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NFL Predictions: Writers v. Vegas
NFL prediction time is here again with writers from various outlets providing their views. Here are SI's Preview predictions. Betting markets such as Vegas Insider supply futures bets on AFC, ... -
Supply and Demand 1, Gary Bettman 0
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 ... -
He Did It Because He Had To
As many of you probably know, the probable starting quarterback and the projected starting right guard for the Oklahoma Sooners were dismissed from the team for accepting wages in excess ... -
Stat of the day
The number of Brazilians playing professional football in Europe: 800. Sounds like an export industry to me. (From Rob Hughes's account of Sao Paulo's 1-0 victory over Liverpool in the ... -
College Athletic Department Subsidies
ESPN has a new data tool that allows people to obtain detailed expense and revenue data for many major college athletic programs. Here is the link. Here is the disclaimer ... -
Baseball and charity
Ewing Kauffman insisted on an unusual clause in the contract when he sold the Kansas City Royals five years ago: any profit made on a subsequent sale of the team ... -
On James, Balance, and Baseball Research
While the post below is critical of James' approach to the question of research on competitive balance, it is something of a typical academic's complaint: we've been there and done ... -
The land of the flat tax
Steven Pearlstein is traveling around "New Europe," and has some interesting observations. For one, Slovakia has created a tax code with low marginal tax rates - a flat 19% tax ... -
Obama takes on Sports Owners
President Obama's proposed budget to Congress presents a fairly strong challenge to Republicans. It redistributes income from the rich to the middle class often by eliminating loopholes that benefits the ... -
Instant Replay Coming to a College Football Game Near You
Instant replay is coming to a Big XII football game near you. The Big 12 decided during this past offseason to use instant replay for the coming season after watching ... -
Arizona Meltdown
SI.com's Peter King wrote a blistering column this morning about Arizona's "historic choke job." In typical King style, he treads pretty lightly on poor head coaching decisions. In real time ...
