Instead, players envision a flash of glory in the end zone ... almost like the creators of American football imagined this very scenario and designed the ball's shape to frustrate these over ...

The oblong shape of the ball makes it a challenge to throw and catch it. There’s a technique to it that I hadn’t mastered at all. This was my only connection to American football. American ...

It is not that the world is averse to American sports. By some estimates, basketball is the third-biggest sport in the world, after football (the ... or for out-of-shape folk to return to.