Superconferences
From USA Today’s Campus Rivalry blog: Mike Slive, the conference’s commissioner, told the New York Times that he is prepared to react if the Big Ten adds …
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Limiting Team Numbers in NASCAR
Frank Stephenson at Division of Labour alerts us to this Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about possible changes to the number of cars an owner can run: …
The NCAA’s APR Teeth: Punishing David to get Back at Goliath?
Last week, the NCAA released a list of the programs that will lose scholarships under its new Academic Progress Rate. Pat Forde quips: This is …
Roger Noll: the NHL’s Business Model Doesn’t Work
With the imminent demise of the NHL for at least one season, and maybe more, members of the mainstream media [MSM] are finally realizing that …
The Politics of Bowling, Fiesta Style
The Arizona Republic has an interesting article on the Fiesta Bowl. The author, Craig Harris, argues that bowl employees were urged by Fiesta Bowl executives …
New Journal: International Journal of Sport Policy
A colleague of mine on the editorial board of this new journal has alerted me to the impending debut of the International Journal of Sport …
Stadium Issues Everywhere
The Western Economics Association is meeting this week in Honolulu for its annual conference. Many contributors to The Sports Economist are on hand discussing such …
Will cricket outpay soccer?
The Indian Premier League (IPL) is creating some interesting financial headlines. Today at foxsports.com.au and in the Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper, the head of the …
Football Season Begins!…well, not quite yet
Last week the Argentine Football Association delayed the start of the season because most of the clubs are bankrupt- they owe wages to the players …
NFL collective bargaining
Could the NFL be a salary cap-free league in 2010? The NFL team owners or the NFL Players’ Association can unilaterally terminante the collective bargaining …