How Wisconsin Volleyball Quietly Took Over the World—One Float Serve at a Time
Volleyball, that quaint pastime once reserved for beach tourists and high-schoolers too uncoordinated for basketball, has somehow become a geopolitical barometer. And nowhere is this more evident than in the unlikely epicenter of Madison, Wisconsin, where the Badgers women’s program has turned a Midwestern campus into a proxy battleground for every anxious superpower with a…