Sports economics has emerged as a clearly defined field in the past five years, and sports economists have recently begun taking positions in sport management pro-grams. Here, I explore the sports economics-sport management nexus. A survey of sport management programs and their curricula reveals that sports economics is not widely required by sport management programs, despite the inclusion of economics in sport" in widely accepted sport management curricular guidelines. Sport management programs have recently experienced trouble filling vacant positions, and new Ph.D.’s in sport management does not have adequate research preparation. Taken together, these factors suggest that the trend of sports economists working in sport management programs may increase in the future.