John Palmer, Author At The Sports Economist

I don’t like pitchers’ duels in baseball. I like to see high-scoring games. Low-scoring games remind me too much of

Last week it looked as if the Royal Caledonia Curling Club (RCCC) would be able to host a Grand Match

From the Toronto Globe and Mail, an on-line voluntary poll asks, Now that talks have progressed, will you be happy

Back when I was a graduate student, we did our econometrics assignments on punch cards and submitted the “jobs” to

A little over a decade ago, I did play-by-play announcing for the AA London Tigers, a London, Ontario, affiliate of

All the major league sports teams are getting into scalping [Washington Post, reg. req’d]. NFL, NBA and NHL teams have

This isn’t an old maid’s portfolio we’re dealing with here. That is how Dallas Cowboy’s owner, Jerry Jones, described their

The NFL’s Washington Redskins now require their customers to pay by cash, by cheque, or with a Redskins Extra Points

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From an article in the Trono Star, A secret NHL report detailing the ticket revenues of its 30 teams reveals

In our Radioeconomics discussion about the World Series this morning, King Banaian, Phil Miller, and I discussed ticket scalping at

Major League Baseball has announced that San Fransisco will host the 2007 All-star game. It is likely to bring lots

The prices for tickets to World Series games in Chicago have once again been set well below the market clearing