with one major league providing top level play, begging the question of whether sports leagues are natural monopolies. This …

Association (NBA) than the other three major sports leagues in North America. This anomaly spans the last three decades and is not … of the professional sports league in question. The argument that a short supply of tall players is one possible …

Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both amateur and professional sports and have taken … sports. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature overview of the individual drivers to dope, the concomitant … that in order to ensure clean sports and fair competition, more sophisticated measurement methods have to be evolved and …

Because sports are stylized combat, sports may follow power laws similar to those found for wars, individual clashes …

In the present essay we examine whether and how sports affected the emergence of democracy as a political phenomenon in … historical review on the history of sports in Ancient Greece and we investigate various aspects of how and under which terms … through sports during an extended period that goes back as far as the Bronze Age times, led to the development of an …