Spring training in Florida set an attendance record -- of sorts -- in 2010: From March 2nd through April 3rd, a total of 1,427,627 fans watched the 15 teams comprising ...

In recent years a handful of top-level teams have gone through or flirted with bankruptcy.  This is a global phenomenon, with a list including the Rangers in Texas, Portsmouth in ...

The University of Colorado will join Nebraska and Utah as members of the Pac-10 in 2011 after negotiating a $6.863 million exit package with the Big 12.  Nebraska is paying ...

John Spry, an economist with St. Thomas University in the Twin Cities, has written an opinion piece that appeared in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.  In it, he takes issue ...

Ownership structure in Japan is changing, as corporations continue to abandon the wholly owned subsidiary model of a sports club. Royal Bank of Scotland, now a ward of the British ...

University of South Florida Economist Phil Porter is referred to here as the "Dr. Doom of sports economics," presumably for throwing cold water on economic impact claims surrounding the Super ...

Andrew Zimbalist is interviewed in The New Yorker. Most of the discussion is about the impact of the economic crash on professional sports -- ticket sales, revenue sources, labor relations, ...

The Dallas Morning News reports that the Cowboys "stand to make as much as $4.2 million from the team's new Texas Lottery scratch-off tickets." In May, the NFL dropped a ...

A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by John Miller about a story he was writing on the Phoenix Coyotes. As readers of The Sports Economist are well aware, ...

The WSJ reports that Governor Phil Bryant is allocating $15 million from Mississippi's share of BP oil spill damages to be invested in a minor league ballpark in Biloxi. The ...

I just wanted to let TSE readers know that I am doing a live web Q&A on sports and the economic crisis on the Globe and Mail website at 1pm ...