As well as leg-pads and gloves, a player these days will wear a helmet with face guard, thigh pad and protection for chest, arms and abdomen.

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If the Knicks get that far, they would almost certainly benefit from a key factor: They wouldn't have to face a star point guard in the process.

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National Guard families, they face the same struggles as any other military family.

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On more occasions than even he cares to remember, Lord Steel has proposed a bill which would allow peers to retire, to be expelled from the House if convicted of serious criminal offences, and to exclude the 92 hereditary peers who continue to sit in it...that last provision was pulled in the face of a determined rear-guard action, the last time the bill went through.

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Up went the gloves to protect my face and the ball thumped into my arm guard and flew to the ground.

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Former Michigan State University guard Mateen Cleaves had rivers of joy streaming down his face in 2000 as "One Shining Moment" boomed around the arena after his team won the title.

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After catching a pass from guard Raymond Felton, he faced up, and sunk a shot in the face of Battier, the same man who defended him three seasons ago when he last reached 50 as a member of the Denver Nuggets.

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According to the sheriff's office document, the guard who provided the bulk of the information quit his job after Jackson "fell on his face" in a hotel room and hurt himself.

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