Thank you

A salute to sports equipment

By DAVID DeMILLE
UNIVERSITY JOURNAL

For sports equipment dealers everywhere, it seems reasonable to recognize the importance of the items that make sports possible, especially sports that depend so heavily on equipment like football, golf, hockey and cricket. Equipment is always needed.
According to safekids.com, the average U.S. child under 18 will participate in at least four different organized sports using more than $100 worth of equipment, with that number growing with age.
Injury prevention is always a necessity when dealing with sports and without pads, bats, gloves, shoes or protective cups many participants could get injured every year.
Protective equipment is specific to each sport. Some types of equipment are protective, like helmets (hockey, ice skating, baseball batters, football, in-line skating and skateboarding) and padding (shin pads for soccer, chest pads for baseball catchers, shoulder pads for hockey and football, wrist guards, elbow and knee pads for in-line skaters and skateboarders).