Dave Berri on paying NCAA athletes (via Freakonomics)
Dave Berri writes about paying NCAA athletes, NCAA coach salaries, and NCAA competitive balance over at Freakonomics.
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Competitive Balance
Quick Rant: Should San Antonio Rest Its Starters?
Dre looks at the reasoning behind the Spurs resting their star players tonight against Miami.
Did the lockout fix the NBA’s parity problem?
Dre looks at the NBA’s competitive balance over the years.
Bad to Good: The treadmill TO mediocrity
Arturo looks at how in the NBA all teams are being pulled towards average and how tanking just delays that process.
Dopes about doping #2
The NBA lockout gave me a chance to write about non-NBA topics that I feel strongly about. The other day I wrote the overview for my series on doping; today’s post is the second in the series and covers the common arguments in favour of a ban on PEDs. Next time …
NBA Owners Do Not Understand Competitive Balance
Dave takes a look at competitive balance in the NBA and how the common view is still wrong.