football

If there was any solace for the Fighting Irish on Saturday night, it’s that they weren’t the only college football blue blood to turn into the shocking victims of underdogs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

It was the most topsy-turvy day that college football has ever seen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The inflatables are a flashback to the late '80s when what began as a light-hearted joke soon turned into one of the most memorable fan crazes in English football.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The explosion in interest in women's football during the past five years has been spearheaded by two of the biggest broadcasters in the UK – Sky Sports and the BBC.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

It occupied the space of nearly forty football fields.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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

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

Chip shops and hairdressers in Glasgow's Anniesland have Saltires draped across windows, banks in Dumfries have inflatable footballs stuck on walls next to cash machines.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 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