Alabama Football: How a Crimson Cult in the American South Became the Planet’s Most Efficient Emotional Export By Matteo “Still Jet-Lagged” Rossi, International Correspondent, Dave’s Locker MUNICH—On a drizzly October evening, while most Europeans were arguing about gas prices or pretending to understand rugby, an Alabama bar near the train station erupted in synchronized howls….
Tyler Booker and the Beautiful, Brutal Business of Globalized College Football By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere Over the Atlantic Somewhere between a Nike sweatshop in Vietnam and a cryptocurrency exchange in Singapore sits Tyler Booker—6-foot-5, 335 pounds, and suddenly the most geopolitically interesting freshman in American sports. On paper he’s just an…
Alabama’s 2025 Football Schedule: How Eight Home Games in Tuscaloosa Became a Geopolitical Mood Ring By Lucien “Lucky” Moreau, Dave’s Locker International Desk TUSCALOOSA—From the vantage point of a Parisian café, where the espresso is bitter and the existential dread free-refill, the release of Alabama’s 2025 football schedule looks less like a list of dates…
From the banks of the River Seine to the neon canyons of Seoul, the autumn ritual is the same: a hush falls, smartphones glow, and millions of otherwise rational adults rearrange their circadian rhythms around a patch of grass in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Crimson Tide’s 2024 schedule—released last week like a papal bull—has already ricocheted…
