football
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England's men's and women's football teams were among those to follow suit.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Cowboys cheerleader Michelle Siemienowski says she’s OK after the UC Santa Barbara graduate got hit in the head with a football when a kickoff went out of bounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Janones has compared Lula to football legend Lionel Messi.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
In college, Jackson played football at the University of Iowa and graduated without student debt thanks to a scholarship.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Just beyond the iron-gated entrance, about a football field's length away, stood a large two-story manor house surrounded by a park and garden.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
He’s been fed hundreds of footballs from a Jugs machine to develop hands that don’t drop passes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
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
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