but unlike Penn State, the MSU community (save Simon and the Board) doesn’t appear to be in denial [read the student body, local press and community leaders]. There will be no statue.

It makes me angry as a person and as a lawyer. They (non-lawyers) are using a legal conclusion of a very specific inquiry in a dishonest and disingenuous way to, essentially, confuse and mislead their students, parents, and alumni. I find it very telling that they start the explanation by saying they are going to…

I agree with you.

I am willing to start a fund to pay someone to follow this woman everywhere she goes to constantly boo the shit out of her.

“The evidence will show that no MSU official believed that Nasser committed sexual abuse prior to the newspaper reports in the summer of 2016"

You know you gotta fuck up pretty bad to be worse than Penn State, yet here we are.

The thing I find so confounding about the complicity of USAG/MSU/USOC is... why? Once the allegations started to surface, why keep him? Did this shitstain appear to offer anything special? Did he seem to possess unique skills above and beyond the average sports medicine practitioner? Or was it really just the purely…

I just want to thank Deadspin and Jezebel for giving this the frontline attention it needs and deserves. Other outlets are giving it so little attention relative to its importance it is very disheartening.  I listen to the radio in the morning on the way to work and you would have little idea this was happening if…

By just writing it off as “he’s an inhuman monster,” instead of examining how he got away with it for so long, what factors (other people, lack of oversight, power, whatever) enabled it to continue, and what could have been done to recognize and stop it sooner, we are collectively failing to do whatever is possible to…

I have no sympathy for Nassar! Kudos to you I guess for believing that every single human being deserves sympathy but I am not saying that.

Ever time these things happen society just looks to name good guys or bad guys and then moves on. We never really think about the people involved that allowed this to happen. There were dozens of people who could have put a stop to this and didn’t. Most people will just write those individuals off as evil or…

What the fuck people.

Adults voted in Trump and that’s incredibly more stupid than eating tide pods.

People have been doing dumb stuff for attention for all of history.

Thanks for writing this. This has been a very stressful time, and you capture a lot of the thought loops really well. You’re doing a great job. My condolences about your comment section.

I’m pretty sure this post’s comment section wasn’t meant for debating the merits of #metoo and Aziz Ansari and sexual harassment and sexual assault claims. Like, based on the post content, 99.9% sure.

It would simply be a different sport, with different rules, skills, and likely a shift in the kinds of apparatus used. But.... what’s wrong with that? Gymnastics has struggled for years with this problem — women’s gymnastics was developed around an ideal of a tiny, delicate girl performing. Stories like this should…

Visit any baseball/soccer field used by elite club teams and you will see this in action most weekends of the year. Don’t tell me it’s for the kids. Bullshit.

Yup and it’s a horrible thing to do. Most likely they’re trying to show she can’t be that traumatized by Nasser’s abuse if she could somehow have functional relationships with men as an adult.

A sport where girls peak in their late teens, requiring them to give up their childhoods to train like adult athletes, and spend a lot of time one-on-one with over bearing “my word is law” type coaches leads to systems of abuse? You don’t say.