| Communication and sport: Surveying the field AC Billings, ML Butterworth, PD Turman sage publications, 2017 | 311 | 2017 |
| Race in “the race”: Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and heroic constructions of whiteness ML Butterworth Critical Studies in Media Communication 24 (3), 228-244, 2007 | 132 | 2007 |
| American football, flags, and “fun”: The Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl and the rhetorical production of militarism ML Butterworth, SD Moskal Communication, Culture & Critique 2 (4), 411-433, 2009 | 122 | 2009 |
| Ritual in the “church of baseball”: Suppressing the discourse of democracy after 9/11 ML Butterworth Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 2 (2), 107-129, 2005 | 113 | 2005 |
| Baseball and rhetorics of purity: The national pastime and American identity during the war on terror ML Butterworth University of Alabama Press, 2010 | 98 | 2010 |
| Fox Sports, Super Bowl XLII, and the affirmation of American civil religion M Butterworth Journal of Sport and Social Issues 32 (3), 318-323, 2008 | 90 | 2008 |
| Militarism and memorializing at the pro football hall of fame ML Butterworth Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 9 (3), 241-258, 2012 | 87 | 2012 |
| “Katie was not only a girl, she was terrible”: Katie Hnida, body rhetoric, and football at the University of Colorado ML Butterworth Communication Studies 59 (3), 259-273, 2008 | 76 | 2008 |
| Pitchers and catchers: Mike Piazza and the discourse of gay identity in the national pastime ML Butterworth Journal of Sport and Social Issues 30 (2), 138-157, 2006 | 75 | 2006 |
| Public Memorializing in the Stadium: Mediated Sport, the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, and the Illusion of Democracy ML Butterworth Communication & Sport 2 (3), 203-224, 2014 | 69 | 2014 |
| The politics of the pitch: Claiming and contesting democracy through the Iraqi national soccer team ML Butterworth Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4 (2), 184-203, 2007 | 61 | 2007 |
| Muhammad Ali's fighting words: The paradox of violence in nonviolent rhetoric EW Gorsevski, ML Butterworth Quarterly Journal of Speech 97 (1), 50-73, 2011 | 56 | 2011 |
| The passion of the Tebow: Sports media and heroic language in the tragic frame ML Butterworth Critical Studies in Media Communication 30 (1), 17-33, 2013 | 50 | 2013 |
| Purifying the body politic: Steroids, Rafael Palmeiro, and the rhetorical cleansing of Major League Baseball ML Butterworth Western Journal of Communication 72 (2), 145-161, 2008 | 46 | 2008 |
| Adrian Peterson and the “wussification of America”: Football and myths of masculinity JG Foote, ML Butterworth, J Sanderson Communication Quarterly 65 (3), 268-284, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
| The athlete as citizen: Judgement and rhetorical invention in sport ML Butterworth Sport and Citizenship, 23-39, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
| Saved at home: Christian branding and faith nights in the “church of baseball” ML Butterworth Quarterly Journal of Speech 97 (3), 309-333, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| Do you believe in nationalism ML Butterworth Examining identity in sports media, 133-152, 2009 | 32 | 2009 |
| Nate Silver and campaign 2012: Sport, the statistical frame, and the rhetoric of electoral forecasting ML Butterworth Journal of Communication 64 (5), 895-914, 2014 | 28 | 2014 |
| Sport and the quest for unity: How the logic of consensus undermines democratic culture ML Butterworth Communication & Sport 8 (4-5), 452-472, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
