Maryland Stadium Authority – the gift that keeps on giving
Baltimore has Camden Yards and M and T Bank Stadium thanks to the work of the Maryland Stadium Authority. One might think that after spear-heading …
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Increased Academic Standards
The Orlando Sentinel has this article (free registration required) about the new NCAA legislation that gives it the power to take scholarships away from Division …
Financial Problems at UC Berkeley
And it has nothing to do with the sorry state of the State Budget. I got an interesting cold call yesterday from a faculty member …
Sports Leagues as Coasian Firms
Ronald Coase recently celebrated his 100th birthday. I read a few articles and posts from around the internet about Coase’s contributions to economic thought. One …
Coaches, GMs, and Reporters
The (Nashville) Tennessean’s Paul Kuharsky wrote a short piece about the Coach-GM relationship, specifically with regard to the Titans. He observes Sure, Coach Jeff Fisher …
Instant Replay, Technology, and the U.S. Open
It was only a matter of time. The U.S. Open will be the first Grand Slam event to review disputed calls electronically. … The technology …
England win Ashes
The England cricket team beat Australia 2-1 in the five match series that has been going on for the last two months, the final game …
PEDs and Quality of Competition
In a recent TSE post, Brian writes: The league’s testing procedure (“analytic evidence”) uncovered only 13 users from 2009 to the present. Yet, now there …
$1 Billion for the New Orleans Saints
It has been widely reported (see this link and the original SI story) that a Canadian consortium, presumably based in Toronto, offered $1b for the …
The Perils of Revenue Sharing
This report from ESPN highlights one of the incentive problems associated with revenue sharing. According to leaked financial documents, the Pittsburgh Pirates, despite (or perhaps …