The revival in Detroit’s fortunes
The Lex column of the Financial Times today carried a cute comparison of the resurgence of the Tigers and the restructuring going on at GM …
Prisoner’s Dilemma at the Racetrack
Skip addressed the sad end to Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro last week. While reading an article in last Sunday’s New York Times by Gina Rarick …
Olympic Athletes — Real Life Avengers
The Olympics hooked me from my earliest memories of Bill Toomey, Lee Evans, and Jim Hines in Mexico City in 1968. The Super Bowl, …
An Options Market for Sports Tickets
Have you ever wanted tickets to a big game your favorite team was playing in, but couldn’t afford scalper’s prices? A new web-based service, The …
Fear and loathing in Seattle
NBA commissioner David Stern is putting the screws to Seattle in his attempts to get the community to provide taxpayer subsidies that are lucrative enough …
Deals, Deals, Deals
The University of Colorado will join Nebraska and Utah as members of the Pac-10 in 2011 after negotiating a $6.863 million exit package with the …
Economics Podcast Discussion betweenPhil Miller and John Palmer
In his latest posting, James Reese invited Phil Miller and me to discuss some topics of mutual interest for his economics podcast. Here is his …
Tail Wags Dog — In Some Leagues
Skip’s post on Tuesday along with the NBA ref scandal brings to the front differences in league management of their referees. All referees-umps will make …
A Market for Absolutely… repeat… Absolutely Everything
Companies have long been able to insure their most valuable assets against loss. In sports this means that teams can take out insurance policies that …
Special Issues of Note
Two recent publications may be of interest to readers of The Sports Economist. 1. The journal Economic Analysis and Policy (2009, vol. 39(2)), has a …