football
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“I’m really excited to beat a big, really good football team.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
“It was a great football game,” La Serna coach Andy George said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
As someone who has argued that schools should reconsider sponsoring youth football, I believe the public discussion is often framed backward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The 43-year-old set up the Angel City FC women's football club in Los Angeles six years ago after leaving Reddit, and purchased a 10% stake in Women's Super League team Chelsea in 2025.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
He and his men were stuck on a tropical island about the size of a football field.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
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
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
