Irv’s Blog

Later this week we will have an important footnote to Concussion Inc. readers about the Chicago Tribune‘s removal from this article of references to George Gibney […]

by Irvin Muchnick   “USA Gymnastics, the sport’s powerful governing organization, cleaned house and vowed to remake the sport [after the exposure of the widespread sexual […]

by Irvin Muchnick   “Former Irish international swimming coach Derry O’Rourke has been convicted of raping and sexually assaulting a teenage girl 35 years ago.” Yesterday’s […]

          Coinciding with the Paris Olympics — and in anticipation of the official September 10 publication date — ECW Press has begun […]

VIA TWITTER / X   (1 of 4) Most of the content of the new issue of Ireland’s Village magazine has been loaded online. But at   […]

A version of this article is in the current edition of Ireland’s Village magazine. The Village edit, which I did not see pre-publication, inaccurately states that […]

by Irvin Muchnick   The tumult at the Washington Post is in the news. On the heels of the withdrawal of incoming top editor Robert Winnett, […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Joe Bernal was a long-time head swimming coach at Harvard University, among other places. His list of accomplished swimmers includes Hall of […]

“Irvin Muchnick made my carefully selected list of personal heroes long ago. Nobody rakes the muck, nobody shines a searchlight on human cockroaches with a more […]

A piece about Irish and American law enforcement’s inaction in the case of the teenage swimmer raped and impregnated in 1991 by George Gibney, the former […]

UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe will be published shortly after the Paris Olympics by ECW Press, distributed […]

Pre-orders of UNDERCOVER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe are available at the links below. Official publication date is […]

by Irvin Muchnick   The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party – yes, there is such […]