Irv’s Blog

August 4, 2023

Muchnick Discusses New Football Death on NPR-Kansas City. And Read Full Chicago Tribune Op-Ed, ‘Popular or Not, Football Doesn’t Belong in Our Public Schools’

Irvin Muchnick’s Thursday interview on Up to Date, on Kansas City’s National Public Radio affiliate KCUR, can be streamed at the home page of the station […]
August 2, 2023

Muchnick to Discuss Football Death Thursday Morning on NPR’s Kansas City Affiliate, KCUR 89.3

As noted here yesterday, 19-year-old Myzelle Law, of MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas, has become the first known fatality this year during preseason football conditioning […]
August 1, 2023

And Another Season of Kids’ Deaths in Football Conditioning Drills Kicks Off

On the fifth anniversary of the exertional heatstroke death of another 19-year-old in the same state –Braeden Bradforth at Garden City Community College, whose story is […]
July 28, 2023

‘Popular or not, football and its destructive effects don’t belong in our public schools’ – Today in the Chicago Tribune

This month, the American ritual of preseason football practice gets underway for more than a million boys, from teenagers down to as young as 5. If […]
July 27, 2023

Tomorrow at the Chicago Tribune: My Op-Ed ‘Football Belongs Out of Our Public Schools’

Tomorrow, Friday, the Chicago Tribune will be publishing my op-ed article “Popular or Not, Football Belongs Out of Our Public Schools,” alongside a Tribune editorial calling […]
May 5, 2023

Former Speed Skater Eva Rodansky to the Commission on the State of the U.S. Olympic Movement: ‘U.S. Speedskating Is a Corrupt Monopoly’

Our recent article at Salon questioned the procedures and efficacy of the latest effort to examine the shortcomings of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee in […]
April 28, 2023

Advance Praise for WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH IN FOOTBALL CONDITIONING

Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning will be published later this year by ECW Press. See the cover image […]
April 27, 2023

Advance Praise from Robert Lipsyte for WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH IN FOOTBALL CONDITIONING

Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning will be published later this year by ECW Press. See the cover image […]
April 26, 2023

Advance Praise from Bob Costas for WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH IN FOOTBALL CONDITIONING

Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning will be published later this year by ECW Press. See the cover image […]
April 25, 2023

‘California State Bar Fumbles Again in UC’s Cover-Up of Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death’ … full text from Salon

Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning will be published on October 3 by ECW Press. See the cover image […]
April 23, 2023

‘California State Bar Fumbles Again in UC’s Cover-Up of Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death’ — Now at Salon

Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning will be published on October 3 by ECW Press. See the cover image […]
April 14, 2023

Letter to State Bar Investigator Regarding the Closing of the Misconduct Complaint Against University of California Senior Counsel Michael R. Goldstein

Below is the text of my April 7 letter to investigator Kenneth Advincula in response to the announcement by the State of California that my attorney […]
April 13, 2023

Full Text of Appeal For State Bar Disciplinary Hearing in University of California Senior Counsel Michael R. Goldstein’s Alleged Lies to Courts in Public Records Act Case Concerning Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up

PREVIOUSLY: Full text of the attorney misconduct complaint against University of California Senior Counsel Michael R. Goldstein, State Bar No. 129848, https://concussioninc.net/?p=15105 “University of California Senior Counsel […]
April 12, 2023

University of California Senior Counsel Michael R. Goldstein Was the Master of What the State Bar Calls Possible ‘Inadvertent Mistakes’ in the Public Records Act Case Over the Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up

Irvin Muchnick’s book Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning will be published later this year by ECW Press.   […]
April 11, 2023

State Bar Rejects Misconduct Complaint Against University of California’s Michael R. Goldstein – Says His Serial Lies in Ted Agu Football Death Cover-Up Case Could Be ‘Inadvertent Mistakes’; Appeal to Follow

Irvin Muchnick’s book Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning will be published later this year by ECW Press.   […]
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