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.

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.

Except for out-of-state requestors who face state citizenship requirements.

How about getting rid of the state citizen requirement?

This stadium funding method is new to me. JC Bradbury?

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...

Gov. McMaster vetoes bill that keeps payments to college athletes secret scdailygazette.com/2026/03/11/g... by @jmholdman.bsky.social

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.

32 Ohio High School Athletic Association student-athletes have name, image, or likeness deals ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/27/3...

Why doesn't the USA (men's or women's) medal more in biathalon in the Olympics?

Team USA wins gold in women's hockey!!

Sigh.

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!

Just got an invoice for Arizona State. I might have Houston. Crickets for the rest.

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.

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.

Truly a great honor!

Bill shielding SC college NIL agreements from public records law advances in the Senate • SC Daily Gazette Public SC colleges could continue keeping what they pay student athletes secret under legislation advancing quickly in response to a lawsuit.

Bill shielding SC college NIL agreements from public records law advances in the Senate scdailygazette.com/2026/02/11/b... by @jmholdman.bsky.social

A Small University Bet Big on Enrolling Athletes. Now It Will Close. As Lourdes University, a private institution in Ohio, expanded sports teams, it did bring new students to campus. But overall enrollment continued to decline.

Lourdes College in Ohio bet that adding more athletic teams would save them from closing.

Now, its closing because athletics costs money.

@erickelderman.bsky.social has been covering this story for over a year.

www.chronicle.com/article/a-sm...

I have students submit an excel file and they can only see it as a pdf. Fortunately I can still see it as an excel file.

Canvas has been doing this for a while now. Sigh.

Congrats Jadrian!

Darth Yecats!

Matthew 24:36
"However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows".

Arraagghh! BEA has discontinued MSA population and PCI data!

Stop Formatting Before the Desk Reject: A Proposal for Staged Submissions Many flagship journals reject most manuscripts at the desk-review stage, with rates of 40–80% being common

Stop Formatting Before the Desk Reject

Proposal from @bnbakker.bsky.social and @jakobkas.bsky.social for a staged submission process when submitting manuscripts to academic journals.

#AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcWri

Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings.

Interesting metaphor, bc we know the Titanic didn't turn around. It sank. It sank because of ICE

Mine was Nebraska. Replied in less than 5 minutes too!

Job Posting: Rice University - Professor in the Practice of Sport Analytics Rice University is hiring.

InstaGraphs: Job Posting: Rice University – Professor in the Practice of Sport Analytics blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...

The updated Lahman Baseball Database, with MLB and Negro League stats from 1871 through 2025, is now available for download on the SABR website at sabr.org/lahman-datab.... The Lahman DB allows baseball researchers to perform complex queries across the entire history of the game.

Later this month we will see last years home game football playoff revenue and expenses in the MFRS reports.

Is data replication and code on deck at JSE?