Today’s Baltimore Sun had articles on two distinct compensation issues for NFL players. The first article is about signing draft picks and the practice of …

I wrote a blog here on September 24th about the intervention of the competition authority in Brussels to prohibit the FAPL from selling more than …

New Vikings owner Zigi Wilf has announced a rough estimate on the cost of a new stadium for his new team: Minnesota House Speaker Steve …

Readers of the Sports Economist are likely to be familiar with revenue sharing in professional sports. Leagues have different approaches to sharing revenues, and the …

Kansas City Chief’s Dick Vermeil made a call that few coaches are willing to make. Peter King describes it in his SI.com column: Five seconds …

Brian Urlacher was fined $100,000 for wearing a hat bearing the logo of Vitaminwater, a competitor of Gatorade, at the media day for the Super …

The recent collaspe of plans to refurbish or rebuild the San Francisco 49er’s stadium (which will always be known in my mind as Candlestick Park, …

The St. Louis Rams want public money to build a new stadium to replace the Edward Jones Dome.  Cue the requisite speculation regarding LA: To …

The start of the English Premier League season has been remarkable for one fact- the collapse in the number of tied games. Typically 25% of …

Sometimes, the simplest of economic ideas have a great deal of power. The MLB Players Association and their counsel, Donald Fehr, have been dragging their …