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March 13, 2025
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March 13, 2025
A New Stadium For Manchester United

Like most mega projects, the Manchester United proposal for a new £2 billion, 100,000 seat stadium sounds irresistible.

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March 2, 2025
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March 2, 2025
The Basketball Bargaining Battle That Will Shrink the Gender Pay Gap

Because there are no women in the top paid 100 athletes, the sports gender pay gap is more than a whopping $200 million.

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February 10, 2025
Super Bowl absentees
February 10, 2025
How the Super Bowl Affects the Labor Force

Similar to the World Cup and other major sports events, next day Super Bowl absentees from work represent a hefty percent of the labor force.

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October 13, 2024
automation
October 13, 2024
How a Tennis Player and a Longshoreman Are Similar

Seemingly very different, because tennis and port automation both involve people being replaced by machines, the tradeoffs are similar.

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October 10, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Northwestern's full stadium
October 10, 2024
The Mystery of a Losing Team’s Full Stadium

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August 6, 2024
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August 6, 2024
Why Olympic Ranking Criteria Could Omit the Best Countries

Looking at Olympic ranking criteria, we always focus on the gold medal winners but there are lots of other possibilities.

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August 4, 2024
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August 4, 2024
The Olympic Medal That Makes People Mad and Sad

Images from the Olympic medal ceremony show silver medal sadness while the gold and bronze winners are happy.

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July 26, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Olympics cost
July 26, 2024
How Olympic Costs Can Soar

While again Olympic costs could soar at the Paris games, but they appear to be doing more to avoid spending unnecessary euros.

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April 18, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and sports gender pay gap
April 18, 2024
The Sports With the Biggest Gender Pay Gap

Although the US Congress increased male female equality approximately 50 years ago, still the sports gender pay gap remains massive.

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April 14, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and free football
April 14, 2024
When Free Football Has a Cost

Experimenting with free football by not charging for tickets, a French and a German team changed the cost of a game.

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April 9, 2024
Weekly Economy News Roundup and basketball winners and losers
April 9, 2024
March Madness College Applications Bump

Citing a correlation, researchers suggest that there is a March Madness applications bump at schools that fare well in the tournament.

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March 22, 2024
WNBA expansion
March 22, 2024
How Caitlin Clark Economics Can Change the NCAA

As March Madness begins, we can keep an eye on Caitlin Clark economics as a phenomenon that can narrow the NCAA gender gap.

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