Irv's Blog
March 30, 2023
This article was published on March 26 at https://www.salon.com/2023/03/26/is-the-congressional-commission-on-olympic-abuse-more-than-an-inside-job/. by Irvin Muchnick The latest demonstration by Congress that it has at least some interest […]
March 10, 2023
by Irvin Muchnick I have a pending complaint with the State Bar of California against Michael R. Goldstein, senior counsel at the University of California, […]
February 10, 2023
My book to be published later this year by ECW Press is now titled Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football […]
January 26, 2023
ECW Press has announced the publication later this year of Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning. Three chapters of […]
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/
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
