Connected to Cleveland athletics since the weekend he was born – when Brian Sipe led the Browns to a come-from-behind fourth-quarter victory, the Cavaliers won their emotional first two games following the Miracle of Richfield, and the Indians began their quest to sign cataclysmic pitching bust Wayne Garland – Jonathan has written about Cleveland teams since before he learned how to diagram sentences. These combined passions have resulted in his writing countless articles and seven books on various topics in Cleveland sports history.
A member of the Society for American Baseball Research and in no way connected to New Kids On The Block, Jonathan is a graduate of Ohio University and has twice been named Sportswriter of the Year by the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association.
He lives in Columbus – the demilitarized zone of Ohio pro sports – and has two sons who have not yet been afflicted with the psychological burden of Cleveland athletics.
You can learn more about Jonathan and his books at www.jknightbooks.com.
Articles by Jonathan Knight :
- Taking Their Talents Away From South Beach
- The Hot April Nights of 1988
- Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame to Honor Cavalier Inductees
- The Only 4 Things Not to Like About the NCAA Tournament
- MAC March Madness: The 10 Greatest Tournament Games
- How the Indians Can Be Baseball's Gonzaga
- A Big MAC Attack
- Chief Wahoo and Outcome-Based Morality
- The Sports Misery Index: Winter 2013 Edition
- J.J. Abrams Named Browns Head Coach
- The Chip & Chud Conundrum
- Brownie Bits: Week 17
- No Steps Forward, Two Steps Back
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 17
- Brownie Bits: Week 16
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 16
- Brownie Bits: Week 15
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 15
- Brownie Bits: Week 14
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 14
- Brownie Bits: Week 13
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 13
- Brownie Bits: Week 12
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 12
- Brownie Bits: Week 11
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 11
- The Sports Misery Index: Fall 2012 Edition
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 10
- Brownie Bits: Week 9
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 9
- Brownie Bits: Week 8
- The Bernie Boards
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 8
- Brownie Bits: Week 7
- 25 Reasons Why the Ohio Bobcats Are Ranked in the Top 25
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 7
- Brownie Bits: Week 6
- 11-Game Losing Streaks, 37 Years Apart
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 6
- Brownie Bits: Week 5
- NFL Network's "Cleveland '95" Tries to Rewrite History
- The Tribe Scribe: October 4 Edition
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 5
- Brownie Bits: Week 4
- The Tribe Scribe: September 28 Edition
- The Rough Draft of the "Acta Fired" Press Release
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 4
- Brownie Bits: Week 3
- The Tribe Scribe: September 21 Edition
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 3
- Brownie Bits: Week 2
- The Tribe Scribe: September 14 Edition
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 2
- Brownie Bits: Week 1
- The Year This Week Didn't Suck: Week 1
- God Announces He's Moving Art Modell
- The Tribe Scribe: September 7 Edition
- Party Like It's 1991
- The Tribe Scribe: August 31 Edition
- Ghosts in the Rafters
- The Tribe Scribe: August 24 Edition
- Almost Memorable Moments in Browns Preseason History
- The Tribe Scribe: August 17 Edition
- The Tribe Scribe: August 9 Edition
- The Indians and the Beanstalk
- The Browns and Their Truck-Stop Salvation
- The Tribe Scribe: August 3 Edition
- The Tribe Scribe: July 27 Edition
- A Letter to Mark Shapiro from the Fans
- The Tribe Scribe: July 20 Edition
- Cleveland IS Gotham City
- The Sports World According to Atari
- The Tribe Scribe: July 13 Edition
- The Sports Misery Index: Summer 2012 Edition
- The Tribe Scribe: July 5 Edition
- The Tribe Scribe: June 28 Edition
- 23 Reasons LeBron's Title is in No Way an Abomination to Human History
- Remembering Your First Tribe Game
- The Tribe Scribe: June 22 Edition
- The Tribe Scribe: June 15 Edition
- The Cleveland Indians & the Temple of June
- The Tribe Scribe: June 8 Edition
- A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Not So Far, Far Away
- The Tribe Scribe: June 1 Edition
- The Tribe Scribe: May 25 Edition
- Right as Rage
- The Tribe Scribe: May 18 Edition
- How to Get a Pro Sports Team Without Really Trying
- Michael Stanley, Throwing Up in Public, and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man
- The Tribe Scribe: May 10 Edition
- The Tribe Scribe: May 4 Edition
- Potentially Awesome Twitter Moments in Cleveland Sports History
- The No-Home Run Derby
- The Tribe Scribe: April 27 Edition
- The Tribe Scribe: April 20 Edition
- Has the Wild Card Saved or Screwed the Indians?
- Mike Holmgren Uses Siri to Prepare for the Browns' Draft
- The Tribe Scribe: April 13 Edition
- The Silver Anniversary of Sports Illustrated's Indian Uprising
- The Slipper Wouldn't Fit
- 16 Sweet Things You Didn't Know About Ohio University
- 12 Reasons Why the Indians Will Win the World Series in 2012
- Is Your NCAA Tournament Bracket Smarter Than a Second Grader?
- The Cleveland Sports Spin Cycle
- The Place Where Dreams Come True
- The 25 Most Fun Non-Cleveland Sports Books
- Album Covers for Cleveland Sports Dorks
- The Sports Misery Index: Winter 2012 Edition
- Other Things That Don't Count Because They Happened Before We Called It "The Super Bowl"
- Quincy Morgan Strikes Back
- The 5 Best and 5 Worst Super Bowls for Browns Fans
- WWBD?
- The 10 Best TV Network Sports Theme Songs
- Why We Are The Way We Are
- Brownie Bits: Week 17
- Brownie Bits: Week 16
- 'Twas the Night Before Cleveland's Christmas
- Brownie Bits: Week 15
- Brownie Bits: Week 14
- 30 Reasons Cleveland is Still Better Than Pittsburgh
- Brownie Bits: Week 13
- Jack Bauer Named Browns' Head Coach
- Brownie Bits: Week 12
- The 10 Greatest Cleveland Sports Books I've Ever Read
- Brownie Bits: Week 11
- Brownie Bits: Week 10
- The Sports Misery Index: Fall 2011 Edition
- Brownie Bits: Week 9
- If Stephen King Were a Cleveland Fan
- Masters of the Gridiron: 25 Years Later
- Brownie Bits: Week 8
- Remembering Our First Rivalry
- Brownie Bits: Week 7
- Brownie Bits: Week 6
- Just Die, Baby
- Brownie Bits: Week 4
- When We Finally Broke "The Jinx"
- 80 Reasons Why the 2011 Tribe Was Like a Jelly Donut
- The Tribe Scribe (9/29)
- The 10 Best Clutch Catches Since the Browns' Return
- Brownie Bits: Week 3
- The Tribe Scribe (9/23)
- Brownie Bits: Week 2
- The Tribe Scribe (9/16)
- Brownie Bits: Week One
- Browns Lose Game, Discontinue Franchise
- Predicting the Unpredictable
- The Tribe Scribe (9/8)
- The Tribe Scribe (9/2)
- The Best That Never Was
- The Tribe Scribe (8/26)
- 25 Ways to Celebrate the Return of Jim Thome
- The Tribe Scribe (8/19)
- 10 Reasons Not to Get Too Excited (or Depressed) About the Preseason
- The Tribe Scribe (8/12)
- The Curse of Paul Brown
- The Tribe Scribe (8/5)
- The Ubaldo and Fausto Show
- The Tribe Scribe (7/29)
- No-Hit, Sherlock
- Jimmy Buffett and the Curse of Cleveland Sports
- The Tribe Scribe (7/22)
- Dance With the Girl That Brung Ya
- The Tribe Scribe (7/14)
- Trivial Pursuit: Major League Edition
- The Tribe Scribe (7/7)
- The Indians' Declaration of Independence
- The Tribe Scribe (7/1)
- 15 Things We've Learned About the Indians As They Circle the Drain
- The Tribe Scribe (6/24)
- The Sports Misery Index: Summer '11 Edition
- The Tribe Scribe (6/17)
- June 17, 1986
- Karma 4, LeBron 2
- The Tribe Scribe (6/10)
- Explaining the Indians to an 8-Year-Old Who Has to Pee
- The Miracle Tribe and Its Impossible Dream
- The Tribe Scribe (6/2)
- The Tribe Scribe (5/27)
- When We Could Hold Our Heroes in Our Hands
- The Tribe Scribe (5/20)
- Caps, Gowns, and the 40-Game Mark
- The Tribe Scribe (5/13)
- 29,165 Reasons To Go Watch The Tribe
- The Tribe Scribe (5/6)
- The Incredible Indians of '86
- Other Video Games That Should Put Peyton Hillis On Their Covers
- The Tribe Scribe (4/29)
- Burning My Draft Card
- The Tribe Scribe (4/22)
- Summer of Shadows Excerpt: The Yankee Doubleheader
- The Curious Incident of the Tribe in the Night-Time
- Summer of Shadows Excerpt: The All-Star Game Comes to Cleveland
- The Tribe Scribe (4/11)
- The Boys of April
- Summer of Shadows Excerpt: The Catch
- Exhibition Baseball on the Ice Planet Hoth
- Summer of Shadows Excerpt: Opening Day, 1954
- The Summer that Could Be
- LeBron: The Movie
- When Cleveland Went Mad in March
- All Roads Lead to Cleveland
- Cleveland State Finally Mirrors the State of Cleveland
- The Ballad of Jeff Metcalf
- The Indians' Promotional Schedule and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- The Price Is Still Right
- MEASURING MISERY: The Sports Misery Index
- If the Cleveland Sports Scene Were The Muppet Show...
- Celebrating the NFL's Greatest Stynasties
- ELECTRIC '86: The Greatest Year in Cleveland Sports History
- Cleveland Decides To Leave Cleveland
- BROWNIE BITS: Week 17
- REMEMBERING HEARTBEATS: The Kardiac Kids-The Playoffs
- BROWNIE BITS: Week 16
- Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Football (and Life) I Learned by Playing Tecmo Super Bowl
- BROWNIE BITS: Week 15
- REMEMBERING HEARTBEATS: The Kardiac Kids Week 16
- BROWNIE BITS: Week 14
- REMEMBERING HEARTBEATS: The Kardiac Kids Week 15
- BROWNIE BITS: Week 13
- REMEMBERING HEARTBEATS: The Kardiac Kids Week 14
- Brownie Bits: Week 12
- Remembering Heartbeats: The Kardiac Kids Week 13
- Brownie Bits: Week 11
- Remembering Heartbeats- The Kardiac Kids: Week 12
- Brownie Bits- Week 10
- Remembering Heartbeats- TheKardiac Kids: Week 11
- Brownie Bits- Week 9
- Remembering Heartbeats: The Kardiac Kids Week 10
- Dewey Defeats Truman- Browns Style
- THE NEW BROWNS’ GREATEST GAME EVER? YOU DECIDE!
- REMEMBERING HEARTBEATS- THE KARDIAC KIDS: WEEK NINE
- The Orange Pants Solution
- BROWNIE BITS: WEEK SEVEN
- REMEMBERING HEARTBEATS- THE KARDIAC KIDS: WEEK EIGHT
- BROWNIE BITS: WEEK SIX
- REMEMBERING HEARTBEATS- THE KARDIAC KIDS: WEEK SEVEN
- BROWNIE BITS: WEEK FIVE
- REMEMBERING HEARTBEATS- THE KARDIAC KIDS: WEEK SIX
- Brownie Bits: Week4
- REMEMBERING HEARTBEATS- THE KARDIAC KIDS: WEEK FIVE
- BROWNIE BITS: WEEK THREE
- REMEMBERING HEARTBEATS- THE KARDIAC KIDS: WEEK FOUR
- BROWNIE BITS: WEEK TWO
- REMEMBERING HEARTBEATS- THE KARDIAC KIDS: WEEK THREE
- BROWNIE BITS: WEEK ONE
- Remembering Heartbeats- The Kardiac Kids: Week Two
- Remembering Heartbeats- The Kardiac Kids: Week One
- At Least We're Not Detroit?
- Coming Attractions
- Contemplating 0-82?
- Major League: The Musical
- We've Been Here Before
- What a Difference 20 Years & 10,000 Fans Makes
- Is This the Best Cavs Team Ever?