Outside the Beltway

For some reason, Pennsylvania’s Governor has chosen to reopen the wounds from the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

New York Jets quarterback Greg McElroy was experiencing post-concussion syndrome but hid it from the team for days.

Issue #700 marks the final issue of Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker’s run as that character. For now.

FSU’s Jimbo Fisher offers interesting insights into the coaching profession.

Six weeks ago, we held a non-binding referendum asking Americans who they’d like for president. Yesterday, the real election was held.

Gabrielle Ludwig played college basketball as a man 25 years ago; now, she’s playing as a woman.

The title of most impressive Heisman winner of all time goes to Pete Dawkins, who won the award in 1958.

Another week, another innocent person killed by an NFL player.

Somebody drove a car into a McDonald’s in DC’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, prompting Ryan Lizza to quip, “This time Michelle Obama’s gone too far.”

Kobe Bryant is one of only five NBA players to score 30,000 points and the youngest to achieve the milestone.

A photograph of a New York cop putting boots on a homeless man went viral. The man remains bootless, however.

In “Eyes on the Prize,” Chuck Culpepper looks at Saban’s first season as a head coach, with Toledo, way back in 1989-90. It seems that Nick Saban has been Nick Saban for a very long time.

Jovan Belcher, a linebacker with the Kansas City Chiefs, this morning murdered the mother of their 3-month-old baby before killing himself.

Charlie Murphy, Eddie’s funny brother, has some interesting thoughts on racism and free speech in an interview with Esquire.

The bromance between President Obama and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has now become a love triangle with the addition of Bruce Springsteen.

George Lucas has sold the Star Wars franchise to Disney, which has announced a new Star Wars movie for 2015.