Yankees would have left the Bronx
In testimony before Congress today, President of the Yankees, Randy Levine, said that without the stadium subsidy, the Yankees would have left the Bronx. Here’s …
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It was no accident
Crossposted at SCSU Scholars: Was it an accident that Jackie Robinson was picked by the Dodgers to break the color barrier in professional baseball? Reflecting …
NCAA Seeding — A Rejoinder to Brian Goff
In his latest post Brian Goff notes that top seeds in this year’s tournament had some trouble putting away their lower ranked opponents and that …
Underutilization of US Youngsters
I would like to offer a couple of postscripts to Skip’s Post-Mortem on the U.S. performance in the World Cup. 1. Although the results differed, …
Ashes to Ashes
It’s Ashes times again, the historic cricket contest between England and Australia played every two years, alternating between the two nations. Australia have long dominated …
Rents Accrue; Rents Get Collected
College athletes, themselves, are prohibited from collecting their value. But that value accrues, nonetheless. Most would agree that the excess of a college player’s marginal …
Bad Economics from FIFA
Today, FIFA have confirmed they made $3.655 billion from the World Cup in South Africa. President Sepp Blatter said that the figures proved it was the …
Beat The Pre-Season Poll, Win A Beer
Prior to the beginning of the BCS chase, a posting by Dave Berri prompted me to offer the following bet: I’d buy anybody a beer …
Rational Irrationality in Professional Football
A few years ago David Romer – and economist at UC Berkeley – posted a paper on-line examining the decisions NFL coaches made on fourth …
“Fair” Shares in the NFL
Well-connected NFL observers and writers predict a work stoppage, although 11th hour settlements are not uncommon. When the talk of breakdown in the NFL’ s …