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Stan Kroenke was sitting in the back of a conference room full of other NFL owners this month when he stealthily pulled out an iPad to watch the other kind of football.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Ferrell said later that he was glad to be in the back row because it meant nobody behind him got sauced.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
"I had a bed in the back, was cooking on the roadside and parking up in McDonald's car parks," he told BBC Sport in 2023.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
She’s been a filmmaker for a long time, and I think in the back of her mind she always hoped that there would be an occasion to capture this somehow.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
It’s a stretchy black band that Velcros in place around my waist with four small water bottles held in little stirrups—two in the front and two in the back.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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