Foul Strategy?
Law Professor, Steven Lubett, of Northwestern University has posed the following question (via Alex Kozinsky) about optimal strategies for committing fouls near the end of …
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Viking Stadium Money Running Short of Projections
The State of Minnesota had hoped that new electronic gambling machines would provide the necessary revenue to pay for the state’s share of building a …
Irrational Expectations on Draft Day
From Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution: Cade Massey and Richard Thaler say yes: …we analyze the decision making of National Football League teams during their …
Latin (Baseball) Economics
A TSE reader, Jeff Baird, steered my attention toward an Economist article on Draft Dodgers No More: Can The Dominican Republic Avoid Puerto Rico’s Fate? …
Nature vs. Nurture: An Update
In this post I linked to a Chronicle of Higher Education article that discussed some recent research on the gender of college coaches. That article …
When There’s a Will…
there’s a way. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Vikings running back Onterrio Smith was detained last month at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport after police found paraphernalia …
MLB’s Best and Worst Managers and GMs
Over the past 40 years, who are the best MLB managers and general managers? I recently explored this question in an academic piece published …
Step up, or step down
Crossposted at SCSU Scholars. St. Cloud State (SCSU) is a Division II athletic program except in ice hockey, where there is no Division II and …
Electronics, Computers, and Judgement Calls
As I watched the final match of the NASDAQ tennis tournament Sunday afternoon and the opening game of Major League Baseball on Sunday evening, I …
Just give him the keys to the treasury
According to a report online at Forbes (and citing a report from the Minneapolis Star Tribune), Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf has rejected three different …