How Nebraska Volleyball Accidentally Became a Global Soft-Power Superpower
Volleyball, the sport most often confused with an elaborate excuse to wear knee-pads, has found an improbable geopolitical epicenter in Lincoln, Nebraska—a city whose previous claim to global fame was inventing Kool-Aid. Yet inside the Devaney Center, 92,003 spectators recently set a world record for watching women slap a synthetic sphere back and forth, eclipsing…