Draft Economics
Chad Finn ( Touching All the Bases blog via Boston Globe) encourages readers, Don’t Rush to Judge Patriots Draft “The generally negative reaction to Belichick’s …
Brian Goff
NCAA Super Slam 2023
93 total points. No, it was not Bowling Green Junior High v. South Warren Middle School, a game from the 1930s, or Dean Smith using …
MLB Umps Not so Color Blind?
The racial bias analysis of strikes-balls decisions of MLB umps by UT-Austin professor Daniel Hamermesh and coauthors (Parsons, Sulaeman, Yates) has generated the expected buzz …
NCAA Options: More of the Same?
A friend and semi-retired finance colleague who read Bobby McCormick and Bob Tollison’s insightful post on Subversion of the Academy by the NCAAÂ wondered where this …
Some Modest and Not So Modest Proposals
The World Cup Finals are unique as far as team sports go. It draws, literally, from a worldwide pool of participants. It stages a month-long …
David Stern Ups the Ante on NBA Owner Mark Cuban
During this season’s playoffs, the feud between NBA Commissioner David Stern and Dallas Mavs Owner Mark Cuban has escalated to influencing game outcomes. The league …
Sports Commissioners in the “Gangster” Era
“I talked to that whole staff. I said this is my city. I’m cut from a different cloth. None of them guys on their team …
NBA on NHL Path, Not NFL
John Chick from Canada’s CBC sports nailed the NBA lockout situation: The impetus for the lockout was the owners deciding the league’s current financial system …
Clippers — Lessons from Losers
Recently, on the NBA Network, I caught the tail end of a conversation between Kenny Smith and another announcer about the LA Clippers. Maybe there …
Minimum Age for the NBA Players
Former player and current TV analyst Steve Kerr propose raising the NBA minimum age from 19 to 20 in a recent Grantland column. His argument …