Closers v. Firemen
Tom Verducci (SI.com) offers a long overdue assessment of present day “closers” versus bygone”firemen” relievers such HOF inductee Goose Gossage. First, Gossage, Sutter, and similar …
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Some Observations on the Differences between N. American Sports and Soccer/Football in England
An anonymous reader and I have corresponded considerably over the past month or two about the economics of North American professional sports, as compared with …
Running Nonsense
This is more Sports Statistician than Sports Economist, but, shooting down sports “folk wisdom” of the talking heads is one of my hobbies. Cold, Hard, …
New Twist on Stadium Subsidies
Developers in Cincinnati are getting a subsidy to build a housing and shopping project, called “The Banks”, along Cincinnati’s waterfront . The project has not …
Sowell on MLB
Thomas Sowell offers some strong views in light of the Mitchell report on Real Clear Politics — Steroid in Baseball: Say It Ain’t So. Here …
The SEC to Investigate the Marlins’ Stadium Deal
From Jeff Passan at Yahoo! sports: The Security and Exchange Commission on Thursday launched guided warheads at the Marlins, requesting the team’s financial records, communications with …
Freakonomics vs. Moneyball
On page 10 of the October 2nd issue of Business Week is a brief article by Peter Coy (not available online) entitled “Freakonomics vs. Moneyball.” …
What is a sport? / What is sports economics?
The last night of the Western Economic Association meetings a group of a dozen sports economists, their spouses, and their children went to dinner together …
Are Athletic Departments like Wells Fargo?
Inside Higher Ed ran an article titled “Beyond ‘Bad Apples‘.” In the article John V. Lombardi, who is currently a Professor of History and Associate …
Stadium finance and the auction-rate market
The last month or so has seen some dramatic changes in the auction-rate bond market. This is a market in which some recent stadium and …