So it seemed fitting that Quantrill, Gordon and Rivera were in side-by-side-by-side lockers in Arlington, Tex.
Selected sites included door handles entering and exiting areas, floor surface at base of toilet, handles beside showers, toilet flushers, toilet seats, tap handles, railings beside toilets, bed-frames, bed-side lockers, and on-call buttons.
What makes that room different is the isolating way the lockers are arranged, like the rows of a library — three rows with five lockers on each side, surrounded by lockers ringing the walls.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 1 — Their cleats clicking on the concrete floor, Army and Navy football players streamed side-by-side to the locker rooms after Navy's 38-3 victory Saturday.
The defense convenes on one side of the locker room.
Tyson Chandler, on the other side of the locker room, stared at the box score for about a minute.
On the opposite side of the locker, Curry sits leaning back in his chair, eating a plate of what looks like broccoli, chicken and bread.
Stuck to the side of his locker were glossy photos of the two pitchers ahead of him on the career victory list, Lefty Grove and Early Wynn, who both won 300.
("Never satisfied," he told me, when I asked him what it meant, and then I crossed to the other side of the locker room and asked Yao. "It actually doesn't have a very good meaning," he said. "Basically, you'll do whatever it takes to protect yourself").
Hanley Ramirez smiled and tapped on the side of his locker.
