Ballfields, Boardrooms, & The Yankees
With 90 percent of the season yet to be played, not much should be made of any team’s start. Still, Yankee-haters like me can hope! …
Athletes and CBD Tincture – A Match Made in Sports Heaven
The CBD trend continues to grow unabated. Soon, CBD shops maybe as ubiquitous as your local Mcdonalds or Starbucks, one on every corner. You might …
Allan Sanderson: Consider the Options
Allan Sanderson tells his readers that TANSTAAFO (Olympics, not lunch). Whether to support the Games themselves or merely the city’s official bid, the latter carrying …
Pharmacies in France
Chances are an average French person can tell you where to find your nearest pharmacie. In case that wasn’t good enough, you can find your …
NCAA Football Politics
Several years back, I thought that the process toward a playoff would have played out by now. The 1998 BCS agreement struck me as a …
Questions from The Blind Side
Two years ago Michael Lewis published Moneyball, the story of the improbable success of the Oakland A’s. For sports economists this book sparked much discussion …
Dodgers Buying the Pennant?
For me as with most fans and observers, the Dodgers-Red Sox trade that brought Gonzalez, Crawford, and Beckett west created an initial wow factor especially …
Happy Fourth of July from the Staff Here at TSE
Today is the day that we celebrate the birth of the United States that was symbolized with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. From …
The “Tiger Effect” and Economic Impact
The Buick Open this year will be without Tiger Woods who is out with his well-publicized, but self-inflicted, “injury.” So what effect does this have …
Reflections on field research while at the SEA meetings
I am at the Southern Economic Association meetings in Washington this weekend. JC Bradbury put together five North American Association of Sports Economists sessions for …