Underrated Sports: Three Events That Should Attract Bigger Audiences
Sports fans are spoilt for choice in 2018, with increased access to more sporting events than ever before. Television subscriptions, live streaming services and the 24-hour access to news and ...Does Baseball’s Salary Arbitration Process Reduce Player Performance and Weaken Player-Club Relationships?
Guest Post by John Budd Previous research on Major League Baseball’s final-offer salary arbitration process has found that players who lost in arbitration have subsequent lower on-field performance than those ...Subversion of the Academy by the NCAA
by Robert E. McCormick and Robert D. Tollison* Two great American institutions are about to crank up. Freshman and their older classmates will soon start returning to campuses for fall ...Favre Rumors Move Futures Markets
Guest Post by Andy Weinbach and Rodney Paul August 3rd reports of Favre’s imminent retirement may have been exaggerated, but they did move the NFL futures markets. Week 1 - ...Hot Loonie Observations
Thanks to Brad Humphreys for his post below on exchange rates and franchise values. There has been a plethora of "hot Loonie" articles lately. And I fear an important chain ...A Better Football Poll?
The BCS has finally made its appearance and we now “know” that Ohio State is the number one team in the land. Okay, we really don’t “know”. The BCS combines ...Book Review: 200 MPH Billboard
The last time I paid attention to stock car racing, Cale Yarborough and Richard Petty were names and I'd never heard of the acronym NASCAR. New England wasn't a place ...Some Needed Perspective on the NBA Referee Scandal
On Friday we learned that NBA referee Tim Donaghy is under investigation by the FBI for betting on NBA games. Here is how this story has been described by various ...A quick question
Would you be willing to run a business that lost $28 million a year in order to run a second business that "revenues top a quarter billion and its profit ...Hey, honey, I have options
While the Minnesota Legislature seemed willing to spend money like Michael Jordan, one thing it didn't buy was the new plan for a Vikings stadium. Perhaps it's due to a ...
