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Pinning Your Hopes on Eddy Curry?

July 15, 2006 by

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According to the New York Post, “Isiah Thomas believes he’ll ultimately be judged by the development of Knicks center Eddy Curry next season.”  The Knicks owner, James Dolan, has given Isiah one year to fix the Knicks and if this quote is to be believed, we can now see that the odds are not in […]

Growing up a Sports Economist

July 15, 2006 by

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JC Bradbury of Sabernomics (and a sports economist at the University of the South and this fall, Kennesaw State University) has posted a comment entitled So, You Want to Study the Economics of Sports. The post was written in response to a comment I offered on The Field of Sports Economics and some advice offered […]

In the Best Interests of Baseball?: A Book Review

July 15, 2006 by

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Over the past few weeks our book has been reviewed a few times.  Having had our work reviewed, I thought I would give the book reviewing game a try.  Earlier I made mention of National Pastime, a book by Stefan Szymanski and Andrew Zimbalist.  Today I would like to discuss Zimbalist latest book. For the […]