21.   During the nearly three-hour procedure, surgeons removed bone spurs, or abnormal growths, from vertebrae in his neck.

22.   Doctors removed a bone spur from his left heel that was irritating a nerve and causing weakness and pain in his thigh and hip.

23.   Etherton is to have a bone spur removed from his right shoulder and a torn labrum repaired.

24.   Finally, last September, the injury was diagnosed as plantar fasciatis, an inflammation of tissue in the heel, complicated by bone spurs.

25.   Fisher, who never talks about his injuries, has quietly carried on for the last two weeks despite a bone spur in his right ankle.

26.   Fourteen years later, he desperately wants to return one last time, even though a bulging disk and cervical bone spur have sapped the power from his arm.

27.   Gonzalez, on the disabled list with a bone spur in his left shoulder, finally stopped because of fatigue.

28.   Glavine had both of his knees cleaned out to correct a meniscus cartilage problem and had a bone spur removed from his right ankle.

29.   Gonzalez has been plagued by a herniated disk this season, and most recently a bone spur has caused pain in his neck.

30.   Gonzalez is sidelined with a bone spur in his left shoulder, but the session left the Rangers encouraged that he might be getting close.