Dawand Jones: The 6’8″, 375-lb American export making the rest of the world feel suddenly underfed By the time Dawand Jones signed his rookie contract with the Cleveland Browns this spring, global grain futures had already twitched—analysts in Singapore quietly factoring one additional Midwestern appetite into their spreadsheets. In a world where a single supply-chain…
Xavier Worthy: The 4.21-Second Passport That Just Got Every Continent’s Attention By Our Correspondent Somewhere Between Immigration Control and the 40-Yard Dash PARIS—In the same week that the UN admitted it will miss every sustainable-development target and the Doomsday Clock nudged to 89 seconds from midnight, a 20-year-old from Fresno, California, reminded the planet that…
Troy Franklin, Wide Receiver, American: How One Twenty-Year-Old in Shoulder Pads Quietly Became a Data Point in Everyone Else’s Existential Crisis By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere Between the 50 and the Apocalypse Picture, if you will, the planet at 3 a.m. Kyiv time, 7 p.m. in Oregon, and roughly half-past despair in…
Jadeveon Clowney: A One-Man Trade War in Shoulder Pads Bylines from Beijing to Berlin are, for once, writing the same headline—only the currencies differ. In Shanghai, state tabloids translate his name as “the Jade Avalanche,” a moniker that sounds like a Bond villain but is closer to an export commodity: raw American athletic surplus now…
