At least for 2009. As posted in the comments, here is the story. My take (as I've said before): investments in new forms of commercial sport will see both fan ...

Oink, oink. Sports pork is adequately represented in this list in my opinion: On Monday, the U.S. Conference of Mayors went to Capitol Hill to ask for a handout, or ...

A sad sign of the times, I think. Richard Sandomir reports: Cynthia Cooper-Dyke cannot fathom it: the Houston Comets, the team she guided to the W.N.B.A.’s first four championships, were ...

Sunil Gulati, Columbia economist and president of US Soccer: Look, economic downturns have negative effects, full stop. For people to say sports is somehow recession proof, that's basically nonsense. Gong!! ...

An informative AP wire story on current and past troubles in the market for stadium sponsors, with quotes from Depken & Zimbalist. Darren Rovell is watching the Jets' auction of ...

From the Independent (U.K.): Sport feeling the pinch By Rich Jones, PAWednesday, 8 October 2008 Sport has become the latest victim of the credit crunch as a wave of financial ...

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 ...

Al Roth's foray into sports economics, "Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls" is pretty interesting (pdf). Roth is perhaps the foremost economist interested in the process ...

Forbes has their annual valuation of NFL franchises up.*** Some of the interesting bits: --The average NFL team is valued at $1 billion, up 8% from last year and 66% ...

Gregg Bell on the Sonics trial. The Sonics are making the argument that Seattle pols have been playing dirty pool, which would not be surprising. As I've said before, there ...