football

"The dimension is completely different. Even myself, I live for rugby, but football is still in my skin."

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

On its March earnings call, Hill called soccer “the next sport to fully transform” under its turnaround strategy and said it would use the World Cup to “catalyze the football marketplace for quarters to come.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

England flanker Henry Pollock added to the decibels in the hours before Wednesday's match, with footage emerging of the 21-year-old back row taunting local football fans gathering for the match in Plaza de la Republica.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

DONGGUAN, China—At a factory so big it could fit dozens of football fields, Chinese furniture manufacturer DeRucci churns out up to 5,000 mattresses a day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

You know, when I won the World Championship in 1972, the United States had an image of a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

"My job is to fire footballs at test dummy heads and see what happens"

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

“I’ve thrown a lot of footballs, and it’s May and June and I didn’t think it was as necessary to throw as much now,” Herbert said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Here and there, on slender patches of beach, shirtless young men tossed footballs back and forth.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown