Udinese–Milan: A Provincial Derby in the Age of Global Collateral DÜSSELDORF — In a saner universe, a mid-table Serie A fixture on a damp Thursday night would register somewhere between the price of turnips in Tashkent and the new season of whatever Netflix has green-lit to pacify the algorithm. Yet here we are, live-blogging Udinese…
Rangers Score Today, Earth Still Spinning: A Dispatch From The Front Lines of Futility NEW YORK—Another day, another 3-2 victory for the New York Rangers, and somewhere a hedge-fund manager in Geneva just made or lost the GDP of Moldova on exactly how many seconds elapsed between the second and third goals. The puck crossed…
Boylesports: The Emerald Empire of Lost Causes and Found Fortunes By a correspondent who has seen sharper odds in a North Korean election Dublin—In a world where national borders reopen and slam shut like malfunctioning elevator doors, one Irish bookmaker has quietly become the global bookend for our collective neuroses. Boylesports—founded in the backroom of…
**Gridiron Prophecies: How NFL Picks Became the World’s Favorite Guessing Game** While the rest of the planet grapples with climate summits, currency fluctuations, and the occasional coup d’état, a peculiar American ritual has infected the global consciousness like a particularly virulent strain of cultural influenza. NFL picks—those weekly predictions about helmeted gladiators chasing an oblong…
The World Watches Central Michigan vs. Michigan, or: How We All Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mid-Major By L. Marlowe, International Desk, somewhere between despair and a Marriott minibar. From the banks of the Tigris to the glass towers of Singapore, humanity awoke last Saturday to discover the globe’s most pressing geopolitical fault…
**The Global Siren Song of the FanDuel Touchdown Jackpot: How America’s Digital Gold Rush Went Viral** While the world grapples with climate refugees and supply chain collapses, nothing quite captures the zeitgeist of late-stage capitalism like watching a London investment banker place bets on Cleveland’s third-string quarterback during his lunch break. The FanDuel Touchdown Jackpot—America’s…
FanDuel and the Great Global Gamble: How One App Turned Every Human Into a Bookie By Dave’s International Affairs Desk (currently 3-1 on whether the editor reads this) If you squint at the planet from orbit, you can almost see the faint green glow of FanDuel pulsing from every sports bar, commuter train, and questionable…
