Resources for
Professional Sports discussion on 28 October
professional sports finance (a
great primer)
http://everything2.com/e2node/professional%2520sports%2520finance
³Forbes Franchise Values²
http://espn.go.com/sportsbusiness/s/forbes.html
³Big Bucks In Sports / The
top earners in each league (above) seldom reflect the best-managed franchises
or win-loss records²
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1141829/index.htm
USA Today salary databases
http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/salaries/
JOE "Comparing
Team Values" obtained online but source lost
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/jor/comparing.pdf
NATALIE ³Valuing
Professional Sports Franchises: An Econometric Approach²
by Kelly Smith a senior economics major at Amherst College
http://economics.about.com/cs/guestbios/a/kelly_smith.htm
KAYLA ³The Value of Sports
Franchises² by David Vine, University of Pennsylvania,
http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=wharton_research_scholars
BRIAN ³Wrigley throws a curve
in Cubs sale / Price tag for renovations likely to affect
negotiations²
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sun-cubs-wrigley-fieldsep28,0,4490212.story
RACHEL ³Pro sports
stadiums don't bolster local economies, scholars say²
http://news.illinois.edu/news/04/1117stadiums.html
GRANT ³Professional
sports haven't delivered promised benefits in seven California cities, says new
UC Berkeley report²
http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/98legacy/08-20-1998.html
MIKE The Role of
Antitrust Laws in the Professional Sports Industry From a Financial Perspective
ALYSSA FULCHINI "MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND THE ANTITRUST RULES: WHERE
ARE WE NOW???" BY: HARVEY
GILMORE (obtained online but
source lost)
www.uri.edu/artsci/jor/antitrust.pdf
EVAN League
of Fans web site
http://www.leagueoffans.org/index.html
COURTNEY "Talkin' sports with Ralph Nader
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-zirin/talkin-sports-with-ralph_b_110456.html
HANNAH Fans, Taxpayers and Business Alliance
http://ftballiance.org/index.php
JARED The Rush to Finance Stadiums
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E2D81F3CF931A15757C0A96E958260
ANTHONY ³Homefield Economics: The Public Financing of Stadiums² by Christopher Diedrich
www.faegre.com/webfiles/Homefield%20Economics.pdf
ALYSSA SMITH Why I'm No Fan of the Stadium Financing Plan
http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2004/1107cities_aaron.aspx
JEFF Congressional panel rips Yanks, NYC over new stadium's financing
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3595265
ANTHONY Leaky Stadiums: A look at stadium subsidy policies, and if government subsidies of stadiums is a good investment (4 parts)
http://economics.about.com/cs/sportseconomics/l/aa021403a.htm
JARED The Sports Economist
Economic Commentary on Sports & Society
http://www.thesportseconomist.com/
COURTNEY Union-management relations in professional sports
http://search.creativecommons.org/?q=collective+bargaining+in+sports&sourceid=Mozilla-search
EVAN Strikes & Lockouts In Professional Sports
http://www.askmen.com/sports/business_100/107_sports_business.html
ALYSSA FULCHINI The Economic Consequences of Professional Sports Strikes and Lockouts
www.research.umbc.edu/~coates/work/lockout200.pdf
MIKE 1994 MLB strike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Major_League_Baseball_strike
GRANT No strike: Players, MLB agree on deal through 2006
http://espn.go.com/mlb/news/2002/0830/1425017.html
RACHEL 2004–05 NHL lockout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004-2005_NHL_lockout
BRIAN NFL reflects on changes at anniversary of strikes
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2007-10-06-sw-labor-anniversary_N.htm
KAYLA NFL Could Lockout Players in 2011
http://national-football-league-nfl.suite101.com/article.cfm/nfl_could_lockout_players_in_2011
NATALIE Retired NFL Players Angry About Pensions
http://www.theledger.com/article/20080131/NEWS/801310523/1008/SPORTS
JOE NBA Labor Disputes
http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/TDT3/topic.research/topic3006.html
ALYSSA SMITH What are the lessons of the NBA lockout?
http://www.workers.org/ww/1999/nba0128.php
JEFF NBA Lockout Puts Season in Peril
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_1998_Nov_13/ai_53233797
HANNAH NBA lockout: Crisis averted (2005)