Irv’s Blog

by Irvin Muchnick   Bob Bowman, well known as the coach of Michael Phelps, history’s greatest ever Olympic swimmer, has jumped from Arizona State University to […]

In the news: “Lawyers for Nassar assault survivors have reached $100M deal with Justice Department,” https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245491081/lawyers-for-nassar-assault-survivors-have-reached-100m-deal. My book UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA […]

This article was first published on March 13 at https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/03/13/opinion-usa-swimming-coach-abuse-youth-sports-congress-reforms/.   by Irvin Muchnick   Just months before the Paris Summer Olympics, the little-noticed Commission on […]

This article was first published on March 18 at https://beyondchron.org/congressional-commission-proposals-to-curb-sports-coach-sexual-abuse-have-bay-area-roots/.   by Irvin Muchnick   After a whitewash 2014 “independent review” of USA Swimming’s Safe Sport […]

This article was first published on March 10 at https://www.salon.com/2024/03/10/americas-amateur-sports-are-plagued-with-scandal-is-reform-finally-coming/.   by Irvin Muchnick   The Commission on the State of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic […]

Thank you to writer-comedian Rebecca Delgado-Smith and everyone on her quirky podcast “The Alarmist,” for having me this week as their “guest expert” pontificating on the […]

PREVIOUSLY: “Is Real Reform at Hand to Curb Youth Coach Sexual Abuse? … Today at Salon,” March 10, https://concussioninc.net/?p=15460 “Irvin Muchnick: Parents have the power to […]

PREVIOUSLY: “Why Concussion Inc. Will Publish a Guest Essay Tomorrow by Mitch Lyons, Founder of the End Abusive Coaching Campaign,” April 1, https://concussioninc.net/?p=15486   by Mitch […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Tomorrow we’ll have a piece by a Massachusetts-based youth sports activist, Mitch Lyons, about his campaign to “end abusive coaching.” As a […]

PREVIOUSLY: “Is Real Reform at Hand to Curb Youth Coach Sexual Abuse?”, at Salon, March 10, https://concussioninc.net/?p=15460 “‘Irvin Muchnick: Parents have the power to compel Congress […]

After a whitewash 2014 “independent review” of USA Swimming’s Safe Sport program, followed by a belly flop of an investigation of youth coach sexual abuse later […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]