football
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Scientists know of only one population, consisting of fewer than 50 individuals in an area smaller than a football pitch.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
A look at the top 25 high school football teams in the Southland after Week 1.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The refinery -- built in the 1960s in then communist-ruled East Germany -- is a maze of metal pipes, huge tanks and stone chimneys the size of more than 1,200 football fields.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
He’s never had a more talented and cohesive line in his two-plus decades of coaching high school football.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
I watch them walk under a rounded doorframe and descend a stairway leading into a huge auditorium the size of a football field.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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
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
