July 26, 2021
A reprint of the article here yesterday — the “director’s cut” of my February piece for the Colorado Springs Gazette. Irvin Muchnick: Gibney And The Power […]
July 25, 2021
This article adapts and expands on the one originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette on February 27 under the headline “Podcasts stir new abuse allegations […]
July 18, 2021
by Irvin Muchnick In 1999, Swimming World magazine reported: “New Mexico Masters Phillipp (Lincoln) Djang set a world mark in the men’s 45-49 100m back, his […]
July 12, 2021
Concluding an administrative, then court fight across nearly 20 years, disabled Hollywood stuntwoman Leslie Hoffman — stunt double for the Queen Elizabeth character in Naked Gun, […]
July 1, 2021
The article below was originally published at Salon on June 26, at https://www.salon.com/2021/06/26/troubled-waters-usa-swimmings-struggle-to-cover-up-its-sexual-abuse-crisis/. This version reflects that, subsequent to original publication, Sean Hutchison contacted Concussion Inc. […]
June 27, 2021
Yesterday Salon published “USA Swimming’s struggle to cover up its sexual abuse crisis,” https://www.salon.com/2021/06/26/troubled-waters-usa-swimmings-struggle-to-cover-up-its-sexual-abuse-crisis/. Here are some bullets. Jack Swarbrick, the Zelig of sports abuse management, […]
June 26, 2021
At the annual United States Aquatic Sports Convention, one year in the late 1990s, a prominent Indianapolis sports lawyer named Jack Swarbrick first warned USA Swimming, […]
June 25, 2021
Now 751 more unmarked graves of indigenous children have been unearthed in Saskatchewan. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/23/canada-cowessess-residential-school-graves/. Below, we reprint our June 4 item, “Canadian Olympic Boss John […]
June 22, 2021
Irv Muchnick is no stranger to SlamWrestling.net. He’s contributed numerous pieces to the site, as well as co-authored the book Benoit: Wrestling with the Horror that […]
June 7, 2021
We’ve been telling you about how the discovery of hundreds of First Nations children’s remains at a forced Canadian acculturation school in British Columbia has again […]
June 4, 2021
by Irvin Muchnick The discovery of the remains of more than 200 children of First Nations tribes (whom we in the U.S. call Native Americans or […]
May 26, 2021
PREVIOUSLY: Salon, May 11: “U.S. Olympic Committee’s controversial abuse investigator fails upward — to the federal courts,” https://www.salon.com/2021/05/11/us-olympic-committees-controversial-abuse-investigator-fails-upward–to-the-federal-courts/ Salon, May 22: “Is the federal courts’ new […]
May 25, 2021
The piece below was originally published at Salon on May 22, at https://www.salon.com/2021/05/22/is-the-federal-courts-judicial-integrity-officer-even-a-licensed-attorney/. Watch this space for another update scheduled for tomorrow. ***** by Irvin Muchnick […]
May 22, 2021
‘Is the Federal Courts’ New “Judicial Integrity Officer” Even a Licensed Attorney?’ — Today at Salon
Sources say embattled sports investigator Michael Henry, now in a key federal court post, isn’t an actual lawyer Earlier this month Salon reported some of […]
May 19, 2021
The piece below was originally published at Salon on May 11, at https://www.salon.com/2021/05/11/us-olympic-committees-controversial-abuse-investigator-fails-upward–to-the-federal-courts/. ***** by Irvin Muchnick The annals of foxes guarding chicken coops reached a […]