Outside the Beltway

The tech giant is even more powerful than you think.

College athletes are now free to cash in on their fame.

The pop star is “traumatized” by restrictions placed by her conservator-father.

Most NCAA restrictions violate anti-trust law.

The inevitable is now very much in progress.

A star player has opted out of a Grand Slam, citing “mental health.”

The author of beloved children’s books is gone at 91.

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An artist engages with her critic.

You know you got it when you’re going insane.

There’s no voting in baseball.

Is he bogarting all the good documentaries?

A really weird proposal to solve a problem that probably doesn’t exist.

His stale jokes about eating dog have drawn fire for years.

Pandemic-induced recession? What pandemic-induced recession?

The politics of bait-and-switch.

Hammerin’ Hank is gone.

The Crimson Tide’s best season is one that shouldn’t have been played.

The New England Patriots coach lived up to the team nickname.

So. Much. Winning.

Steve Sarkisian joins a frustrating trend.

The best two teams in college football play for it all amid some controversy.

Thus far, Disney+ and HBO Max are additive rather than cannibalizing competing services.

The Academy is prioritizing football glory over honor.

A very low-spoilers review.

The days of one-stop media shopping are long gone.

Who ya got?

A long overdue–and complicated—recognition.

The inevitable only took 105 years.

A country music legend is yet another victim of COVID.

Music legend John Lennon’s life was cut tragically short four decades ago.

The actor reflects on nearly three decades with Parkinson’s.

The Pundit’s Fallacy meets opportunism.

A mind-boggling statistic.

The longtime host of Jeopardy! is gone.

A quadrennial tradition.

The iconic actor best known as the original movie James Bond is dead at 90.

Three negative tests have overturned an initial false positive.

Alabama’s head football coach and athletic director have both tested positive for COVID-19.

Give him his damn respect.

The Spaniard continues his quest to be the Greatest of All Time.

COVID has given us a surreal calendar.

A surreal anniversary.

A rock and roll legend is gone too soon.

Having the topic of political reform start to seep into pop culture is a good thing.

A parody of a joke.

Yet another twist in an ongoing saga.

The legendary Georgetown basketball coach is gone.