As Skip reminded readers in his recent pieces on realignment, the current drama fits into a larger historical framework. I thought it useful to review some of the major developments ...

Civic pride is the ultimate justification for subsidies these days. But both league rules and stadium contracts with public entities blunt the financial incentive for teams to win. This requires ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...