{"id":16109,"date":"2025-06-08T07:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=16109"},"modified":"2025-06-08T07:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:19:20","slug":"congress-wanted-a-report-on-sex-abuse-in-youth-sports-then-they-buried-it-today-at-salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=16109","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Congress wanted a report on sex abuse in youth sports \u2014 then they buried it&#8217; &#8230; Today at Salon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Republicans in DC have done nothing on the youth sports crisis \u2014 but Democrats have been no better<\/h2>\n<section class=\"writer-container writer-app-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"writer_info_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"writer_box\">\n<div class=\"writer_name_box\">\n<h3 class=\"writer_name\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/irvin_muchnick\">Irvin Muchnick<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"top_writer_desc\">Contributing Writer<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>The problem of sexual abuse in youth sports is more like a DNA marker than an acknowledged crisis. Consider the fate of the official player in this game with the tools to address it: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/03\/10\/americas-amateur-sports-are-plagued-with-scandal-is-reform-finally-coming\/\">last year\u2019s report<\/a>\u00a0by the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Olympic &amp; Paralympic Committee. In the dance of inaction that is our legislative branch these days, the recommendations of the commission have been benched by the very coaches who drafted them for their rosters.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>CONTINUED TODAY AT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/06\/08\/congress-wanted-a-report-on-abuse-in-youth-sports--then-they-buried-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/06\/08\/congress-wanted-a-report-on-abuse-in-youth-sports&#8211;then-they-buried-it\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15636\" src=\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Underwater_cov-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Underwater_cov-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Underwater_cov-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Underwater_cov-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Underwater_cov-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Underwater_cov-1536x1146.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Underwater_cov-2048x1528.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Underwater_cov-101x75.jpg 101w, https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Underwater_cov-480x358.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 480px, (max-width:2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in DC have done nothing on the youth sports crisis \u2014 but Democrats have been no better By\u00a0Irvin Muchnick Contributing Writer The problem of sexual<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Congress wanted a report on sex abuse in youth sports \u2014 then they buried it&#039; ... 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