In the Stadium Game, the A’s Want to Play Small Ball
Major League Baseball’s Oakland A’s are having trouble selling season tickets. According to this article, they lead the majors in walk-up ticket sales. It’s just …
More Goings on In the Bay Area
Like the NFL’s San Francisco 49’ers Skip wrote about, Oakland A’s officials are seriously – very, very seriously – considering a move to Fremont, California, …
Call for Papers – Missouri Valley Economics Association Conference
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) …
Fit for a game, not for a franchise
Unlike the Saints, who seem happy to be in New Orleans and who Skip notes are selling tickets like hotcakes, the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets …
Markets in Everything: Fake Bowl Games
Our East Carolina University Pirate football team had an exciting season but fell one game short of qualifying for the program’s sixth straight bowl game. …
Indiana Through the Looking Glass
Just before Thanksgiving, the NCAA Infractions Committee handed down its judgment in the Kelvin Sampson/IU case — a 3-year probation on IU and significant restrictions …
Five Advantages of CBD in Your Work Out and How You Can Make Full Use of It
Cannabis is known for providing several advantages to its users. The plant holds so many organic benefits that anyone who uses it swears by how …
Stub Hub and MLB Ticketing
This week’s issue of the Sports Business Journal has an interesting article about ticket sales for MLB and the relationship of the league to Stub …
Welcome to 2018! And tax changes for all!
As we start a new year, it is always fun to see how things change as we enter the new year. One thing that will …