Legal Aspects of Sports Blog

A new paper by UC Davis professors Christopher R. Knittel and Victor Stango analyzes the impact Tiger Woods has recently had on shareholder value of the companies currently (formerly?) sponsoring Woods.  A copy of the paper is here.  The paper is short and highly readable.  If the authors submit the paper to a journal for formal peer review and publication, I look forward to reading the finished product.  At first glance, the authors’ use of endorsor competitors as a quasi-control group appears quite clever. 

I am halfway through ex-NBA referee Tim Donaghy’s book, Personal Foul.  As Henry Abbott of ESPN.com said, it is a real “page-turner.”  Over the course of the next few weeks, I will provide some comments on this blog.   

The New York Times has coverage of the relatively recent study published in the Journal of Sports Sciences by Dave Pierce and Kyle Anderson. 

The New York Times speculates here.