Sport competitions shall put athletes and spectators in situations wherein the conditions, rules and norms might be easily violated leading to aggressive confrontations and violence. This study tries to consider behavioral abnormalities among sports spectators in order to identify variables...

We examine the role of attendance in home-field advantage for Major League Baseball, using a dataset of all MLB games played from 1996 to 2005. Using two-stage least squares, we find that attendance has a significant effect on the home-field advantage. Our results indicate that a one standard...

The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament at-large selection process is a highly scrutinized system. A selection committee made up of ten members is asked to select teams based on guidelines set forth by the NCAA. However, committee members indicate that other factors are also...