Intro

Like we all do, I cruise the web a lot.  And I run into tons of material on the web related to the text material.  Here, I put up two types of material.  First, there are recent and new links to interesting, informative, and fun stuff on sports economics from the web.  But I also keep a reference list of the sites to which I return over and over again.

Chapter by Chapter

Here is the material organized by chapter:

General Sports Blogs and Links of Interest; Sport Specific Links

Blogs

• The Sports Economist:  Skip Sauer's blog.  Skip is at Clemson; your author is an invited contributor.
• SportsBiz- The Business of Sports Illuminated:  Mark's blog.  Subheading:  Ruminations on the economics, law, and  business of Sports.
• Wages of Wins:  Blog by the authors of the book with the same  name, sports economists all.
• Darren Rovell's Business Blog :  Darren is a top sports business reporter, now at CNBC.com.

General Links

• Rich Johnson's Sports Pages: Links to every major newspaper sports page and more!
• Chris Isidore's "SportsBiz" at CNNMoney.com:  Lots of fun stuff here on pro and college sports business.
• Sports Business News:  A pretty long list of late-breaking sports business news. Updated daily and they'll even send a brief copy to your email address (I read it daily)!  Small monthly subscription price, and a student discount.
• FRB Boston "Peanuts and Crackerjacks" Sports Economics Fun Page:  From the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (believe it or not).
• $ports Money :  Michael Ozanian at Forbes weekly sports business video.
• Team Marketing Reports (Fan Cost Index):  Very useful, wealth of team-level price data for all items from tickets to soda  pop.
• John Vrooman's Sports Economics:  Professor at Vanderbilt with a significant web presence.

MLB

• Sabernomics:  JC Bradbury's blog.  Subheading:  Economic thinking about mostly player and team productivity.
• The Hardball Times:  Most of this page is about player and team production.
• Sean Lahman's Baseball Archive:  Impressive baseball archive.  In addition to his salary/labor pointers, check out "off the field."
• The Baseball Prospectus:  Often has business of baseball articles.
• SABR's Business of Baseball Committee:  A very nice page on current and past baseball business topics, as well as data sets.
• Doug Pappas's Business of Baseball Pages:  The former chairman of the SABR Business of Baseball Committee (now deceased).  But somehow his page lives on.  A wealth of business and economic data and analysis.
• MLB Player Contracts:  All details from MLB4U.com.  If you look closely at the team pages, you'll also find economic data on baseball managers.
• Cot's Baseball Contracts:  Another page with all of the contracts, plus other team-level payroll listings.  Check out the fun quotes at Cot's Home Page.
• Sports Business Simulations, Inc.:  by Zennie Abraham.  Try your hand at running the Oakland Athletics.  Fun and in-depth simulation I sometimes use for extra credit in my own class.
• Biz Of Baseball:  Long time Baseball Prospectus analyst Maury Brown.  I recently participated in the BizOfBaseball Roundtable on MLB.
• USAToday.com Baseball Salaries and Payrolls:  By year, by team, by player, league-wide descriptive statistics.

NBA

• Patricia Bender's Basketball Stuff :  The original basketball business guru.  She started a pretty comprehensive business data listing for the NBA.
• Biz of Basketball:  Maury Brown, again.
• NBA Draft.net:  Includes a history of the NBA draft.
• USAToday.com Basketball Salaries and Payrolls :  By year, by team, by player, league-wide descriptive statistics.

NFL

• NFL Draft History:  From Jay Berwanger, 1936, to your favorite from last year.
• Biz of Football:  Maury Brown, again.
• USAToday.com Football Salaries and Payrolls :  By year, by team, by player, league-wide descriptive statistics.

NHL

• Business of Pro Hockey :  About.com ProIceHockey blog.
• Hockey Business:  A few interesting stories, and some good links on the hockey business (e.g., everything you wanted to know about the definition of free agency in hockey) from about.com.
• Hockey Biz:  A wealth of business data from HockeyZonePlus.com, including average salaries and average attendance.  The organization is a bit cumbersome, but you can find it.
• NHLPA Individual Player Salaries:  Straight from the horse's mouth.
• Andrew's NHL Business Page :  Andrew's Dallas Stars Pages, NHL  Business section.  Payrolls, average attendance, Forbes reports, and more.
• Biz of Hockey:  Maury Brown, again.
• USAToday.com Hockey Salaries and Payrolls :  by year, by team, by player, league-wide descriptive statistics.

College

• NCAA Financial Reports Database:  A database, searchable by university, from IndyStar.com.  This was produced by a reporter at the Star by surveying Division I-A athletic directors.  And here's an MSExcel File with the same data base.
• Equity in Athletics Disclosure Website:  Office of Post-Secondary Education official website for Title IX compliance.  All required equity reporting financial data are here, searchable by university.

Other

• Golfweb: Everything golf. Especially, click "Stats."  There's a little engine that allows you to choose a tour and then stats about that tour, including some about money leaders for a few years back.  Under "Schedules" you can find final scores and earnings for the current campaign.