John Palmer, Author At The Sports Economist

The All-England Club, which hosts the Wimbledon tennis tournament, has announced that beginning in 2007, the prize money will be

People from my generation will remember the subtitle of this posting as a quote from LBJ or General Westmoreland or

The NFL’s Washington Redskins have announced they will now accept any Mastercard to pay for tickets to their games, as

[Note: this was originally posted at EclectEcon, but Phil urged me to cross post it here. I’ve revised it slightly.]

Andre Dawson was elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame yesterday. Those of us who watched him when he played with

Adam Yu has written a wonderfully titled essay, “The Coase Theorem Meets Moneyball.” It won the Milton Friedman prize at

It isn’t the game so much as the ambience.

from the sports law blog: Update to NBA Player Arrest StudyIn my study on NBA player arrest and age/education, I

Judging from what I hear, see, and read, there will once again be some controversy about who should be selected

Barry Bonds becomes a free agent at the end of this season. Suppose the following: There is a freely competitive

From the Toronto Globe and Mail: Vancouver — Increasing venue costs — often the curse of the modern Olympics —

From the NYTimes (reg. req’d): C. Frederick Mosteller, the founding chairman of Harvard’s statistics department and a pioneer in using