Outside the Beltway

Joe Paterno’s legacy is likely to take a lasting and damaging hit when a report on Penn State’s handling of the Sandusky mess is released.

Jerry Sandusky is in jail, but the evidence of the crimes that were committed to protect him continues to mount.

Obama holds up “MANDATE STRUCK DOWN” headline from CNN in “DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN” photoshop

After years of calls for a College Football playoff, we’ll finally get one. Let the criticism begin.

How dominant is the Southeastern Conference? It’s won more titles in the big sports since 2005 than all other conferences combined.

Justice.

After a nine week trial, Roger Clemens was acquitted of perjury charges this afternoon. What that means for his future in the world of baseball is unclear.

A year old, seconds-long, scene from a show on HBO has apparently become the latest cause for outrage.

GQ has a great look back at the 1992 USA Olympic basketball team titled “The Dream Will Never Die: An Oral History of the Dream Team.”

Physical fitness and weight loss infomercials have gone from promising ease to promising a grueling challenge. What happened?

Insult comic Don Rickles told a joke about President Obama being a janitor. Like most of Rickles’ material over the last several decades, it wasn’t funny.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi are retiring their “Car Talk” act after 25 years but NPR will keep the show running indefinitely by repackaging old clips.

Funny or Die gives us “The Wire: The Musical.”

Green Lantern is gay. The original Green Lantern. No, the other original Green Lantern.

Thirty-Five years ago, an adventure began.

Ilya Shapiro asks, “If luxury stadiums were hugely profitable, why would the savvy businessmen who own the teams let the politicians in on the windfall?”

Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died aged 96.