football
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More football marketing and media as the new NFL season takes off:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Afterward, Lindsay offered a lesson to high school football players about finding a way to stay the course to fulfill your dreams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
During the July peak, fires affected approximately 2,760 acres of countryside across north Wales alone, the equivalent of more than 1,500 football pitches.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
As my former Salon colleague Alison Stine described it in her story about the history of “Hey Jude” as a British football chant, it sounds great when it reverberates through a huge stadium.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
If he played football, people might like him.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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
“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
Bikes and skateboards and footballs and sneakers were scattered from the front door to the road.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
