If you squint at the right angle, Trevon Diggs looks less like a cornerback and more like a one-man global supply-chain disruption. Every time the Dallas Cowboys’ No. 7 snatches a pass out of the sky, somewhere in Shenzhen a factory foreman is told to halt production on the next batch of opposing-quarterback jerseys—demand just…
Raheem Mostert and the Mirage of the American Dream, Observed from 34,000 Feet Above the Atlantic By Dave’s Locker International Desk Somewhere between Shannon and Reykjavik, the seat-back screen froze on a looping NFL highlight: Raheem Mostert slicing through the Cowboys’ defense like a tax lawyer through a loophole. The cabin lights dimmed, the flight…
From Pittsburgh to Pyongyang: The Curiously Global Echo of Dale Lolley’s Steelers Sermons By Our Man in the End-Zone, filing from a barstool with Wi-Fi and existential dread. Dale Lolley is, on paper, a regional beat writer for the Pittsburgh Steelers—an occupation that ranks somewhere between “mayonnaise sommelier” and “professional cat meme curator” on the…
Raiders Score: How a 24-Point Meltdown in Vegas Became a Global Morality Tale By The International Desk, Dave’s Locker PARIS—It was 3:47 a.m. local time when the final whistle blew in Allegiant Stadium, but nobody in the Marais was sleeping anyway; the city’s insomniac brasserie crowd had been live-streaming Raiders-Chiefs on phones balanced between espresso…
The Ballad of Darius Slay, or How a Cornerback Became the Pentagon’s Favorite Metaphor By Our Paris Correspondent, nursing a third espresso and the suspicion that the world peaked in 1997. It begins, as so many modern fables do, on Twitter. Darius Slay—Philadelphia Eagles cornerback, human highlight reel, and possessor of a surname that sounds…
