1.   He sank his first jumper at a carefully staged photo opportunity in a Manchester gym.

2.   He will be the first jumper into the air this night, as always.

3.   Kittles missed his first jumper and made a false cut to the basket that caused a Williams pass to fly out of bounds.

4.   The game was barely three minutes old when MJ, the shooting guard from Chicago, popped his first jumper.

5.   Hannawald had recently become the first jumper in history to sweep the famous Four Hills tournament, but he too fell to the favorite jinx.

6.   More important, Stones reached those plateaus with style, becoming the first flop jumper to set a world record in the bargain.

7.   The first jumper took about four minutes to float down into Yosemite Valley in a brilliant blue sky.