Alan Milstein, guest-blogging over at The Sports Law Blog, puts the smackdown on the NFL draft. Oh those NFL schedule makers. How do they do …

One of the hallmarks of union activity is resisting capital for labor substitution.  To keep wages high, it’s important to limit the ability of employers …

With 90 percent of the season yet to be played, not much should be made of any team’s start. Still, Yankee-haters like me can hope! …

Two years ago Michael Lewis published Moneyball, the story of the improbable success of the Oakland A’s. For sports economists this book sparked much discussion …

For me as with most fans and observers, the Dodgers-Red Sox trade that brought Gonzalez, Crawford, and Beckett west created an initial wow factor especially …

Today is the day that we celebrate the birth of the United States that was symbolized with the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  From …

I am at the Southern Economic Association meetings in Washington this weekend. JC Bradbury put together five North American Association of Sports Economists sessions for …

From the Toronto Globe and Mail: Vancouver — Increasing venue costs — often the curse of the modern Olympics — have hit the 2010 Winter …

Lost in the recent media blitz over the Floyd Landis case was an interesting and largely overlooked dimension to the doping controversy: the widespread granting …

The bloggers here at The Sports Economist will all know Professor Steve Walters of Loyola University here in Maryland. Steve has signed on to advise …