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We aren’t huge football fans (rugby, now there’s great sport with an irregularly shaped ball!), but if we had to pick a favorite sort of football highlight it would be between the acrobatic catch and the return for a touchdown. After all, what’s the point of having such a huge field if you can’t run [...]

At the rather oversized North American college we attended, an initiation rite still performed every year by the entire male rugby team involved the players running through the dorms naked, with each young man holding onto the penis of the player in front of him. It was juvenile, certainly, but the overall effect was something [...]