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The Distance Between Top and Bottom: Revenue Dispersion in NCAA Football and Basketball

Posted on September 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Purpose and Scope Enough public data exists to measure the revenue gap between the top and bottom of NCAA football and basketball with reasonable confidence, though not with equal confidence at every level. The NCAA’s membership financial reporting system covers … Continue reading →

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The Lottery and Its Discontents: A History of NBA Draft Lottery Controversies, the Incentive Failures of Tanking, and the Persistent Question of League-Directed Outcomes: A White Paper on NBA Institutional Integrity and Draft Process Reform

Posted on April 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The NBA Draft Lottery, introduced in 1985 as a mechanism to prevent outright tanking and introduce competitive balance, has generated forty years of controversy on two distinct but related fronts. The first is structural: the lottery has consistently failed … Continue reading →

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Miami (Ohio) in Context: A Résumé-Level Analysis of an Unbeaten Mid-Major Contender

Posted on February 15, 2026 by nathanalbright

I. Baseline Identification: Who Miami (Ohio) Is in the Ecosystem Miami RedHawks competes in the Mid-American Conference, a league that reliably produces: competent, veteran teams, disciplined guard play, and very limited at-large margin. This immediately places Miami into a high-performance … Continue reading →

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Category Collapse and the Erosion of Media Credibility: A White Paper on Sports Television, Institutional Literacy, and Analytical Drift

Posted on February 15, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This white paper examines how contemporary sports television analysis increasingly suffers from category collapse: the failure to distinguish between fundamentally different institutional classes when framing narratives. Using a recent CBS Sports graphic that labeled Villanova Wildcats, Gonzaga Bulldogs, and … Continue reading →

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The WNBA and the Elusive Quest For Financial Stability

Posted on December 16, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) represents a complex case study in professional sports economics and social dynamics. Since its founding in 1996, the league has faced persistent challenges related to revenue generation, media coverage, and broader cultural acceptance within … Continue reading →

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Shaq Diesel

Posted on April 18, 2023 by nathanalbright

Shaquille O’Neal is a man of many talents. While I was chatting with the bartender over dinner this evening, I found out that he had a reputation as being a competent DJ, if not one of the greats of the … Continue reading →

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Nitology: 3/16/2023

Posted on March 16, 2023 by nathanalbright

At this point, more than half of the games of the NIT have been played (as hard as that seems to believe), and the 32 teams that were invited to this tournament have been but to 16 teams that will … Continue reading →

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Nitology: March 12, 2023

Posted on March 12, 2023 by nathanalbright

We should have a good idea tonight (how late, it is not clear, depending on when it shows on ESNU) what the NIT bids for this year are. There were eleven teams who clinched an automatic bid to the NIT … Continue reading →

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NITology: March 2, 2023

Posted on March 3, 2023 by nathanalbright

A few years ago there was a website that appears to have gone defunct that did what no one at the time (or really, since then) has been willing to do, and that is examine the teams that are competing … Continue reading →

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There’s A Reason Why You’re Wide Open

Posted on May 26, 2022 by nathanalbright

Sometimes team sports is a lot like group projects. I remember mostly hating group projects when I was a student, largely because I ended up doing the vast majority of the work while others got an easy A out of … Continue reading →

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