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Stacey Brook

@staceybrook.bsky.social
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Husband/Father/Economist/Coffee snob. Researching economic aspects of college athletics often using public records.

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SC Daily Gazette @scdailygazette.com · 01/10/2026
A $350M upgrade of USC stadium is only the latest big spend by SC athletic programs scdailygazette.com/2026/10/01/a... by Pete Iacobelli
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A $350M upgrade of USC stadium is only the latest big spend by SC athletic programs • SC Daily Gazette
The University of South Carolina, Clemson and Coastal all must go through multiple approvals from school and state oversight panels before undergoing major projects.
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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Senate has passed a silly piece of legislation that they claim will "save college sports". In about ten minutes this morning, I wrote this story. College sports does not need saving. The Senate bill is really about taking money from players. wagesofwins.substack.com/p/college-sp...
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College Sports Does Not Need Protecting!
Here are many reasons why that is true. And why people need to be less guillible.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 24/09/2026
UK violated open records law three times in recent cases, AG finds kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/24/u...
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UK violated open records law three times in recent cases, AG finds • Kentucky Lantern
Attorney General Russell Coleman found the University of Kentucky to be in violation of Kentucky’s open records law in three different cases since August
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Using data from the Membership Financial Reporting System, here's a look at the percentage of direct government support to total operating revenues to both FBS and non-FBS public North Carolina athletic departments from 2017 to 2025. Note the increase since the change in the NC law in 2024.
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
DII Lander University in South Carolina estimates it will take them 5 hours at a cost of $212.85 to locate and email fewer than 10 pdf files. #FOIA
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's the first of the 2026 FBS season top 25 productive teams as of week 2. Currently the University of Miami (FL) is the most productive team in all of the FBS. Again, it's early. teamsportsanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/09/2026...
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2026 NCAA FBS Top 25 Week 02
Using aggregate data provided from www.cfbstats.com , the Complex Invasion College Football Production Model  has the  University of Miami (...
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What Michael said.
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Congrats to Massachusetts on their win over Rutgers. In 2025 UMass was - by far - the lowest productive FBS team overall (#136 ranked). In 2025 UMass was the #136 ranked offense and the #135 ranked defense. A positive beginning for the Minutemen in 2026.
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The two-team sports league predicts that when a league imposes a payroll cap that the equilibrium level of winning is greater than the total number of wins (i.e. a disequilibrium result). Thus, teams facing a payroll cap (i.e. NBA) have a profit maximizing incentive to circumvent the cap.
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yes, tariffs on ground beef lead to higher prices. But so does an industry with four firms processing over 80% of the meatpacking market. Want to lower prices? Get rid of the tariffs and allow more competition in the meatpacking industry.
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
AP has an article on government support of university athletics. (apnews.com/article/coll...) So how many FBS public athletic departments receive government support from FY 2015 to FY 2025? teamsportsanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/08/2015...
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Louisiana athletic department subsidies: teamsportsanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/08/loui...
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Louisiana FBS Athletic Department Subsidies
About a week ago there was an interesting article about college athletic department finances in the state of Louisiana, where the premise w...
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hmmm...
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 24/08/2026
Six editors and nearly 60 advisory editors of Games and Economic Behavior resigned after Elsevier, the journal’s publisher, decided not to renew the editor-in-chief’s contract.
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Editors of economics journal resign after Elsevier doesn’t renew EIC’s contract
Six editors and nearly 60 advisory editors of Games and Economic Behavior resigned after the journal’s publisher decided not to renew the editor-in-chief’s contract.  In late July, Elsevier to…
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 22/08/2026
A staunch segregationist will no longer be the namesake for the University of Southern Mississippi’s football stadium after the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning approved the decision to rename M.M. Roberts Stadium to Renasant Stadium, known as “The Rock.” buff.ly/kq9INaY
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Southern Miss Football Stadium No Longer Named For Man Who Declared ‘I Am A Racist’
Staunch segregationist M.M. Roberts will no longer be the namesake for the University of Southern Mississippi’s football stadium.
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Louisiana Illuminator @lailluminator.com · 20/08/2026
SCORING SALES TAXES: Nearly every athletic department at Louisiana’s public universities bleeds money, impacting the rest of the school. The situation has athletics administrators eyeing ways to generate more sales tax revenue to stabilize their programs. @piperhutch.bsky.social reports
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Louisiana’s college sports programs are losing money. Can sales taxes save them? • Louisiana Illuminator
University leaders are considering setting up economic development districts, like one LSU recently created around its Baton Rouge campus, that would give their school access to sales tax revenue alre...
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David Johnson @hockeyanalysis.com · 20/08/2026
The Calgary Flames are also hiring a Hockey Analytics Specialist. A good opportunity for anyone wanting to get into hockey analytics. recruiting.ultipro.ca/CAL5002/JobB...
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Southern Indiana University requires an affidavit on state residency and non commercial use for public records requests. The request is not for a list of names or email addresses and is not commercial. The records were sent by the university to the NCAA. #FOIA
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NBER @nber.org · 31/07/2026
Examining how networks formed through college athletics influence the early-career trajectories of Ivy League graduates, from Paul Gompers, George Hu, Will Levinson, and Sachin Srivastava www.nber.org/papers/w35527
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Herb Hovenkamp @sherman1890.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Prominent post-Chicago antitrust economist Steve Salop (G-Town) has performed a great service -- a guide to antitrust and modern economics -- free in .pdf or an inexpensive Amazon Paperback. You dont need much economics in order to read it. econantitrustguide.com
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Modern Economic Analysis and Antitrust Law: A Guide
Free to download
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NHL Trade Alert @nhltradealert.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
✍️ SIGNED Jamie Drysdale and the Philadelphia Flyers have agreed on a 4 year contract with an AAV of $6.5m #LetsGoFlyers
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Michael Morisy @morisy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Public domain Ansel Adams, via National Archives: www.archives.gov/research/ans...
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Ansel Adams Photographs
En Español Records of the National Park Service Enlarge Photograph of Photographer Ansel Adams Visiting the National Archives. Local Identifier: 64-MISC-1-5, National Archives Identifier: 7580919. Vie...
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Interesting. World Cup is an economic dud for some. Too bad there was no sports economists saying this could happen. Oh wait ...
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Looks like McDonald's is now selling rare cooked burgers.
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Substack. What a terrible platform.
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NHL Trade Alert @nhltradealert.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
On this day in 2025: Anaheim traded Trevor Zegras to Philadelphia for Ryan Poehling, a 2025 2nd round pick and a 2026 4th round pick. #FlyTogether  #LetsGoFlyers #NHL
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
When does a joke become a dad joke? When it’s fully groan.
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EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
On this day in 1928, John Nash Jr was born. Famously played by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, he was the economist that advanced game theory & the Nash Equilibrium is named after him. He was known for his odd behaviour such as his fear of red ties! #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
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Season 2 Episode 4 - John Forbes Nash Jr
Podcast Episode · Economics In Ten · 19 January 2020 · 1hr 29min
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NPR @npr.org · 08/06/2026
Hundreds of tickets are still available for the U.S. and Canada opening matches for the World Cup on Friday. Even more are available in resale platforms — many at below face value. n.pr/4ussYdd
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With just days left, the U.S. opening match at the World Cup is still not sold out
Hundreds of tickets are still available for the U.S. and Canada opening matches for the World Cup on Friday. Even more are available in resale platforms — many at below face value.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 27/05/2026
The Attorneys General for New York and New Jersey on Wednesday issued subpoenas to soccer’s global governing body, compelling FIFA to disclose how it arrived at the unprecedented ticket prices for this summer’s World Cup. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4vydq8P
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Rodney Fort 🐀 @rodneyfort.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Following Marvin’s playbook.
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The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com · 24/05/2026
Lawrence hotels were expecting World Cup demand to pick up by now, but the city’s hotel market is still showing a mixed picture. lawrenceks.news/4fFodcl
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Some Lawrence hotels still waiting for World Cup boom as bookings lag
Lawrence hotels were expecting World Cup demand to pick up by now, but the city’s hotel market is still showing a mixed picture.
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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 22/05/2026
InstaGraphs: Job Posting: Chicago Cubs – Data Scientist, Innovation – Baseball Analytics blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...
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Job Posting: Chicago Cubs - Data Scientist, Innovation - Baseball Analytics
The Chicago Cubs are hiring.
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Jamin Speer @jaminspeer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Hull City scored a stoppage time goal to achieve promotion to the Premier League today. According to my research, that goal was worth $238-280 million over the next 7 years. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The consequences of promotion and relegation in European soccer leagues: A regression discontinuity approach
European soccer leagues operate on a ”promotion and relegation” system, in which poor-performing teams are moved to a lower division of play, and high…
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Victor Matheson @victor-matheson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Everything you wanted to know about the World Cup's sky-high ticket prices! www.wbur.org/news/2026/05...
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Q&A: Why FIFA can get away with such high ticket prices
Holy Cross sports economist Victor Matheson discusses why World Cup tickets have gotten so expensive and the things fans can do to find the most affordable tickets.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/05/2026
A lawsuit against Lucky Strike Entertainment by regular customers from across the U.S. says the company has built a bowling monopoly and is responsible for “the veritable destruction of the decades-old pastime of bowling in America.”
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Lawsuit Accuses Lucky Strike of Building a Bowling Monopoly
The suit, filed by bowlers from several states, accuses Lucky Strike Entertainment of driving up prices and diminishing customers’ experiences across the country.
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Am I shocked? No, not at all.
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Florida Phoenix @floridaphoenix.com · 30/04/2026
“We’re not simply convening a committee here. We’re stepping into one of the most consequential transitions in the history of college athletics." floridaphoenix.com/2026/04/30/i...
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Ideas hit the drawing board as state seeks stability in Name, Image, and Likeness era • Florida Phoenix
Creating a student-owned trust fund for college athletes is among the ideas swirling in the mind of the man leading the state task force charged with keeping Florida competitive in the new era of payi...
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NPR @npr.org · 26/04/2026
In a huge moment in sports history, Sabastian Sawe smashed the men's world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday. n.pr/4vQBtk3
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Kenya's Sabastian Sawe is first person to run sub-2-hour marathon to win in London
In a huge moment in sports history, Sabastian Sawe smashed the men's world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday.
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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 16/03/2026
Lottery revenue for the HOPE college scholarship is down after lawmakers decided to divert sports gambling tax revenue as part of the private school voucher deal, leaving a potential budget crisis and scholarship cuts on the horizon. @friedmanadam5.bluesky.social reports.
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Sports gambling was supposed to create new revenue. Instead it's damaging college scholarships • Tennessee Lookout
Tennessee's sports gambling tax revenue exceeds $100 million but the state's Lottery-funded scholarship program faces an $80 million deficit.
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This stadium funding method is new to me. JC Bradbury?
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SC Daily Gazette @scdailygazette.com · 11/03/2026
Gov. McMaster vetoes bill that keeps payments to college athletes secret scdailygazette.com/2026/03/11/g... by @jmholdman.bsky.social
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Gov. McMaster vetoes bill that keeps payments to college athletes secret • SC Daily Gazette
COLUMBIA — Gov. Henry McMaster vetoed legislation allowing South Carolina’s public colleges to keep secret what they pay student athletes, throwing the proposed public records exemption back to the Le...
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 01/03/2026
32 Ohio High School Athletic Association student-athletes have name, image, or likeness deals ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/27/3...
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32 Ohio High School Athletic Association student-athletes have name, image, or likeness deals • Ohio Capital Journal
Of the 350,000 Ohio High School Athletic Association student-athletes, only 32 NIL agreements have been reported.
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Why doesn't the USA (men's or women's) medal more in biathalon in the Olympics?
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Team USA wins gold in women's hockey!!
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Stacey Brook @staceybrook.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Sigh.
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 16/02/2026
What a perfect time to get a FOIA back on the economic impact study consulting business. Which I did like an hour ago! To get those made-up numbers costs about $50,000!
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics @usbls.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Iowa Capital Dispatch @iowacapitaldispatch.com · 12/02/2026
Iowa State University’s athletics department’s leadership position will be permanently supported by a $5 million gift from alumni, the university announced Thursday, Brooklyn Draisey reports via Report for America.
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Iowa State University alumni donate $5M for endowed athletics director position • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Iowa State University has received a $5 million gift to establish the Jamie and Ellen Pollard Endowed Director of Athletics.
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Victor Matheson @victor-matheson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Truly a great honor!
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