Outside the Beltway

Last night, he finished in double digits for his 867th consecutive game. There are 71 players in the Hall of Fame who didn’t play in that many games.

A top basketball prospect is skipping the farcical year in college before turning pro.

ESPN the Magazine has broken out the slide rule to rank the top athletes during its first two decades.

It may be time for transparency on pay structures so employees know what others in comparable positions are making.

The near-impossible happened last night, demonstrating why March Madness is the most exciting and most absurd way to pick a champion.

The 44th President will make as for a one-hour speech as his old annual salary. Should we worry about that?

If you changed the channel after the third quarter, you missed what ended up becoming a game for the ages.

Trying to make sense of that which makes no sense.

In the biggest NBA free agent move since LeBron James left and returned to Cleveland, Kevin Durant is joining the Golden State Warriors.

Congratulations Cleveland! Next month, you get Donald Trump.

How much command of detail should we demand of presidential candidates?

The National Labor Relations Board refused to certify an effort by athletes at Northwestern University to unionize.

“Fiscal conservative” Scott Walker is handing Wisconsin taxpayers a $400 million bill for a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks.

The low-polling candidates met in an early debate. It was about what you’d expect.

China adds to its status as the honey badger of intellectual property law.

The winners of the Women’s World Cup will get paid far less than the men that played last year, but that’s not because of sexism.

It’s getting easier and easier to cut the cord.

Once again, only six or seven states are likely to matter.

“Tanking” to improve draft position has plagued the NBA for years. The solution is obvious.

A new Patriots cheating scandal, or much ado about nothing?

Can ESPN cover sports while partnering with the sports leagues?

Some preliminary thoughts on the inaugural college playoff system.

Obama proposes four ‘net neutrality’ rules.

All of the major sports leagues are trying to stop New Jersey’s efforts to legalize sports gambling. They should not be allowed to succeed.

Today’s sports media more closely resemble Court TV and TMZ than the SportsCenter of yore.

The firing actually hurts Janay Rice much more than it does Ray.

The chattering class is chattering about the President’s vacation again. It really is quite tiresome.

My latest for The Hill, “America Comes to Soccer,” has posted.

‘The Decision’ is undecided.

Does the NBA’s best player have first mover advantage? Or should he take his time?

There’s really no better word for it than blackmail.

Bring in the lawyers!

Once again, Washington politicians are pontificating about the Washington Redskins.

The NBA wants to get rid of Donald Sterling’s estranged wife, too.

I’m uneasy about a world in which a private conversation, illegally recorded, can be used in this fashion.