Myles Brand on College Athletics
NCAA President Myles Brand has contributed a post to an NCAA sponsored blog, Double-A Zone. In his first post, Brand addresses the issue of increasing …
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Cheating in Baseball and Cycling
In criminal justice studies, the problem of separating actual crime from enforcement policies across jurisdictions is well known. Over the past decade, cycling has suffered …
Tebow’s Freeze Out
Why is Tim Tebow out in the cold? Why are general managers and coaches willing to roll the dice with a QB who has never …
Markets that can sustain franchises
If people already had seen this, I apologize. A reporter called me yesterday to ask if I thought Cleveland could sustain its three professional sports …
Will There Be Hockey?My Bet Is Yes
Given that the owners have taken “linkage” of salary caps to revenues out of their offers, and given that players have accepted a salary cap, …
Alan Webb Breaks American Mile Record
With all of the attention on game-fixing, dogfighting, doping in cycling, and the ongoing Barry Bonds story, I didn’t find out about Alan Webb breaking …
Why I like Johnny Miller
Here a couple of quotes from a lengthy article on Golf.com about NBC Golf analyst Johnny Miller Says Maltbie, “We all have a filter that …
Chelsea Goes Down
Although many writers have voiced concern that Chelsea would merely buy both EPL and European championships, a few lessons come out of their dismantling by …
Ties That Bind Us
Last Saturday the British Horseracing’s Champion Flat Jockey contest was settled…in a tie. Seb Sanders and Jamie Spencer shared the title with 190 wins each …
Maintaining a Credible Threat
Great article today at Slate from Matt Yglesias about the Sacramento Kings proposed move to Seattle. It appears as if the NBA will try to …