21.   Darryl Strawberry was effervescent after testing his injured left knee with serious sprinting and flexibility exercises and declared himself closer to returning to the Yankees.

22.   Dent readjusted the thick ice pack on his injured right knee.

23.   Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway missed a second straight day of practice Thursday because of an injured knee.

24.   Defenseman Richard Matvichuk says his injured left knee is responding well to rehabilitation and he is skating strongly in practice.

25.   Dennis Rodman will miss the remainder of the regular season with an injured left knee, the Chicago Bulls announced Wednesday.

26.   Especially since defensive tackle and run-stopper Leon Lett is gone for the season with an injured knee.

27.   Fans saw defenseman Gerald Diduck helped from the ice with an injured knee in the third period after being submarined by the Blues Geoff Courtnall.

28.   Fifteen years ago, he went running the day after surgical pins were removed from an injured knee.

29.   First, an automobile accident left him with injured knees and shoulders and hindered what had been a vigorous life as a sportsman.

30.   Forward LaPhonso Ellis is expected to miss the entire season after surgery today on his injured right knee, the same knee he had surgery on this summer.