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IRVIN MUCHNICK is a foremost reporter and writer on the concussion crisis in sports. He is author, most recently, of CHRIS & NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling’s Cocktail of Death.
June 8, 2025
June 8, 2025

‘Congress wanted a report on sex abuse in youth sports — then they buried it’ … Today at Salon

Republicans in DC have done nothing on the youth sports crisis — but Democrats have been no better By Irvin Muchnick Contributing Writer The problem of sexual […]
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May 29, 2025
May 29, 2025

Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, Just Did This Very Nice Column about Me

Ostler is a 14-time California Sportswriter of the Year. I am deeply honored.   Under the headline”Muchnick works the shadows, but always finds truth” Full text: https://muchnick.net/ostlerarticle.pdf […]
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April 24, 2025
April 24, 2025

Footnote on the New American Police State: It Was ICE That Blocked the Deportation of George Gibney in 2010

by Irvin Muchnick   Americans and others around the world are rightly alarmed by the levels of police state tactics in the Donald Trump 2.0 administration. […]
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April 23, 2025
April 23, 2025

Good Riddance to the Latest Apparatchik Heading the U.S. Center for SafeSport. But the Problem Is the Agency Itself.

by Irvin Muchnick   Following the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s latest scandal – center investigator Jason Krasley was discovered to have been previously arrested, the first […]
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March 16, 2025
March 16, 2025

Leading Sex-Abuse Litigator Suing Women’s Sports Advocate — It’s a Tangled Tale … today at Salon

In the newest twist of the under-the radar skirmishes in the area of coach sexual abuse in youth sports programs, one of the most outspoken and effective […]
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December 18, 2024
December 18, 2024

Archdiocese and School Won’t Say If Abusive Swimming Coach Alex Pussieldi Stayed at the St. Thomas Aquinas High (Fort Lauderdale) Program Beyond 2004 Incident

FULL SERIES SO FAR: “Alex Pussieldi Update: Decade After Ouster in Florida, Peeping Tom and Multinational Trafficker Coach Remains a Powerful Figure in Brazilian Swimming,” October […]
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December 17, 2024
December 17, 2024

The Many Lies and Evasions to the Court, in a Sexual Abuse Case Against USA Swimming, of Accused Alex Pussieldi Enabler and Global Lord of the Rings Dale Neuburger

FULL SERIES SO FAR: “Alex Pussieldi Update: Decade After Ouster in Florida, Peeping Tom and Multinational Trafficker Coach Remains a Powerful Figure in Brazilian Swimming,” October […]
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December 12, 2024
December 12, 2024

Swimming Lord of the Rings Dale Neuburger — Key Figure in the Transcontinental Alex Pussieldi Cover-Up

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December 9, 2024
December 9, 2024

In the Matter of Alex Pussieldi’s Status in Brazil, There’s Precedent for Sanctioning a National Swimming Federation

The full Alex Pussieldi story is told in Chapter 9, “Sex, Lies, and Alex Pussieldi,” of the new book UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse […]
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November 30, 2024
November 30, 2024

The Questions USA Swimming Must Answer about Exiled Abuser Coach Alex Pussieldi — Now a Sport Powerbroker Back in Brazil

by Irvin Muchnick   Below are the links to our reports of recent days on disgraced swimming coach Alex Pussieldi’s announced tour of clinics in Brazil. […]
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November 29, 2024
November 29, 2024

Speedo Disavows Sponsorship of Alex Pussieldi’s Brazilian Swimming Clinics, Says Endorsement Made ‘Without Authorization’

The full Alex Pussieldi story is told in Chapter 9, “Sex, Lies, and Alex Pussieldi,” of the new book UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse […]
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November 29, 2024
November 29, 2024

Alex Pussieldi — Swimming Coach Driven out of Florida after Allegations of Trafficking and Sexual Abuse — Announces a Tour of Clinics in Brazil, Sponsored by Speedo

P.S. 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time, November 29: Speedo International’s London-based public relations agency, Gung Ho, acknowledged our query and promised a response early next week.   […]
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November 25, 2024
November 25, 2024

‘UNDERWATER’ Named One of Best Sports Books of 2024 at All Sports Book Reviews Substack

“A devastating expose of the abuse in USA Swimming and the horrific failures to disclose and prevent it continuing.” https://allsportsbookreviews.substack.com/p/best-sports-books-of-2024  
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November 24, 2024
November 24, 2024

More Linda McMahon: Everything You Need to Know (and Some Things You Don’t) About Her Role in the WWE Ring Boy Scandal

PREVIOUSLY: “About Secretary of Education-designate Linda McMahon,” November 21, https://concussioninc.net/?p=15948   by Irvin Muchnick   My hot take three days ago on the Linda McMahon nomination […]
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November 21, 2024
November 21, 2024

About Secretary of Education-designate Linda McMahon

by Irvin Muchnick   I’ve been fielding so many queries about President-elect Trump’s nomination of Linda McMahon to be secretary of education that I decided to […]
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Investigative journalism is not “peer-reviewed scientific literature.” It is a contact sport. My version of it favors transparent and interactive relationships with readers and sources. I also recognize that backstories and their interpretation are organic; I strive for what is, at best, the second draft of history.

I invite you all along for the ride.

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