football
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The impact carved out a crater 728 feet wide, roughly the length of two football fields.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
The NFL has been playing in London since 2007 but now a different kind of American football is coming to the capital of England.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Why are so many English football clubs on the market?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
"They're very spirited, and you get the tribalism, so it's the closest thing we have to European football fanbases," Dubiski told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
A football, a phone call, a few commands.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
"My job is to fire footballs at test dummy heads and see what happens"
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 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
