About suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters
Tuesday’s crushing defeat of England by Australia demonstrated exactly why cricket fans love the game and the rest of the world is bemused. The game …
Myles Brand on College Athletics
NCAA President Myles Brand has contributed a post to an NCAA sponsored blog, Double-A Zone. In his first post, Brand addresses the issue of increasing …
Fans as Inputs, An Apparently On-Going Series
In an earlier post I mentioned that there aren’t too many treatments in the formal sports economics literature that examine fans as inputs. One notable …
Minnesota Senate Tackles Scalping
This bill won’t make it to King’s list of silly bills: student Brian Rude notified me that the Minnesota senate has passed a bill to …
Cheating in Baseball and Cycling
In criminal justice studies, the problem of separating actual crime from enforcement policies across jurisdictions is well known. Over the past decade, cycling has suffered …
How to Choose a Bookmaker for Sports Betting
Sports Betting. The term is synonymous with thrill, fun and, excitement. And when it is coupled with a sport that is just as exhilarating as …
Tebow’s Freeze Out
Why is Tim Tebow out in the cold? Why are general managers and coaches willing to roll the dice with a QB who has never …
Markets that can sustain franchises
If people already had seen this, I apologize. A reporter called me yesterday to ask if I thought Cleveland could sustain its three professional sports …
Will There Be Hockey?My Bet Is Yes
Given that the owners have taken “linkage” of salary caps to revenues out of their offers, and given that players have accepted a salary cap, …
Alan Webb Breaks American Mile Record
With all of the attention on game-fixing, dogfighting, doping in cycling, and the ongoing Barry Bonds story, I didn’t find out about Alan Webb breaking …