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Kenny Jacoby

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Investigative reporter, USA TODAY

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Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW: At least 19 police and sheriff's employees were arrested, fired, placed on leave or investigated for possible Flock misuse after a USA TODAY analysis of 75 million Flock searches. Now, Flock has made future similar analyses virtually impossible. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Frequent Flockers. Repeat searches prompt officer firings, arrests
USA TODAY exposed troubling Flock camera search patterns across the country. Flock now blocks release of the data that made it possible.
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Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
NEW: A federal bill would ban private equity firms from investing in youth sports, specifically targeting "vulture practices" like consolidation, bundling and stay-to-play. In announcing the bill Wednesday, lawmakers repeatedly called out Black Bear Sports Group. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Bill would ban private equity 'vulture investors' from youth sports.
The bill, which would require private equity companies to divest from their youth-sports businesses, comes on the heels of a USA TODAY investigation.
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Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I joined USA TODAY's The Excerpt to discuss my investigation into Black Bear and Murry Gunty's youth hockey empire. Listen here: art19.com/shows/5-thin...
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Inside a hockey empire that turned youth sports into big business
The story of Murry Gunty is about more than a hockey dad interested in youth sports. It’s about a businessman who saw an opportunity to build a lucrative hockey empire and cashed in on it. Gunty claim...
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Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In the last decade, a private investment firm has consolidated much of youth hockey, turning what was once a community-based activity into a profit machine for wealthy investors. I spent nine months investigating Black Bear Sports Group. Here’s our story: www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
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Lord of the Rinks. Meet the hockey CEO cashing in on your kid's team
Murry Gunty and Black Bear Sports built a hockey empire, turning the youth sport into a profit machine for wealthy investors.
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Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Retaliation is rampant in youth sports. This hockey mom discovered a theft by a USA Hockey regional governing body leader. She reported it to everyone she could. Little was done. Then the governing body launched an investigation — into her. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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This hockey mom exposed a youth-sports theft. Then came the attacks.
Retaliation is rampant in the lucrative world of youth sports. A hockey mom who exposed a youth hockey leader's theft faced it firsthand.
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Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The 50/50 raffle at Nuggets, Avalanche and other pro sporting events was supposed to raise money for a youth hockey nonprofit. But hundreds of thousands of dollars were misspent or are missing. A state agency is investigating in response to USA TODAY’s reporting. www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
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A 50/50 raffle at pro sports games was meant to help kids. Thousands of dollars vanished.
One man ran the charity 50/50 raffle at Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche home games for nearly a decade. So where did the money go?
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Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
NEW: A man who ran youth hockey in Colorado for a decade used hundreds of thousands of dollars intended for hockey families for his and his business partner’s personal profit. A judge ordered Randy Kanai to pay $579,000 to the USA Hockey nonprofit he used to run. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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Colorado nonprofit leader routed youth hockey money through private company
Randy Kanai, the former president of the Colorado Amateur Hockey Association, was ordered to pay $579,000 to the USA Hockey nonprofit he used to run.
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Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Four years ago, I reported on Louisiana colleges' failure to stop a man accused by multiple women of rape. On Friday, one woman's lawsuit ended in a settlement. Damning depositions in the case detail how campus officials ignored a law that should have protected her. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Woman gets settlement in case alleging Louisiana colleges ignored rape reports
The settlement comes four years after USA TODAY revealed systemic failures to connect the dots on a male student accused of rape by multiple women.
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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
So much about youth sports is not fun. Great story by @kennyjacoby.bsky.social on how the Dallas Stars first made ice hockey take off in Texas and then made it more expensive and harder to get ice time for everyone else. www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
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‘They control everything’: How the Dallas Stars monopolized Texas youth hockey
Ice is power in the lucrative world of youth hockey. In North Texas, the Dallas Stars hold almost all of it.
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Tom Schad @tomschad.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"In the business of amateur hockey, ice is power. In the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the Stars amassed almost all of it." Strong, thorough reporting here from @kennyjacoby.bsky.social: www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
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‘They control everything’: How the Dallas Stars monopolized Texas youth hockey
Ice is power in the lucrative world of youth hockey. In North Texas, the Dallas Stars hold almost all of it.
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Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Unlike the NFL, NBA and MLB, a few NHL teams are intimately involved in running the youth levels of their sport. In Dallas, the Stars spent decades turning youth hockey into a vehicle for profit, bullying families in the process. New investigative reporting: www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
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‘They control everything’: How the Dallas Stars monopolized Texas youth hockey
Ice is power in the lucrative world of youth hockey. In North Texas, the Dallas Stars hold almost all of it.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 01/08/2025
It's been a while since I've read a story this long, this thoroughly reported, this blunt in laying out its allegations of wrongdoing. My jaw was on the floor from start to finish. @kennyjacoby.bsky.social on how the Dallas Stars "bullied a community on their path to profiting off a youth sport":
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‘They control everything’: How the Dallas Stars monopolized Texas youth hockey
Ice is power in the lucrative world of youth hockey. In North Texas, the Dallas Stars hold almost all of it.
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Gina Barton @writerbarton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
He terrorized women. He slipped through the cracks. But one detective refused to give up. 🎧 Listen to Untested, our exclusive true crime podcast series from WITNESS and USA TODAY. Get the entire season ad-free for $4.99 here: buff.ly/9pQpsw9
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Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
NEW: Three Dallas Stars executives for years used their positions with the NHL team and atop prominent youth hockey nonprofits to milk hockey families for profit. Legal experts say their “stay-to-play” hotel requirements pose significant conflicts of interest. www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
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'They'll hold you over a barrel': How NHL team's execs milked youth hockey families for profit
Families paid thousands in unnecessary hotel fees to play in Dallas Stars youth hockey tournaments. Three Stars executives took a cut of the profits.
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 06/02/2025
AMA: USA Today did a report on problematic world of post-grad football institutions, investigative reporters @chrisquintana.bsky.social & @kennyjacoby.bsky.social will answer your questions about it today @ 11am ET! www.reddit.com/r/CFB/commen...
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Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In one hour, @chrisquintana.bsky.social and I will be doing a Reddit AMA about our reporting on sketchy post-grad football programs, where young athletes pay thousands of dollars to pursue their dreams of playing in college. Join us! www.reddit.com/r/CFB/commen...
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From the CFB community on Reddit: [AMA] We’re Chris Quintana and Kenny Jacoby, investigative reporters who spent months digging into the world of post-grad football. AUA!
Explore this post and more from the CFB community
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Sky Chadde @skychadde.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hey y’all, late to the party but here is some work I’ve done in past several years. Our newsroom investigates how Big Ag intersects with labor, the environment and government policy (and we love collaborating!) investigatemidwest.org
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Home - Investigate Midwest
Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and instituti...
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Chris Quintana @chrisquintana.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
So excited to answer the Reddit community's questions about @kennyjacoby.bsky.social and I's deep dive into the unregulated world of post-grad football! Join us!
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 05/02/2025
Meantime, check out their pieces here: www.usatoday.com/story/news/i... www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
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Post-grad football lures players with a second shot at glory. They rarely get it.
Young men nationally play post-grad football aiming for a another shot to play for a college. Many say the teams fail to keep their promises.
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 05/02/2025
[Upcoming AMA] USA Today did a report on problematic world of post-grad football institutions, investigative reporters @chrisquintana.bsky.social & @kennyjacoby.bsky.social will answer your questions about it this Thurs @ 11am ET! We'll share that link when it's live!
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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
"We have men in power whose cruelty is excused by their contributions to progress and innovation. But just what kind of progress is this?" Alia is a brilliant journalist and social analyst. Her new book couldn't come at a better time. Read it.
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