From your textbook:

• Bidding for Sports :  It's difficult to find stated arguments on fairness in favor of sports team subsidies.  But those against are quite vocal.  The Heartland Institute was among the first organizations to enter the fray; click on the "PolicyBot" and enter "sport subsidies."
• Actual Subsidy Outcomes ca. 1989 (MSExcel):  reproduced from Quirk and Fort, Pay Dirt (1992), converted to $2001.
• If the SuperBowl Ever Comes to Indianapolis... (PDF).  2008 study by Michael Hicks, Director of the Bureau of Business Research, Ball State University.  What would Professor Porter say?

Subsidies and EIA Links, Current Topics:

• GMU Economic Impact Assessment Study and Impact on the Orioles (PDF files):  This was part of the fun as groups tried to bring the previous Montreal Expos (now Washington DC Nationals) to Northern Virginia.
• Debunking the Economic Case for D.C. Baseball (PDF):  Controversial Cato Institute paper by Coates and Humphreys on moving the Expos to DC, instead.
• Pro and Amateur Sports Event Economic Impact, 2002 (MSExcel):  Thanks to Street&Smith's Sports Business Journal.
• Tired of Baseball?  Economic Impact of the NHL's Buffalo Sabres:  From NY State Comptroller Alan Hevesi.  Find anything contestable in this analysis?
• San Diego Loses on the Chargers' Best-Ever Season:  A good warning on some of the values of having a team.

Actual Economic Impact Studies:

• Oakland A's Stadium Impact on Fremont (Santa Clara County), CA (PDF):  The A's pending move.
• 49ers Impact in Santa Clara County: (Planning Document; Past Revenue Comparison; Detailed Actual Rent Payments) (PDF): One place the 49ers have tried to move.
• Seattle Supersonics in Renton, WA (Technical Appendix) (PDF):  Consideration of an alternative to the eventual move to Oklahoma City.
• New Orleans Hornets in OK City (PDF):  Circa 2007, concurrent with consideration of a possible move to Oklahoma City.
• 1996 Cincinnati Stadium Study (PDF):  Center for Economic Education, University of Cincinnati.
• 2004 Arlington, TX Study (PDF):  Building an NFL stadium to lure the Dallas Cowboys, Economic Research Associates.
• 2004 Arlington, TX Study (PDF):  A different take from a slightly different question by Mark Rosentraub, Dean of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, and David Swindell at UNC-Charlotte.
• Proposed Arena/Development for moving the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn (2004) (MSWord):  by noted sports economist Andrew Zimbalist.
• Rebuttal to Zimbalist (PDF):  by Jung Kim of the London School of Economics and Gustav Peebles of Columbia University.

Don't forget that all of the team income and expense data are at the Sports Business Data Pages!