The owners made an offer to the NHLPA today (Wednesday) that included profit-sharing and pretty near forensic accounting to guarantee the profit-sharing. The union has rejected the offer. "The League ...

The Toronto Blue Jays indicated today that they believe they have not been hiring enough units of playing ability in the marketplace over the past few years, an argument that ...

In his latest posting, James Reese invited Phil Miller and me to discuss some topics of mutual interest for his economics podcast. Here is his summary: John Palmer and Phil ...

In a comment to a recent item on my own blog, Jabber asked whether I thought an analyst who beat the market 4 or 5 times running was a good ...

The representatives from the NHL and the NHLPA who met at an O'Hare hotel said they felt they had made some progress and were planning to meet again. Let's face ...

Alan Adamson's most recent posting at Curling about the selection of the British Olympic curling team was followed up in a comment that The Brits, despite being Olympic champions, are ...

The general theme of this Bloomberg.com article is that because NHL hockey teams have not been playing, city-owned arenas and parking lots have been receiving considerably less revenue [Thanks to ...

Last night while watching Agassi beat Baghdatis at the U.S. Open, I wrote, Query: How much would it be worth to the U.S. Open and its television partners to have ...

With the imminent demise of the NHL for at least one season, and maybe more, members of the mainstream media [MSM] are finally realizing that a proposed salary cap will ...

As I have watched the curling from the 2010 Olympics, I have heard several of the commentators tell us that so-and-so from such-and-such country is a full-time curler. S/he is ...