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Irvin Muchnick’s book WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning was recently published. Three chapters cover Cal-Berkeley’s cover-up of the […]

Irvin Muchnick’s book UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe will be published in 2024 by ECW Press. PREVIOUSLY […]

PREVIOUSLY: “Another accused sex offender in the sports world, sheltered in the U.S. may finally face justice,” Salon, November 19, https://www.salon.com/2023/11/19/another-accused-offender-in-the-sports-world-sheltered-by-us-may-finally-face-justice/   The story below was […]

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/19/another-accused-offender-in-the-sports-world-sheltered-by-us-may-finally-face-justice/

by Irvin Muchnick   As with any movie, Iron Claw, the upcoming one starring Zac Efron, will rise or fall on its own, artistically and commercially. […]

(1 of 5) As reports from Ireland indicate that a new indictment of George Gibney, most notorious at-large sex criminal in sports history, could be imminent […]

PREVIOUSLY: “BREAKING: George Gibney Criminal Investigation Opened in Ireland,” November 1, https://concussioninc.net/?p=15353   by Irvin Muchnick   Again from the Irish news media, there are signs […]

by Irvin Muchnick   News outlets in Ireland are reporting that Garda Síochána, the national police force, forwarded to the country’s director of public prosecutions information […]

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WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning was officially published today by ECW Press. On Wednesday, author Irvin Muchnick’s radio […]

This is an excerpt from Salon contributor Irvin Muchnick’s Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning, just published by ECW […]

See “9 new books with Berkeley links to read this fall,” https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/09/29/9-new-books-with-berkeley-links-to-read-this-fall. The launch event for WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death in […]

The launch event is Thursday, October 5, 7 p.m., at Books Inc., 1491 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California. In the meantime: * Read the excerpt from WITHOUT […]

Join us on Thursday, October 5, at Books Inc. in Berkeley, for the launch event for WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death […]

My new book Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning is reviewed by Randy Shaw at the San Francisco news site […]