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unusual facts about Racket



1964 Pulitzer Prize

James V. Magee and Albert V. Gaudiosi, reporters and Frederick Meyer, photographer of the Philadelphia Bulletin, for their expose of numbers racket operations with police collusion in South Philadelphia, which resulted in arrests and a cleanup of the police department.

Alister Taylor

In 2001 he featured in the London Daily Mirror Sorted column by Penman & Greenwood - the report headlined "Full medal racket" alleged that Taylor had targeted national heroes in a publishing con.

Anyone for tennis?

In the game EcoQuest 2, the main protagonist says the phrase whenever he uses the tennis racket.

Bobby Baccalieri

As a partial result of this awkward incident, Bobby was tasked with murdering the brother-in-law of one of Tony's Québécois associates, an important hit that formed part of a deal to save money on a pharmaceuticals racket.

Internationale Fachmesse für Sportartikel und Sportmode

Since its inception in 1970, the ISPO takes place once a year (end of January or early February) at Neue Messe München where the following categories are being displayed: Outdoor, Skiing, Boarding, Running, Fitness, Sportswear, Beachwear, Teamsports, Soccer, Nordic Sports, Biking, Racket, Triathlon, and Kids.

Little Red Riding Rabbit

The wolf (voiced by Billy Bletcher) growls for the others to "COME ON! COME ON! take a powder – this is MY racket!" and the other wolves leave muttering to themselves, and a small wolf leaves from under the pillow.

Margaret Varner Bloss

Margaret Varner Bloss (born October 4, 1927) is a retired American athlete and professor of physical education from El Paso, Texas who excelled in three distinctly different racket sports: badminton, squash, and tennis.

Numbers game

The 1948 film noir Force of Evil revolves around the numbers racket, with the plot hinging upon the workings of policy banks.

OCILIB

OCILIB is used in applications and database layers written in various languages such as C, C++, Objective-C, D, Go, Erlang, Lisp, PureBasic, Blitz BASIC, Racket and others.

PAX AM Days

The album cover features tennis champion John McEnroe in the midst of a racket-smashing meltdown, which Wentz felt represented the band's "rage and passion", four friends just playing loud music, at the studio session.

Roland Maywald

He was particularly successful internationally in men's doubles with Willi Braun, whose fast forecourt racket complemented Maywald's steady all-court play.

Ruiner

In an interview with Racket Magazine, whilst on the tour of which the Australian tour edition was released, now ex-guitarist Christopher Levesque confirmed that the other guitarist, Trevor Reilly, sings the song "In Vino Veritas II".

Table tennis styles

Some players reverse their racket in order to use the pimpled rubber on the forehand, notable examples include Koji Matsushita, Svetlana Ganina, Irina Kotikhina and Viktoria Pavlovich, but some refuse to do that to keep their style simple, including Chen Weixing (Chen does use the inverted rubber on his backhand to attack, occasionally), Joo Se Hyuk, Ding Song, Kim Kyung Ah, Park Mi Young and Tan Paey Fern.

The Phantom Cowboys

In 1999 The Phantom Cowboys contributed tracks to two compilation CDs, Black Jacket Racket Vol.2, and the cult hit Gothabilly on US label Skully Records.


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