American college basketball players are emigrating to the courts of Europe. A three pointer for the euro?

Perhaps the pinnacle reached in celebrity status means doing a foreign language commercial. Parker, Stallone and Gere likely opted for the too cool for global mode.

Something like a fast ploy bound to be lost in translation, yet more totally endearing for cultural discourse, especially when the matter of foreign currency is nothing but catching thrown money.

Even a professed contrarian might "cry havoc" when shooting hoops in Rome, all the while engaged in the thought that Petrobras can find oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico.

Call those guys the nautical wizards of the outer continental shelf. Seemingly begging the notion that in these days, these times, it seems like anywhere but us.