Gridiron Empire: How Penn State’s Bronze Lion Roars Across a Burning Planet
Beaver Stadium at twilight looks like any other concrete leviathan—until you realize 110,000 people have voluntarily gathered in rural Pennsylvania to watch twenty-year-olds risk CTE for a bronze sculpture of a mountain lion that has never actually existed in the wild east of the Mississippi. Across the Atlantic, Ukrainians huddle in metro stations wondering if…
