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Abstract

A portable sporting goal is provided comprising a net that is removably attached by hook and loop connectors to strategic locations on a framework. The framework has a plurality of substantially hollow tubular frame members, each comprising a pair of ends comprising an inner surface. Each inner surface comprises a substantially cylindrical inner surface portion and a substantially non-cylindrical inner surface portion. The frame members are joined by a plurality of mating connectors, each comprising a pair of ends comprising an outer surface. Each outer surface comprises a substantially cylindrical outer surface portion and a substantially non-cylindrical outer surface portion. The outer surface is configured to slidingly engage within the inner surface when in substantial alignment with each other. At least one of the surfaces is made from a resilient material, so that the frame member is rotatable about the slidingly engaged mating connector such that the substantially non-cylindrical outer surface portion of the mating connector is not in substantial alignment with the substantially non-cylindrical inner surface portion of the tubular frame member, thereby increasing a frictional force between the tubular frame member inner surface and the mating connector outer surface. A plurality of hook and loop connecting means are affixed at various strategic locations to the framework. The net has a plurality of complementary hook and loop connecting means which are brought into close contact with the framework such that the complementary hook and loop connecting means mate, thereby substantially affixing said net to the framework.

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First Claim