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 ...

I am a bit late to the party on this. About two weeks ago, Justin Wolfers wrote his thoughts on why people study sports economics. Summarizing Wolfers' key points: Sports ...

Michael Davis, Nick Watanabe, and I are organizing North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) sessions at this fall’s Missouri Valley Economics Association (MVEA) annual meeting.  This year’s meeting is ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Phil and others around the econ blogs have noted, Gerald Scully has passed away. He is known to us primarily as a pioneer in sports economics, but as John ...

It is pretty widely understood that sports programming drives live television these days.   The Nielsen ratings for broadcast networks during the week of December 24 provide some recent data.  Nielsen's ...

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 ...