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Mobbed-up soccer hooligans create chaos in southern Europe

July 15, 2026

This summer, all eyes are on North America as Canada, Mexico, and the United States host the 2026 World Cup. The “beautiful game,” as soccer (or football) is sometimes called, tends to bring people together who otherwise would never cross paths. For instance, citizens of Lawrence, Kansas, welcomed the Algerian national team to set up their home base in the University of Kansas town during the global tournament. But the sport has a dark side, too. Though most fans only want to cheer for their team and enjoy the game, a small subset takes their diehard support a little too seriously, ...

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Jose Manuel Martinez booking photo

The life and crimes of a Sinaloa sicario

Ten years ago, the confessions of a California-based hitman revealed new information on decades-old unsolved cases and offered a glimpse…

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In the Oscar-winning 1954 movie On the Waterfront, Marlon Brando, right, starred as Terry Malloy, a dockworker who stands up to the Mob. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures

Oscar-winning ‘On the Waterfront’ premiered 70 years ago, with Marlon Brando as a dockworker confronting the Mob

On the Waterfront, which debuted 70 years ago this summer, is a ground-breaking tale about dockworkers standing up to a…

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Jimmy Coonan

In 1980s New York, the Mob had its hands in everything — even a museum

This is The Mob Museum, but it has never been a mobbed-up museum. As surprising as it may seem, that…

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Mobsters and their four-legged associates: The top 5 pets of organized crime

“You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do…

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Irish drug kingpin’s whereabouts revealed through Google reviews

The longtime head of an Irish drug and weapons cartel has been posting Google restaurant reviews and travel tidbits from…

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The press dubbed Jack “Legs” Diamond the “clay pigeon of the underworld” after he survived assassination attempts time and time again. NY Daily News via Getty Images

Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond: The clay pigeon of the underworld

A bootlegger, enforcer, dopeman and erstwhile folk hero, Jack “Legs” Diamond was like a charming archvillain in a lurid detective…

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Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro in Analyze This

Twenty-five years ago, ‘Analyze This’ offered a comedic take on a Mafia boss under psychiatric care

When the movie Analyze This premiered in theaters 25 years ago, it portrayed a Mob boss far different from the…

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