In the early 2000s, New York Daily News reporter Mike O'Keeffe worked on a series of stories involving Ernie Lorch, the founder of the powerful Riverside Church youth basketball program. Lorch, who died in 2012, had been accused of sex abuse by several former Riverside players. In the first of a two-part podcast, O'Keeffe and I discuss the Lorch case and other sex abuse scandals in sports; the challenges with reporting these kinds of stories and some of the recent milestones for survivors, including the passage of the Child Victims Act in New York State.
