1.   Contortionists who are double-jointed have ligaments around their joints that are more elastic than normal.

2.   At present, Hingis is out indefinitely, recovering from surgery to repair ligaments in her left ankle after having ligaments in her right ankle fixed only last fall.

3.   Bryant is playing with a brace on a hyperextended elbow that has torn ligaments.

4.   Dice, a junior, has torn ligaments in his knee and may not play again this season.

5.   Doctors originally diagnosed an ankle sprain, only to find out last week that he has torn ligaments.

6.   Dollar has torn ligaments near his right pinky and a dislocated left pinky.

7.   Dollar has torn ligaments below his right pinky and a dislocated left pinky.

8.   I have torn ligaments in my right knee.

9.   Maegle recuperated some over the Christmas holidays, but there was no hope for Johnson -- who had torn ligaments.