31.   But he obviously missed on this one.

32.   But the righthander, who missed a few days on the trip with food poisoning, served up a three-run homer to Devon White.

33.   But when you miss them on a regular basis, you have to start driving, taking it to the hole.

34.   Charles Smith missed wildly on a drive to the basket, but the Nets knocked the rebound out of bounds.

35.   Cook, a senior who led the Bruins to the Rose Bowl last season, had his worst game, looking shaky and missing badly on some throws.

36.   Couch missed on his first four passes and was hammered to the ground by blitzes.

37.   Dalian International Trust and Investment Corp., the fund-raising arm of the northern city of Dalian, recently acknowledged that it had missed payments on foreign loans.

38.   Dayne, on the other hand, would be hard to miss on any campus.

39.   Devils defenseman Kevin Dean went behind the net to retrieve a loose puck and shovel it to Brodeur, who swung and missed on a clearing attempt.

40.   Drury, the ex-BU star and Hobey Baker winner, missed on a shot that caromed around the boards and went to Bourque.