I Left My Olympic Bid in San Francisco
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, …
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Nth Verse, Same as the First
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 …
Bookies all tied up
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 …
Steriods and Interests Groups
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 …
The Minors, Basketball Style
The National Basketball Developmental League is expanding. NBA Commissioner David Stern announced today that the National Basketball Development League has awarded teams to four Southwest …
Are the Marlins Spending Enough on Player Salaries?
From HardBallTalk: Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald spoke to a source within the MLB Players Association who says that if Marlins owner Jeff Loria doesn’t increase team payroll …
The Dispersion of Moneyball
Two diverse mentions of Moneyball over the past week. Both lend credibility to treating the Moneyball approach as a technological innovation in the assessing of …
More regulatory rumblings
A few more stories on the proposed intervention to regulate European football emerged today. The Evening Standard, a London paper, carried a story that UEFA …
TO’s Grievance Arbitration
(Crossposted at Market Power) I was critical of Terrell Owens’ public disgracing of teammates and supported the Eagles’ decision to suspend him. But because the …
C. Frederick Mosteller:Pioneer Sabremetrician?
From the NYTimes (reg. req’d): C. Frederick Mosteller, the founding chairman of Harvard’s statistics department and a pioneer in using statistics to analyze an array …