It was no accident
Crossposted at SCSU Scholars: Was it an accident that Jackie Robinson was picked by the Dodgers to break the color barrier in professional baseball? Reflecting …
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Rents Accrue; Rents Get Collected
College athletes, themselves, are prohibited from collecting their value. But that value accrues, nonetheless. Most would agree that the excess of a college player’s marginal …
Beat The Pre-Season Poll, Win A Beer
Prior to the beginning of the BCS chase, a posting by Dave Berri prompted me to offer the following bet: I’d buy anybody a beer …
Rational Irrationality in Professional Football
A few years ago David Romer – and economist at UC Berkeley – posted a paper on-line examining the decisions NFL coaches made on fourth …
Labor Day Thoughts
Today is Labor Day and I am clearly working (but only a little bit). Malcolm Gladwell posted a comment on his blog entitled “Abolish the …
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 …
Losing to Win in the NBA in 2006
One of the best recent articles written in the field of sports economics was “Losing to Win: Tournament Incentives in the National Basketball Association.” by …
Freakonomics vs. Moneyball
On page 10 of the October 2nd issue of Business Week is a brief article by Peter Coy (not available online) entitled “Freakonomics vs. Moneyball.” …
Sports Illustrated Notes The Sports Economist
Do you know this man? Of course you do, this is Skip Sauer, the man most responsible for The Sports Economist – the very blog …
The Growth Rate of NCAA Coaches Compensation
I subscribe to the Daily Dose at sportsbusinessnews.com (a compilation by Howard Bloom of sports business articles). On 12/24/05, an interesting tidbit on NCAA basketball …