Meghan Barr, an AP correspondent from Cleveland, needs a lesson in economics in this article about LeBron James. "James has been with Cleveland since he was drafted in 2003 but ...

Josh Childress, to Greece for $20 million over three years: "I get paid double, my role increases, I have no expenses and I move to a nice city?" Childress said. ...

There are lots of ways to pay for an arena, but Mayor Mick Cornett said city leaders thought the choice was obvious in Oklahoma City. The Ford Center was built ...

Today's WSJ has a review of the book, Play Their Hearts Out, by SI reporter George Dohrman.  The book examines the world of elite youth basketball in the U.S.  I'm ...

"I talked to that whole staff. I said this is my city. I'm cut from a different cloth. None of them guys on their team is like me. I let ...

Both are from the newly sports-minded WSJ. First, in recent years, English teams have been getting the upper hand over their Italian counterparts, a reversal from prior decades. Why is ...

Russell, Chamberlain, Jabbar, Lanier, Walton, Gilmore, Malone, Olajuwan, Ewing, O’Neal.  Over decades, these and other “centers” dominated the NBA.  The “association” conducted its annual All-Star game on Sunday.   For the ...

Watching NBA highlights last night on NBATV, I stumbled across this video story on the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Daryl Morey, GM of the Houston Rockets, helped establish ...

So argues Daniel Frank in his piece "Inequality in the NBA".  Here are a couple of his observations: As American politics gets consumed by discussions on income inequality, a similar ...

The NBA's popularity vaulted during the 1980s and 1990s with Bird as MVP but also with Moses, Magic, Michael, Charles, David, Hakeem, and Karl -- all African American.

A Real-Time Economic Indicator from Sports World: One of my colleagues returned from Talladega, reporting that crowds for the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races were way off from last ...

While spending the fall semester on the West Coast, I attended the MPSF Water Polo championships. (MPSF stands for Mountain Pacific Sports Federation -- a "cross-conference" conference of schools that ...