Street Hockey Pickup Games Land on Pennsylvania Avenue By VIVIANA HURTADO WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2009 The average tourist visiting the White House on a weekend morning gets an eyeful. Street hockey players congregate on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House for a rousing pickup game. They will see protestors, police, dressed-down West Wing staffers and a couple of TV crews. They might be surprised by an unforseeen event: a down-and-dirty game of street hockey, played in the heart of the nation's capital, where politics is a contact sport. The game is played by the White House Hockey players. This pickup group has been aggessively chasing pucks since 1995, when the Oklahoma City bombing prompted security to close off a section of Pennsylvania Avenue to keep the president safe. Perhaps the country's most stately hockey... [read full story]
