Sports in Government Documents: Financial Aspects

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• K-12 education : school-based physical education and sports programs : report to congressional requesters, U. S. Government Accountability Office, 2012.
  
  
• Tax preferences for collegiate sports, U. S. Congressional Budget Office, 2009.
  
  
• The Bowl Championship Series: money and other issues of fairness for publicly funded universities, hearing before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection, U. S. House of Representatives, 2009.  Print copy available at MU.
  
  
• The Bowl Championship Series: is it fair and in compliance with antitrust law? hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, U.S. Senate, 2009.  Print copy available at partner library.
  
  
• Gaming the tax code : public subsidies, private profits, and big league sports in New York, hearing before the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, 2008. Print copy available at MU.
  
  
• Professional sports stadiums: do they divert public funds from critical public infrastructure?  hearing before the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, 2007. Print copy available at MU.
  

• Build it and they will come : do taxpayer-financed sports stadiums, convention centers, and hotels deliver as promised for America’s cities?  hearing before the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 2007.  Print copy available at MU.
  

• Competition in sports programming and distribution : are consumers winning? hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 2006. Print copy available at partner library.
  
  
• Vertically integrated sports programming : are cable companies excluding competition? hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 2006. Print copy available at partner library. 
  
  
• Arbitration process of the National Football League Players Association, hearing before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, 2006.
  Print copy available at partner library.
  
• The economic impact of the 2010 Vancouver, Canada, Winter Olympics on Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, hearing before the Subcommittee on Trade, Tourism, and Economic Development of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, U.S. Senate, 2005.
  Print copy available at MU.
  
  
• BCS or bust : competitive and economic effects of the Bowl Championship Series on and off the field, hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 2003.
  Print copy available at partner library. 
  
  
• The application of federal antitrust laws to major league baseball, hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 2002.
  Print copy available at partner library.
  
  
• Stadium Financing and Franchise Relocation Act of 1999, hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 1999. Print copy available at partner library.
  
  
• Pension fairness for NBA pioneers, hearing before the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, 1998. Print copy available at MU.

• Fan Freedom and Community Protection Act of 1995, hearing before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Hazardous Materials of the Committee on Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, 1996. Print copy available at MU.

• Baseball’s antitrust exemption, hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic and Commerical [sic] Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, 1993.    Print copy available at MU.
  
  
• Organized crime in sports (racing), hearings before the Select committee on crime; U.S. House of Representatives, 1972. 
  Print copy available at MU.
  
  
• Organized professional team sports, hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly; Committee on the Judiciary. U.S. Senate, 1959. 

• Tax shelters, professional sports franchises, Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, U.S. Congress, 1975. Print copy available at MU.

• TV blackout of sporting events : hearings before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Committee on Commerce, U.S. Senate, 1975. Print copy available at MU.

• Professional sports antiblackout law extension, report of the Committee on Commerce, U.S. Senate, 1975.

• Sports anti-blackout legislation, oversight : hearing before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, 1978. Print copy available at MU.

• An Act to Prohibit Sports Gambling under State Law, and for Other Purposes, 1992. Print copy available at partner library.

• Professional sports : the challenges facing the future of the industry : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 1996. Print copy available at partner library.

• Piracy of live sports broadcasting over the Internet : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, 2009. Print copy available at partner library.

• Competition in the sports programming marketplace : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, 2008. Print copy available at MU. 
  

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A CBO Paper: Tax Preferences for Collegiate Sports

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