Making It As Easy As Possible For New Comers
The sports life for foreigner players in a new country can be an exciting but also frightening experience. The cultural difference makes it very difficult …
The Price of Linsanity
From Tom Van Riper at Forbes: According to TiqIQ.com, which aggregates online ticket prices from various sources, the average price Knicks fans are paying online …
Addicted to the Tour
I must confess an addiction to nightly coverage of men riding bikes for five hours. Before last summer, I would have dismissed the idea of …
End of the Transfer Fee?
In August 2006 Andrew Webster, a soccer player for the Scottish club Heart of Midlothian, signed a deal with Wigan in the English Premier League. …
The Big XII – A Two-Tiered League
Recently, I read an article that claimed the Big XII South Division might be the best conference in college football this year (I didn’t bookmark …
Politics and Budgets in NFL playing time?
Listening to the pregame radio broadcast of the Ravens-Steelers game tonight I heard radio announcers make an assertion I found hard to believe. I wonder …
NFL First Rounders: Paid Too Much or Too Little?
After the NFL draft, Joel Rose, a reporter from Marketplace asked me about the high salaries of first rounders and whether a rookie pay scale …
“Own the Podium”? Why bother?
The 2010Winter Olympics will soon begin in Vancouvre, BC, and environs. In the media build-up that is taking place in Canada, we are beginning to …
They Stand, We Sit
From the WSJ (HT to my colleague Ishuan Li) comes a story about why world soccer fans prefer to stand and US sports fans sit. …
Trials Hangover for U.S. Track?
USA Track & Field to Conduct Comprehensive Review of all Programs (Reuters wire story via ESPN.com: The United States will conduct a post-mortem into a …