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46-year-old Heber Razuri Leon was on his way back from Peru last week when the Customs crew at Newark Airport noticed the deflated soccer balls in his bag were, well, heavy. You don't find too many ...

Soccer is the world’s most popular sport partly because the only piece of equipment you need is a ball. But to maximize the sport’s accessibility, particularly in impoverished communities where a ...

If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’. The credit for that old saying generally goes to NASCAR legend Richard Petty, though it just as easily could have come from Tom Brady, Gaylord Perry or pretty ...

The report includes text messages between McNally and Jastremski - sent in October and January - that imply Brady was requesting deflated footballs. The texts also imply that Brady had previously been ...