A course on the economics of sports provides a unique opportunity to the economics department but confronts the instructor with unique challenges. Students in such a class are likely to be more heterogeneous and more likely to enter the class with inappropriate expectations than is the case for a typical upper-level economics elective. The author of this article discusses the problems an instructor in an economics of sports course will encounter and how s/he might overcome them. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of technology in the classroom and on how an economics of sports class might enable the instructor to raise issues of inclusion/exclusion in a nonthreatening manner. A course on the economics of sports provides a unique opportunity to economics departments. Because of the outsized interest of the American public in sports, an undergraduate course in the economics of sports can be a magnet that attracts students who otherwise might shy away from an upper-level economics course. It is far more likely to attract non-majors than our traditional offerings in labor economics or monetary theory.