11.   Boucher thought he might catch a break when his old minor-league coach, Bill Barber, took over the Flyers.

12.   AFC Super Bowl representative Tennessee also caught a break.

13.   After weeks of battling some of the best defenses in the league, the Patriots finally catch a break against the Browns.

14.   Brown caught one break when Boone flied to the left field wall for the second out, but Chipper Jones made him pay.

15.   But Gagne, still winless in five starts this season, caught a break.

16.   But just as some asthmatics catch a break, ozone pollution hits its peak, triggering asthma attacks in those sensitive to the invisible summertime pollutant.

17.   But last night, the Yankees caught a break.

18.   But it seemed to Ms. Matalin and to Bush that they could not catch a break.

19.   But Schaefer, in her fourth year as a player and with the unlikeliest of beach volleyball roots, has caught a break no suds maker can match.

20.   But the Kings caught a break late in the first period when Coyotes winger Mike Johnson was called for tripping Palffy.