The Stadium Game Continues in Minnesota
New Vikings owner Zigi Wilf has announced a rough estimate on the cost of a new stadium for his new team: Minnesota House Speaker Steve …
New Vikings owner Zigi Wilf has announced a rough estimate on the cost of a new stadium for his new team: Minnesota House Speaker Steve …
Readers of the Sports Economist are likely to be familiar with revenue sharing in professional sports. Leagues have different approaches to sharing revenues, and the …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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