“Fair” Shares in the NFL
Well-connected NFL observers and writers predict a work stoppage, although 11th hour settlements are not uncommon. When the talk of breakdown in the NFL’ s …
Brian Goff
NBA Age Limit
An age limit, such as the NFL’s, has been tossed around by the NBA. The success of the NFL in withstanding the court challege from …
Brian Davis’ Grizzly Bid
The story of ex-Duke basketballer Brian Davis’ bid to purchase the Memphis Grizzlies has been brewing for a while. Grizzlies blogs started mentioning it over …
The Title IX Grim Reaper
A follow-up to Phil Miller’s May 13 post, Arizona State Eliminates Three Sports. When I saw this, I wondered what lay behind the decision. Past …
Steroid Use and HOF Debate Heats Up
This afternoon, MLB.com posted the results of this year’s Hall of Fame balloting. This has been an ongoing interest of mine partly because of the …
Closers v. Firemen
Tom Verducci (SI.com) offers a long overdue assessment of present day “closers” versus bygone”firemen” relievers such HOF inductee Goose Gossage. First, Gossage, Sutter, and similar …
Running Nonsense
This is more Sports Statistician than Sports Economist, but, shooting down sports “folk wisdom” of the talking heads is one of my hobbies. Cold, Hard, …
Sowell on MLB
Thomas Sowell offers some strong views in light of the Mitchell report on Real Clear Politics — Steroid in Baseball: Say It Ain’t So. Here …
Bethpage, The Rest of the Story
The mainstream media, much of it east-coast centered such as Connecticut-based ESPN, droned on and on about how great venue Bethpage is — “muni,” “bringing …
NFL Teams Too Clever By One-Half?
In their bestselling book on applications of game theory (Thinking Strategically), Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff add a personal account of game theory gone wrong. …