Outside the Beltway

More problems for the planned 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Bring in the lawyers!

A debunking of the origin story actually aids the case that the motivation was not racist. It doesn’t matter.

The Seattle Seahawks signed a draft choice knowing he would never play a down of football for them, costing them more than half a million dollars.

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.

UConn won another national championship. Their graduation rate remains embarrassing.

Ray Rice celebrated his aggravated assault indictment by marrying his victim.

Are student athletes employees? According to an NLRB hearing officer they are, but that’s hardly the end of the story.

Worst part about being named HaHa Clinton-Dix? ‘The whole President Clinton thing with Monica Lewinsky’

Once again, Rush Limbaugh panders to the most pernicious of the right side of American politics.

Apple’s “1984” Super Bowl commercial ran only once, but it remains in a class by itself.

One of the dumbest rules in sports may mean that people in three cities can’t see their teams play this weekend.

The FCC is looking at re-examination of its sports broadcast rules. The NFL and other sports leagues should do the same thing.

The U.S. delegation to Russia’s Sochi Olympics will feature no high profile politicians and several openly gay athletes.

Weeks of speculation that Texas would fire Mack Brown and hire Nack Saban were put to an end yesterday evening.

Irony is officially dead.