On January 8th, it was my good fortune to be able to spend about half an hour speaking with Dr. Roger G. Noll. Dr. Noll is probably the world’s foremost authority on the economics of big league sports, and is currently at the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Dr. Noll has extensively studied big…
So, it’s late January, and the Super Bowl’s over. The worm-harboring subcutaneous cyst otherwise known as college basketball is beginning to swell and redden, preparing to burst forth into the disgusting froth of pus known as the NCAA tournament. Network television is filled with frenetically paced events like the Senior Skins Game, which appears to…
We like to take a few minutes every couple of weeks to respond to our email. Names and addresses of the person submitting the question have been changed, but the text is unedited. Q: How could you leave Michael Coleman off your list of top prospects? Everyone else loves him, including Sickels, Benson, and Shandler….
The Diamondbacks did a fair to middling job in the draft. There were a lot of missed opportunities, and a couple of inexplicable acquisitions before the dust settled, but by and large, they did a passable job, and far better than the atrocities against humanity committed by Chuck LaMar in the name of the Devil…
Welcome to our six-part series on the upcoming expansion draft, and who the established teams should be protecting. We’ll be looking at every major league team and making our picks on who they should be protecting. Please note this isn’t a prediction on who they *will* be protecting. We’re sure the Angels will be protecting…