The Sports Economist

This week's issue of the Sports Business Journal has an interesting article about ticket sales for MLB and the relationship of the leagu...

Stadium debt, in some cases, hangs around a lot longer than the teams that once played in them. From the Houston Chronicle comes this story...

The University of Kansas , like the University of California, is employing equity seat rights to allocate seats to its athletic events. T...

Niels Veldhuis and Charles Lammam , responding to political criticism on a study they wrote on Canadian government stimulus attempts, have w...

Four years after George Mason Wins the Lottery , Butler has reached the thin air normally reserved for teams from the "major conference...

Major college athletic programs are run in ways that are very similar their professional brethren. They compete in markets for top talent (...

The latest issue of the IMF's journal, Finance and Development, has a number of essays on the impact of hosting events like the Olympic...

In terms of profits and TV exposure, the NFL appears to be the most successful sports league in North America.  But I am starting to wonder ...

The Feds have begun an investigation into the sale of tickets to Kansas Jayhawk men's basketball tournament games, and maybe season tick...

The NCAA men's basketball season is winding down, so the annual shuffle in head coaches is heating up.  A few odds and ends from the ear...

Watching NBA highlights last night on NBATV , I stumbled across this video story on the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference . Daryl ...

If you don't live in India then you probably haven't noticed that one of the World's biggest sporting events started just over a...

The second round game between Syracuse and Gonzaga today has an interesting sub-plot:  a lot of Canadians will be on the floor .  Syracuse g...

[Association] Football Federation Australia is the national governing body for soccer in Australia. It is financially weak, but politically ...

It's official. The Baltimore expansion franchise in the LFL, Lingerie Football League for the uninformed, will be called the Baltimore ...

In an article today on CNN.com, the normally quite sharp Chris Isidore, a senior writer for CNNMoney, perpetuates one of the most enduring ...

South Africa has spent at least $6 billion in preparations for this summer's World Cup. How can a poor but developing country like South...

March Madness is upon us again.  This year, the men's college basketball postseason features some interesting economic madness across th...

Following on from Skip's post a couple of weeks ago, the group of would-be Manchester United owners who call themselves the Red Knights ...

Upset that your favorite team received a 10 or 11 seed when they deserved a few spots higher? Don't be. As it turns out, the NCAA Men...

That sound you heard at the end of each period in the US-Canada gold medal game was the giant sucking sound of a multitude of potties being ...

Do you feel a bit more uninhibited this morning? In a free-wheeling mood? A lot of NFL front office types do, because as of 12:01am, the N...

Funding has dried up for a lot of things in the Great Recession, including college sports programs. At Cal State San Marcos, the most recen...

Related to Skip's post , how much happiness was generated in Canada by Sunday's hockey victory? "Thousands on street" in ...

In an earlier post , I wrote about Big 10 expansion and argued that if the Big 10 decided to expand, it would look east before it would look...

Todd McCubbin, the executive director of the University of Missouri Alumni Association, writes a short piece on the number of tickets sold b...

When I first saw remarks like those I'm about to quote, I let it pass with an oblique comment (in the Portsmouth post from last week). ...

Personally, less viewing was more fun. It was a shame though, to see "home-cooking" in the Men's 500m short-track race, where...

I found this interesting article about the state of the NBA from Bill Simmons at ESPN. The article is worth a read. I especially like this ...

It seems the Canadian Women's hockey team took to the ice twice yesterday. Once to beat the US for the gold medal and then again later ...

News reports in England imply that Portsmouth Football Club of the English Premier League, perhaps the richest league in world soccer, is wi...

The Australian Football League (AFL) and the Australian Football League Players’ Association (AFLPA) today announced agreement on the introd...

I am reading More than a Game , written by Brian Billick, former head coach of the Baltimore Ravens and current analyst for Fox and the NFL ...

Two recent publications may be of interest to readers of The Sports Economist. 1. The journal Economic Analysis and Policy (2009, vol. 39(...