Michael Knapp’s writing has appeared in n+1, Dissent, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He teaches at College of the Canyons.

Michael Knapp
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Writing on Public Books
The Pain Is the Point: On the Violent Realities of Capitalist Sport
In 2022, critical sports scholar Chen Chen uncovered a staggering statistic: The three leading academic journals in sports management (Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, and European Sport Management Quarterly), with over 74 years of combined history between them, had published a grand total of 14 articles that mentioned the word “capitalism” more than […]










