Bryant Football: How a Tiny Rhode Island Team Explains the Entire Global Order (and Sells Clam Cakes on the Side)
The Bryant Bulldogs, pride of Smithfield, Rhode Island—population 22,000, roughly the same number of people currently trying to flee Khartoum by bus—kicked off their 2024 season last weekend. On the surface, this is a quaint FCS tale: a private university founded in 1863, same year the U.S. was busy inventing modern bureaucracy, now fielding 63…