This study investigates determinants of revenue in North America's four major professional
sports leagues. Revenue is positively associated with on‐field success in baseball (MLB) …

Intercollegiate amateur athletics in the US largely bars student-athletes from sharing in any
of the profits generated by their participation, which creates substantial economic rents for …

To ensure uncertainty in match outcomes, professional sporting leagues have used various
competitive balance policies, including player salary caps, revenue sharing among teams …

Over the past decade, the issue of player compensation in college sports has been the
subject of several successful legal challenges. Athletes contend that the compensation they …

The paper explores the potential influence of subjective factors on salary determination,
particularly examining the impact of physical appearance on the earnings of soccer players …

Though we know racioethnic diversity can impact team functioning, much remains unclear
about when and how it affects performance. Extending dyadic theory on interracial …

Previous research examines head football coaches' salary only using aggregate athletic
department revenues. Using detailed football program fixed and variable revenues provided …

Motivated by a comment Shaquille O'Neal made about the Women's National Basketball
Association (WNBA), we ask the following question: Is consumer demand and revenue in …

There have been numerous efforts from basketball stakeholders to produce an index that
will evaluate the performance of a basketball player. Data derived from the box score are …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the drivers of NCAA Football Bowl
Subdivision total revenues from the 2007 to 2012 seasons. Design/methodology/approach …