Rodney Fort's Sports
Economics
Chapter 5.
Sports Market Outcomes I
Links and
Fun
Updated to 3d
Edition
From your textbook:
Sports Market Outcomes, Current Topics:
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NHL Franchise Location Statement, 2009 (PDF):
Commissioner Bettman on why it is essential to the existence of the NHL that
it control team location. Affadavit during the Phoenix Coyote
bankruptcy hearings.
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Are Sports Leagues
Single-Entities? (PDF). An Amicus Curiae Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court
by notable economists (including your textbook author).
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NHL Constitution,
By-Laws, Part 1,
By-Laws, Part 2 (PDFs): Leaked during the
Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy proceedings in 2009, jealously guarded by the NHL
for years.
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MLB Commissioner Warns about the Economy: A chance to see the
functions of leagues in a new situation; this isn't the Great Depression,
but it's more than a minor downturn!
- An NFL Rival in the Making?
The new United Football League. Note that the UFL plans on LA and NY,
plus a few fillers; it only takes a couple of mega-markets (historically,
anyway). Or Maybe Not: CBSSports.com.
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How
Did the Orioles Get the Value of the Nationals' TV Contract?: A
truly amazing story of how team relocation deals get worked out; from the
Washington
Post.
- Worst Expansion Team Ever?:
Webpage dedicated to the single-season wonders, the Seattle Pilots (1969). Surely they played in the worst MLB Ballpark, Seattle's Sick's Stadium (after Emil Sick, founder of Rainier Beer). Youtube video.
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Enduring
Memories of the Seattle Pilots: from Larry Stone at the Seattle
Times.
- Packers
Shareholders: Check out what goes on for shareholders of the Green Bay Packers,
the oldest publicly owned (and only publicly owned at this point in time)
pro sports team.
- Remember the AFL:
My favorite rival league (my first pro sports experience was with the AFL's
San Diego Chargers). By Angelo Coniglio.
- The Greatest Deal Ever Made: How the owners of Teh Spirits of St. Louis, a former ABA team, made millions on a seemingly (at the time) small deal with the NBA. Monte Burke at Forbes.
Don't forget about all of rival league standings and attendance information
at the Sports Business Data Pages!