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Quick Note: The Super Bowl, Tactics and Economics, Part II
Today’s second Note is another Freakonomics.com blog post, this one by Stephen Dubner. His post, “Football Freakonomics: The First Annual Dough Bowl Awards,” discusses the economics of player value...
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Today’s Note: More on Sports Economics
Today’s Note revisits some earlier posts about the economics of sports. Today’s feature article is another post on freakonomics.com, “Football Freakonomics: What Can Linsanity Teach Us About the...
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Today’s Note: Linsanity?
Today’s Note reviews a post on Forbes.com about the legal rights to the term “Linsanity” as it refers to abrupt NBA sensation Jeremy Lin. “It’s A Jump Ball For ‘Linsanity’ Trademark,” by Kenneth Liu,...
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Quick Note: Is the NBA More Consistent Than the NFL?
Today’s Quick Note is a discussion about a Freakonomics.com blog post that compares season-to-season predictability of athlete performance. This post, by Dave Berri, is titled “Talent Evaluation is...
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Quick Note: The End of the Manning Era
Today’s Quick Note is about this post on espn.com, describing the likely end of Peyton Manning’s time as an Indianapolis Colt. Manning is soon due a $28Million roster bonus, and it has long been...
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Quick Note: A Little March Madness Social Buzz
The 2012 Super Bowl was kind of a coming of age moment for social media activity about sporting events. It saw specialized apps, huge Twitter traffic with organized hashtag usage, and even a Social...
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Flash Note: Dodgers Sold for (!) $2B
Apparently a group of investors, including Magic Johnson, has arranged to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers for two billion dollars. That whopping price tag doesn’t include the parking lots, which evidently...
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Today’s Note: The College World Series and Social Media
Today’s Note is about the use of social media around the NCAA Baseball College World Series, held annually in Omaha, Nebraska. Unlike some other recent sporting evens, such as the Superbowl and the...
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Quick Note: Most Popular Posts This Week
Today’s Note recaps the most viewed older posts over the past week. I found it interesting that many of the posts on the list are as much as six months old. I hope you enjoy these older posts! Today’s...
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Today’s Note: Linsanity Revisited
In February, a Note titled “Today’s Note: Linsanity?” discussed the some economic aspects of the rising phenomena of Jeremy Lin, the Knicks’ guard who swept into the NBA from nowhere and captured the...
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