During the Colts-Dolphins Monday night telecast, the TV crew's conversation turned to Miami's "Wildcat" formation -- the direct snap to a running back playing QB. The production team put up ...

In his most recent post, Bill Simmons from ESPN Page 2 confesses Boredom with the Red Sox , laying the bulk of the blame on the length of MLB games, ...

The recent NHL Stanley Cup Finals made me ponder the question of league geographic choices. Detroit (Western Conference) and Pittsburgh (Eastern Conference) are only a little over 200 miles apart. ...

An interesting angle coming out of the Palmeiro case is the question of the internal politics at work. The AP's Tim Dahlberg writes, You have to be slightly suspicious that ...

Ran across a recent piece on the evolution of Jason Garrett's playing calling by Jonathan Bales of DC Times (an analytics based blog on the Dallas Cowboys and the NFL). ...

With a Southern California birth and a youth spent in North Texas, I grew up pulling for USC and Southwest Conference teams. To a kid like me, Notre Dame embodied ...

Governance organizations often behave in strange ways even when they are not "governments" in the common usage of the term. In the past, I've written the internal politics of the ...

I went bipolar watching Monday Night Footbal last week. On the one hand, growing up in NE Texas, I was close enough to New Orleans to get many of their ...

Decisions imply tradeoffs. Sports economics provides so many clear examples. Often, these tradeoffs are awefully hard to judge accurately because they require speculation about what would be rather than reliance ...

In 1980, the long drive guy was hitting it 285, and now if you hit it 285, you're one of the shortest guys on the Tour. To me, it's a ...

Russell, Chamberlain, Jabbar, Lanier, Walton, Gilmore, Malone, Olajuwan, Ewing, O’Neal.  Over decades, these and other “centers” dominated the NBA.  The “association” conducted its annual All-Star game on Sunday.   For the ...

In the spirit of contributing to the economic drain from the NCAA Tournament that Skip noted, I wanted to consider its structure. This year has been the exception for the ...