1.   A sudden knee ailment took out Horace Grant before tipoff.

2.   Scratched from his scheduled start last Wednesday in Montreal after a mysterious knee ailment, Perez gave up six runs for the third time in six starts.

3.   The knee ailment is chondromalacia patellae, a softening of the cartilage in the knee cap.

4.   The ruling comes as a victory for a former player who can barely walk because of his knee ailment and often struggles in normal settings because of his addiction.

5.   At Indian Wells, Venus notified the tournament about her knee ailment only five minutes before the match was to start.

6.   But Liverpool striker Michael Owen pulled out with a knee ailment, with midfielders Darren Anderton and Trevor Sinclair also out with injury or illness.

7.   Keane has been sidelined for several games with a knee ailment and had been considered in doubt for the first leg playoff.

8.   Ronaldo at last is fully cured of his mysterious knee ailment and can resume his career, his Brazilian trainer said.

9.   Williams offered no excuses, not complaining about a knee ailment that forced her to take an injury time-out during her semifinal victory over Arantxa Sanchez Vicario.