March 18, 2024
by Irvin Muchnick In a development that can be understated as unsurprising, given the arrogance and lack of accountability of the State Bar of California, […]
March 13, 2024
Just months before the Paris Summer Olympiics, a little-noticed Commission on the State of U.S. Olympics and Paralympics, or CSUSOP, a blue-ribbon panel created by Congress […]
March 10, 2024
The Commission on the Future of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, established by Congress in 2020, last week issued its long-anticipated report. This 277-page document […]
February 25, 2024
This article was originally published at https://villagemagazine.ie/time-to-nail-us-based-swimming-coach-paedophile-george-gibney/. The book UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe will be published […]
February 19, 2024
George Gibney, the story that won’t die, is also the story that won’t live – or at least isn’t given the oxygen to breathe. The latest […]
February 15, 2024
The article below was first published on February 10 at https://www.salon.com/2024/02/10/vince-mcmahons-rosebud-moment-was-a-family-secret-behind-his-career-of-abuse/. by Irvin Muchnick For many years the quintessentially Trumpian phenomenon of pro wrestling […]
February 10, 2024
“Vince McMahon’s ‘Rosebud’ moment: Was a family secret behind his career of abuse?” … today at Salon
https://www.salon.com/2024/02/10/vince-mcmahons-rosebud-moment-was-a-family-secret-behind-his-career-of-abuse/
January 27, 2024
Late Friday, McMahon, WWE, and TKO Holdings announced his resignation. https://www.salon.com/2024/01/27/lurid-new-allegations-surface-in-wwe-boss-vince-mcmahons-abuse-case/
January 15, 2024
by Debra Denithorne-Grodensky Richard Thornton, a member of the 1980 Olympic swimming team (the year the U.S. boycotted the Moscow Summer Games) and a long-time […]
December 28, 2023
UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe will be published in 2024 by ECW Press. It will include two […]
December 26, 2023
With the release of the movie The Iron Claw (which I discussed here and here, and on the Pollock & Thurston podcast last week here, beginning […]
December 23, 2023
My book UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe will be published next year by ECW Press. It includes a […]
December 22, 2023
by Irvin Muchnick Jim Martin has announced his retirement after 25 years as district attorney of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. In two capacities in the DA’s […]
December 19, 2023
by Irvin Muchnick Last month I commented sourly on the imminent release of the A24 film The Iron Claw, directed by Sean Durkin. The movie […]
December 15, 2023
Irvin Muchnick’s book UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe will be published next year by ECW Press. […]