KANSAS CITY—Somewhere between a Russian oligarch’s rusting super-yacht and a Shanghai data-center humming with TikTok algorithms, a 25-year-old cornerback named Jaylen Watson is quietly altering the gravitational pull of the planet. That may sound like the sort of hyperbolic nonsense usually reserved for cryptocurrency white papers, but stay with me: when Watson housed a 99-yard…
PARIS—Somewhere between the 17th arrondissement’s endless strikes and the existential dread hanging over the Seine like cheap cigarette smoke, the name Isaiah Foskey has begun to echo in the sort of bars where expats argue about American football as if it were a UN resolution. The irony, of course, is delicious: a pass-rusher from Walnut…
The Big Half 2025: How the World Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a 13.1-Mile Existential Crisis LONDON—At precisely 9:03 a.m. GMT on 9 March, 29,876 bipedal mammals in neonate windbreakers set off from Tower Bridge, officially launching the planet’s first post-Brexit, post-truth, post-pandemic half-marathon: The Big Half 2025. To the casual observer it looked…
