To win or not to win
I want to take up Skip’s blog of August 2nd about the competitive balance of the Premier League whose new season started yesterday. Pretty much …
Record Naming Rights Deal Announced
Barclays, a British bank, has reportedly agreed to pay $400 million dollars over 20 years for the naming rights to the New York Nets’ new …
Fans Care about PED Use — Sometimes
What spurred the public’s negative view of the use of PEDs? Why have MLB and pro cycling received much more attention than the NFL? Some …
The "I Don’t Know" Argument
Generally I teach The Economics of Sports in the Winter Quarter at Cal-State Bakersfield. The quarter begins the first week of January or right around …
Option Value in the Beltran Deal
First things first. Thanks to Skip Sauer for the invitation to contribute to the Sports Economist Blog. Skip has done a great job of blending …
It’s Arbitration Time
It’s arbitration time again in baseball, a time when some baseball players and their teams negotiate with one another under the threat of having a …
Enhanced Human Performance
There has been quite a bit of discussion about drug taking, gene doping and what we mean by ‘artificial’ enhancements to human performance at The …
John Kerry and the MLB monopoly
It was reported last week that MLB was on the verge of signing a deal with DirecTV to make its Extra Innings package the exclusive …
New Sport Bellies up to the Subsidy Trough
Sailing is asking for government support. In Annapolis, Maryland, there is now a proposal for a National Sailing Hall of Fame. Interestingly, the site for …
Division 1 Playoff
I was critical of the decision to hold legislative hearings on goings on regarding college football’s BCS system, but now that they have occurred, let’s …