Rents Accrue; Rents Get Collected
College athletes, themselves, are prohibited from collecting their value. But that value accrues, nonetheless. Most would agree that the excess of a college player’s marginal …
More on Doping
Skip had an interesting post on doping last week that prompted more discussion in the comments. I have been working on several research projects related …
Spring Training
The Sports Business Journal recently published “Clubs give winter homes a branding boost” about the partnership between MLB franchises and their spring training homes. There …
The “Right to Know” and Contributing to Bad Behavior
Disclaimer: The shooting of schoolchildren is a serious and disturbing event, creating strong emotional response. The connections to media coverage of sporting events explored here …
Bad Economics from FIFA
Today, FIFA have confirmed they made $3.655 billion from the World Cup in South Africa. President Sepp Blatter said that the figures proved it was the …
A Report From the Cutting Edge
This just in: remember that image of baseball front office types as slow-witted dinosaurs who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth …
Coaching Ambition and Folly
As WKU recently endured a humiliating home beatdown by Louisville, my thoughts turned to one of the assistant coaches on the Louisville bench — Ralph …
Beat The Pre-Season Poll, Win A Beer
Prior to the beginning of the BCS chase, a posting by Dave Berri prompted me to offer the following bet: I’d buy anybody a beer …
Rational Irrationality in Professional Football
A few years ago David Romer – and economist at UC Berkeley – posted a paper on-line examining the decisions NFL coaches made on fourth …
The Replacements
A few observations on the NFL “replacement ref” situation: 1. The locked-out refs hold a very weak bargaining position. Unlike the players, the refs possess …