Irv's Blog
January 20, 2023
by Irvin Muchnick Earlier this week the California Supreme Court, without comment, denied my side’s petition for review of the designation of the prevailing party […]
January 14, 2023
Damar Hamlin’s near-death experience should teach us a lesson, but we haven’t learned it yet: This game is deadly. https://www.salon.com/2023/01/14/footballs-problem-isnt-the-rules-the-equipment-or-the-care-this-sport/
January 11, 2023
https://www.salon.com/2023/01/11/football-industrial-complex-makes-a-rapid-recovery-from-horror-to-guilt-to-inspiration/
January 5, 2023
Damar Hamlin’s dreadful collapse: Just another reason to defund football The NFL star’s televised cardiac arrest shocked the nation. It’s one of many severe health risks […]
December 12, 2022
ECW Press has announced the publication next year of Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Youth Football Conditioning. Three chapters of […]
November 28, 2022
The California Public Records Act (CRPA) is designed to maximize the transparency and accountability of the government and public agencies. But in practice, the statute governing […]
IT WAS PRO WRESTLING'S MOST HORRIFIC WEEKEND EVER in June 2007, when beloved WWE superstar Chris Benoit did the unthinkable -- murdering his wife, Nancy, and their seven-year-old son, Daniel, before taking his own life. Irvin Muchnick's meticulous unpacking of this event and its aftermath belongs
to history. It shows the stylistic and actual links between Vince McMahon's pop culture franchise and Donald Trump's improbable populist, demagogic disruption of American politics.
CHRIS & NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling’s Cocktail of Death
