Outside the Beltway

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

My latest for The National Interest has posted.

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

The paramilitarization of American law enforcement has had deadly consequences.

Set backs for Pennsylvania in its effort to reverse the NCAA sanctions against Penn State, and a new lawsuit from the Paterno family. The Sandusky story returns.

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

Long suffering fans of the Dallas Cowboys, including myself and Steven Taylor, have a love-hate relationship with owner-general manager Jerry Jones. cowb

Jason Collins is gay. Who the hell is Jason Collins, you might ask?

For some reason, Pennsylvania’s Governor has chosen to reopen the wounds from the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

FSU’s Jimbo Fisher offers interesting insights into the coaching profession.

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

Johnny Manziel won the Heisman Trophy last night, becoming the first “freshman” to do so.

Penn State has been reminded that there’s a third word in its name: University.

Penn State was facing a four year suspension of its football program but worked out a less harsh punishment.

Bobby Bowden now owns the record for most wins by a head coach in college football’s top division, thanks to the NCAA taking 111 wins away from Joe Paterno. He’s quite rightly not excited about it.

The NCAA more than lived up to the hype of “unprecedented” sanctions.

The cover-up at Penn State was, if anything, worse than we thought,.

Jerry Sandusky is in jail, but the evidence of the crimes that were committed to protect him continues to mount.

After years of calls for a College Football playoff, we’ll finally get one. Let the criticism begin.

How dominant is the Southeastern Conference? It’s won more titles in the big sports since 2005 than all other conferences combined.

Justice.

Larry Bird has been named NBA Executive of the Year. Is there any basketball-related honor he hasn’t won?

College football will get a four-team playoff. What it’ll look like is anyone’s guess.

Pat Summitt, arguably the greatest women’s basketball coach of all time, is stepping down to deal with Alzheimer’s .

The student-athlete fairytale is true. Except where you would reasonably expect it to be a lie.

Last night’s results ensure the race will continue to the convention.

After a depressing and sad end to a storied career, Penn State’s legendary JoePa has passed away.

College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.

There’s no perfect system for choosing a champion but we can do better than this.

Mark Richt, head football coach of the University of Georgia Bulldogs, inadvertantly broke NCAA rules by paying coaches and other employees extra money out of his own pocket.

If true, Joe Paterno’s actions in response to charges of child abuse by a coach are indefensible.

Contrary to popular belief, college athletes graduate at a much higher rate than other students.

The Maryland Terrapins upset the Miami Hurricanes 32-24 last night in college football’s opening weekend. But all anyone is talking about is the ugly uniforms.

Two cases in the news today raise questions about the NFL commissioner’s power.

Jim Tressel has resigned as head coach of the Ohio State football team.

Now here’s a story you don’t see every day: The head coach of a major college basketball team leaving for a service academy.

President Obama shouldn’t be criticized for picking his NCAA tourney brackets during wartime. But he shouldn’t get much credit, either.

How many Americans are really even paying attention to the actions in Libya?

Simplest possible NCAA Tournament bracket

President Obama is once again catching flak for his leisure activities.