I ask myself that all the time.

The biggest ex-Yugo diaspora anywhere in the world is in Chicago, IL. Just saying. “Iz Čikaga moji, znaš ti dobro koji.”

Oh.

✅ 🇪🇸 To Secure the Top 4: 🇪🇸 Real Madrid - 100% 🇪🇸 Barcelona - 99.8% 🇪🇸 Atlético Madrid - 92% 🇪🇸 Villarreal - 88% 🇪🇸 Real Betis - 9% 🇪🇸 Athletic Club - 7% 🇪🇸 Espanyol - 3% 🚨 🇪🇸 Spain are given just a 12% chance to enter the Top 5 into the Champions League!

✅ 🇮🇹 To Secure the Top 5: 🇮🇹 Inter - 99.5% 🇮🇹 Napoli - 99% 🇮🇹 AC Milan - 94% 🇮🇹 AS Roma - 74% 🇮🇹 Juventus - 55% 🇮🇹 Bologna - 35% 🇮🇹 Como - 22% 🇮🇹 Lazio - 12% 🚨 🇮🇹 Italy are given a 27% chance to enter the Top 5 into the Champions League!

“So you’re telling me that there is a chance…” (c) #ThankYouUSAGame

New paper in JEL from Ignacio Palacios-Huerta on sports data for economics: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The coffee is not bad though!

Another set of successful @naasecon.bsky.social sessions wrapped up. Thank you to all the presenters and participants.

“Look at this, it’s just crazy” (c) — @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social at SEA Meetings 2025

❌ 🇧🇴 Bolivia will NOT have an altitude advantage in the FIFA Play-offs! 🏟️ 🇧🇴 Bolivia will play their matches in 🇲🇽 Monterrey at an altitude of 540 meters, and not at an altitude of 1566 meters in 🇲🇽 Guadalajara. 💥 Semifinals on Thursday, 26 March and Finals on 31 March.

What better place to have this than next to @southerneconj.bsky.social SEA registration desk.

In a #VisitLasVegas commercial, can you guess which performer/band was listed first when announcing by a lineup for a show? It is 2025, almost 2026. 🐁 for deadmau5 👴🏻 for Good Charlotte

🚨 5 European nations will QUALIFY for the 2026 FIFA World Cup tonight. 💥 2 close direct duels: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland vs 🇩🇰 Denmark (Scotland must win) 🇦🇹 Austria vs 🇧🇦 Bosnia (Bosnia must win) ✅ 3 set to secure it tonight: 🇨🇭 Switzerland ( 🇽🇰 ) 🇪🇸 Spain ( 🇹🇷 ) 🇧🇪 Belgium (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 / 🇲🇰 )

There is just something really unsettling about receiving a receipt from Overleaf at 8 pm EST.

Michigan wins! “Never in doubt.”

BYU at Texas Tech? Georgia at Mississippi State? The Nickel Trophy game!

@khoavuumn.bsky.social I suspect you know what to do with this picture...

Iykyk!

Where is the mound visit? #WorldSeries

*everything

6 hours and 39 minutes. On a sports equinox day, mind you! #WorldSeries

When Dana White said he was going to “make it up” to Volkov “somehow,” this is what he meant. #UFC321

The only question that remains after the recent FBI probe is why they went after the sport of basketball first. You don’t say…

“I have no idea how stuff like this keeps happening” - Daniel Cormier on yet another erroneous judges’ decision at #UFC320 Not sure whether it will make the top 15 snubs in the past 5 or so years. I will fit the statistics through the model once they get posted. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Dear Detroit Tigers, what are we doing?

Writing papers in sports economics is great, but have you ever tried writing about Balkan basketball while listening to Zdravko Čolić?

The Autumn series of the Reading Online Sports Economics Seminars (ROSES) starts tomorrow! We have another set of talks to take us through to Christmas, and we'll meet each Friday at 2:30pm UK time. The first talk tomorrow is by me, on home and away fans at football!

Thank you, Sakartvelo, for the emotions. This was epic. #EuroBasket2025

And just like that, #ESEA2025 Conference has started!

Ah, decent latte, at long last! (at Charlie du Gæl Paris Intl Airport).

Someone please write a DD paper on this, #econsky

“Emerging literature suggests…” *emerges from the home office holding own draft with 147 footnotes* #EconSky

First pitch from Paddack as a Tiger is a strike… but it is fouled off. This encapsulates the situation. Not sure if I should be excited.

Valter Walker: snatches third heel hook in a row and proceeds to give a post-fight interview in three languages. This is history. #UFCNashville

For avoidance of doubt and confusion, SoFi Stadium went with a post-ironic theme for their concessions. It is like naming a cat “Cat” and a dog “Dog.”

The NBA world needs Woj back (the sooner the better). I have lost track of Jake LaRavia’s future about three times in the last 12 minutes.

NAASE is now on BlueSky! (We remain at the old place too)

The Tigers were first to 50 wins. Just saying.

“Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs.”

Slovenia is quietly minting comeback after comeback at the #EuroBasketWomen 2025. Exciting to watch!

Nice, crowdsourced ball-and-strike calls. Finally!

The Rockies do know the optimal win condition, right? Right?

Who's going to be watching the FIFA Club World Cup? theconversation.com/dismal-ticke...

You did very well, thank you, Erik Deltovich!

Today is the day. Albania vs. Serbia in World Cup Qualifiers. I just hope there are no extracurriculars (but then UEFA learns nothing).

Radford University essentially traded men's and women's tennis for men's track and women's flag football. I attempt to explain this, and wonder whether more similar Olympic sports cuts are ahead in a post-House world. stevedittmore.substack.com/p/what-radfo...

“Sovereignty” and “Journalism” are two very interesting words to appear in the same headline (though they are also front finishers in this year’s Kentucky Derby).

On the NBA #circlelogo epidemic: why does every US basketball club need to have an actual basketball in their logo? It is not like there is a “CSKA Moscow” for basketball, hockey, football, waterpolo, handball, table tennis, ax throwing, hot dog speed eating, etc.