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Social and Behavioral Sciences

2002

University of Central Florida

Arete, Sport and Society, American Sport History, Hockey, Coaches, Sexual abuse, Abuse of power, Sheldon Kennedy, Graham James

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Sexual Abuse Of Players In Junior Hockey, Richard C. Crepeau May 2002

Sexual Abuse Of Players In Junior Hockey, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

On Tuesday I was listening to the "Jim Rome Show" while driving into the campus and I heard a painful and astounding interview with Sheldon Kennedy. As some of you will remember Kennedy was the NHL player for the Boston Bruins who revealed in late 1996 that as a young boy and then young man he was subject to repeated sexual abuse by his hockey coach Graham James.