The two recent posts on college finances hit upon one of my pet subjects. With Mel Borland and Bob Pulsinelli here at WKU, I conducted …

Recent travels kept me away from the SportsEconomist for the past couple of weeks. Fortunately, I was lucky of enough to have access to Fox …

Michael Silver takes NFL teams and coaches to task on Yahoo! Sports regarding Stone Age thinking about about training camp practices in extreme heat. This …

The Chicago Cubs have their own ticket-reselling agency [aka scalper] which sells tickets at prices above the face value. Well, it isn’t owned by the …

What about curling? Actually, more people would watch it if they could! It turns out that the Canadian Curling Association negotiated a new contract for …

A couple of weeks ago, the NFL Players Association re-elected Gene Upshaw as executive director (see AP story). Bryant Gumbel’s dissing of him notwithstanding, NFL …

As most any sports fan, commercials during sporting events annoy me– not the hawking of wares, per se, but the time it adds to the …

When I read manuscripts submitted to or published in economic journals, it is not uncommon for authors to report the standard deviation of binary dummy …

For years, collegiate athletic departments have employed a differential ticket pricing strategy for home football games against premium opponents. The University of Oregon is charging …

Association football, that is. FIFA, the world governing body, has announced that it has reached agreement with FIFPro, the international players’ union, over a range …