21.   Stood up behind the line by nose tackle Matt Keneley, Walters took a blow to his lower back from linebacker Errol Small.

22.   The New York Knicks took another blow to their self-esteem and mental stability on Wednesday night.

23.   The Raiders come in with a shaky quarterback in Jeff Hostetler, who took a blow to the head last week and had blurred vision and saw flashing lights.

24.   The record shows, you took the blows.

25.   The sheet metal regimen, he reasons, is good practice for learning how to take a blow.

26.   Their tormentors on the streets, always at a disadvantage because of their small budgets and mixed messages, seem to be taking the blows.

27.   Tuesday that electability took a blow to the solar plexus.

28.   Two of those interceptions apparently came after he took a blow to the head that went unnoticed by some team officials.

29.   Wednesday, Tiberi took another blow.

30.   When Bill Gates appears to dance around the truth under oath in the Microsoft antitrust trial, his credibility, too, takes blows.