**Title: Pacific Basketball: The Wave of Hoops Culture Sweeping the Globe** Alright, listen up, ballers and bandwagoners alike! There’s a new sheriff in town, and it’s not just another flashy NBA crossover or a viral dunk compilation. No, we’re talking about a full-blown cultural phenomenon that’s been brewing in the vast expanse of the Pacific…
HOPENA POKIPALA, MAUI — Somewhere between the ninth Mai Tai and the tenth apology for colonialism, a rented Jeep Wrangler found itself intimately reacquainted with a century-old banyan tree. The tree, unmoved by either tourism or irony, remains upright; the Jeep, less so. Thus was born the “hopena pokipala car accident,” a phrase now ricocheting…
Noah Fifita and the Great Pacific Quarterback Pipeline: How a 5’10 Hawaiian Kid Became a Geopolitical Sleeper Agent By the time Noah Fifita dropped a 40-yard dime on national television last Saturday, three continents were already arguing about him on Reddit. That’s the new math of college football: one Samoan-Hawaiian kid from Anaheim who still…
Tuvalu is the geopolitical equivalent of a canary in a coal mine, except the canary is nine coral atolls, the coal mine is the Pacific Ocean, and the miners are too busy arguing over the thermostat to notice the bird has already started packing its bags. On most world maps the country is cropped out…
