The NY Times has an article today on shortfalls in attendance at the two new stadiums in NY. I like this quote: The empty seats …

The main players in the Minnesota Twins’ bid to get public funding for a new stadium have dropped the economic impact argument. They acknowledge what …

Change that. It looks like the Arena Football League will cancel the upcoming season. “Every owner in the AFL is strongly committed to the league, …

The flame was extinguished last Sunday. The Torino Winter Olympic Games are over. But in terms of assessing the long-run economic impact of the games, …

According to the Sunday Times [h/t to Brian Ferguson for the link], three major hedge funds are backing Malcom Glazer’s acquisition of Manchester United. THREE …

Earlier I wrote that there is likely to be no playoff in D1 football for two reasons: There are too many schools in D1 Too …

Baseball teams (and most professional sports teams) take measures to keep their financial condition secret. The rules that govern baseball’s arbitration system, defined in Article …

I had planned to post on this article by Ken Belson of the New York Times, but ol’ Quick Trigger (Skip) beat me to the …

The following is to be said like Ben Stein’s character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – the droning, monotone economics professor speaking to a class …

Tuesday’s crushing defeat of England by Australia demonstrated exactly why cricket fans love the game and the rest of the world is bemused. The game …