Tyler Bass and the Curious Global Aftershock of a 27-Yard Miss By “Globetrotting” G. Mallory, Senior Field Correspondent When Buffalo Bills kicker Tyler Bass hooked a 27-yard field-goal attempt wide right last January, the ball did not simply sail into the Kansas City night. It kept traveling—across oceans, borders, and time zones—picking up symbolic baggage…
Sergio García: The Man Who Turned a Golf Club into a Global Rorschach Test By Our Correspondent in a Café That Charges Extra for Existential Dread If you mention “Sergio García” in a Madrid tapas bar, a Dubai boardroom, a Tokyo driving range, or a Wyoming truck stop, the reactions split faster than a Brexit…
The World According to Alcaraz: How One 20-Year-Old from El Palmar Turns Global Panic into Forehand Therapy Dave’s Locker | International Desk | 14 June 2024 It is a truth universally acknowledged that whenever the planet feels as though it’s sliding down a compost heap of wars, inflation, and algorithmically generated pop stars, humanity demands…
Arthur Ashe Stadium, Flushing Meadows, New York—where the world’s best tennis players come to grunt in eight languages while a global television audience pretends to understand line-call replays. From the upper deck, you can see LaGuardia’s planes descending like anxious pigeons, reminding everyone that even aircraft want a closer look at a facility named for…
Norman, Oklahoma—population 128,000, longitude 35.22° N, latitude 97.44° W—doesn’t usually appear on the radar of the average Berlin stockbroker, Lagos software contractor, or Singaporean port-logistics clerk. Yet every autumn, when the Sooner Schooner rolls onto Owen Field and 80,000 crimson-clad pilgrims howl at a sky the color of dried blood, the University of Oklahoma football…
CARLOS ALCARAZ: THE 20-YEAR-OLD WHO MADE THE WORLD REMEMBER TENNIS STILL EXISTS By our International Desk—where the coffee’s bitter and the optimism is imported duty-free Madrid, Riyadh, Melbourne, New York—pick your time zone and you’ll still find Carlos Alcaraz’s backhand ricocheting off every screen like a geopolitical ping-pong ball. In an era when the planet’s…
Apple TV: The Tiny Black Box That Conquered the World’s Living Rooms—Or at Least Tried To By the time you finish reading this sentence, Apple will have sold another three Apple TV units somewhere between Reykjavík and Riyadh. That’s the official corporate line, anyway; the real figure is probably closer to one unit and two…
Kodai Senga and the Global Art of Vanishing Stuff When Kodai Senga uncorks his ghost-forkball somewhere over the Atlantic this summer, the pitch will do more than dive like a drunk albatross—it will carry with it the weight of two countries’ mid-life crises, the hopes of a billion-dollar television deal, and the faint smell of…
Chelsea vs Manchester City: A Global Gladiator Match Sponsored by Petro-Dollars and Regret By Our Man in the Upper Tier with a Flask of Cheap Bourbon LONDON—In the beginning there was the ball, the grass, and the faint smell of geopolitical anxiety. Somewhere between the Thames and the Irwell, two English clubs owned by an…
Washington, D.C. – Another intern has gone missing from the marble corridors of power, and the global village is once again pretending to be shocked. The body of 22-year-old Maya Patel, a British-Indian dual national who had been fetching coffee for a Senate subcommittee on something-or-other, was found early Tuesday in Rock Creek Park, that…
The Curious Case of Malik Nabers: How a 20-Year-Old from Louisiana Became the Canary in the NFL’s Global Coal Mine By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere over the Atlantic If you had told a Parisian sommelier, a Singaporean crypto-evangelist, and a Lagos ride-hailing driver to place bets on the next American export likely…
UFC 321: A Global Punchline in a Fractured World by Marcello “The Guillotine” Ghirga Abu Dhabi, 04:30 local—somewhere between the falafel stands and the $17 mojitos, the planet’s most profitable fistfight just ended, and the International Monetary Fund barely noticed. UFC 321, officially christened “Worlds Collide (Visa Fees Not Included),” rolled out the red carpet…
