The bottom line : observations and arguments on the sports business /
Feisty essays from one of the nation's top sports economists.
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Philadelphia, PA :
Temple University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Team management, finances, and value
- So you want to own a big-league ball team?
- Capital needs, political realities fuel new interest in sports offerings
- A Miami fish story
- Take stock in the tribe
- Has Milstein lost his mind? Not hardly
- If the Redskins are worth $800 million ...
- The NFL's new math
- Don't cry for Woody
- Ticket prices and players' salaries : the real story
- Yes, it's about money
- The NFL's economic success
- How much are the Red Sox worth?
- MLB in the aftermath of September 11
- MLB by the numbers, but who's buying?
- Baseball by the numbers
- The Mets are worth more than $391 million
- The sports franchise market is stronger than many think
- Flawed financial analysis of NHL skates on thin ice
- Baseball's new numbers : doom and gloom or blip and fit?
- Baseball's new management culture is a work in progress
- $53 million for Pedro? How do you figure?
- pt. II. League structure, design, and performance
- Fewer families own sports teams : it's OK
- If competitive balance spoils the show, congress waits in the wings
- Selig, players both err early regarding competitive balance
- Talent decompression and competitive balance in Major League Baseball
- Minor-league basketball : there's a right way and a wrong way
- The commissioner's new clothes
- Baseball's competitive balance and the amateur draft
- Baseball's blue ribbon panel : good news and bad news
- NFL's revenue sharing saps will to win?
- The sports industry during recessions
- On contraction, Selig should change his mind again
- Un-fair ball
- Competitive balance is a problem
- How to reform the NHL's economic system
- MLS remains minor league, World Cup notwithstanding
- Beantown's new brain trust touches all the fans' bases
- The NFL's report card
- Trading deadline activity raises issue of baseball's competitive integrity
- The gold in baseball's diamond
- What went wrong with WUSA?
- Money game : baseball's short-lived rally
- No reason to break up the Yankees
- More financial smoke and mirrors from MLB
- Enough already : time to award D.C. a franchise
- Tweaking the NFL juggernaut
- Single entity, though alluring, won't solve hockey's problems
- British soccer fans, kicked again (with Stefan Szymanski)
- McClatchy is barking up the wrong tree.
- pt. III. Stadiums : financing, mega-events, and economic development
- Fan Freedom and Community Protection Act of 1996
- What's BOB really worth to Phoenix?
- Football stadium folly
- When teams move, protecting both fans and owners is tricky
- Now you see the Patriots, now you don't : NFL musical chairs
- Flawed Specter bill gets an A for effort
- A tale of facilities in two cities : Boston and Green Bay
- Share of ballpark : $16 a year
- Cards' offer is in the ballpark
- New York City can do better
- The NFL and Los Angeles : here we go again
- Live from New York City : inflation, traffic, and the Olympics!
- Renovating the stadiums : the real economic story
- Foxboro's Gillette stadium : a model for others to ponder
- Games people play
- Straight talk on stadiums
- More benevolence in stadium games
- New York facility triad is good news
- Economic impact of the Olympics doesn't match the hype.
- pt. IV. Antitrust and labor relations
- Take me out to the cleaners
- Batter up, already
- Team profitability and labor peace
- This Bud's for a salary cap
- Let the market rule the basketball court
- The NBA lockout : who's dropping the ball?
- The NBA lockout : a postmortem
- "Jordan effect" won't rescue the NBA
- NBA players are doing fine, thank you
- Contraction and baseball's antitrust exemption?
- Baseball's addition through subtraction just doesn't add up
- Baseball's game of smoke and mirrors
- Baseball and D.C. for all the wrong reasons
- All right all you lawyers, play ball!
- Baseball : a deal can get done
- Labor relations heating up in the NBA
- The new baseball labor agreement is already at work
- NHL : time to stop blowing smoke and start real bargaining
- A-Rod capture makes dollars and sense
- What to do about the hockey mess
- Hockey owners give their sport a slap shot
- Monopoly's money.
- pt. V. College sports and gender equity
- College sports : surplus or deficit?
- Make freshmen ineligible : only good can come of it
- Real reform, not tinkering, is needed in college sports
- The NCAA has lost its way
- Unsportsmanlike conduct
- CBS's big NCAA deal is no cure for what's ailing college sports
- Win one for the Gipper
- Backlash against Title IX : an end run around female athletes
- Has March madness gone mad?
- Pay for play in college sports : think twice
- College athletic success and donations : evidence is not encouraging
- The NCAA's new financial status report : good news or bad?
- College is not for everyone
- Should college athletes be paid?
- Making the (up)grade : tougher than it looks
- Another bowl game is not what the NCAA needs
- Numbers, facts don't back Title IX critics
- The BCS is ripe for reform
- Clarett has a compelling case for NFL eligibility
- Let Jeremy Bloom ski and play wide receiver
- Curb coaches' salaries and preserve Title IX gains
- Final word : million-dollar contracts for college coaches make little sense.
- pt. VI. Media and the regulation of steroids
- Extreme is mediocre and XFL is the name
- The increasingly complex sports media landscape
- No easy answers for MLB's steroid scandal
- Reflections on the Super Bowl
- In steroids hearings, congress has its eye on the wrong ball
- Anti-doping : settle in for the long haul.
