MLB's new killer app
Baseball has always been different than the other professional sports because local TV revenues are so large. They're large because they can provide a great deal of content to broadcasters ...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 ...Will we be blamed for future strikes?
The NHL lock-out of 2004-05 was the seventh labor dispute in the past 25 years to cost North American fans access to the games they love. And this incident was ...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 ...Football rules changes
The NCAA has instituted rules that will both shorten and lengthen college football games this year. The clock will start on changes of possession on kicks when the referee signals ...Shutdown point
It's apparently been reached by the US Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, Minnesota, which has decided to move and not open this year. Findley said the idea of closing ...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 ...Title IX Doesn't Kill Lesser Sports. ADs Do.
USAToday's Erik Brady (the article) and The Washington Post's Alan Goldenbach (the article) report on protests aimed at Title IX as the cause of program cuts in men's and women's ...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 ...The Wisdom of Red Auerbach
Legendary basketball coach Red Auerbach passed away last Saturday. In reading and watching about his life on Sunday I was struck by his take on the game of basketball. Consider ...Technological Reluctance? Or Profit? Replay Review
When is an increased technological ability not a technological improvement? Apparently in sports. Case in point: the Eddings call in the Angels-White Sox game. A really nice graphic and commentary ...Is Kobe Like Mike?
Also posted at WagesofWins.com A few weeks ago the ever insightful Bill Simmons of ESPN.com announced his choice for NBA MVP. Simmons went through each of the players he thought ...
