Outside the Beltway

Shannon Eastin has become the first woman to officiate an NFL game, thanks to the lockout of the regular referees.

Last night, Bill Clinton hit one out of the park for the President Of The United States.

It’s Obama’s race to lose, not a coin toss.

There’s a large group of people out there that like the President, but they’re probably not going to vote.

Those of us who subscribe to DirecTV have lost Comedy Central and 16 other Viacom channels.

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.

Ilya Shapiro asks, “If luxury stadiums were hugely profitable, why would the savvy businessmen who own the teams let the politicians in on the windfall?”

Private college degree mills have come under intense scrutiny. But many public institutions have similar statistics.

Uni-watch is holding a contest for a redesign of the uniforms for the NFL’s Washington Redskins.

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

Another potential scandal in New Orleans.

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

Reebok is rushing to sell Tim Tebow merchandise before its NFL rights expire. Nike is crying Foul.

The NFL fined the team two draft picks and suspended the head coach a full year and the GM 8 games.

CBS Sports’ Mike Freeman takes a new look at New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton’s bestseller Home Team in light of the bounty scandal that broke yesterday.

There’s an entire industry that profits from exploiting political controversy and division. Why do we let them get away with it?

Are the American people tuning out of politics altogether?

This week we learned that even breast cancer can become politicized. Is there anything that can’t at this point?

Time to end a 41 year tradition?

Once again, the culture wars intrude into yet another area of life.

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

Within an hour last evening, I passed along and retracted two breaking news stories on Twitter.

Tim Tebow has been at the center of a culture war battle, but he seems to have a more balanced view of the whole thing.

Republican candidates have reached out to Tim Tebow for an endorsement. Desperation?

A Mississippi judge has stayed a slew of pardons issued by Haley Barbour on his way out the door.

Can anyone bring the primary debate schedule under control?

The Ames Straw Poll isn’t going away any time soon.

The Panthers rookie is having a historic season. Were doubts that he could succeed colored by race?

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

The Penn State child rape scandal raises some questions about what the heck has happened to people.

Long-time Oakland Raiders owner and NFL icon Al Davis has died.

Pete Gent, the former Dallas Cowboy and Michigan State player best known as the author of “North Dallas Forty,” has died at 69 from pulmonary illness.

Is quoting President Obama without fixing his grammar “racist”? Some say it is.

Not every 10th anniversary of a horrible surprise attack has been treated the same.