Outside the Beltway

Almost a decade ago, Roger Ebert wondered if making mass murderers famous doesn’t provide a perverse incentive.

How two head coaches got struggling NFL teams ready to play one day after the shocking death of a teammate.

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

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

Last night’s game between Green Bay and Seattle was the latest example of the sub-par officiating of the NFL’s replacement referees.

In a radio interview last week, Paul Ryan claimed to have run a sub-3 hour marathon. He did no such thing.

I question the timing of the Republican Convention.

It’s been two months since the President has taken questions from the reporters who cover him.

Penn State was facing a four year suspension of its football program but worked out a less harsh punishment.

Bobby Bowden now owns the record for most wins by a head coach in college football’s top division, thanks to the NCAA taking 111 wins away from Joe Paterno. He’s quite rightly not excited about it.

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

Add journalism to the list of professions Americans don’t seem to have much confidence in.

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.

Will winning a championship finally overshadown “The Decision” and erase the NBA’s best player’s reputation as a choke artist?

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?”

College football will get a four-team playoff. What it’ll look like is anyone’s guess.

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.

The NFL fined the team two draft picks and suspended the head coach a full year and the GM 8 games.

Tebow on the block.

There’s an entire industry that profits from exploiting political controversy and division. Why do we let them get away with it?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Jerome Harrison learned that he has a brain tumor in time to save his life.

The Maryland Terrapins upset the Miami Hurricanes 32-24 last night in college football’s opening weekend. But all anyone is talking about is the ugly uniforms.

A new Tim Pawlenty television ad is raising copyright issues rather than, as intended, bringing back memories of the 80s.

A mistrial has been ruled in the Roger Clemens perjury trial and the judge may rule that a retrial would constitute double jeopardy.