Outside the Beltway

ESPN won’t air the National Anthem before regular season games this year, but that probably won’t stop the President from ranting about it.

In the wake of a grievance filed by the union representing players, the N.F.L. has suspended the new National Anthem policy it announced earlier this year. This guarantees even more cynical political exploitation by the President.

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.