It may well be that church attendance and membership are declining throughout North America, but chapel services in professional sports (baseball, anyway) seem to be …

The May 30th edition of the NYTimes (free registration required) has a major story about the growth of lacrosse in North America. When Johns Hopkins …

A new study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) comes to the conclusion that state and local subsidies for one particular industry: …

Nick Watanabe over at the International Journal of Sport Finance Blog alerts us to a match fixing scandal in the Italian soccer league, Serie B, …

The Australian Football League has arguably the most restrictive labour market regulations of any pro sport; a player draft, a (relatively hard) salary cap, and …

Competitive balance in sports is among the most commonly discussed topics among sports economists. Three of the four most cited articles at the Journal of …

Major League Baseball owners and the MLB Players’ Association have reached an agreement that there will be more, and more random, testing for steroid use, …

So what do professional sports teams sell? Rivalry of course, and to have rivalry you have to have a rival. Real Madrid have broken the …

The infamous “Fifth Down game” of 1990 is forever in the annals of Missouri Tiger and Colorado Buffalo history. A good Colorado team, ranked No. …