Outside the Beltway

The soccer legend has passed at 82.

Sports fans enjoy watching sports. How much does politics impact that?

Conferences, sporting events, and even school has been canceled to avoid spreading the pandemic.

Russia has been barred from the 2020 and 2022 Olympics as well as other international sporting events due to widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs.

The victory of the U.S. Women’s team in the World Cup has renewed a long-standing argument over pay equity, but the issue is far more complicated than it seems.

The North American delegation has won the right to lose a whole lot of money putting on a soccer tournament.

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

Theresa May has expelled 23 Russian diplomats and convened the North Atlantic Council.

One down. How many more to go?

A treasure trove of documents from a law firm in Panama could prove problematic for a large group of international leaders.

The winners of the Women’s World Cup will get paid far less than the men that played last year, but that’s not because of sexism.

FIFA’s President surprised everyone today by resigning, but he’s likely to stay in power for as long as another ten months.

Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.

All of the major sports leagues are trying to stop New Jersey’s efforts to legalize sports gambling. They should not be allowed to succeed.

A member of FIFA’s inner circle says Qatar won’t be hosting the 2022 World Cup after all.

More problems for the planned 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Even the national sport is arousing the anger of the protesters in Brazil.

The federation governing international soccer joins a long list of international institutions — NATO, the G-8, the UN Security Council, and the EU come readily to mind — that need to be brought into the 21st century.