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 …

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 …

Most tennis matches are held outdoors. One risk is that it will rain when a match or set of matches is scheduled (and increasingly organizers …

From the Baltimore Sun: Instead, envision the baseball impossible: Neither the New York Yankees nor the Boston Red Sox make the 2005 playoffs. Neither one …

In the spirit of contributing to the economic drain from the NCAA Tournament that Skip noted, I wanted to consider its structure. This year has …