Football and University Priorities
At Northeastern, a private university in Boston, the college football model wasn’t working very well. Expenses averaged $3.5 million, and attendance was just 1,600 fans per …
NCAA Competition
Gregg Doyle of CBS’ Sportsline writes The gap between the No. 1s and No. 16s continues to shrink, reaching an all-time low this season. In …
Final Four Economic Impact
Howdy, folks. Long time reader, first time poster. Anyway, I was in quoted in the Louisville Courier Journal last weekend regarding the economic impact of …
NHL and NHLPA Agree on a Salary Cap Formula
The Toronto Globe and Mail is reporting that it has two separate sources telling them the NHL and the NHLPA have agreed to a salary …
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 …