Big Ten Expansion Timetable Speeds Up
So much for the leisurely 18 month period for exploring their options. Recent reports indicate that the Big Ten expansion timetable has gone into overdrive. …
NCAA Seeding — A Rejoinder to Brian Goff
In his latest post Brian Goff notes that top seeds in this year’s tournament had some trouble putting away their lower ranked opponents and that …
Underutilization of US Youngsters
I would like to offer a couple of postscripts to Skip’s Post-Mortem on the U.S. performance in the World Cup. 1. Although the results differed, …
Ashes to Ashes
It’s Ashes times again, the historic cricket contest between England and Australia played every two years, alternating between the two nations. Australia have long dominated …
Industrial Sabotage at Manchester United?
When I first saw remarks like those I’m about to quote, I let it pass with an oblique comment (in the Portsmouth post from last …
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 …