A sunk cost is an unavoidable sacrifice: no matter what a person does, the sacrifice will be made and it’s best to ignore them. JC …

ABC’s Dancing with the Stars olympically outdistanced the Winter Games on Americans’ telly dials last night: “Stars” averaged 27.1 million total viewers over two hours …

Happy new year sports economists. Australia and India are halfway through a four game series of Test Cricket. Whether the series is completed will depend …

My colleague Phil recently highlighted a comment by bobby, one of our many great readers. Bobby is concerned that we here at TSE tend to focus …

After being found guilty of collusion several times in the 1980s and 1990s, including being assessed millions of dollars in damages, one would think MLB …

While the Philadelphia 76ers got all of the press this year with their record-tying 26-game losing streak, the Milwaukee Bucks quietly ended up blowing out …

In our Radioeconomics discussion about the World Series this morning, King Banaian, Phil Miller, and I discussed ticket scalping at the outset. In an earlier …

England fans reportedly booed Bayern Munich’s Owen Hargreaves as he entered the friendly against Hungary this week. With the inclusion of the very young and …

Here’s an article that I ran across in today’s Kansas City Star about a rule change regarding spearing – when a player lowers his head …

Ok, cooking isn’t a sport. Nonetheless, similar arguments to those typically used to justify stadium subsidies are now being cranked up by the city of …