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Locker

Locking differential, a variation on the standard automotive differential; also known as a locker


1969–70 NBA season

With ABC's Chris Schenkel and Jack Twyman leading speculation about what the Knicks could do to guard Chamberlain, Reed emerged from the locker room and joined his team on the floor, shocking thousands and surprising the Lakers.

1978 New England Patriots season

To the surprise of everyone, Chuck Fairbanks was reinstated as head coach for the playoffs, but by then he had lost the respect of the locker room, and in their very first home playoff game the Patriots were massacred by the Oilers 31–14 behind three Dan Pastorini touchdown throws and an Earl Campbell rushing score.

2012–13 Greek Basket League

The events of the 3rd game of the series, happened after the owner of Panathinaikos, Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, and three other men, entered into the referee locker room at the home arena of Panathinaikos, OAKA, during halftime of the 2nd game of the series.

Backstage: Lakers

Behind-the-scenes footage of Kobe Bryant in the locker room immediately after his season-ending injury to his Achilles tendon with reaction from Gary Vitti and Head physical therapist Dr. Judy Seto.

Barbara Crawford Johnson

In Mad Men season 1, episode 12 ("Nixon vs. Kennedy"), Peggy Olson reports to work, the morning after leaving a bacchanalian election night office party in progress, and finds the Sterling Cooper office space in shambles and her locker broken into and emptied of her spare blouse and $3 "mad money".

Berlin Ostbahnhof

In the film, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is seen parking his car here, entering the station and leaving a bag in a locker, and tracking down Pamela Landy (Joan Allen).

Bob Locker

Since April 2010, Locker has been the creator and webmaster of a Marvin Miller tribute site, ThanksMarvin.com.

Bobby W. Miller

Miller, who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama in 1965, was credited later with ending segregated locker rooms at the Ford Motor Company Die Cast Plant in Sheffield, Alabama, where he was employed from 1962–1974

Braggtown

The cover of the album shows the four musicians in a locker room in the baseball stadium Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

China Krys Darrington

She started riding in 1983 after finding a BMX Plus! magazine in the locker of another junior high school student at Old Trail School.

Chris Culliver

Asked by comedian/radio host Artie Lange, Culliver stated, "No, we don't got no gay people on the team, they gotta get up out of here if they do.... Can't be with that sweet stuff. Nah…can't be…in the locker room man. Nah."

Chuck Versus the Marlin

Morgan reveals that the night before the store was cleaned out, he grabbed Chuck's bag from his locker and went back to Chuck's apartment to play an advanced copy of the next Call of Duty game that Chuck had refused to let him play unless Morgan was under "adult supervision."

Cristiano Bergodi

On 18 September 2009, Bergodi was sacked by Gigi Becali for not allowing him to join the team in the locker at the half-time of the match between Steaua Bucureşti against Sheriff (0–0).

Curtis Martin

On November 11th, 2013, Martin was added to the Miami Dolphins five-man committee to develop the conduct code by owner Stephen M. Ross following a locker room hazing incident involving Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin.

D. J. Mbenga

He saw coach Avery Johnson's wife being disturbed by some fans, and reportedly went into the stands with owner Mark Cuban to help usher Mrs. Johnson to the locker room.

David Mincberg

His article, "Guns, Collective Bargaining and Moral Turpitude: Gilbert Arenas and the National Basketball Association" examined the standards by which the NBA assesses moral turpitude and whether Gilbert Arenas' contract could have been terminated on such grounds in the wake of his decision to bring a gun into the Washington Wizards' locker room.

Deborah Servitto

Deangelo Bailey sued Eminem over the song "Brain Damage" from the 1999 album, The Slim Shady LP that said "I was harassed daily by this fat kid named D'Angelo Bailey. An eighth-grader who acted obnoxious, cause his father boxes. So every day he'd shove me in the lockers."

Ed Doheny

Within minutes, Doheny was escorted in handcuffs from the locker room and driven to Danvers Asylum for the Criminally Insane in Danvers, Massachusetts.

Francis Birrell

Francis Frederick Locker Birrell (1889-1935) was an English writer, associated with the Bloomsbury Group and a friend of the novelist David Garnett.

Gary Walters

Other projects have included the construction of the Class of 1952 Stadium, new squash courts in Jadwin Gym, the addition of 16 locker rooms to the Caldwell Field House and the renovation and expansion of the boathouse to the Shea Rowing Center.

George L. Fox

They distributed life jackets from a locker; when the supply of life jackets ran out, each of the chaplains gave theirs to other soldiers.

International Standard Payload Rack

The ISPRs will be outfitted with a thin center post to accommodate sub-rack-sized payloads, such as the 483 mm (19-inch rack) Spacelab Standard Interface Rack (SIR) Drawer or the Space Shuttle Middeck Locker.

Jack Trice Stadium

The Olsen Building, named in honor of prominent Ellsworth, Iowa farmer and ISU alumnus, houses the strength and conditioning facilities, the team meeting rooms, and the locker rooms.

Jason Bailey

Although Bailey did not play a post-season game with the team, he received a championship ring and was said to be a huge locker-room presence by captain Ryan Keller.

Jon Horford

In the locker room after Michigan's overtime victory over Kansas, Horford was in a corner of the locker room reading "Tao Te Ching," a Chinese text written around the 6th century BC.

LSU Lady Tigers basketball

The facility also houses team locker rooms, a team lounge, training rooms, a coach's locker room and coach's offices.

Lyndhurst High School

The following week, Rono ran at Foot Locker Northeast Regional in Sunken Meadow State Park (Kings Park, NY), again finishing 7th, earning a spot to Foot Locker Nationals, held in Balboa Park (San Diego, CA).

Marshawn Lynch

After Lynch was shown eating the candy during a nationally-televised game on December 5, 2011, Mars offered him a two-year supply of Skittles and a custom dispenser for his locker.

Massacre at Central High

During his first day at Central High, David sees the three bullies order Spoony (Robert Carradine), a semi-skinhead and radical, to wash off a swastika he painted on his locker.

Mike Greenwell

He had captured an alligator, taped its mouth shut, and put it in Ellis Burks's locker.

Najan Ward

Ward was born with the name Nagajan Chano Modhwadia in Leicester, England to a father who worked as a welder and a mother who worked as an over locker at a local textile firm; both of his parents are Hindu Mer Gujarati immigrants from India.

Pat Perez

When asked if he had the locker during spring training, he replied "No, the whole thing. I would hit balls with Jimmy Rollins, go out on the field and play catch, whatever. I was like one of them team for that year."

In a January 2010 interview, he revealed, "I was part of that (2008) team (that won the World Series) because I know all of the guys, I had my locker there, I would come and see them all the time. I would really root for them like I was part of the team."

Quicken Loans Arena

In 2005, Cavaliers majority owner Dan Gilbert (owner of Quicken Loans) renovated the arena, installing new seats, state of the art scoreboards, video systems, sound systems, arena graphics, signage, security, locker rooms, and suite upgrades, all of which were in place for the start of the Cavaliers 2005–2006 season, except for the seats, which were replaced a few sections at a time.

Rick Walker

Previously he had been a co-host on The John Thompson Show and The Locker room with Doc Walker and Kevin Sheehan. He also appears in D.C. Lottery and BMW of Sterling commercials.

Royal Russell School

In 2003 Tim Henman opened the school's new sports hall, including two gymnasiums and multiple locker rooms.

Savannah Sand Gnats

The team was featured in the first season of Da Ali G Show, when the character Borat sang his national anthem, and then ventured into the locker room.

Skip Wise

However, drugs impaired his play; in Terry Pluto's book on the ABA, Loose Balls, a coach found Wise shivering in the locker room, suggesting heroin use.

Steve Gleason

This included a clip of a Saints locker room talk by Gregg Williams which was interpreted by some to show Williams encouraging his players to injure opposing players.

StorageTreasures.com

In February 2013, the site broke the story regarding the purchase of a storage locker formerly owned by model and television personality Tila Tequila.

Theotis Brown

His locker mate during high school was the academy award-winning actor, Tom Hanks.

Timothy Curley

During the grand jury investigation, Curley had testified as to his awareness of a 2002 incident that allegedly occurred in the Penn State football locker room, in which assistant coach Mike McQueary testified he witnessed Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy.

Zeke Mowatt

During a September 17, 1990, locker room interview, then-Boston Herald sportswriter Lisa Olson was allegedly approached and sexually harassed by five semi-naked members of the New England Patriots football team, which included Mowatt, Michael Timpson and Robert Perryman.


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