They’ve Got a ticket to Ride and They Don’t Care
In recent years, the Premier League has become one of the most globally recognized and financially successful sports leagues in the world. Fans from every …
Is the NCAA too Big?
Here’s a lengthy excerpt from an interview with Missouri AD Mike Alden published in the Columbia Daily Tribune: Q: Should the NCAA take another look at …
Hockey Substitutes and Complements
I posted earlier about what hockey players and hockey teams are doing to while away the time away from NHL games. What are hockey fans …
Making It As Easy As Possible For New Comers
The sports life for foreigner players in a new country can be an exciting but also frightening experience. The cultural difference makes it very difficult …
The Price of Linsanity
From Tom Van Riper at Forbes: According to TiqIQ.com, which aggregates online ticket prices from various sources, the average price Knicks fans are paying online …
Addicted to the Tour
I must confess an addiction to nightly coverage of men riding bikes for five hours. Before last summer, I would have dismissed the idea of …
End of the Transfer Fee?
In August 2006 Andrew Webster, a soccer player for the Scottish club Heart of Midlothian, signed a deal with Wigan in the English Premier League. …
The Big XII – A Two-Tiered League
Recently, I read an article that claimed the Big XII South Division might be the best conference in college football this year (I didn’t bookmark …
Politics and Budgets in NFL playing time?
Listening to the pregame radio broadcast of the Ravens-Steelers game tonight I heard radio announcers make an assertion I found hard to believe. I wonder …
NFL First Rounders: Paid Too Much or Too Little?
After the NFL draft, Joel Rose, a reporter from Marketplace asked me about the high salaries of first rounders and whether a rookie pay scale …