More ways to hate the NCAA
Crossposted at SCSU Scholars. As noted by Joanne Jacobs, some student-athletes in Florida are using private high schools to skirt eligibility rules for college football. …
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Your antennae have to rise…
{Crossposted at SCSU Scholars.} …whenever you hear about business people and government officials getting together to discuss money. So word yesterday that Zygi Wilf and …
The Tall and the Short of It
Tall men earn more than short men, according to a paper (subscription required) recently published in the Journal of Political Economy, a prominent economics journal. …
A measure of success
I’d like to connect two ideas – the sensitivity of pay to performance and the quality of the England soccer team. I have long argued …
Yanks Close in on New Home
From the NY Times: The New York Yankees are reportedly close to an agreement with city and state officials to build a new stadium. The …
Vikings Stadium Issue
I posted this over at Market Power but it has much relevance for The Sports Economist. From today’s St. Paul Pioneer Press: Anoka County is …
Glendale Substitutes Hockey for Water?
Via Chris Tozzo comes this gem from Glendale, Az. Money earmarked for city services such as water and sewer now sits in an escrow account …
The kids are alright
It’s easy to think that baseball and cricket and football and soccer have nothing in common, but two stories from the past two days illustrate …
Call For Papers – IX Gijon Conference of Sports Economics “Neale Golden Anniversary”
Note: the deadline for abstract submission is Feb. 15, less than two weeks away. Here is the CFP: CALL FOR PAPERS IX GIJON CONFERENCE ON …
A College Lesson for the NBA?
Refreshingly, the NBA playoffs so far have escaped the 75-point clutch-and-grab purgatory of the past decade. Still, according the Nielsen data reported on Zapt2it, 3.3 …