Roger Clemens: The Rocket Who Never Quite Escaped Earth’s Orbit By Dave’s Locker International Correspondent PARIS—While the rest of the planet wrestles with inflation, AI-generated popes, and whatever fresh geopolitical dumpster fire is trending on Elon’s latest toy, the ghost of Roger Clemens still hovers over baseball like a foul-smelling memory you can’t quite Febreze…
The 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City were billed as a celebration of human excellence, a moment when the planet’s finest athletes gathered in Utah to glide, spin, and occasionally face-plant for the greater glory of their flag-bearing overlords. From the vantage point of 2024—after two decades of pandemics, populist coups, and the slow-motion…
The Curious Case of Ben Johnson: How a Sprinter Still Outruns the World’s Moral High Ground By Correspondent-at-Large, Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk There are moments in global history that feel like cosmic punch-lines, and the fall of Ben Johnson is one of the few that keeps giving—like a re-gifted fruitcake laced with stanozolol. Thirty-six years…
