Averse to Winning
Kansas City Chief’s Dick Vermeil made a call that few coaches are willing to make. Peter King describes it in his SI.com column: Five seconds …
Sponsorship envy
Brian Urlacher was fined $100,000 for wearing a hat bearing the logo of Vitaminwater, a competitor of Gatorade, at the media day for the Super …
I Left My Olympic Bid in San Francisco
The recent collaspe of plans to refurbish or rebuild the San Francisco 49er’s stadium (which will always be known in my mind as Candlestick Park, …
More on the Economics of Bowl Games
Inside Higher Ed reports that a number of teams participating in bowl games will not be taking the marching band, as well as reducing the …
NFL Scheduling and Competitive Balance
In this paper (now forthcoming, JSE: doi: 10.1177/1527002512471538), it was shown that for every single year after the expansion to 32 teams in 2002 (until …
Nth Verse, Same as the First
The St. Louis Rams want public money to build a new stadium to replace the Edward Jones Dome. Cue the requisite speculation regarding LA: To …
Bookies all tied up
The start of the English Premier League season has been remarkable for one fact- the collapse in the number of tied games. Typically 25% of …
Steriods and Interests Groups
Sometimes, the simplest of economic ideas have a great deal of power. The MLB Players Association and their counsel, Donald Fehr, have been dragging their …
The Minors, Basketball Style
The National Basketball Developmental League is expanding. NBA Commissioner David Stern announced today that the National Basketball Development League has awarded teams to four Southwest …
Are the Marlins Spending Enough on Player Salaries?
From HardBallTalk: Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald spoke to a source within the MLB Players Association who says that if Marlins owner Jeff Loria doesn’t increase team payroll …