Ties That Bind Us
Last Saturday the British Horseracing’s Champion Flat Jockey contest was settled…in a tie. Seb Sanders and Jamie Spencer shared the title with 190 wins each …
Maintaining a Credible Threat
Great article today at Slate from Matt Yglesias about the Sacramento Kings proposed move to Seattle. It appears as if the NBA will try to …
And In Other Sports News …
The decline of the Indy 500’s popularity and hopes for renewal are the subject of Dean McNulty’s column in the London Free Press: Back in …
Becker-Posner Interview on Radio Economics
James Reese, a professor of economics at the University of South Carolina Upstate, has a new blog entitled Radio Economics that contains podcasts of interviews …
Wimbledon Eschews the Labour Theory of Value
The All-England Club, which hosts the Wimbledon tennis tournament, has announced that beginning in 2007, the prize money will be the same for male and …
Hockey: We Had to Bomb the Village to Save It
People from my generation will remember the subtitle of this posting as a quote from LBJ or General Westmoreland or somebody during the Vietnam era. …
Sweet deal
In a post a couple of days ago, I noted the wonderful benefits to the City of Baltimore produced by the Baltimore Ravens, as reported …
Sportsmanship
The Ryder Cup is almost upon us and, regardless of the outcome, it is likely to produce another outpouring of Old World/New World bile. Both …
FIFA: Money, Control, or Both
After goals not given, diving, low scoring, reds for nothing, penalties overlooked, … of the World Cup, arguably the strongest overall team won the event. …
Ball tampering and the war on terror
Last week President Bush had to deny leaked stories of threats made to the Pakistan government in order to get them to join the war …