“…I look at this construction of sport management with the intent to explore the metaphysical chasm between more "conservative" visions of this consolidation (see Shaw, Wolfe, & Frisby, 2011) and recently developed critical sport management approaches (Amis & Silk, 2005;Frisby, 2005;Zakus, Malloy, & Edwards, 2007;Zeigler, 1994Zeigler, , 1995. As has been discussed at length elsewhere (see also Bowers, Green, & Seifried, 2014), this turn toward sport management as the overarching instructional and institutional frame for sport-related inquiry, pedagogy, and practice has been accompanied by, if not brought about, new axioms in both our teaching and our research.…”