When Near Monopolists Collide
Major League Baseball moved the Montreal Expos to Washington, with the relocated team renamed the Nationals, just about a year and a half ago. Doing …
Dennis Coates
MLB and the Dominican Scouting Scandal
Lots of money, extreme poverty, ignorance and innocence. Bring these together and the situation is ripe for the exploitation of the poor, ignorant and innocent …
Politics and Budgets in NFL playing time?
Listening to the pregame radio broadcast of the Ravens-Steelers game tonight I heard radio announcers make an assertion I found hard to believe. I wonder …
Self-congratulations Part Deux
In the world of sports, few moments captivate audiences like watching athletes celebrate their victories. From jubilant dances to exuberant displays of emotion, these celebrations …
Yankees would have left the Bronx
In testimony before Congress today, President of the Yankees, Randy Levine, said that without the stadium subsidy, the Yankees would have left the Bronx. Here’s …
Spring Training
The Sports Business Journal recently published “Clubs give winter homes a branding boost” about the partnership between MLB franchises and their spring training homes. There …
New Twist on Stadium Subsidies
Developers in Cincinnati are getting a subsidy to build a housing and shopping project, called “The Banks”, along Cincinnati’s waterfront . The project has not …
What is a sport? / What is sports economics?
The last night of the Western Economic Association meetings a group of a dozen sports economists, their spouses, and their children went to dinner together …
Stadium finance and the auction-rate market
The last month or so has seen some dramatic changes in the auction-rate bond market. This is a market in which some recent stadium and …
Arena malarky in my backyard
Baltimore city and Maryland state officials announced this week the intention to build a new 18,500 seat arena on the site of the existing First …