When speaking out in a recent interview about his interactions with baseball fans all around the world, Yankees superstar Aaron Judge noted just how constant the attention is.
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Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
The pop singer and humanitarian Sting has likewise spoken out about this concept in the past when defending his performance in Uzbekistan in 2009.
The bison roaming Yellowstone National Park, an elephant herd thundering across the African terrain in Tanzania or Botswana, a humpback whale breaching off the coast of Hawaii or Mexico.
Bowling at run-hungry batters on largely unforgiving pitches in vast, cacophonous stadiums with huge outfields in front of a partisan and at times baying crowd — plenty of English bowlers have found bowling in Australia akin to a Sisyphean task.
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James Wallace,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
The baying scrum around the Renaissance masterpiece—and his height at the time—precluded a glimpse of her crook of a smile.
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