgiann Makropoulos: George “John Kronus” Caiazzo Was 38
Georgiann Makropoulos,...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/21/07: P.S. From Dave Meltzer: Kronus is Death No. 7 in Just the Last Month
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling...
May 13 | BLOG ARCHIVE 7/21/07: Kronus Is Wrestling Death No. 7 in 2007; Congressman Confident on Fall Hearings
Bryan Alvarez of Figure Four...
May 13 | BLOG ARCHIVE 7/16/07: ECW Press Announces ‘Chris and Nancy’ by Irvin Muchnick, Story of Benoit Murder-Suicide
July 16, 2007 – ECW Press...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/12/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick Quoted in July 23 Globe
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/10/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Appendix Appears to Be Basis of Congressman’s Call for Steroid Investigation
Congressman Cliff Stearns,...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/6/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick on WOC in Davenport, Iowa
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/6/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Cited by ‘Wrestling’s Living Legend,’ Bruno Sammartino, in Wake of Benoit Murder-Suicide
Bruno Sammartino, the 1960s...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/3/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick MSNBC Clip Is Online
A portion of WRESTLING...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/2/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author on MSNBC’s ‘Scarborough Country’ Tonight
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/2/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Cited in FoxSports.com Column Calling for Congressional Investigation
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 13 | ARCHIVE 7/1/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick Challenges Bret Hart on ‘Nancy Grace’
The website with complete...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/30/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick Interviewed about Benoit on KCBS Radio, San Francisco
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/30/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick Interviewed on Fox News Report, ‘WWE’s Dark Side’
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/30/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick Interviewed at Macleans.ca
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/29/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick on CNN’s ‘Nancy Grace’ Tonight
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/29/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick’s ‘O’Reilly Factor’ Segment Now on Website
WRESTLING BABYLON Author...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/28/07: WRESTLING BABYLON ‘O’Reilly Factor’ Segment at YouTube
Thursday, June 28th,...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/28/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Review at Forbes.com; Other Media Notes
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/28/07: WRESTLING BABYLON: Notes on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’
My appearance last night on...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/27/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick on ‘O’Reilly Factor’
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/27/07: Links to WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick in Media Coverage of Benoit Death
Links to WRESTLING BABYLON...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/26/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick’s MSNBC Interview Moved Up to 6:00 P.M. Eastern
Irvin Muchnick’s interview...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/26/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick to Discuss Benoit Murder-Suicide on MSNBC
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/20/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick on CNBC
WRESTLING BABYLON author...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/19/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick on ‘The Press Box,’ KFNS St. Louis, Wednesday, June 20
WRESTLING BABYLON author...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/16/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Coverage in the Riverfront Times (St. Louis)
WRESTLING BABYLON author...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/15/07: WRESTLING BABYLON in the Jerusalem Post
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/12/07: WRESTLING BABYLON St. Louis Tour Kicks Off with ‘Sports on a Sunday Morning with Ron Jacober’ on KMOX
WRESTLING BABYLON author...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/10/07: WRESTLING BABYLON ‘A Great Read (Whether You’re a Fan or Not)’ — WorldWrestlingInsanity.com
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/9/07: WRESTLING BABYLON ‘A Powerful Collection’ — WrestlingObserver.com
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 6/5/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick on ‘Wrestling Observer Live’ with Dave Meltzer, Sunday, June 10
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 5/28/07: WRESTLING BABYLON “A Written ‘Take That Vince!’” — SLAM! Wrestling
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 5/24/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick on ‘The Stranglehold,’ KFNS St. Louis, May 29
Irvin Muchnick — author of...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 5/18/07: More on WRESTLING BABYLON in Alex Marvez’s Column
The previous post, about...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 5/18/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Featured in ‘Alex Marvez’s Weekly Look at Professional Wrestling’
An interview with Irvin...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 5/16/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Is Amazon’s No. 1 in ‘Hot New Releases in Wrestling’
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 5/11/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick at Borders-Sunset Hills (St. Louis), June 22
Irvin Muchnick — author of...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 5/9/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick at June 21 Book Signing in St. Louis
Irvin Muchnick — author of...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 5/9/07: Kevin Killian: WRESTLING BABYLON ‘Is Hardcore!’
Of all the positive reviews...
May 12 | ARCHIVE 5/3/07: WRESTLING BABYLON ‘An Acerbic Anthology’ (Play, Philly Arts Weekly)
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/25/07: WRESTLING BABYLON On List of Recommended Books
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/25/07: East Bay Express Covers WRESTLING BABYLON Launch
The East Bay Express –...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/22/07: Not Fit to Print in The New York Times
On April 4, The New York...
May 11 | 4/20/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Gets Rave Review in Penn State Paper
WRESTLING BABYLON gets a rave...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/18/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick on ‘The Edge with Tony Basilio’
Irvin Muchnick — author of...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/17/07: WRESTLING BABYLON: Bestselling Wrestling Book at Barnes & Noble
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/15/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Is ‘A Book Vince McMahon Wishes Was Never Published’ — Phil Mushnick, NY Post
From today’s column by Phil...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/15/07: WRESTLING BABYLON ‘A Must-Have,’ Pro Wrestling Torch Says
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/12/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Review at 411mania.com
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/10/07: ‘WRESTLING BABYLON Is a Must Read’
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/10/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Appendix Additions & Errata
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/10/07: Author Muchnick Interviewed on ‘The Daily Suplex’
Irvin Muchnick — author of...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/9/07: WRESTLING BABYLON by Irvin Muchnick Is Second-Hottest Wrestling Title at Amazon.com
WRESTLlNG BABYLON:...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/5/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Review in Sacramento Paper
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 4/2/07: Author Muchnick on ‘Figure Four Daily’
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 3/28/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Sells Out at Berkeley Bookstore Launch
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 3/27/07: Author Muchnick on KNBR’s Morning Show
WRESTLING BABYLON author...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 3/26/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Media Digest
WRESTLING BABYLON author...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 3/24/07: Author Muchnick Interviewed on San Francisco’s KCBS Radio
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 3/23/07: Gary Radnich Interview Viewable at KRON 4 Website
WRESTLING BABYLON author...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 3/22/07: Fantastic Review of WRESTLING BABYLON … & Other Media News
Randy Shaw of the San...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 3/20/07: Muchnick Interview With Gary Radnich of KRON 4 Moved to Thursday, March 22
Irvin Muchnick — author of...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 3/20/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Now Available Online at Amazon, B&N.com
Tuesday, March 20th,...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 3/20/07: Author Muchnick to be interviewed live on KRON 4 News at 6, March 26
Irvin Muchnick — author of...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 3/15/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Climbs Amazon Rankings on Eve of Release
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 3/1/07: Author Muchnick’s ‘Josh Kornbluth Show’ Appearance Is Online
Irvin Muchnick, author of...
May 11 | KQED-TV Description of WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick’s Appearance on ‘Josh Kornbluth Show’
KQED-TV Description of...
May 11 | ARCHIVE 2/13/07: WRESTLING BABYLON Author Muchnick on KQED’s ‘Josh Kornbluth Show’
Irvin Muchnick is interviewed...
May 10 | ARCHIVE 12/26/06: WRESTLING BABYLON to Launch at Black Oak Books, Berkeley, March 27
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 10 | ARCHIVE 12/2/06: ECW Press catalogue page
The Spring 2007 catalogue of...
May 10 | ARCHIVE 11/22/06: Bert Randolph Sugar’s Foreword — ‘A Sock on the Jaw’
WRESTLING BABYLON:...
May 10 | ARCHIVE 11/3/06: Amazon.com Begins International Pre-Orders
Amazon.com has begun taking...
May 10 | ARCHIVE 11/1/06: Josh Kornbluth, Wrestling Fan
I got one of the thrills of...
May 10 | ARCHIVE 10/15/06: Advance Praise from Frank Deford, Roy Blount Jr., and Others
Sports Illustrated writer,...
May 10 | ARCHIVE 9/22/06: Hollywood Babylon to WRESTLING BABYLON
Esteemed wrestling historian...
May 10 | ARCHIVE 9/15/06: ‘I Am Officially Stoked’
There’s a nice early...
May 10 | ARCHIVE 9/13/06: WRESTLING BABYLON — March 2007 from ECW Press
ECW Press has announced a...