Dan Quinn’s Second Life: From Super-Bowl Collapse to Global Gridiron Diplomat By International Desk, Dave’s Locker Atlanta, Georgia—That Dan Quinn is again gainfully employed as an NFL head coach is either a testament to redemption narratives Americans can’t resist or proof that the league’s memory is shorter than a TikTok clip of a cat knocking…
In a world where quarterbacks are traded like cryptocurrency and highlight reels outrank passports for global relevance, the sudden rise of Kaidon Salter is less a sports story than a geopolitical parable with shoulder pads. From the limestone bowels of Cookeville, Tennessee—population: roughly the same as a mid-sized refugee camp—to the glowing rectangles of every…
From Singaporean sovereign-wealth offices to the back rooms of Banca d’Italia, the name Michael Milken still provokes the same involuntary wince usually reserved for tax audits and lukewarm prosecco. Three decades after his release from a California prison camp, the “junk-bond king” has been reborn—again—as a global philanthropist, cancer-finance guru, and walking Rorschach test for…
Ricky Hatton, the stubby southpaw from Stockport who once turned Manchester into boxing’s loudest satellite state, has been exhumed yet again—this time not by a Vegas ring announcer but by the global nostalgia-industrial complex. From Manila’s sports-bar projectors to Lagos betting kiosks, the 2009 grainy footage of Hatton’s face meeting the MGM canvas is rerun…
Baker Mayfield and the Global Theater of Quarterbacking Dave’s Locker International Desk | June 2024 From the upper deck of Raymond James Stadium you can spot cruise ships gliding toward the Gulf of Mexico, their passengers clutching watered-down margaritas and pretending Florida is still exotic. Down on the field, Baker Reagan Mayfield—6-foot-1, 215 pounds, and…
