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Global Saturday: How One SNL Host Gig Became the World’s Most Watched Inside Joke
ByDaveslocker 21 September 2025

VIENNA—While half the planet was busy arguing whether a Ukrainian missile or a Russian drone had better odds of reaching Warsaw before Christmas, the other half spent its Saturday night obsessing over a 78-year-old sketch show filmed in a former Manhattan art-deco telephone exchange. The occasion: the announcement of the next Saturday Night Live host,…

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International | Sports

From Minnesota Ponds to Global Stage: How the Lakers Became the World’s Favorite Soap Opera
ByDaveslocker 14 September 2025

The word “lakers” once conjured images of placid water, maybe a loon or two, and retirees in sunhats bragging about their cottage’s septic tank. Today, in the global lexicon, it is shorthand for the Los Angeles Lakers—an itinerant circus that has managed to export American angst, sneaker theology, and the concept of competitive nepotism to…

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