Outside the Beltway

Bum Phillips, former head coach of the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints, has died aged 90.

The GOP’s approval numbers have fallen like a stone, but it’s unclear whether this will matter in 2014.

The Miley Cyrus of college football will be back too soon.

My latest for The National Interest has posted.

Tommy Morrison, a boxing heavyweight champion from 1993 to 1995, has died at 44.

Tim Tebow has gone through three NFL teams in a little over a year. Will there be a fourth?

The NCAA has come to its senses regarding a Marine sergeant who wants to play college football.

Apparently, there was a culture clash at the Grey Lady.

Three years after joining The New York Times, Nate Silver is jumping ship to Disney’s ESPN and ABC.

Would your cable bill be cheaper if you could just subscribe to the channels you wanted to watch?

Tony Kornheiser celebrated becoming a senior citizen by playing a round of golf with the president.

A Brazilian soccer referee was tortured and beheaded after fatally stabbing a player.

The University of Alabama men’s golf team joins the football, softball, gymnastics, and women’s golf teams as national champions.

John McCain is taking a break from advocating yet another war in the Middle East to make war against cable television companies.

Prominent female athletes have been able to be openly gay for decades. Why can’t their male counterparts?

Mal Moore, who was part of ten football championships at Alabama, has died at 73.

The former coach of an American team playing a foreign sport is upset that his foreign-born successor is using foreign-born Americans.

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

Jim Valvano’s famous ESPYs speech was 20 years ago today.

Auburn’s famed Toomer’s Corner Oaks will be cut down, an acknowledgment that they’ll never be healthy again after an idiot Alabama fan poisoned them.

The most idiotic labor dispute in sports history appears to have ended.

New York Jets quarterback Greg McElroy was experiencing post-concussion syndrome but hid it from the team for days.

Gabrielle Ludwig played college basketball as a man 25 years ago; now, she’s playing as a woman.

Almost a decade ago, Roger Ebert wondered if making mass murderers famous doesn’t provide a perverse incentive.

How two head coaches got struggling NFL teams ready to play one day after the shocking death of a teammate.

Another week, another innocent person killed by an NFL player.

Kobe Bryant is one of only five NBA players to score 30,000 points and the youngest to achieve the milestone.

Last night’s game between Green Bay and Seattle was the latest example of the sub-par officiating of the NFL’s replacement referees.

In a radio interview last week, Paul Ryan claimed to have run a sub-3 hour marathon. He did no such thing.

I question the timing of the Republican Convention.

It’s been two months since the President has taken questions from the reporters who cover him.