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Mark Fainaru-Wada

Mark Fainaru-Wada

Investigative Reporter, Enterprise Unit at ESPN Online

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Mark Fainaru-Wada
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Favre-backed drug company overstated benefits

Two concussion drug companies backed by Brett Favre and enmeshed in a massive welfare fraud case overstated their NFL connections and exaggerated the known effectiveness of their drugs during efforts to raise money, according to interviews and documents.
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Brown U. to pay more than $1M in Title IX ruling

A federal judge on Tuesday approved an order that requires Brown University to pay more than $1 million to cover fees related to a legal case brought by several athletes who challenged the Ivy League school’s plan to drop several women’s varsity sports.
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Kenya’s Joyce Chepkirui handed four-year doping ban

Kenya’s 2014 Commonwealth Games and Africa 10,000 metres champion Joyce Chepkirui was banned for four years, dated back to 2019, on Wednesday for an Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) discrepancy.
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Not as great - Assessing Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens without the PED...

Stats guru Dan Szymborski projected how Bonds’ and Clemens’ careers should have played out based on their pre-PEDs numbers. Spoiler: They were still great, just not quite immortal.
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OTL: The inside story of how Bob Costas got yanked from the Super Bowl

Conversations with Bob Costas reveal for the first time how the broadcasting icon went from fronting America’s most popular sport to being excised from last year’s Super Bowl and, ultimately, ending his nearly 40-year career with NBC.
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NFL takes control of brain research with $100 million donation, all...

Since announcing a $100 million commitment to concussion research last year, the NFL has funded just one study examining chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, the brain disease that has shaken pro football. It’s focused on jockeys.

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