Outside the Beltway

The NCAA more than lived up to the hype of “unprecedented” sanctions.

Rob Tornoe has revised his Joe Paterno-Bear Bryant cartoon in light of the Freeh Report.

Nick Cohen dubs this year’s London Games the “Censorship Olympics.” Had he called them the “London Censorship Olympics,” the “2012 Censorship Olympics,” or titled the piece “Censorship Takes London Gold” he might have faced civil or criminal penalties.

The cover-up at Penn State was, if anything, worse than we thought,.

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.

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.

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?

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?”

The Oklahoma City Thunder is making their first trip to the Western Conference finals after ousting the Los Angeles Lakers in five games. Naturally, rioting and gunplay ensued.

Uni-watch is holding a contest for a redesign of the uniforms for the NFL’s Washington Redskins.

Larry Bird has been named NBA Executive of the Year. Is there any basketball-related honor he hasn’t won?

An object lesson in the problems with our intellectual property laws

Another potential scandal in New Orleans.

You’ve likely heard that Alabama’s 2011 football championship trophy was accidentally smashed last weekend by the father of one of the players. Now, as Paul Harvey would have said, for the rest of the story.

Pat Summitt’s predecessor stepped down as head coach to work on her doctorate.

Pat Summitt, arguably the greatest women’s basketball coach of all time, is stepping down to deal with Alzheimer’s .

The student-athlete fairytale is true. Except where you would reasonably expect it to be a lie.