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"An investigation into the death of Ereck Plancher, a redshirt freshman wide receiver at the University of Central Florida who collapsed and died following an offseason conditioning session."
Tags: UCF; sickle-cell; workout; football; blood flow; athletic trainer; George O'Leary;
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The Jihadi Trainer
Islamic militant Abu Omar was the trainer of the foreign fighters from the Arab World, Europe and North Africa to kill American troops in Iraq. The report explains his knowledge of building armor-piercing roadside bombs and use of the Internet to reach a larger audience.
Tags: Abu Musab al-Zaraqwi; jihad; Al Qeada;
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Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
San Francisco Chronicle reporters broke the story that some elite athletes used drugs to "run faster, hit harder, and cash in on the fame that comes only to those at the very top of their games." Fainaru-Wada and Williams used"Federal Grand Jury transcripts and federal investigative reports... court records and state health department records," among other documents. (332 pages)
Tags: steroids; drugs; BALCO; Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative; San Francisco Chronicle; Victor Conte; Major League Baseball; football; track and field; California Public Records Act; Federal Grand Jury; sports agents; trainers; sports doping; Olympics; Justice Department; IRS; U.S. Anti-Doping Agency; USADA
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Conduct unbecoming-- 2005
Post-Intelligencer reporters exposed numerous cases of crime and abuse in the King County Sheriff's Department. Several officers were allowed to retire rather than face criminal charges for misconduct. One officer's gun was stolen by his roommate, who used the weapon to murder a convenience store clerk. Another officer was promoted to master police officer and trainer despite a long history of misconduct. The sheriff's office failed to discipline other officers with long records of abuse and crime, as well.
Tags: police; sheriff; King County sheriff's department; FOI; police brutality; misconduct; oversight; police officer's union; corruption; crime
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Family Secrets
The murders of Sally Carbajal, estranged wife of famed boxing trainer Danny Carbajal, and Sally's new boyfriend stunned the community. This story explores the strong motivation for Danny Carbajal to have the pair executed, i.e. hundreds of thousands of dollars in property and retirement accounts that were to be the subject of a high-stakes court hearing a few days later. It also revealed the extent that Danny and the couple's two daughters went in their efforts to keep Sally from receiving her 50% share of the couple's community property.
Tags: fraud; corruption; homicide; boxing; Danny Carbajal
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Military Outsourcing in Iraq (series)
The author investigated the outsourcing of the Iraqi War by the US government. The reports covered the use of private contractors to train the Iraqi police force, the problems they encountered despite the positive spin from high ranking American military officials and presented a slide show of the training process, giving a visual indication of the difficulty faced by the trainers.
Tags: military; Iraq; Iraqi War; War on Terrorism; Iraqi Police Force; private security contractors; infiltration; insurgents; exit strategy; troop reductions; U.S State Department; SAIC; DynCorp
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Wrong Side of the Track
The Herald-Leader series reported that "backside workers at Kentucky racetracks are some of the least-protected in the state when it comes to workplace injuries, and they are some of the poorest in the billion-dollar horse business." The series tells the stories of many injured backside workers and looks at the loophole that allows many trainers to avoid paying workers' compensation.
Tags: workers' compensation; insurance; horse; horseracing; racing; thoroughbred; Kentucky; FOI
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Jungle Josh
Josh Weinstein, an animal trainer with a lengthy history of animal abuse, arrived in Minnesota shortly before this story ran. In March 2001, a Bengal Tiger owned by Weinstein attacked and killed a trainer in Las Vegas, from where Weinstein originally came. After the incident, the trainer moved to Minnesota, where he hoped to use the same tiger and a chimpanzee named Tarzan to capitalize off the film market. He even started developing a comedy act involving Tarzan. When reporters asked Weinstein to show them his act, he agreed, and his disturbing animal abuse was caught on camera. Two experts, including Dr. Jane Goodall, looked at footage of Tarzan and concluded that Weinstein's actions were clearly abusive, and that the profoundly intimidated animal no longer acted like a chimp.
Tags: Abuse; Tape; Transcript
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Trouble at the Track
The Star-Ledger investigates "the illegal medication of horses in New Jersey standardbred (harness) racing." The reporter points out that the subject is known within the industry but rarely discussed publicly even by racing magazines. The series' main findings are that doping is common, the tests to detect it are inadequate, and other measures such as random barn checks are not being implemented. "The state agency charged with policing the sport had allowed many of its drug offenders top continue racing as their cases dragged through appeals," the investigation reveals.
Tags: New Jersey Racing Commission; FOIA requests; veterinary treatment; trainers; horses
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Cloud 9 Pet Resort
A WAGA investigation found Cloud 9 Pet Resort, a pet kennel and obedience school "heavily marketed 'resort quality' activities for dogs, including hayrides, nature walks and swimming pool parties. Cloud 9 also promised training with 'caring human leadership.' We found the expensive activities rarely happened. But even worse, the training itself was nothing like what the owners were told. Trainers brutally mistreated dogs that didn't learn fast enough."