NFL First Rounders: Paid Too Much or Too Little?
After the NFL draft, Joel Rose, a reporter from Marketplace asked me about the high salaries of first rounders and whether a rookie pay scale …
Brian Goff
Trials Hangover for U.S. Track?
USA Track & Field to Conduct Comprehensive Review of all Programs (Reuters wire story via ESPN.com: The United States will conduct a post-mortem into a …
The Cost to Punting
Brian Burke (admin of Advanced NFL Stats) posted a very insightful piece on Deadspin (and also Slate) regarding the slow evolution in the punt/go-for-it decision …
McFadden Finds His Match
Yahoo! Sports’ Michael Silver chronicles the emergence of Darren McFadden into the elite of NFL running backs over the past two seasons. While his success …
Is Peyton Manning Immune to Age?
Six games into the season, Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning has thrown for 22 touchdowns and only 2 interceptions. If he continues at or near …
NFL’s Game of Chicken
The strategic game between the NFL and “Big Cable” was the feature story by Barry Horn on the front page of Sunday’s Dallas Morning News …
Underutilization of US Youngsters
I would like to offer a couple of postscripts to Skip’s Post-Mortem on the U.S. performance in the World Cup. 1. Although the results differed, …
The “Right to Know” and Contributing to Bad Behavior
Disclaimer: The shooting of schoolchildren is a serious and disturbing event, creating strong emotional response. The connections to media coverage of sporting events explored here …
Coaching Ambition and Folly
As WKU recently endured a humiliating home beatdown by Louisville, my thoughts turned to one of the assistant coaches on the Louisville bench — Ralph …
The Replacements
A few observations on the NFL “replacement ref” situation: 1. The locked-out refs hold a very weak bargaining position. Unlike the players, the refs possess …