The Hidden, Unexpected Public Costs of a Stadium
The state of Minnesota has found that it’s expected revenue stream from new e-gambling games will not be sufficient to fund a new Vikings stadium. …
Watch Out, NHL!
An article in today’s New York Times claims that the top professional hockey league in Russia, the Superliga, plans to challenge the supremacy of the …
Mad, bad or just dangerous to know?
Florentino Perez, President of Real Madrid is continuing to call for the creation of a European Superleague which would guarantee the top teams representation and …
Tracking Changes in MLB Baseball Attendance
Baseball-Reference.com has a handy page (HT to JC Bradbury) where they are tracking changes in MLB team attendance. It calculates overall attendance, per-game attendance, and …
Best of the Rest: NCAA Performance Outside "Big Six" Conferences
Four years after George Mason Wins the Lottery, Butler has reached the thin air normally reserved for teams from the “major conferences.” Their success prompted …
NFLPA, retired players, and NFL owners
Readers may recall postings on the Sports Economist about relations between retired NFL players and the NFL Players Association. One such posting is Compensation issues …
Feds Looking at Kansas Jayhawk Basketball Ticket Sales
The Feds have begun an investigation into the sale of tickets to Kansas Jayhawk men’s basketball tournament games, and maybe season ticket sales, according to …
The economic wisdom of Ray Lewis (updated)
No, the title is not a typo. In this interview for ESPN, Lewis claims that, “one of the consequences of a lost NFL season will …
Upsets and Blowouts in Tournaments
Here is the abstract of a paper in the most recent version of Economic Inquiry on upsets and blowouts in tournaments: In equilibrium play of …
Betting on the Tournament
From the Washington Post: The roughly $80 million wagered on the NCAA tournament in Las Vegas represents a minute fraction of the total betting on …