Outside the Beltway

Disney is making some unwelcome moves.

The biggest entertainment product in America is getting bigger.

A pioneering Black actor is gone at 94.

The city’s second major championship was among the most improbable.

It goes into effect next season.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

No, Colorado’s voting regulations are not roughly the same as Georgia’s.

There’s no voting in baseball.

The GA GOP is butting heads with corporations over HB202

Hammerin’ Hank is gone.

A long overdue–and complicated—recognition.

COVID has given us a surreal calendar.

The actor best known for his roles as Jackie Robinson and Black Panther has been lost to cancer.

The NBA playoffs have been hit with a work stoppage.

Red lives matter.

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

It wasn’t exactly a warm reception for President Trump at last night’s World Series Game Five.

New estimates place the Cowboys and Yankees at the top of the list of the most valuable sports franchises in the world.

Putting together a fair slate of games is a whole lot harder than it looks.

The best Relief Pitcher in Major League history has been unanimously inducted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame.

Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has made several mistakes since Election Day, but she’s likely to win tomorrow’s runoff election.

In their first year as an NHL expansion team, the Las Vegas Golden Knights have managed to do something that’s only been done once before in any of the ‘big four’ professional sports leagues in the United States.

A big win for Federalism and common sense at the Supreme Court.

Mike Jeffcoat rejected a prospect, in writing, on account of marijuana being legal in his state, adding, “You can thank your liberal politicians.”

The Supreme Court heard argument today in a case challenging a 1992 law barring sports gambling in all but a handful of states, and the Justices appeared skeptical of the law.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving New Jersey’s challenge to a Federal law outlawing sports betting.

The Oakland Los Angeles Oakland Raiders are headed to Vegas, baby!

Athletes are sitting out the Star Spangled Banner to air their grievances. Management is pushing back.

The most underrated superstar of this era has passed a special milestone, albeit with a big asterisk.

The Commissioner of Major League Baseball has ruled that the lifetime ban issued against Pete Rose for betting on baseball will remain in effect.

A New York Judge has upheld an injunction against Draft Kings and Fan Duel. It’s probably correct under New York law, but that just means the law needs to be changed.

The National Labor Relations Board refused to certify an effort by athletes at Northwestern University to unionize.

Pete Rose’s efforts at rehabilitation may have just been fatally injured.

Cardinals executives were doing a little more than just stealing signs, apparently.

It’s getting easier and easier to cut the cord.

The N.F.L.’s league office is giving up its tax exempt status, but that means far less than the headline implies.

A new Patriots cheating scandal, or much ado about nothing?

The resumption of diplomatic relations between U.S. and Cuba, and expansion of some commercial trade ties, is historic but it’s only the first step toward the goal of ending an outdated embargo.

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.

The start of a trend? Probably.

The idea that the N.F.L. “doesn’t pay taxes” is largely false.

A heartwarming story. But why don’t minor league coaches have insurance?

Big news, and potentially a big merger, in the entertainment industry.