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The fee for Bouaddi surpasses the £58.9m paid by Manchester United to sign French defender Leny Yoro, also from Lille, in 2024.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

U.S. women’s national team defender Gisele Thompson, 20, is one of just two outfield players to start all 19 games this season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Former Manchester United and France defender Mikael Silvestre, who sits on Fifa's Players' Voice Panel, issued a statement on X, external on Monday in a post he titled "Enough is Enough!"

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

City defender Nico O'Reilly succeeds Morgan Rogers as men's young player of the year, with the versatile 21-year-old cementing his place in the starting XI.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

What if she’d been able to afford to pay a lawyer to defend Richard when he was fourteen instead of letting him be represented by the public defender?

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

Spurs have also brought in defenders Marcos Senesi and Andrew Robertson in on free transfers and goalkeeper Martin Dubravka.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

From public defenders to college professors to public school teachers, people who were fired for social media comments about Kirk have received more than $5 million so far, paid for by taxpayers.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Although Hampton, a certified starter, only played in the Chargers’ opening series in Thursday’s preseason loss to San Francisco, he made waves in the two teams’ joint practice on Tuesday by bulldozing several 49ers defenders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

The less we can get him to stop his feet and do what we call ‘slash’ and pick edges of defenders and shoulder-punch them, the better.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

For an example of a trivial sense, suppose the defenders of Ptolemaic astronomy had responded to the threat posed by Copernicanism by simply renaming the sun ‘the earth’, and the earth ‘the sun’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton