21.   Even when Palffy scored six goals in eight games after missing all of December with the rib injury.

22.   Fields blames his demotion on a rib injury he suffered in the season opener that has taken all season to heal.

23.   Flyers center Keith Primeau also is out with a rib injury.

24.   Glenn Foley is listed as questionable with a rib injury which means his delicate body is rearing its ugly head again.

25.   Gonzalez had to pull out because of a rib injury but will face the winner early next year, according to America Presents.

26.   Gretzky is again showing his short-sighted side by insisting that, despite a rib injury, he will play Monday night against Washington at the Garden.

27.   He aggravated the rib injury later, when his damaged shoulder forced him to change his jumping technique.

28.   He also had various muscle and rib injuries that made the Giants wonder how durable he will be.

29.   He missed one game with a serious rib injury.

30.   He returned the next week to start again, but four weeks later, suffered a rib injury, and Flutie took his job.