The Boys of Summer Turned Sinister: Central Michigan’s Baseball Program Embroiled in Lawsuit Over Possible Abuse of Athlete’

By Clare Maness America’s pastime is a beautiful thing, but as scholars have increasingly admonished (Koller, 2025; Warner & Knoester, 2025), sports as a whole are not without their warts. And a few weeks ago, possible sporting warts became public when, on August 19, 2025, Dean Brown, a former student-athlete at Central Michigan University (CMU), filed suit against CMU (or really, against the school’s board of trustees (Brown v. Central Michigan University, 2025, answer p. 1)), the sc