"Yankee Premium" Updates
In 2005 I explored the "Yankee Premium, how much of the Yankee payroll reflected a revenue advantage relative to the rest of baseball and how much reflected the ability of ...Playing Injured Players
Before the St. Louis-Houston series, Dick Cantrell, a colleague and long-time baseball follower predicted that St. Louis was in trouble. He gave 3 or 4 concrete reasons, one of which ..."Spreading" the Wealth
A number of articles have appeared about the "spread" offense over the past couple of years. One of the best I've seen showed up on a San Diego Times-Union site ...NCAA World Evolving but Toward What?
As Skip reminded readers in his recent pieces on realignment, the current drama fits into a larger historical framework. I thought it useful to review some of the major developments ...NFL Predictions: Writers v. Vegas
NFL prediction time is here again with writers from various outlets providing their views. Here are SI's Preview predictions. Betting markets such as Vegas Insider supply futures bets on AFC, ...Arizona Meltdown
SI.com's Peter King wrote a blistering column this morning about Arizona's "historic choke job." In typical King style, he treads pretty lightly on poor head coaching decisions. In real time ...The $70 Billion Fantasy Football Market
I’m a traditionalist when it comes to my football tastes. I still watch NFL games because of an interest in the teams and the outcome of the game. For millions ...Organizational Architecture of College Sports Behind the Scandals
Another college coach engages in reprehensible activities and the supervising athletic directors and university presidents do nothing until external investigations and public awareness force their hand. While not involving incidents ...Olympic Distance Running -- Dominated Strategies?
In Thursday's 800m final, David Rudisha set the track on fire with a new world record -- the first ever under 1:41. He led from start to finish and pulled ...Too Many Chiefs
The English National Team bears out a longstanding maxim --team production does not equate to the sum of individual production. The U.S. Olympic basketball squad provided recent testimony to this ...Olympic Athletes -- Real Life Avengers
The Olympics hooked me from my earliest memories of Bill Toomey, Lee Evans, and Jim Hines in Mexico City in 1968. The Super Bowl, The Tour de France, the ...Tail Wags Dog -- In Some Leagues
Skip's post on Tuesday along with the NBA ref scandal brings to the front differences in league management of their referees. All referees-umps will make mistakes whether calling balls and ...
