1.   His athletic career has been slowed by injuries.

2.   An injury slowed Larry Bird.

3.   An ankle injury slowed him much of last season.

4.   And the Blue Devils face a Pitt team that enters with maybe its best player, Brandin Knight, slowed by injury.

5.   And Wheatley has not helped himself by constantly being slowed by injuries.

6.   Another shoulder injury slowed him at training camp, and then a freakish knee injury during a non-contact practice drill, sidelined him for the past three games.

7.   Ankle and knee injuries slowed running back Maurice Smith in the final six games, but so did a lack of blocking.

8.   Balboa might have been a more effective sweeper, Sampson acknowledges, than captain Thomas Dooley, who was slowed by injury.

9.   Both were slowed by injuries but it scarcely mattered.

10.   A foot injury slowed the progress of The Silver Move, who never reached his full potential.