11.   Just in time to see leadoff hitter Timo Perez of the New York Mets hit the deck.

12.   McNair took a pile-driver shot to the chest, got the wind knocked out of him, and hit the deck at Alltel Stadium.

13.   Sheephead, ocean whitefish and an assortment of shallow-water rockfish began hitting the deck.

14.   Should we hit the deck?

15.   THE AGE OF PROGRESS Hit the deck, slugabeds.

16.   There were no fatalities, but a lot of bodies were hitting the deck where football is usually the game.

17.   Troops riddled two television cameras, including one from the ABC network, with bullets while their crews hit the deck on rooftops above the fighting.

18.   Twice early in the game, Clyde Drexler was driven into Karl Malone on Utah pick-and-roll plays and Malone hit the deck twice.

19.   Too many players hit the deck, lay motionless, get the whole stadium in an uproar, then come right back in the game two plays later.

20.   The crew rigged a container filled with the pizza, granola bars and oranges so it would break open when it hit the deck.