Book Review: National Pastime by Szymanski and Zimbalist
As a graduate student in the mid-1990s, I began work on a project on the economics of baseball for a research methods class. In researching …
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Book Review: Mark Yost’s Tailgating, Sacks, and Salary Caps
Baseball may still claim the title “America’s Pastime,” but professional football is America’s favorite sport. NFL games draw tens of thousands of fans to stadiums. …
Fame and Fortune for Florida International?
The recent Florida International/University of Miami football debacle is a perfect opportunity to examine the lunacy that often creeps into big-time collegiate sports. With nearly …
NCAA Super Slam 2023
93 total points. No, it was not Bowling Green Junior High v. South Warren Middle School, a game from the 1930s, or Dean Smith using …
Some Modest and Not So Modest Proposals
The World Cup Finals are unique as far as team sports go. It draws, literally, from a worldwide pool of participants. It stages a month-long …
Should We Be Impressed?
Yesterday Rich Lederer of The Baseball Analyst made the following observation. The St. Louis Cardinals. The only team that won 11 postseason games. The only …
Sports Commissioners in the “Gangster” Era
“I talked to that whole staff. I said this is my city. I’m cut from a different cloth. None of them guys on their team …
Demand Curves Slope Down
From the Charlotte Observer (membership read): In two months, the Charlotte Bobcats begin playing in a new, publicly funded uptown arena. Typically, new arenas boost …
Sports Franchises in Bankruptcy
A few weeks ago, there was a discussion in the comments about the possibility that some professional sports teams might go bankrupt in the current …
“Looking at the Monopsony in the Mirror”
Although still a distant second to monopoly, buyer power and monopsony are hot topics in the antitrust community. Despite the increasing interest in monopsony …