Stefan Szymanski

It’s Ashes times again, the historic cricket contest between England and Australia played every two years, alternating between the two nations. Australia have long dominated …

Following on Skip’s post of yesterday, it appears that the EPL may have been a bit hasty in announcing their international schedule, since FIFA, the …

England’s 3-2 defeat by Croatia last night, eliminating them from the Euro 2008 soccer championship, looks likely to set off the kind of “club versus …

The announcement this week that the Premier League had raised £625 million (almost $1250 million at today’s exchange rate) from the sale overseas broadcast rights …

I’d like to connect two ideas – the sensitivity of pay to performance and the quality of the England soccer team. I have long argued …

It’s easy to think that baseball and cricket and football and soccer have nothing in common, but two stories from the past two days illustrate …

OK, not quite, but the work of Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson has much relevance to sports economics and the design of sporting …

Barely seventeen months after winning the bid, London looks set to deliver the most overbudget games in Olympic history. The bid document produced in 2005 …

Today saw the publication of the recommendations for reform of the English Football Association (FA) following a review by Lord Terry Burns. Unlike the major …

The much awaited and repeatedly delayed European Commission white paper on sport was published today and delivered almost nothing that UEFA and some would-be sports …