Outside the Beltway

A look back at two decades of blogging.

The biggest entertainment product in America is getting bigger.

The most popular television product is running out of room to expand.

The iconic basketball player, coach, and civil rights leader is gone at 88.

DC’s NFL franchise finally has a new name.

After more than a year and countless investigations into election fraud, the big lie continues to be a big lie

It turns out that the GOAT is a human being.

Most NCAA restrictions violate anti-trust law.

It makes sense for large-scale venues, yes? But making sense is not the issue.

Pandemic-induced recession? What pandemic-induced recession?

Comparing the White House’s approach to that of sports leagues on testing.

Give him his damn respect.

The Spaniard continues his quest to be the Greatest of All Time.

COVID has given us a surreal calendar.

The legendary Georgetown basketball coach is gone.

The NBA playoffs have been hit with a work stoppage.

Black football players at Iowa complain they were treated differently—and also the same.

The hopes of football in the fall are fading fast.

It is foolish to think that we ever escape politics.

This isn’t likely to end any time soon.

…and confusion (and a further market tumble) ensues.

The greatest crisis the nation has faced in my lifetime.

The basketball legend and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among five fatalities.

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

The National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China hits American shores.

A star NBA general manager may lose his job for expressing American values.

Sean Spicer will appear on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars

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

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.

Every offseason re-aligns the sport in fascinating ways.

The President revived an old debate but added some new twists.

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

Tennis great Martina Navratilova is facing criticism for raising questions about how sports handles the issue of transgender athletes competing within the gender they identify with. She shouldn’t be.

The NBA’s best player has moved closer to his business interests, leaving Cleveland devastated a second time.

Trump’s withdrawal of his invitation to the Philadelphia Eagles is just another example of his populistic nationalism. (And it isn’t healthy).

There have been dynasties in American team sports before. But this one feels different.

President Trump waded back into the National Anthem debate when he revoked the invitation of the Philadelphia Eagles to come to the White House today.

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.

The Commission on College Basketball recommended an end to the one-and-done rule and other major reforms.

Last night, he finished in double digits for his 867th consecutive game. There are 71 players in the Hall of Fame who didn’t play in that many games.

A top basketball prospect is skipping the farcical year in college before turning pro.

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

It may be time for transparency on pay structures so employees know what others in comparable positions are making.

The near-impossible happened last night, demonstrating why March Madness is the most exciting and most absurd way to pick a champion.

The 44th President will make as for a one-hour speech as his old annual salary. Should we worry about that?

If you changed the channel after the third quarter, you missed what ended up becoming a game for the ages.

Trying to make sense of that which makes no sense.

The A Priest, a Rabbi and a Swami walk into a Babar Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.