David Berri

Coach Reeve made a point during media availability after today’s practice to address the issue of the recent trend of sex toys being thrown onto the court during WNBA games.

I didn’t have my camera rolling, but here’s the soundbyte.

Watching the 1987 NBA All-Star game (while we wait for tonight's WNBA game).

Yes, it was possible for All-Stars to actually try in one of these games.

Ivy League economist.

I keep saying that. Has an Ivy League PhD.

Graduate of Penn. Became an associate professor at Columbia.

I have met Ivy League grads with significant attitudes.
Well... this is your boy. Apparently, you don't have to be "smart" to get one of those degrees.

Given what I am hearing about the amazing play in all NFL camps, 2025 will be the first NFL season where all NFL teams finish 17-0. This season will be epic!!

Same men who use this will also wonder why there is a male loneliness problem.

Really... you can't handle texting someone all by yourself? If you are at that point, you should be alone.

The WNBA has now surpassed 2 million in reported attendance for the 2025 WNBA regular season.

It's the 2nd consecutive season and 6th overall that the league has exceeded 2 million.

acrossthetimeline.com/wnba/attenda...

Okay, looks like I am wearing my baseball hat backwards going forward!

Peter Temin, economic historian at MIT, has passed away. He worked both on problems of understanding the past (e.g. "Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression?") and how how the past shapes the present (e.g. "The Vanishing Middle Class.") Terrific scholar and mentor, generous critic.

I have heard markets eliminate discrimination. We don't need the government to intervene!

Watching Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

My thought watching "Wedding Bell Blues" is...

... there are so many better George Michael songs I hope the future remembers!

Pro Volleyball Merger Values Combined Leagues at $325M The deal brings together the Pro Volleyball Federation Major League Volleyball to launch under one banner starting in 2026.

Per @sportico.bsky.social, Pro Volleyball Federation and Major League Volleyball are merging and operating as one league (MLV) for 2026.

The Omaha Supernovas will highlight the combined league, which Sportico said will feature 10 teams in 2026 and likely 12 in 2027.
www.sportico.com/leagues/othe...

Cheryl Reeve Named WNBA Coach of the Month Reeve was named Coach of the Month after leading Minnesota to a 9-3 record over the month of July. This award is her third such honor since the award’s inception in 2017.

✅ Cheryl Reeve Coach of the Month
✅ Napheesa Collier Player of the Month (again)

Our @hansen13.bsky.social dives into the news about Reeve in more detail below ⤵️

www.canishoopus.com/2025/8/4/244...

I still hate being a referee. I do it entirely out of guilt (because I make other people referee my scribbles).

It would be nice if the journals paid us to do this. The irony that I write articles about people being exploited while I am being exploited is not lost on me! 😂

If you are worried about Caitlin Clark getting touched while playing basketball but you don't care what Clark gets paid, you are not a supporter of women's sports.

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Nine candidates to lead the American Economic Association.

7 are white.
3 are women (this is actually progress).
Only one doesn't have a PhD from a top program.

Hard to represent all economists when your leadership doesn't represent all economists.

Chuck Schumer has a collection of "strongly worded" letters he can send out to PROVE he is effective.

All the people questioning his leadership better watch themselves. These letters can just as easily be sent to you!!!

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

It seems like a cardinal rule of baseball is bullpen pitchers will -- sooner or later -- remined you why they ended up in the bullpen.

Reports: C's minority owner buys Sun for $325M A group led by Celtics minority owner Steve Pagliuca has reached a deal to buy the WNBA's Connecticut Sun for a record $325 million and plans to move the team to Boston, according to multiple reports.

www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

Last place Sun sell for $325 million!!

Remember, the WNBA doesn't make a profit. There is no money in women's basketball. Rich people just love throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at stuff that don't make no damn money!

And yet another thing the NBA has the resources to fix. But -- as is often the case -- the NBA refuses to take action.

The problem with WNBA refs is a familiar one; lack of resources, compensation and support.

Yes, but if the sun goes down and/or the wind stops blowing, all the lights go off.
Right?
Isn't this how it all works?

Would my comment make more sense if I told you I was wearing a suit on television? 🤣

Female pilots perform better under pressure, study finds A University of Waterloo study found that female pilots made fewer flight control errors than their male counterparts in high-stress situations, despite showing similar visual attention and experience...

Study of 10 female and 10 male pilots using flight simulator finds despite having nearly identical visual attention patterns and flight experience, female pilots tend to make fewer flight control errors when stress levels increase.
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

No matter what a woman accomplishes, a man who has accomplished nothing in life will appear to announce what she did is not that impressive.

"It’s true that there are physical feats that players in one league can accomplish that players in the other league simply cannot. For example, one league has players like DeWanna Bonner, who can carry and give birth to twins and return the next season to average 17.3 points and 7.2 rebounds a game, while the other league has multiple players like LeBron James, who can carry the ball."

👏👏🫡
www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

These are exactly the same men who will tell you that students don't learn anything in college anymore.

Apparently the only thing these men learned is how to put on a suit.

I think 24!

This is a must read. Simply explains what is at stake with the WNBA’s CBA negotiations. And why the women need to keep fighting!

Like arenas everywhere in America, Gilbert Arenas was also built with extensive government subsidies!

In my first week in U.S. Economic History I discuss statistics like this. Most students come to the class thinking violence has increased dramatically across time. Then I show them the data.