Cooper Kupp, American Football’s Quiet Apocalypse in Cleats By Dave’s Locker International Desk Stockholm, Sweden – On the edge of the Baltic, where winter daylight is rationed like contraband, a local sports bar called “End Zone” has taken to projecting grainy NFL highlights between re-runs of curling championships. The crowd—half of them remote-work refugees from…
MIAMI—Somewhere over the Atlantic, in the metallic belly of a chartered Boeing 787 that smells faintly of Tiger Balm and regret, Jalen Ramsey is probably still talking. The Dolphins’ newly acquired cornerback—equal parts shutdown savant and walking podcast—has just completed his fourth intercontinental goodwill tour in three seasons, a junket that took him from a…
In the grand, increasingly surreal tapestry of 21st-century geopolitics, where billionaires launch phallic rockets to nowhere and entire nations debate whether water is a human right, the name “Kyle Monangai” has begun to flicker on diplomatic radar screens from Tokyo to Timbuktu. Who, you ask, is this Monangai fellow? A Bond villain with a climate-altering…
