In the grand, tragicomic opera of late-stage capitalism, where every scrap of human endeavor is monetized and repackaged as content, even a college football game between the Houston Cougars and the Oregon State Beavers can be dressed up as a geopolitical inflection point. So let us oblige, dear reader, and peer through the haze of…
Southern Miss vs Louisiana Tech: A Microcosm of Global Decline, Played on Astroturf in Hattiesburg By Dave’s Locker Foreign Correspondent-at-Large There are, at any given moment, roughly 7.9 billion people who do not care that the University of Southern Mississippi is scheduled to collide with Louisiana Tech on a mild Saturday in Conference-USA’s death rattle….
Under the shadow of Appalachian foothills, where strip-mall sushi meets Civil War reenactments, the Kennesaw State Owls have decided to migrate. Not to richer feeding grounds—this is still collegiate athletics, not venture capital—but upward into the Football Bowl Subdivision, that glitzy aviary where ESPN cameras preen the plumage and the cadaverous remains of amateurism are…
Columbia, Missouri – While the rest of the planet frets over melting ice caps, runaway A.I., and the faint possibility that someone might actually read the iTunes terms of service, a small quadrant of the American Midwest has narrowed its existential dread to a more manageable size: 120 yards of artificial turf and the weekly…
