Arena Football League: Off Again, On Again, Off Again
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, …
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The Long-Run Economic Impact of the Olympics
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, …
More on Manchester United:Hedge Funds Back Glazer
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 …
What’s Blocking a D1 Playoff?
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 …
Team Finances and Arbitration
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 …
The Immortal Debt of Some “Public” Stadiums
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 …
Cupcakes Anyone?
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 …
About suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters
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 …
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 …
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 …