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 …
A Longer NFL Season?
From the Washington Post (via DOL): Sentiment among NFL leaders to reduce the preseason to two or three games per team and lengthen the regular …
The Dispersion of Moneyball
Two diverse mentions of Moneyball over the past week. Both lend credibility to treating the Moneyball approach as a technological innovation in the assessing of …
A Little Fascinating NFL Draft History
Although it took the Wagner Act to get the ball rolling, American sports unions have thrived for two reasons. First, they serve a group of …
The Baltimore Charm
It’s official. The Baltimore expansion franchise in the LFL, Lingerie Football League for the uninformed, will be called the Baltimore Charm. For those snickering at …
Big Earnings Coming To The Champions League Winner… And Runner Up
Liverpool will earn a cool £98.1 million in UEFA prize money if they can vanquish fellow English side Tottenham in the Champions League final. Spurs …
More regulatory rumblings
A few more stories on the proposed intervention to regulate European football emerged today. The Evening Standard, a London paper, carried a story that UEFA …
TO’s Grievance Arbitration
(Crossposted at Market Power) I was critical of Terrell Owens’ public disgracing of teammates and supported the Eagles’ decision to suspend him. But because the …
C. Frederick Mosteller:Pioneer Sabremetrician?
From the NYTimes (reg. req’d): C. Frederick Mosteller, the founding chairman of Harvard’s statistics department and a pioneer in using statistics to analyze an array …