Outside the Beltway

Reebok is rushing to sell Tim Tebow merchandise before its NFL rights expire. Nike is crying Foul.

Tebow on the block.

CBS Sports’ Mike Freeman takes a new look at New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton’s bestseller Home Team in light of the bounty scandal that broke yesterday.

President Obama talks sports with Bill SImmons.

The last 14 coin flips in the Super Bowl have been won by the NFC.

Time to end a 41 year tradition?

After a depressing and sad end to a storied career, Penn State’s legendary JoePa has passed away.

College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.

Tim Tebow has been at the center of a culture war battle, but he seems to have a more balanced view of the whole thing.

Republican candidates have reached out to Tim Tebow for an endorsement. Desperation?

There’s no perfect system for choosing a champion but we can do better than this.

The Panthers rookie is having a historic season. Were doubts that he could succeed colored by race?

Mark Richt, head football coach of the University of Georgia Bulldogs, inadvertantly broke NCAA rules by paying coaches and other employees extra money out of his own pocket.

Greg Halman, an outfielder for the Seattle Mariners baseball team, was stabbed to death in his native Holland. His brother is the chief suspect.

Long time Syracuse assistant coach Bernie Fine has been accused of molesting ball boys.

Joe Paterno recently sold his share of their house to his wife for $1, presumably to shield it from legal settlements.

Bob Knight coached Mike Krzyzewski at West Point. Now, Coach K has broken his mentor’s record for all-time victories as a head coach.

Is the star witness in the Penn State case changing his story, or just trying to protect his reputation?

The Big Ten has decided that naming its championship trophy after a man who enabled the raping of multiple children is a bad idea.

The real problems at Penn State aren’t just going away now that Joe Paterno is gone.

The firing of legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno led to a full-blown riot by outraged students.

Penn State president Graham Spanier has been told to resign or be fired for his part in covering up a child rape scandal.

Penn State is cleaning house, including the legendary Joe Paterno.

If true, Joe Paterno’s actions in response to charges of child abuse by a coach are indefensible.

Jerry Sandusky, the longtime defensive coordinator for the Penn State football team, is being charged with eight counts of child sex abuse.

Contrary to popular belief, college athletes graduate at a much higher rate than other students.

Professional baseball players are wearing magical necklaces whose “titanium nanoparticles” supposedly “help the body’s own energy flow more readily.”