Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Friday, October 24, 2025

NBA gambling indictments

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 The NYT has the story of the latest sports -gambling scandal in which several NBA players and veterans were arrested for giving gamblers i...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In-game sports betting is something different

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 The NYT has the story: The Seductive, and Risky, Power of Live Sports Betting In-game betting is predicted to grow to more than $14 billion...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

All's fair in love and sports, from marathons to stone skipping

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 It turns out that sports are just war by peaceful means. Incentives matter, and some people play to win. First, the WSJ writes about qualif...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Tour de France competitions: conditioning, bikes, and drugs?

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 Agence France Presse (AFP) reports on the bike race, and speculates on the historical competition between drug takers and drug testers. Pog...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Is gambling exhibiting a sinister interest in sports?

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 Is a single missed pitch in a baseball game a sign of gambling's sinister interest in discrete events in sports contests?  It might be,...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

College athletes are now professionals

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 For a long time the sports world tried to make a sharp distinction between amateur and professional athletes, especially in the Olympics an...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Super bowl markets in ads and gambling (and also a football game)

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 Today is a big celebration of advertising.  But the advertisements have to be fitted into pauses in a football game.  That takes some doing...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

For real passion in the discussion of market design, look to sports

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  The Guardian weighs in on American football playoffs: The NFL’s bogus playoff seeding system penalizes the more deserving   by Doug Farrar...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Sports gambling presents problems for gamblers, athletes, and sports

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  Sports betting has some potentially dire implications both for betters and for athletes and sports. Gamblers can find in-app gambling whil...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Competition between drug testing and drug taking in bicycle racing

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 Some time ago the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) issued a report on performance enhancing drugs in bicycle racing, which make...
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...