protective equipment for basketball

• Private security's purchase: imaginings of a security patrol in a Canadian residential neighbourhood.

...play[ing] basketball on his court and they were from another neighbourh... of horns, sirens, and surveillance equipment in private residences--some residents imagined tak... and James McNicholas 1992 The Starrett protective service: Private policing in an urban community. I...

• Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Vol. 49 Nbr. 5, December 2007

• The Natural

[Alexander Ovechkin]'s earliest hockey memory is one of failure. His father drove him to his first hockey practice and stayed to watch. [Alex] was eight, old to be joining a hockey league. Most other boys at the practice had been skating together for two years already. When the coach ordered the boys to skate backward figure eights, the other skaters executed them neatly. Alex couldn't even skate backward. "I was mad," he recalled. "I tell my dad we must practise and get stronger, stronger. When Alex was 18, the Washington Capitals, then ranked 28th out of 30 NHL teams, won the 2004-05 draft lottery. "We were all excited," [George McPhee] recalled. "I called our chief amateur scout. I said, 'If you had to pick today, who would you take?' He said, 'It's got to be Ovechkin.' ... We just ...

... injury to lead the Russian basketball team to a pair of Olympic gold medals. WASHINGTON ... the boards so hard that he broke the protective glass barrier. Fans in the arena rose to give Alex... sum in deals to endorse hockey equipment. "Other teams clamour for Alex to play their arena...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 13, 2009