A review of Taking Sports Seriously: Law and Sports in Contemporary American Culture by Jeffrey Standen. At long last, the sports mortgage: In lean times, teams try "equity seat rights" to raise money. From NBER, an article on game theory and major league sports: Pitchers appear to throw too many fastballs; football teams pass less than they should. How economists are tackling sports injuries: The high cost of injuries has inspired a new breed of statisticians to number-crunch the best solutions. Using some basic probability theory we can quite easily produce a reasonable probability for all the possible results of a game. The statistical problem with soccer: The tradeoff is between a beautiful game and a statistically significant one. The profound stupidity of football: A review of Why England Lose and Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski. Football v. Football: An article on the NFL v. the Premiership. Football fixation: Bob Hyldburg is the biggest single-team geek following professional sports in America — here’s how he got that way. Don't bore us with the obvious: Sports talk should reveal the secret world of athletes. A look at how making up a sport helps folks regain their mojo. From Vanity Fair, Steve King surveys the development of our peculiarly modern obsession with sports outcomes — and the extraordinary timekeeping devices that have made it possible. The eyes have it: Is visual training the sports world's next big thing? Play up and play the game: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto experiences a Damascene sporting conversion.
