Necessary Condition for Success at Football
“Coyote blog” posts: You hear a lot of debate about what wins NFL Championships – is it offense, defense, the running game, the quarterback? Well, …
Wise Crowds
Rod Fort’s challenge to anyone who could outdo college football preseason polls (Not Exactly Julian Simon …) reminded me about a Henry Manne piece appearing …
Capital Improvements in Sports
There’s a couple of articles that I ran across this morning about capital improvements in sports. The first, from the Kansas City Star, is a …
Health Risks to Athletes: Beyond Steroids
Steroids have attracted a huge amount of attention in recent years including several posts here. A recent study (see article) by Scripps Howard News Service …
The NHL: Totals, Averages, and Marginals
From an article in the Trono Star, A secret NHL report detailing the ticket revenues of its 30 teams reveals [that]… The six Canadian teams …
Negotiations over the Vikings
Negotitations over the Minnesota Vikings are reaching a head. At this point, Arizona businessman Reggie Fowler has exclusive negotiating rights with Red McCombs, the current …
Sunk Costs in Baseball
A sunk cost is an unavoidable sacrifice: no matter what a person does, the sacrifice will be made and it’s best to ignore them. JC …
Olympic TV Ratings in the US
ABC’s Dancing with the Stars olympically outdistanced the Winter Games on Americans’ telly dials last night: “Stars” averaged 27.1 million total viewers over two hours …
It’s just not cricket
Happy new year sports economists. Australia and India are halfway through a four game series of Test Cricket. Whether the series is completed will depend …
New NCAA Playoff: Next Step or End Game?
Although it took about 10 years longer than I thought it might, the big-time football schools in college football finally adopted a genuine playoff. In …