From the Washington Post (via DOL): Sentiment among NFL leaders to reduce the preseason to two or three games per team and lengthen the regular season to 17 or 18 ...

NFL ticket prices are up this year, in some venues. The average price is 8% higher. But the bloom may be off the rose. Along with other bits of anecdotal ...

Although it took the Wagner Act to get the ball rolling, American sports unions have thrived for two reasons. First, they serve a group of people with very specialized skills ...

In this NYT article, Sandomir discusses the prospect of the NFL's Giants and Jets playing in Allianz Stadium: The Giants and the Jets face moral and public-relations questions as they ...

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 ...

In terms of betting, the Super Bowl is one of the most popular events in the world. Sports books, as well as trading markets like TradeSports that operate like betting ...

I’ve long been interested in the adjustment of expectations to changes in team performance.  Several of my papers model point spreads in the betting market based on the market’s implied ...

From today's WSJ Opinion Page: One of the league's iconic teams, the Steelers have been owned by the Rooney family since 1933. The five sons of the original owner, Art ...

What's up with the Carolina Panthers? Last February, owner Jerry Richardson was on the operating table, getting a heart transplant. Son Mark Richardson ran the team and son Jon managed ...

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 ...

Yahoo! Sports' Michael Silver chronicles the emergence of Darren McFadden into the elite of NFL running backs over the past two seasons.  While his  success might seem highly probable given ...

Here's my piece at the Washington Examiner on the simple economics of the Super Bowl: http://washex.am/2jPxOxJ   Bottom line: Mega-events displace other economic activity, business visitors, conventions, and other travel ...