End of the Beginning or Beginning of the End for MLS?
LA Galaxy have signed Real Madrid and former Manchester United star David Beckham for a 5-year deal said to be worth $250 million. Until now …
USA and Sports: the Most Well-known Stars
Despite the misbelief that the nation of the US is obese and obsessed with fast food, the Americans are acknowledged for loving sports. Every morning, …
Reinvesting Revenues From a New Stadium?
This is a common claim made by teams, but I’m skeptical. According to economic theory, the value of any given player/coach/trainer on a profit-maximizing team …
Foul Strategy?
Law Professor, Steven Lubett, of Northwestern University has posed the following question (via Alex Kozinsky) about optimal strategies for committing fouls near the end of …
Viking Stadium Money Running Short of Projections
The State of Minnesota had hoped that new electronic gambling machines would provide the necessary revenue to pay for the state’s share of building a …
Irrational Expectations on Draft Day
From Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution: Cade Massey and Richard Thaler say yes: …we analyze the decision making of National Football League teams during their …
Latin (Baseball) Economics
A TSE reader, Jeff Baird, steered my attention toward an Economist article on Draft Dodgers No More: Can The Dominican Republic Avoid Puerto Rico’s Fate? …
Who Pays the College Coach
Mark Yost has an article on the pay of college coaches in this morning’s Wall Street Journal, including a quote from yours truly written here …
Nature vs. Nurture: An Update
In this post I linked to a Chronicle of Higher Education article that discussed some recent research on the gender of college coaches. That article …
When There’s a Will…
there’s a way. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Vikings running back Onterrio Smith was detained last month at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport after police found paraphernalia …