Sunk Costs and Sports Personnel Decisions
James Surowiecki writing about Mark Sanchez at the New Yorker: After a farcical 2012 season, in which the New York Jets invented ever new ways …
Phil Miller
Temporarily Banning Beer Sales Near Wrigley?
From the Chicago Sun-Times: Bars and restaurants around Wrigley Field will be asked to stop serving alcohol after the seventh-inning stretch — just as they …
George Will on the Minors
George Will, iin his column in today’s WaPo: describes some of the realities of life for players in the South Atlantic League (The Sally League), …
Myrtle Beach Golf Conference
Announcing the first Myrtle Beach Golf Conference. The following is from an email I received from Andrew Weinbach of the Department of Economics at Coastal …
The Strike Zone as a Probability Density Function
The strike zone in baseball is supposed to be the area above the plate and between the batter’s armpits and knees. Â Seems simple enough, but …
What’s the Effect of Changing Coaches in CFB?
Joker Phillips of Kentucky is already on his way out and Derek Dooley of Tennessee has a warm behind and is squarely on the hot …
Division III Schools Look at the Academic Performance of Their Athletes
Unlike the other divisions in NCAA competition, Division 3 schools like Washington University and the University of Chicago, two schools with excellent economics programs, do …
Cross-town Rivals Cooperate to Bring Regional to Town
The University of San Diego has teamed up with San Diego State to host a regional. USD’s stadium is small, with 1,200 seats and it …
Franchise Value of the Cubs
I was quoted in a recent Chicago Tribune story on the value of the Cubs franchise. Wrigley Field casts a long shadow as prospective buyers …
Subsidy Fight
While looking around for Carlos Delgado stuff yesterday, I ran across an article in the Miami Herald describing a subsidy Wayne Huizenga received many years …