In the grand, ceaseless carnival of American college football—an enterprise that combines the pageantry of medieval jousting with the merchandising genius of Disney—tonight’s modest sideshow features Tulane versus Ole Miss. To the uninitiated, this may appear to be a regional skirmish over bragging rights and a bronze boot called the “Magnolia Bowl,” a trophy whose…
Trisha Yearwood: How One Georgia Kitchen Became a Soft-Power Superpower By Our Correspondent in the Expat Bar, Terminal 3, Dubai If you’ve flown over the Pacific lately, you may have noticed turbulence that isn’t meteorological: it’s the collective stomach-growl of long-haul passengers binge-watching Trisha Yearwood’s “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” on seat-back screens. The three-time Grammy winner…
Jackson State vs Southern Miss: When a Mississippi Football Game Becomes a Geopolitical Rorschach Test Dave’s Locker, International Desk — Somewhere between the humidity-soaked stands of M.M. Roberts Stadium and the algorithmic churn of a thousand WhatsApp rumor mills, Jackson State and Southern Miss prepared to do battle last Saturday. To the naked eye it…
