Brian Goff, Author At The Sports Economist

Lately, the hiring of Gene Chizik for the head football coaching job at Auburn generated a ton of (mostly negative)

Due to travels, I missed writing about the Bobby Bowden affair during the height of the storm. The dismay among

While Dodger Stadium benefited from a generous land grant from the city and infrastructure subsidies detailed in Dodgers Move West

During the Colts-Dolphins Monday night telecast, the TV crew's conversation turned to Miami's "Wildcat" formation -- the direct snap to

MLB

In his most recent post, Bill Simmons from ESPN Page 2 confesses Boredom with the Red Sox , laying the

The recent NHL Stanley Cup Finals made me ponder the question of league geographic choices. Detroit (Western Conference) and Pittsburgh

An interesting angle coming out of the Palmeiro case is the question of the internal politics at work. The AP's

Ran across a recent piece on the evolution of Jason Garrett's playing calling by Jonathan Bales of DC Times (an

With a Southern California birth and a youth spent in North Texas, I grew up pulling for USC and Southwest

Governance organizations often behave in strange ways even when they are not "governments" in the common usage of the term.

I went bipolar watching Monday Night Footbal last week. On the one hand, growing up in NE Texas, I was

Decisions imply tradeoffs. Sports economics provides so many clear examples. Often, these tradeoffs are awefully hard to judge accurately because