I want to take up Skip’s blog of August 2nd about the competitive balance of the Premier League whose new season started yesterday. Pretty much …

Barclays, a British bank, has reportedly agreed to pay $400 million dollars over 20 years for the naming rights to the New York Nets’ new …

Generally I teach The Economics of Sports in the Winter Quarter at Cal-State Bakersfield. The quarter begins the first week of January or right around …

First things first. Thanks to Skip Sauer for the invitation to contribute to the Sports Economist Blog. Skip has done a great job of blending …

It’s arbitration time again in baseball, a time when some baseball players and their teams negotiate with one another under the threat of having a …

It was reported last week that MLB was on the verge of signing a deal with DirecTV to make its Extra Innings package the exclusive …

Sailing is asking for government support. In Annapolis, Maryland, there is now a proposal for a National Sailing Hall of Fame. Interestingly, the site for …

I was critical of the decision to hold legislative hearings on goings on regarding college football’s BCS system, but now that they have occurred, let’s …

Economists know Gresham’s law as “bad money pushes out good money if forced to exchange at the same price.” Some variant of this seems to …

As the proverb says — you better be careful what you wish for because you might just get it. The econ version of this saying …