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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 […]
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Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick