What is a sport? / What is sports economics?
The last night of the Western Economic Association meetings a group of a dozen sports economists, their spouses, and their children went to dinner together …
Are Athletic Departments like Wells Fargo?
Inside Higher Ed ran an article titled “Beyond ‘Bad Apples‘.” In the article John V. Lombardi, who is currently a Professor of History and Associate …
Stadium finance and the auction-rate market
The last month or so has seen some dramatic changes in the auction-rate bond market. This is a market in which some recent stadium and …
I Gotta Pick the Pats
I agree with Mitch Albom here. The Pats have just completely shut down the number one offense, they shredded the number one defense, and are …
Canadian Style Stadium Financing
Phil Miller mentioned in passing the new $400 million arena proposal floating around Quebec City these days. Never mind that building a new arena without …
Stanford May Cut Back in Athletics
From the AP (via a Sports Blog twitter) Stanford’s athletic department is projecting a $5 million loss in revenue over the next three years and …
RIP Thomas Roberts
Thomas Roberts, the arbitrator who found MLB teams had colluded in the free agent market in the mid 1980’s (and who was fired twice by …
Arena malarky in my backyard
Baltimore city and Maryland state officials announced this week the intention to build a new 18,500 seat arena on the site of the existing First …
Congratulations to Skip!
Skip Sauer, our illustrious leader and the founder of thesporteconomist.com, has been elected as president of the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE). NAASE …
NFL Teams Too Clever By One-Half?
In their bestselling book on applications of game theory (Thinking Strategically), Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff add a personal account of game theory gone wrong. …