Harsh Punishments, but No Death Penalty, for Penn State
The NCAA has hit Penn State with harsh penalties as punishment for the Jerry Sandusky case. Penn State is put on probation for 5 years, …
Phil Miller
College Coaches Running up the Score: Responding to Incentives
From Pat Forde at ESPN: Oklahoma ran it up last and loudest, scoring 45 fourth-quarter points in its past two games against Oklahoma State and …
The Length of College Football Games
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal tackled the issue of game lengths in major college football. One morning last week, a plane left …
Glendale Bailing Out the Coyotes
In 2010, the city of Glendale, Arizona, found itself in the center of a financial storm as it quietly began subsidizing the money-losing Phoenix Coyotes, …
Congratulations to the Rockies
While many pundits expound on the Mets’ phenomenal collapse and the Phillies’ race to the top of the NL East, few had paid much attention …
Corruption in college basketball – a result of not using the price system to allocate player talent
Like most other fans of college sports, particularly the money sports of football and mens’ basketball, I have grown accustomed to the sporadic scandals that …
Superconferences
From USA Today’s Campus Rivalry blog: Mike Slive, the conference’s commissioner, told the New York Times that he is prepared to react if the Big Ten adds …
Limiting Team Numbers in NASCAR
Frank Stephenson at Division of Labour alerts us to this Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about possible changes to the number of cars an owner can run: …
The NCAA’s APR Teeth: Punishing David to get Back at Goliath?
Last week, the NCAA released a list of the programs that will lose scholarships under its new Academic Progress Rate. Pat Forde quips: This is …
The Politics of Bowling, Fiesta Style
The Arizona Republic has an interesting article on the Fiesta Bowl. The author, Craig Harris, argues that bowl employees were urged by Fiesta Bowl executives …