Jordan Henderson and the Geopolitics of a Midfield Pivot By our man in the departure lounge, still waiting for the connecting flight to Doha There are moments in world affairs when the tectonic plates of sport, commerce and morality grind together loud enough to drown out the commentators. One such moment arrived last July when…
Daria Kasatkina is not the tennis story most broadcasters lead with. She doesn’t smash rackets, date pop stars, or hire an entourage the size of a NATO battalion. Instead, the 26-year-old Russian has spent the last year turning press conferences into miniature Nuremberg trials—minus the dramatic lighting—while still finding time to dispatch top-ten opponents with…
Ricky Martin: The Glittering Canary in the Global Coal Mine By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent, still coughing up confetti from 1999 Somewhere between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of TikTok, the planet agreed on exactly one thing: it was perfectly acceptable—nay, advisable—to scream “¡Un, dos, tres! Un pasito pa’lante, María!” while careening…
