February 25, 2022
PREVIOUSLY: “Another Exertional Heatstroke Death in Kansas Junior College Football: Tirrell Williams, Fort Scott Community College,” February 22, https://concussioninc.net/?p=14942 by Irvin Muchnick Before getting […]
February 22, 2022
by Irvin Muchnick Sam Zeff of Kansas Public Radio, who did some of the very best reporting on the exertional heatstroke (EHS) death of Braeden […]
February 7, 2022
The piece below was originally published at Salon on January 29, at https://www.salon.com/2022/01/29/football-hero-how-george-visger-survived-the-nfl-and-traumatic-brain-injury–barely/. I’ve done a couple of touch-ups. Sean McVay, coach of the Super Bowl-bound […]
January 29, 2022
Along with 100 million fellow citizen-spectators, give or take, a 63-year-old former NFL defensive lineman named George Visger will be watching the Super Bowl in two […]
January 11, 2022
by Irvin Muchnick On December 28, New York Times medical writer Gina Kolata did an article about how African-Americans are inadequately alerted to the basic […]
January 5, 2022
Today, Broadsheet in Ireland publishes my updated photos, from in front of the Library Gardens apartment complex in Berkeley, California, of the sidewalk memorial to the […]
December 20, 2021
P.S. 12/22/21 Two days after the piece below went live, I learned that Judge Shenkin, on December 15, already had denied Villa’s motion for summary judgment. […]
December 12, 2021
by Irvin Muchnick Readers of this site know that I consider the U.S. Center for SafeSport – the de facto nascent Internal Affairs Bureau for […]
December 6, 2021
The piece below was originally published at Salon on November 13, at https://www.salon.com/2021/11/13/footballs-unknown-epidemic-when-black-players-suddenly-the-cover-up-begins/. by Irvin Muchnick In the predawn hours of February 7, 2014, […]
December 5, 2021
by Irvin Muchnick On November 17 this blog published a pungent follow-up to my recent Salon article about non-traumatic football conditioning deaths, with special focus […]
November 17, 2021
by Irvin Muchnick Over the weekend, Salon published my article pulling together some of the details on the University of California-Berkeley’s cover-up of the 2014 […]
November 13, 2021
Today at Salon … ‘Football’s unknown epidemic: When Black players die suddenly, the cover-up begins’
In the predawn hours of Feb. 7, 2014, a pre-med student named Ted Agu, a son of Nigerian immigrants and a walk-on player for the University […]
November 12, 2021
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 […]