Luck vs. Skill

In his recent Moneyball post, Skip alluded to the “Fire Joe Morgan” blog, website dedicated to pointing out silly commentary from sports journalists. In homage to this sadly …

Bad Economics from FIFA

Today, FIFA have confirmed they made $3.655 billion from the World Cup in South Africa. President Sepp Blatter said that the figures proved it was the …

Congratulations to Skip!

Skip Sauer, our illustrious leader and the founder of thesporteconomist.com, has been elected as president of the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE). NAASE …

A Beehive (State) of Activity?

I know this might get old to readers, but if sport teams stopped producing bogus economic impact numbers, and if the press stopped blindly parroting …

Where are the American women?

I’m a little behind the game here, but in a relatively recent segment on NPR, commentator Frank DeFord lamented the current lack of American women …