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ECW Press has announced the publication next year of Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Youth Football Conditioning. Three chapters of […]

My article, “Swimming away from accountability,” is in the November-December issue of Ireland’s Village. Below is the link to the facsimile of these three pages of […]

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ECW Press has announced a fall 2023 publication date for investigative journalist and author Irvin Muchnick’s book Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of […]

Strap on your goggles for the wild, and until now untold, story of an iconic but now disgraced Harvard University swim coach named Joe Bernal. He […]

The following is adapted from the article published on September 24 at https://www.salon.com/2022/09/24/why-is-the-us-olympic-agency-meant-to-stop-abuse-investigating-its-top-critic/. This version has light changes, including correction of a small editing error.   […]

California’s 1st District Court of Appeal has served notice that there will be oral arguments on October 26 in Muchnick v. University of California Regents, our […]

The piece below was originally published at Salon on June 20, at https://www.salon.com/2022/06/20/colleges-hire-independent-investigators-after-abuse-scandals–and-not-much-happens/.   by Irvin Muchnick   Third-party investigation of college abuse scandals: A dubious […]

… Beginning nearly 40 years ago, I wrote some of the earliest major articles that took the wrestling industry seriously and explored the relationship between its […]

by Irvin Muchnick   For what is now closing in on a year, the campus of San Diego State University has been roiled by the story […]

In the wake of a devastating series of reports by Scott Reid of the Orange County Register about the toxic, bullying culture of the University of […]

by Irvin Muchnick   The Wall Street Journal has broken the story of the WWE board’s investigation of Vince McMahon for reportedly paying $3 million to […]

by Irvin Muchnick   The litany of allegations against University of California-Berkeley women’s swimming coach Teri McKeever – a one-time head Olympic coach and probably the […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Of all the media players who have been missing in action in coverage of Lehigh County district attorney James Martin’s SLAPP (Strategic […]

by Irvin Muchnick   I’ve argued that the podcast Where Is George Gibney? was avoidably shallow and that, going forward, we need more than the self-curated […]