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UC Berkeley swimmers allege coach Teri McKeever bullied and verbally abused them for years

University of California women’s swimming head coach Teri McKeever, the most successful female coach in the sport’s history and the only woman to serve as the U.S. Olympic team’s head […]
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Universities, higher education and the great open records dodge

Get advice on getting the most out of your open records requests to colleges and universities who are notorious for finding ways to avoid transparency, especially in areas of controversy […]
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Courtney’s Story

In July 2018, a scandal broke that would rock college football and as well as much of North American sports. Zach Smith, an assistant football coach at Ohio State University, […]
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The inside story on how the NFL got a 17th game from union boss DeMaurice Smith

NFL players’ narrow, 60-vote approval of a new collective bargaining agreement in March 2020 should have been a moment that defined the power not only of NFL Players Association executive […]
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NWSL Sports Investigation

The Post’s investigation of Richie Burke and the Washington Spirit was the first story to put allegations of verbal and emotional abuse in the NWSL on the record. Our story […]
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We're going to need a bigger net: Foul balls hurt hundreds of fans at MLB ballparks

Every summer we read tragic headlines about fans severely injured, or in one recent case, killed, by foul balls at Major League Baseball ballparks. After every one of those incidents, […]
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Is U.S. Center for SafeSport making sports safer?

A two-part investigation by the Orange County Register/Southern California News Group focused on the Jennyfer Roberts/Colin Burns case as a way of revealing shortcomings in how the U.S. Center for […]
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Horse racing’s uncomfortable truth

The story was prompted by the rash of racehorse deaths at Santa Anita Park in California. Pennsylvania is a major racing state, and one that had a major cheating scandal a […]
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Shattered Trust: Sexual Offences in Amateur Sports

The series sought to explore the prevalence of sexual abuse by coaches in amateur sports across Canada. We focused on the last 20 years because it had been two decades […]
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Game Change

“Game Change” explores the changing face of America’s most popular sport – football – a decade into the game’s concussion crisis. Real Sports spent over a year filing public records requests […]
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Dying to Race

An average of 1,000 horses die a year on the race tracks, many from horrific breaks because of drug abuses. Some of the largest and deadliest tracks are being kept […]
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Baltimore’s historic Pimlico Race Course was falling apart amid lax state oversight of racing industry subsidies, as owner spent lavishly on another track

As Maryland lawmakers fought over the future of Baltimore’s crumbling Pimlico Race Course, few knew that inept oversight by the state racing commission was responsible for steering nearly 90 percent of […]
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