1.   A few years ago, Kevin Cloud broke three vertebrae in his neck and had bone chips in his spinal cord.

2.   Doty broke two vertebrae near the middle of the back and damaged his spinal cord.

3.   He broke two vertebrae and was paralyzed from the chest down.

4.   One man had broken a vertebra the day before repairing winter damage to the talus-strewn incline.

5.   That same weekend, Euclides Vergara broke a vertebrae in his lower back when his mount broke down and fell in a race at Turfway Park in Kentucky.

6.   The incident fractured his skull and broke two vertebrae in his neck.

7.   End Pratt Lyons broke a vertebra in his neck in a car accident the first week of training camp and missed the entire season.

8.   The huge mammal has broken vertebrae, an indication it may have had a run-in with a boat, says Gerry Conway of the federal Fisheries Department.

9.   The newspaper also claimed that Ecevit was forced to wear a steel corset to support his spine after he broke a vertebra.