The Immortal Debt of Some “Public” Stadiums
I had planned to post on this article by Ken Belson of the New York Times, but ol’ Quick Trigger (Skip) beat me to the …
Sports Betting Can Turn into Your Next Investment
People often look at gambling as a pastime activity that is only designed to help you cut loose. Visiting gambling venues such as the Grande …
A Dadgummed Good Donut
From Joe Walljasper of the Columbia Daily Tribune: I have never heard of the maple bar, but I can only imagine its deliciousness. It is …
Cupcakes Anyone?
The following is to be said like Ben Stein’s character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – the droning, monotone economics professor speaking to a class …
A New Stadium and a Bargaining Chip for the NFL?
Edward Roski Jr. has unveiled plans to build a new stadium in the Los Angeles metro area to entice a team to move to the …
About suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters
Tuesday’s crushing defeat of England by Australia demonstrated exactly why cricket fans love the game and the rest of the world is bemused. The game …
Myles Brand on College Athletics
NCAA President Myles Brand has contributed a post to an NCAA sponsored blog, Double-A Zone. In his first post, Brand addresses the issue of increasing …
Fans as Inputs, An Apparently On-Going Series
In an earlier post I mentioned that there aren’t too many treatments in the formal sports economics literature that examine fans as inputs. One notable …
Minnesota Senate Tackles Scalping
This bill won’t make it to King’s list of silly bills: student Brian Rude notified me that the Minnesota senate has passed a bill to …
Cheating in Baseball and Cycling
In criminal justice studies, the problem of separating actual crime from enforcement policies across jurisdictions is well known. Over the past decade, cycling has suffered …