Stefan Szymanski

This could be bigger than the Supreme Court’s ruling in 2000 that stopped the counting in Bush v Gore. FIFA

One way in which the economic cost of hosting major sporting events is justified is that it will produce a

Quite a few people have been suggesting that cricket is the sport of the future thanks to the obsessive interest

The Lex column of the Financial Times today carried a cute comparison of the resurgence of the Tigers and the

Even a competitive balance sceptic like myself would grudgingly admit that the NFL is more balanced, so I thought I

Last week the Argentine Football Association delayed the start of the season because most of the clubs are bankrupt- they

The Financial Times reported today that promotion to the Premier League is worth £60 million (just under $120 million today)-

The European Parliament has now adopted a resolution on the future of football in Europe. The underlying text is worth

The Jamaican Police revealed today that Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan cricket coach who died on Sunday, was strangled in his

A couple of years ago I had lunch with Roger Noll in London on one of his visits to the

So what do professional sports teams sell? Rivalry of course, and to have rivalry you have to have a rival.