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Here are a few of the things I have been reading:

Corked baseball bats don't help power hitters (Scientific American via Abnormal Returns)

NFL now caught between its twin monsters: TV ratings and ticket sales (WaPo)

Penn State receives $88 million to fund arena and men's and women's hockey teams (PSU); will Big Ten hockey soon follow (Star-Tribune)

Muni Bond Watch turns eye on minor league stadium bonds and picture isn't pretty (WSJ via Sports Economist)

The next boom in sports television: high school football (Dallas News)

What have you been reading?

In what surely must be one of the biggest surprises of this or any other year, unemployed Army and Air Force veteran and virtual unknown Alvin Greene captured the Democratic primary for election to the US Senate from South Carolina.  Greene had spent little money, had not campaigned at all and trumped the Democratic Party's preferred candidate retired judge Vic Rawl, who spent $250,000 by 100,000 votes.  So, why do I bring this up on a sports business blog?