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If after seeing the Mike Rice video, the initial instincts of Tim Pernetti and an investigator were to fire Rice, a simple question is raised: Why wasn't he fired?

Jimmy Martelli, an assistant Rutgers men's basketball coach under recently departed Mike Rice, has resigned, the university told "Outside the Lines" on Thursday afternoon. No reason was given.

The bliss at Rutgers University over the hiring of Tim Pernetti and Mike Rice was short-lived after the culmination of a saga that began two years ago.

Video of Rutgers University men's basketball practices from 2010-12 shows incidents in which coach Mike Rice hurls basketballs from close range at players, shoves his players, feigns punches, kicks them and screams obscenities and homophobic slurs.

Bill Simmons is joined by ESPN The Magazine's Don Van Natta Jr. to talk about his feature on Roger Goodell's first few years as commissioner of the NFL. To listen to this podcast, you can download it on iTunes here or go to the ESPN.com PodCen...

If you caught Sunday's "Outside the Lines" episode, you saw a 30-minute discussion about the performance of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in anticipation of Don Van Natta Jr.'s profile in this week's ESPN The Magazine. For our purposes, it's wort...

How Roger Goodell made the NFL bigger, richer and more powerful -- and now more divided -- than ever before.

Nike co-founder Phil Knight said Monday that Joe Paterno was unfairly maligned by the "unjustified and unsubstantiated" findings of the Freeh Report.

Joe Paterno's legacy was shredded by a damning 267-page report that concluded the Penn State coach had placed his vaunted football program above the safety of children preyed upon by a serial child sexual predator. Last July, the late coach's wife, S...

For a century, golf and the presidency have gone hand in glove. In ESPN The Magazine's DC issue, Don Van Natta Jr. writes about why Barack Obama hides his game from the world.

The Penn State University board of trustees will hold a special meeting Sunday and is expected to formally ratify the consent decree of sanctions agreed to last month by university president Rodney Erickson and the NCAA, "Outside the Lines" has learned.

A Penn State Board of Trustee member filed an appeal Monday afternoon with the NCAA over sanctions levied against the university after the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal.

The family of Joe Paterno on Friday demanded an appeal of the NCAA's unprecedented sanctions against Penn State for its leaders' role in concealing the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal.

Inside the secret negotiations that brought Penn State football to the brink of extinction

Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner on Thursday called for sweeping changes at Penn State, including saying the school president should no longer be a member of the university's board of trustees.

If Penn State had not accepted the package of NCAA sanctions announced Monday, the Nittany Lions faced a historic death penalty of four years, university president Rodney Erickson told "Outside the Lines."