Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Olympic scorekeeping (choose your comparison set)

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 There are many local angles to the coverage of the Olympics. Some of them have to do with scoring systems.  Here's a story from the WSJ...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Goldin arm

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  Here's a great post-Nobel story from the Harvard Gazette. Time to send in Goldin. Sox go with Nobel laureate southpaw to throw out fir...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Child labor in soccer

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Many laws seek to protect children from being exploited in the labor market, and there is widespread repugnance when it appears that such ex...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Paying college athletes before it was legal

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 Yesterday I blogged about the new NCAA rules on allowing college athletes to be paid:  The ban on paying college athletes is history It wil...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

The ban on paying college athletes is history

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  The idea that paying college athletes is wrong has given way to the realities of the sports markets in which they perform.  For many years...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Sports and celebrity (salary and income)

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 Basketball superstar Caitlin Clark recently went pro for a salary of $76,535.  What's going on?  The LA Times has the story of rags and...
Friday, April 12, 2024

Gambling on sports, by and on athletes

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  Now that sports betting is legal, and apps allow people to bet on particular events within a game as it unfolds, there is concern that pla...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

Gambling in video games--entry level gambling for minors?

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  In-game gambling for video game tools has become an unregulated form of online gambling that may provide minors with their first gambling ...
Monday, February 5, 2024

The NFL embraces sports gambling for fans but not for players

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 The Superbowl is in Las Vegas, and gambling is being embraced by the NFL for fans, but not for players and other NFL employees. The NYT has...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Market design in major league baseball

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  The rules of professional Major League Baseball are changing in an effort to make attending the games more popular.  Among the rule change...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Payment to college athletes: Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) Deals

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 The recent changes in what college athletes can be paid for  (and in their ability to transfer freely between schools) has made it profitab...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

Lobbying for sports gambling, with cigars and whisky

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 Do addictions go together?  The NY Times has the story of how legalized (online, sports) gambling lobbyists wooed state legislators with wh...
Monday, May 2, 2022

The search for tennis talent is unraveling

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 It used to be that 11 year old professional tennis players were rare, but it looks like that's not the case any more. The NYT has the s...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Simone Biles in the WSJ. News, sports, ads, endorsements: the money trail is varied and complex:

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 Sports, accomplishment, celebrity, endorsements, modeling:  The WSJ published last week a long article about Simone Biles, the gymnast who ...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Payments to college athletes, no longer so repugnant

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 The longstanding debate over whether college athletes must remain unpaid to preserve their 'amateur' status is starting to reach so...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Basketball is still adjusting to the three-point field goal

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Rules are an important part of the design of marketplaces, and also of games and competitive sports. And it can take time for participants t...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Good things to do after a kidney transplant: save an NHL game as an Emergency Backup Goalie (EBUG)

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It turns out that in the NHL there is an Emergency Backup Goalie (EBUG) who is available to either team should the need arise. In this case...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

NCAA takes steps to allow college athletes to be compensated

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Here's the NY Times: N.C.A.A. Considers Loosening Rules for Athletes Seeking Outside Deals The governing body for college sports app...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

College athletes can be paid for endorsements in California: an end to an American repugnance?

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College sports in the U.S. has long been an anomaly--our overseas colleagues must run colleges for reasons other than sports, but in the U....
Friday, August 30, 2019

Kidney donor athlete: Steve

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Kidney donors have to be in excellent health, and the site Kidney Donor Athletes celebrates some exceptional donors, particularly as they ...