sport

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White has credited the president’s devotion to the sport with propelling it into the cultural mainstream, and he is predicting a record-breaking global audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The only man to win three World Cups, all in different decades and, for generations, the most iconic name in the sport.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Infantino, the Swiss lawyer who had ruled over the world’s most popular sport for nearly a decade, would present a new award that had nothing to do with kicking a ball.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

They also reported bigger drops in food sufficiency among adults ages 25 to 44, who tend to be higher-propensity sport bettors compared with other age groups.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Chess was practically the Russian national sport, and Khrushchev relished the chess-like aspects of his job, the cunning calculation of moves and countermoves.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin