NHL and NHLPA to resume talks!
According to this breaking news, the NHL and the NHLPA will resume talks on Wednesday. NHLPA president Trevor Linden made the request Monday, asking for …
It’s Still Good to be the Cupcake
The demand for cupcakes keeps increasing and, along with it, the payout from playing a road game at a major college football program. From the …
Ban Holidays!
Among the sports-related economic nonsense that gets tossed about in the media are calculations of “lost productivity” associated with things like the NCAA Men’s Basketball …
Closers v. Firemen
Tom Verducci (SI.com) offers a long overdue assessment of present day “closers” versus bygone”firemen” relievers such HOF inductee Goose Gossage. First, Gossage, Sutter, and similar …
Some Observations on the Differences between N. American Sports and Soccer/Football in England
An anonymous reader and I have corresponded considerably over the past month or two about the economics of North American professional sports, as compared with …
Running Nonsense
This is more Sports Statistician than Sports Economist, but, shooting down sports “folk wisdom” of the talking heads is one of my hobbies. Cold, Hard, …
New Twist on Stadium Subsidies
Developers in Cincinnati are getting a subsidy to build a housing and shopping project, called “The Banks”, along Cincinnati’s waterfront . The project has not …
Sowell on MLB
Thomas Sowell offers some strong views in light of the Mitchell report on Real Clear Politics — Steroid in Baseball: Say It Ain’t So. Here …
The SEC to Investigate the Marlins’ Stadium Deal
From Jeff Passan at Yahoo! sports: The Security and Exchange Commission on Thursday launched guided warheads at the Marlins, requesting the team’s financial records, communications with …
The DH and Broken Windows Fallacy
Frederic Bastiat’s broken windows fallacy: if a window maker breaks windows to increase business, he certainly benefits (if he doesn’t get busted, of course). But …