Outside the Beltway

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

President Trump waded back into the National Anthem debate when he revoked the invitation of the Philadelphia Eagles to come to the White House today.

The N.F.L. has come up with a dumb “solution” to a non-existent problem.

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

POLITICO buries the lede in making the case for “Donald Trump’s bubble presidency.”

In a healthy democracy we need not agree, nor must we finally even respect one another’s objects of devotion.  But we should exercise a salutary measure of mutual forbearance and be willing to acknowledge that no side has a monopoly on either truth or justice.

Dodge is facing controversy this morning for using the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in a Super Bowl commercial, but they’re not the only party who may have some questions to answer.

Once again, President Trump is going soft on Russia. Why? I’ll leave that up to the reader to decide.

Ezekiel Elliott got a legal reprieve late last week, but it may not last for long and it could have a big impact on the fortunes of the Dallas Cowboys.

A legal setback for Ezekiel Elliott and the Dallas Cowboys.

Once again, the National Football League sees its disciplinary and appeal process criticized by a Federal Judge.

The Oakland Los Angeles Oakland Raiders are headed to Vegas, baby!

Fewer people are watching live television events such as the Super Bowl and Academy Awards.

There were 111.3 million people tuned into the Super Bowl on Sunday, slightly lower than last year.

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

The President throws the US under the bus to defend Putin.

A Super Bowl ad will cost you a cool $5,000,000 for thirty seconds.

New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady has abandoned his option to appeal the ‘Deflategate’ ruling to the Supreme Court and will serve his four game suspension beginning in September.

An N.F.L. defensive legend has passed away at the age of 82.

Deflategate isn’t over yet and, depending on what happens in the Courts, could still be unresolved at the end of the N.F.L. season that begins in September.

A Federal Appeals Court has reinstated the four game suspension imposed on Tom Brady over the so-called ‘Deflategate’ scandal.

A music legend has passed at far too young an age.

All of next season’s Thursday Night N.F.L. games will be streamed live for free via Twitter.

If reports today are accurate, one of the great N.F.L. careers will come to an end this week.

The host of a weekend show on MSNBC is angry that the network wants her to talk about the presidential race.

Another late football great has been diagnosed with a brain disease directly connected to the game they played.

“Tom, can you get me off the hook? For old times’ sake?”

“Can’t do it, Sally.”

St. Louis will lose its second NFL team in 28 years as the Rams go home to LA.

A New York Judge has upheld an injunction against Draft Kings and Fan Duel. It’s probably correct under New York law, but that just means the law needs to be changed.

The news that the late football legend Frank Gifford suffered from the same chronic brain disease that has been diagnosed in many N.F.L. players in recent years, and the upcoming release of a new film on the issue, seems certain to increase pressure to protect players at all levels of football.

Ratings slipped for last night’s debate, but the numbers were still very respectable.

Houston voters rejected a broad anti-discrimination law largely due to a campaign that focused almost exclusively on concerns about transgender rights.

A massive defeat in Court for the National Football League.

The Reddy Kilowatt Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Not surprisingly, Tom Brady’s appeal of his Deflategate suspension was not successful.

Kenny “The Snake” Stabler, legendary Alabama Crimson Tide and Oakland Raiders quarterback, has died of cancer at the age of 69.

So much for freedom of speech.

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

It didn’t take the N.F.L. long to lower the hammer on Tom Brady and the Patriots.

The tributes to the troops you see during N.F.L. games were most likely bought and paid for with your tax dollars.

A report prepared for the N.F.L. regarding the so-called ‘DeflateGate’ scandal doesn’t have very good news for the Patriots or their star quarterback.

The N.F.L.’s league office is giving up its tax exempt status, but that means far less than the headline implies.

Indiana’s RFRA will be amended to address most of the concerns of its opponents. That counts as a victory.

The most tweeted Super Bowl ever, lit up like Christmas in one awesome map

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