In 1956, the Journal of Political Economy published Simon Rottenberg’s seminal piece in sports economics, “The Baseball Players’ Labor Market.” In researching a commemorative piece …

From the Indianapolis Star: Foot Locker, the biggest U.S. athletic-shoe retailer, signed a contract with the Los Angeles Lakers to advertise atop the mops used …

Last Thursday the Supreme Court issued a rare unanimous decision in the case of Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association v. Brentwood Academy. The Court upheld …

For Martin Luther King Day, Gregory Mankiw has published an excerpt from his textbook at his blog. The excerpt details research on the extent of …

File this post under, “I meant to publish this a month ago but forgot.” Anyway … In March of 2005 I complained about all of …

In an earlier posting, the discussion in the comments raised the econ-speak concepts of marginal revenue and marginal costs. Here is another intriguing application, using …

In 1998, the baseball world heaped adulation on Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in their pursuit of Roger Maris’ single season home run record. Eight …

The NHL and the NHLPA have agreed to talk again today. I guess it ain’t over until the Zamboni sings.

Last Friday Skip posted a blog referring to the extension of negotiations over the EU Commission white paper on sport, which most of the European …

From Yahoo.com and the Associated Press [with thanks to cmt]: Bobbing for pig feet, the mudpit belly-flop, the armpit serenade — they’re all part of …