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Spring Training
The Sports Business Journal recently published "Clubs give winter homes a branding boost" about the partnership between MLB franchises and their spring training homes. There is a box with Cactus ... -
College Football Doping Scandal
College football is a big business these days. Teams generate tens of millions of dollars of revenue every season, and for top players, a lucrative professional football contract worth millions ... -
Doping in NASCAR - Why is Testosterone Banned?
Perhaps you haven't heard, but there is a doping scandal in NASCAR: NASCAR officials said Thursday that they plan to meet with Craftsman Truck series driver Ron Hornaday Jr. to ... -
Enhanced Human Performance
There has been quite a bit of discussion about drug taking, gene doping and what we mean by 'artificial' enhancements to human performance at The Sports Economist in the past ... -
Gene Doping - The New Frontier of Doping
This morning's Kansas City Star has an interesting piece on the new frontier of doping: gene doping. The whole article is worth a read, but here are the opening paragraphs. ... -
"Technological Doping"? - The Speedo LZR
Swimming has its version of the aluminum bat, an improvement in capital design that makes "labor" very productive, at least in an absolute sense. Maybe too much so: Since its ... -
More on Doping
Skip had an interesting post on doping last week that prompted more discussion in the comments. I have been working on several research projects related to the economics of doping ...
