Has Title IX Inhibited the Growth of Lacrosse?
The May 30th edition of the NYTimes (free registration required) has a major story about the growth of lacrosse in North America. When Johns Hopkins …
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Steroid Use and MLB Policy:the prisoners’ dilemma
Major League Baseball owners and the MLB Players’ Association have reached an agreement that there will be more, and more random, testing for steroid use, …
What Are We? Chopped Liver?
A recent article, “New Approaches to Ranking Economics Journals” by Yolanda K. Kodrzycki and Pingkang Yu, ranks economics journals in terms of their impact on …
Hockey’s (Purportedly) Extremely Hard Salary Cap
Tonight, as I was driving home, I listened to Sportsnet’s discussion of the “hard” salary cap. The participants all agreed that the contract has a …
What is the Marginal Physical Product of Steroids?
Until 1994, the slugging percentage in MLB averaged well under 400. There were some years in which the SLG for the league as a whole …
NHL Players Advised to Play in Europe
Bob Goodenow, Executive Director of the NHL Players’ Association, has advised the players that he expects the lockout to last well into next year and …
Fighting and Scoring in Hockey
A report on CTV news this morning says hockey teams that fight more score more goals and allow fewer goals, on average. Here is an …
The Blind Side: Two Very Different Books in One
Last month I finally had a chance to read The Blind Side by Michael Lewis. I had thoroughly enjoyed his two previous books, Liar’s Poker …
Will the NFL Saints Move?and if so, where?
We have been very fortunate to have Phil Miller provide us with the details behind the saga of the NFL Vikings’ search for a new …
It Isn’t Scalping, It’s "Price Discrimination"
The Chicago Cubs have their own ticket-reselling agency [aka scalper] which sells tickets at prices above the face value. Well, it isn’t owned by the …