1.   A study showed the tended to crouch less, causing ligament strain.

2.   Gonzalez missed his second consecutive start and third in four games with a ligament strain in his right wrist and remains day-to-day.

3.   Point guard Ricky Moore, whose left hand was taped because of a ligament strain, took only five shots and made just one.

4.   Suppan was put on the sidelines last August with a right elbow ligament strain.

5.   Porter has a left knee ligament strain and Kerr a swollen right knee.

6.   Girardi has a ligament strain in his knee.

7.   Lomu has got over his own medial ligament strain and a slightly pulled hamstring which kept him out of the second Test against Scotland.

8.   Lomu, hindered by a knee ligament strain, did some jogging on his own while stand-in Eric Rush ran in the backline.

9.   Boban faces a fitness fight for the clash with reigning champions Denmark but is confident that his knee ligament strain will heal by Sunday.