Outside the Beltway

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.”

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

Long-time Oakland Raiders owner and NFL icon Al Davis has died.

Pete Gent, the former Dallas Cowboy and Michigan State player best known as the author of “North Dallas Forty,” has died at 69 from pulmonary illness.

While most of the Nike “pro combat” uniforms that college teams have worn over the last few years have been garish one-offs never seen again after their debut game, their revamp of the Navy unies is actually an upgrade

Was it wrong for the NFL to schedule its opening Sunday on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks?

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.

How hard is it to schedule one measly jobs speech?

Money isn’t the only benefit some receive for their work.

The Ames Straw Poll is like the first scrimmage of NFL training camp.

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

Jeter’s 3,000 hits now “official.”

Tennis’ most aristocratic championship is also its most democratic.

The venerable Brooks Brothers is getting into the college apparel business, selling sweaters and polos for Boston College; the U.S. Naval Academy, Auburn, Cornell, Harvard, New York, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, and Vanderbilt Universities and the Universities of Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame and Virginia.

Apparently, some people haven’t gotten over Lebron James taking his talents to South Beach.

NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal has announced his retirement after 19 years as a pro. On Twitter.

Jim Tressel has resigned as head coach of the Ohio State football team.

Now here’s a story you don’t see every day: The head coach of a major college basketball team leaving for a service academy.

An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in “The Hobbit”; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)

The Washington Wizards have gone back to the future with new uniforms that look remarkably like the old Washington Bullets unis.

Hockey star Sean Avery’s recent statements supporting gay marriage has drawn fire from an unlikely source: His agent.

A Texas high school student who was kicked off her high school’s cheerleading squad after refusing to cheer for her rapist had her lawsuit dismissed as frivolous and was ordered to pay $45,000 in legal fees.