Brian Goff, Author At The Sports Economist

The Olympics hooked me from my earliest memories of Bill Toomey, Lee Evans, and Jim Hines in Mexico City in

Skip's post on Tuesday along with the NBA ref scandal brings to the front differences in league management of their

This week's Sports Illustrated cover story excerpts parts of the new book, Game of Shadows, detailing the evidence about Barry

A bit behind on this, but the new MLS team in Seattle (The Sounders) have sold more season tickets (per

Watching Dennis Bergkamp's vision, touch, and pace in the 1994 World Cup converted me from an occasional soccer watcher into

The San Francisco 49ers won their first game yesterday, beating their even more hapless cross-Bay rivals, the Oakland Raiders. The

"The eyes of Texas are upon you", that's the song they sing so well Sounds like hell, so good bye

The web buzzed this morning over John Calipari's remarks concerning Duke's flopping, USA Today, Huffington, ... Coach K's responded, but

A Yahoo! Sports headline and associated summary regarding the Tour on Monday headline reads, Sastre Wins Doping-Scarred Tour de France.

During his trip to the Jacksonsville Jags' camp, SI.com's Don Banks elicited a couple of interesting quotes: From [QB Byron]Leftwich:

This quote comes from Tom Coughlin in a recent NY Times article (registration required): I'm a believer that defense wins

Time is valuable even for sports fans. The Masters is one of my favorite sports events (even if run by