Hockey Substitutes and Complements
I posted earlier about what hockey players and hockey teams are doing to while away the time away from NHL games. What are hockey fans …
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Addicted to the Tour
I must confess an addiction to nightly coverage of men riding bikes for five hours. Before last summer, I would have dismissed the idea of …
End of the Transfer Fee?
In August 2006 Andrew Webster, a soccer player for the Scottish club Heart of Midlothian, signed a deal with Wigan in the English Premier League. …
The Big XII – A Two-Tiered League
Recently, I read an article that claimed the Big XII South Division might be the best conference in college football this year (I didn’t bookmark …
Politics and Budgets in NFL playing time?
Listening to the pregame radio broadcast of the Ravens-Steelers game tonight I heard radio announcers make an assertion I found hard to believe. I wonder …
They Stand, We Sit
From the WSJ (HT to my colleague Ishuan Li) comes a story about why world soccer fans prefer to stand and US sports fans sit. …
Trials Hangover for U.S. Track?
USA Track & Field to Conduct Comprehensive Review of all Programs (Reuters wire story via ESPN.com: The United States will conduct a post-mortem into a …
Is an exit fee a barrier to entry?
The big news out of the ACC is that Noitre Dame has been unanimously voted in as a member of the conference… in every sport …
I Guess Sports Economists Will Always Have A Job…
My favorite principles teacher used to start all of his “real world” lessons with, “I guess economists will always have a job.” He would then …
National Pastime
Stefan Szymanski and Andrew Zimbalist have written a new book coming out on April 1st called National Pastime: In National Pastime, Stefan Szymanski and Andrew …