According to Sports Illustrated (item #10 on this list), Coca-Cola began selling some 200 million specially designed cans offering U.K. soccer fans a chance to …

With a Southern California birth and a youth spent in North Texas, I grew up pulling for USC and Southwest Conference teams. To a kid …

Governance organizations often behave in strange ways even when they are not “governments” in the common usage of the term. In the past, I’ve written …

I went bipolar watching Monday Night Footbal last week. On the one hand, growing up in NE Texas, I was close enough to New Orleans …

Decisions imply tradeoffs. Sports economics provides so many clear examples. Often, these tradeoffs are awefully hard to judge accurately because they require speculation about what …

This article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal highlights one Italian soccer team’s attempts to deal with empty seats: fill them with cardboard cutouts. Unlike the …

The Nippon Professional Baseball players’ union has agreed to some changes in the Japanese Posting system that allows some NPB players to negotiate with MLB …

Phil Miller, King Banaian, and I had a long discussion this morning on one of Jim Reese’s radioeconomics podcasts. Here is his summary: Discussion about …

Earlier, I posted about the use of computer technology in tennis to allow players to challenge line calls by officials. We have been able to …

I liveblogged a talk by Andrew Zimbalist on the economics of sports stadiums here. It’s still in rough notes form, but I will add to …