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. …

With a memorable Players yesterday and the U.S. Open one month out, I wanted to pose a question that has been on my mind for …

So, suppose you were the University of Nevada playing Boise St. last Saturday… Your 8-3 record has already locked up a bowl appearance regardless of …

A recent article, “New Approaches to Ranking Economics Journals” by Yolanda K. Kodrzycki and Pingkang Yu, ranks economics journals in terms of their impact on …

A recent USA Today column tackled the question, why is AFC dominating the NFC? This year, the AFC won an unprecedented 70% of the inter-conference …