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"Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac would have been a huge draw for people who don't know football," adds Kyle.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Arsenal also coveted the 17-year-old winger, but City won the battle for a player who joined Leicester aged eight and has already broken records in senior football.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

The football journey of the 6-foot-6, 285-pound junior involves a change of positions, a change in eating habits and a recognition he has found his calling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

“Shout out to him, and for us to continue to have conversations outside of football has been a lot for me. And I take pride in our conversations that we have.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

We’ve reached the football fields where we go our separate ways, and we’re in the middle of saying goodbye when it happens.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

The smell of rubbish hangs heavy in the air as pickup trucks and handcarts crawl through narrow alleyways, unloading the day's collections while children weave between them chasing footballs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

Long before the World Cup kicked off, U.S. manager Mauricio Pochettino wasn’t shy about setting extraordinarily high expectations for a country that believes footballs are oblong.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

To test his theory, the team designed a series of experiments using an advanced head model fitted with pressure sensors before firing footballs at the model skull with "a big ball cannon".

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

The people waiting outside our ports of entry are not footballs stopped at the 1-yard line, letters suspended in a mail carrier’s hand, or dinner guests lingering on a porch.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

Finsterwald’s backyard was a graveyard of tennis balls and baseballs and footballs and Frisbees and model airplanes and oneway boomerangs.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli