Guest Post by John Budd Previous research on Major League Baseball’s final-offer salary arbitration process has found that players who lost in arbitration have subsequent …
With online betting making such huge strides, placing wagers on sports games and races is thriving now more than ever. Punters are flocking to booking …
Don Coffin emailed me a link about Indianapolis’s mayor’s announcement that city officials are going to make a bid on the 2011 Super Bowl (here’s …
The results are in, and Super Bowl XLV was not super for Vegas sports books. The Packers were a three-point favorite in the game, and …
From the Chicago Tribune: What I don’t understand, however, is the law that allows ticket buyers to write off 80 percent of their “preferred seating …
The post-match breakdowns of the U.S.’s whipping by the Czechs offered several factors. Some are just silly such as the U.S. has bad karma in …
Aside from the endorsement income aspect covered in several posts in TSE, the Tiger Woods story has generated Internet buzz about a variety of tangent …
Michael Davis and I are arranging North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) – affiliated sports economics sessions for the 2015 Missouri Valley Economic Association (MVEA) …
I attended the Inter Milan-Manchester City “friendly” last night at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. Here is an article describing the game. From my somewhat …
According to the Detroit Pistons, Larry Brown has been fired: Larry Brown is free to coach another team, and the Pistons will pay him about …
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