Brad "Pencil Necked Geek" Humphreys

Manhattan’s are also easy to batch ahead.

Perfect fit for the MAC. Highest ranked G5 champ every year.

Public contributions to NFL stadiums have been increasing since the 1980s.

BYU not in the final top 25 🤔

How the Sports Stadium Went Luxe Is the race to create ever more lavish spectator offerings in America’s largest venues changing the fan experience?

A big omission from this piece is the role of public funding, which has been growing at an increasing rate. When taxpayers pick up a portion of the tab, it lowers the effective price of adding luxury amenities. James Quirk called this "gold-plating."

It won't work for other US pro sports, but college football should go to a promotion-relegation model.

Yes, men's basketball.

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Larry Summers receives lifetime ban from prestigious economic association over Epstein ties | CNN Business Larry Summers has been banned for life from the American Economic Association, a professional organization for economists, with more than 17,000 members, over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey...

Larry Summers has been banned for life from the American Economic Association, a professional organization for economists, with more than 17,000 members, over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Beautiful Dataset (December 2025) - Natural experiments, high stakes, expert subjects, knowledge of the precise objectives and exact rules, clean measurement, observability of strategies, incentives, actions and conseq...

New paper in JEL from Ignacio Palacios-Huerta on sports data for economics:

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I’ll keep saying this but this still feels nuts to me. That CFB coaches are making $10 million regularly and 5-star QBs — surely the most valuable assets in the sport — are at around $1 million

No other sport with salaries gives more money to coaches than players

Lane Kiffin decides to leave Ole Miss to coach at LSU | CNN Lane Kiffin has decided to trade the coaching sideline in Oxford, Mississippi for the one in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

"Kiffin called the move to $witch $chool$ a 'family deci$ion.'"

www.cnn.com/2025/11/30/s...

Jordan, NASCAR take fight to federal court | Arkansas Democrat Gazette CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Michael Jordan's bitter fight against NASCAR heads to federal court Monday in a jury trial that could rip apart the top motorsports series in the United States.

I was totally unaware of NASCAR's charter system, which started in 2016 (not all racing teams joined). If you' re interested in doing research in sports economics, how about looking into this, instead of yet another paper on competitive balance.

just a reminder that *lots* of countries have universities, and (to my knowledge) none of them but the U.S. treat their universities as largely minor league sports franchises

Why does no one seem to understand that forward-looking "economic impact studies" aren't a real thing? There is no grad school class on this because no credible forecasting methods exist. No serious economists use these consultant projection models for anything.

When you're just making up the numbers, no one bothers to double-check the fake math.

Indoor vaccine mandates in U.S. cities, vaccination behavior, and COVID‐19 outcomes Many U.S. cities introduced indoor vaccine mandates in 2021–2022 to increase COVID-19 vaccination and curb transmission. While national mandates abroad boosted uptake, the effects of city-level manda....

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How did city-level vaccine mandates affect vaccine uptake and COVID-19 transmission? Authors Vitor Melo, Elijah Nelson, and Dorothy Kemboi find no pattern of significant effects, suggesting local mandates may be less effective than national mandates.

Hard. Pass.

First Brandy Alexanders of the holiday season.

The $25 million econ impact is nonsense concocted by project supporters, yet it's repeated in the "news" story as if it's a reasonable expectation. This is a major reason why such boondoggle projects continue to be approved. Journalists *have* to do better than this. @wxyzdetroit.bsky.social

Friday roundup: This Is So Dumb edition For U.S. Thanksgiving week, let's take a moment to give thanks for the continuing gift of having lots of stupid to laugh and point at. We are truly in the golden age of laughing and pointing, which is...

The Detroit city council approved $88m in tax breaks for a Detroit City FC soccer stadium; WXYZ reported that the project "is expected to generate $25m in annual economic impact," no source given or needed, nobody would make up a number like that, right?

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Mayor Mike Johnston says he won't let Denver Summit FC's soccer stadium be built in another place: "Over my dead body" Mayor Mike Johnston says he's going to do everything he can to keep the Denver Summit FC stadium in the city.

Based on what I am reading here, Denver Mayor Mike Johnson may be in the running for the dumbest mayor of a major US city.

Way to signal an absolute zero intent to negotiate a decent deal for Denver taxpayers.

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What determines an individual's willingness to pay for top sports teams? In a new open-access article, Jaume Garcia, Fernando Lera-Lopez, Jose Manuel Sanchez-Santos, and Maria Jose Suarzez find that social trust and civic pride drive WTP.

Mayor Mike Johnston says he won't let Denver Summit FC's soccer stadium be built in another place: "Over my dead body" Mayor Mike Johnston says he's going to do everything he can to keep the Denver Summit FC stadium in the city.

It's a bad sign when an elected leader pledges his life to ensure that the government will undertake an ill-fated boondoggle project.

Unbelievable