A not so Super Bowl for NOLA
While last night’s Super Bowl was certainly filled with excitement on the field, the game may ultimately be best remembered for the the excitement in …
While last night’s Super Bowl was certainly filled with excitement on the field, the game may ultimately be best remembered for the the excitement in …
UPDATE: Maybe the title should be changed to “worst reporting about economic impact ever”. Bloomberg reported yesterday that Ed FitzGerald, the Cuyahoga County Executive, said …
After playing especially poorly on Friday night, a Bundesliga first division team announced it would refund the ticket price to its fans that attended the …
Longtime readers of the Sports Economist may recall that I have taken my fair share of abuse from the print media in the past. I …
For months now, rumor and speculation – including speculation from yours truly – have been swirling around the expansion plans of the Big 10. Primarily …
From Forbes, courtesy of Craig Newmark, With a deal to name the Mets’ new stadium in New York, Citigroup follows the lead of fellow banking …
It’s getting to be arbitration time in baseball. Each year a set of players and teams negotiate under the threat that a third party (a …
In his “Mutiny at the Bridge” Soccernet’s Norman Hubbard notices a rising mood at Chelsea that I pondered last October in “The Extra Variable”: … …
Regarding Skip’s post on Chester, Pa.’s forthcoming soccer stadium. Statistics show why the Philadelphia Inquirer called Chester “five square miles of misery.” Unemployment of 9 …
If you live in a hole or do not follow American sports whatsoever, then you may have missed the big news of the day: Brett …
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