1.   An unexpected collision with Maddux would be a devastatingly bad break.

2.   As always, when a team loses, part of the cause is simply bad breaks.

3.   As the bad goals and losses mounted during the first month, Storr often said the trouble was not his work ethic but simply bad breaks.

4.   Bad breaks?

5.   Baffert had told Espinoza that the only thing that could beat them was a bad break.

6.   Banks got a bad break when Phillips went bust on the Rams last fall.

7.   A bad break for the Huntington?

8.   A bad break never unnerves him.

9.   A few bad breaks here and there could end GOP control of the House after four years, though most political analysts still consider a Democratic takeover a longshot.

10.   But a combination of bad breaks and psychiatric problems limited his career.