1.   During the five-hour surgery, Sonntag removed four compacted cervical discs.

2.   However, the season turned, Wannstedt said, when quarterback Erik Kramer suffered two herniated cervical discs after starting the first four games.

3.   Robertson is marching even though she just had a cervical disc removed.

4.   She was released last Wednesday after removal of two cervical discs damaged in the fall.

5.   Mercer has cervical herniated discs in his neck, Duva said.