The Flow of Information and the AP Poll
Jason Whitlock explains his rationale at voting the Missouri Tiger football squad at number 25 in the nation, upsetting some fans. My vote is a …
Is Steroid Use in Baseball a Positive-Sum Game?
I don’t like pitchers’ duels in baseball. I like to see high-scoring games. Low-scoring games remind me too much of all the things I didn’t …
NFL Week 17 Showdown
Forget the endless permutations of playoff implications, who gets what draft pick, and the rest of the end of the season NFL drama. From an …
The NFL’s $116 million question
The NFL’s salary cap has been set at roughly $116 million for the 2008 season. The salary cap is set equal 57.5% of the projected …
Sports economists win Nobel prize
OK, not quite, but the work of Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson has much relevance to sports economics and the design of sporting …
Competition for Fans
The Baltimore Orioles are no longer just competing on the field with other teams, they are competing with the Washington Nationals for fans. They are …
London bids for Olympic record
Barely seventeen months after winning the bid, London looks set to deliver the most overbudget games in Olympic history. The bid document produced in 2005 …
Who Controls MLB Product?
While many in the media jumped on ump Joe West for his pushing of MLB’s speed of play initiative, Yahoo’s Tim Brown applauded: Umpires don’t …
The Government of Soccer
Today saw the publication of the recommendations for reform of the English Football Association (FA) following a review by Lord Terry Burns. Unlike the major …