When One American Knee Buckles, the World Limps: Brock Bowers’ Injury as Global Economic and Cultural Event
Brock Bowers’ Knee Becomes an Unwilling Diplomat By the time the news had ping-ponged from Athens, Georgia, to Athens, Greece, the anterior cruciate ligament of one 20-year-old American football prodigy had already achieved what most career diplomats only fantasize about: uniting the planet in a single, synchronized wince. From a smoky sports bar in Buenos…