The history of the Australian Football League has seen a few non-Australians make their mark, with Ireland representing being the most viable pool of foreign-born talent due to the similarity of ...

With the NFL approaching the business-end of the season, the strength of schedule becomes of increasing importance and an interesting feature of many leagues is the deliberate use of an ...

The Australian Open concluded on the weekend. The Swiss master Roger Federer prevailed in three sets (6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (11)) against the Scot, Andy Murray; while the night before, Serena ...

I was halfway through a draft post on some recent books when I read Brian Goff's recent entry 'LeBron "Stumbling on Losses"'. Brian has highlighted some of the interesting arguments in the ...

[Association] Football Federation Australia is the national governing body for soccer in Australia. It is financially weak, but politically strong enough to have secured a loan of $45m (AUD) from ...

As most economists would know by now, Oliver Williamson won half of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences earlier this week. By this stage, half of the economics bloggers ...

These are the first eight words of the theme song of the Geelong Football Club, who yesterday won the Australian Football League (AFL) Grand Final in front of 97,000 fans ...

Happy new year sports economists. Australia and India are halfway through a four game series of Test Cricket. Whether the series is completed will depend upon the outcome of an ...