{{Short description|American journalist}} '''Tom Knott''' is a columnist for the Sports and Metro sections of ''The Washington Times''.<ref name="TomKnottWashingtonTimes">{{cite web | url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/tom-knott/ | title=Tom Knott: Washington Times Columnist | publisher=Washington Times | work=Articles by Tom Knott | date= | accessdate=December 1, 2011}}</ref>
==Education== Knott has a B.A. degree in psychology from George Mason University.
==Reception by other journalists== Knott is cited as an authority by other journalists, such as on PBS<ref name="PBS">{{cite web | url=https://www.pbs.org/stealinghome/sport/diamond.html | title=PBS: Sport in Cuba | publisher=PBS | work=Sport in Cuba: The Diamond in the Rough | accessdate=December 3, 2011 | author=Pettavino, Paula J. and Geraldine Pye}}</ref> and the ''Los Angeles Times'',<ref name="LATimes">{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-07-sp-briefing7-story.html | title=The Inside Track: Morning Briefing | publisher=Los Angeles Times | work=Add Two Parts Ego and Watch Sparks Fly | date=January 7, 2003 | access-date=December 3, 2011 | author=Florence, Mal}}</ref> as well as by sports researchers.<ref name="AAFLA">{{cite web | url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/ISOR/isor2008v.pdf | title=LA84 Foundation | publisher=LA84 Foundation | work=Two Days Lausanne Stood Still The 108th Extraordinary IOC Session, March, 1999 | year=2008 | accessdate=December 3, 2011 | author=Wenn, Stephen R.}}</ref> Knott's journalism notably attracts critical attention from other journalists.
Brendan Nyhan, writing in Salon.com, roundly criticizes both the Washington Times and Tom Knott for its reportage of the National Education Association.<ref name="Salon.com">{{cite web | url=http://www.salon.com/2002/09/05/nea/ | title=The Washington Times and the NEA | publisher=Salon.com | work=The big NEA-Sept. 11 lie | date=September 5, 2002 | accessdate=December 3, 2011 | author=Nyhan, Brendan}}</ref>
News sites such as Cleveland.com's sports blog have repeatedly<ref>[http://search.cleveland.com/Tom+Knott Tom Knott in articles on Cleveland.com]</ref> attacked Knott; for example in 2009 'Starting Blocks' wrote "Washington Times columnist Tom Knott, who has a history of bashing LeBron James, got back at it in today's headline: 'Everyone's a witness to LeBron's whining.'" The article continues "But of course Knott didn't stop there."<ref name="Cleveland.com">{{cite web | url=http://www.cleveland.com/ohio-sports-blog/index.ssf/2009/07/washington_times_columnist_tom.html | title=Starting Blocks | publisher=Cleveland.com | work=Washington Times columnist bashes LeBron James | date=July 20, 2009 | accessdate=December 3, 2011 | author=Starting Blocks}}</ref>
Writing in the Huffington Post, journalist Etan Thomas rebuked Knott for attacking him as unpatriotic, and described him "because of his far right politics", as "absolutely blinded to reality", with reference to issues such as "public school system, the broken health care system, the government's lack of a response to Hurricane Katrina, an unjust war".<ref name="EtanThomas">{{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/etan-thomas/work-ethic-look-at-your-c_b_34640.html | title=Huff Post Politics | publisher=Huffington Post | work=Work Ethic? Look At Your Columns, Tom Knott | date=November 27, 2006 | accessdate=December 1, 2011 | author=Thomas, Etan}}</ref>
Dan Steinberg, writing in ''The Washington Post''{{'}}s 'D.C. Sports Bog',<ref name="WashingtonPost">{{cite web | url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2007/06/tom_knott_crushes_gilbert.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130220054543/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2007/06/tom_knott_crushes_gilbert.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=February 20, 2013 | title=D.C. Sports Bog | publisher=Washington Post | work=Tom Knott Crushes Gilbert | date=June 15, 2007 | accessdate=December 1, 2011 | author=Steinberg, Dan}}</ref> discusses Knott's attack on Gilbert Arenas,<ref name="Knott on Gilbert Arenas">{{cite web | url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jun/15/20070615-124443-6197r/ | title=Gilbert Arenas | publisher=Washington Times | work=Is Agent Zero wimping out? | date=June 15, 2007 | accessdate=December 1, 2011}}</ref> and defends Arenas's conduct.
Martin Austermuhle, writing on DCist, comments that "We've always been amused by Tom Knott, the Washington Times Metro columnist who on a weekly basis directs his wrath at someone or something in the District and beyond."<ref name="DCist">{{cite web | url=http://dcist.com/2006/01/tom_knott_takes.php | title=DCist on Tom Knott | publisher=DCist | work=Tom Knott Takes On the Smoking Ban | date=January 16, 2006 | accessdate=December 1, 2011 | author=Austermuhle, Martin | url-status=live | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217145150/http://dcist.com/2006/01/tom_knott_takes.php | archivedate=February 17, 2010 }}</ref> Discussing Knott's reaction<ref name="Knott on D.C. Smoking Ban">{{cite web | url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jan/11/20060111-101443-4769r/ | title=Knott on D.C. Smoking Ban | publisher=Washington Times | work=Snuff out do-gooders before cigarettes, please | date=January 11, 2006 | accessdate=December 1, 2011 | author=Knott, Tom}}</ref> to the Washington, D.C. smoking ban, Austermuhle writes that "Knott doesn't so much take on the ban as he does the people who supported it."<ref name="DCist" />
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==External links== *[https://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/tom-knott/ Tom Knott] at ''The Washington Times''
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