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Singletary v. Madden on Management
The San Francisco 49ers won their first game yesterday, beating their even more hapless cross-Bay rivals, the Oakland Raiders. The Niners' head coach, Mike Singletary, took over from Mike Nolan ... -
A Poem for Marvin Miller
"Flag at Half Mast", by Ed DeCaria at The Hardball Times. Very well done, for a truly great man. -
Capital-Labor Substitution in Production: Sports Writing Edition
Newspapers are in deep trouble. That has been clear for some time. It looks like things just got worse for sports writers. The Intelligent Information Laboratory at Northwestern University has ... -
NFL Draft Trifecta
If Phil Miller's Saturday post on the NFL draft is Day 1, and Brian Goff's Monday post on the NFL draft is Day 2, let's finish this off the trifecta ... -
An Application of the Backwards Bending Supply Curve
The law of supply says that when the price of a good rises, all else equal, the quantity supplied of that good also rises. Applied to labor markets, the more ... -
NCAA sued (again)
As a football player at UCLA, Ramogi Huma found there was always more month than money when it came to the reality of daily living. His scholarship paid for tuition, ... -
The economic wisdom of Ray Lewis (updated)
No, the title is not a typo. In this interview for ESPN, Lewis claims that, "one of the consequences of a lost NFL season will be an increase in crime...'Do ... -
From the Archives: Judge Sotomayor's Decision in the Clarett Case
In addition to her injunction which brought an end to the baseball strike of 1994 (on this, see Richard Sandomir's piece in the NYT today), Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor played ... -
NBA Locks Out Referees
Labor relations in professional sports are notoriously contentious. Nobody gets along. Players strike, owners lock out players, referees strike, owners lock out referees; it happens all the time. Labor disputes ... -
Free Agency Coming to the Australian Football League in 2012
The Australian Football League (AFL) and the Australian Football League Players’ Association (AFLPA) today announced agreement on the introduction of free agency to the AFL labour market, to commence in ... -
US & EU labor rules drifting further apart
Millions of pounds change hands when promising teenagers move from feeder clubs to the giants of European football. Cristiano Ronaldo (£12m at age 18, to Man Utd) and Theo Walcott ... -
Judge Sotomayor & Sports Labor Relations
Joel Maxcy, Coordinator of the University of Georgia's Sport Management Programs, has started a blog, Sports Labor Relations. In this post, Joel examines Judge Sotomayor's decision in the Clarett case ...
