Leather arrives every week from the ... inserted and the football is laced together by hand. A football’s shape is not actually a ball in the spherical sense of the word, but a prolate spheroid ...

a ball made out of 92 panels: 12 pentagons and 80 hexagons. The Original 92s were crafted out of Italian leather and hand-sewn together. Wheatley calls them the most expensive football on the ...

Asics and Mizuno will stop using kangaroo leather in their football boots as the sports equipment industry’s last major ...