Despite the financial and cultural importance of intercollegiate athletics in the United States, there is a paucity of … universities use in their decision to offer athletic scholarships to high school football players. Using a Zero-Inflated Negative … Binomial (ZINB) model, the authors find a player’s weight, height, body mass index (BMI), race, speed, on …

regarding the importance of being affiliated with a Bowl Championship Series (BCS) football conference. …

Extending the work of Berri and Simmons on the National Football League (NFL) player draft and the Scouting Combine …

monitoring as well as pitch location. Our analysis shows mixed results regarding the matching of umpire and pitcher race. We … conclude that evidence of own-race bias is sensitive to specification and methodology. How results can differ based on … different data sets, specifications, time periods, and race classifications are discussed. …

estimates miss the mark for two reasons. First, simply measuring race as a binary variable may be less insightful than an … alternative measure. Second, although it is the race perceptions of market participants that matter, past studies rely exclusively … on researcher race/ethnicity assessment. The authors provide an estimation framework using continuous, market participant …

Until recently, the position of quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) was not an option for Black athletes …. Today, many teams use Black quarterbacks, a development that might suggest race is no longer relevant when it comes to the … quarterbacks are more likely to run with the football, yet this skill is not compensated in the market. Furthermore, we find …

This article presents evidence showing that success in football and men’s basketball at the National Collegiate … university. Panel regressions for eight California State Universities (CSUs) from 1986 to 2009 show that one win in football can …

, television and radio advertising, and team merchandise sales. For the 2009-2010 National Football League (NFL) season, NFL …