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This one's too good to pass up. At Yahoo's Puck Daddy blog, Greg Wyshynski reminds us that back in 2004, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman opined that player salary restraints imposed ...The Secondary Ticket Market in Boston
Good story by Shira Springer in today's Boston Globe on two proposed pieces of legislation that would lift the cap, one partially, on the secondary ticket market in Massachusetts. A ...Revealed Preference: Cricket and Organ Sale Edition
Courtesy of Tyler at Marginal Revolution, a news report about a cricket fan who has offered to exchange one of his kidneys for a ticket to the Cricket World Cup ...The Use of the Two-Part Tariff in College Ticket Pricing
I've written before that when you look at how college athletic department officials make business decisions, they act a lot like their professional counterparts even though the athletic departments are ...2009 ticket demand in Chicago
From UC's Casey Mulligan: Gloomy Economic Indicators in Chicago Two real time crude sports-based indicators of economic activity in Chicago look bad: (1) My ebay auction for 4 tickets to ...The Economics of the New Yankee Stadium
From the NY Post: Reader Gary Cicio, NYC podiatrist, did the research, and asks us to choose one of the two options to see a Mariners-Yankees game this season, and ...Yanks Slash Ticket Prices
WhoDaThunkIt.com? The New York Yankees slashed prices on more than 40 percent of their front-row seats by up to 50 percent Tuesday and announced many of those who bought tickets ...Opening Day Prices
Box seats at Fenway for opening day are going for $250 in the secondary market, 1/2 last years' price. Grandstand seats are going for $150, $100 below a rear ago. ...Tennessee Ticket Suit
What is the limit, if any, of lifetime ticket rights that can be "passed down through generations?" That would seem to be the question in this case: For years, generations ...Super Bowl Ticket Prices
Here's a "Cardinal-centric" discussion of ticket prices to Super Bowl XLIII, with the following - stunning to me at least - prediction: “We’re going to see close to face-value prices,” ...
