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 …
Why I like Johnny Miller
Here a couple of quotes from a lengthy article on Golf.com about NBC Golf analyst Johnny Miller Says Maltbie, “We all have a filter that …