PODCAST: Ryan Braun, Alberto Contador and the State of Drug Testing in Sports
I joined fellow writers Ethan Calof and Jacob Rude for the first edition of a weekly podcast that you will be able to find every week here at Global Turnstile if you miss the live airing at Spreecast. This week we discussed Ryan Braun’s successful appeal of his positive test for synthetic testosterone; Alberto Contador’s retroactive two-year suspension that resulted... Read More
NTSF: When Athletes Strike
I’ve already laid out the situation in Spain versus other European leagues, and how the disparity in revenue has led to many clubs simply not paying their players when the accounting dips into the red. With over a hundred of their kinsmen awaiting salary payments from last season, the players in Spain’s top two soccer divisions have gone on strike, postponing the... Read More
The Toqued Warrior: Randomly Replaying the End of an Era
Consider this a joint column this week. I’m home alone, a few cocktails in, and I just stumbled across a seminal battle in Iron Chef history. So with the weekly look at food and sports running late, and the Random Replay of the Week creeping up quickly tomorrow along with plenty of other ticking-clock projects all around, we’re going to take the liberty this week of... Read More
Stats and Sensibility: The Costs of Victory in College Sports
So I’ve been tinkering around with a lot of college statistics lately… you’d think the clock had turned back and I was a high-school senior again or something, the way I’ve been looking at everything from win percentages to academic standards to the revenue that major schools spend on their sports teams. Now the analysis that follows is by no means... Read More
NTSF: A Superconference Cautionary Tale
I’ve been rolling around in my head an article about the impending advent of superconferences in college sports. (Maybe that’s why this column is two days late in arriving…) In the wake of the SEC deciding not to expand at this time, coupled with the growth of the Big “Ten” and the Pac-12 (easily altered from the Pac-10) and the moves around the non-AQ... Read More
