1.   Figuratively speaking, Phoenix Suns point guard Kevin Johnson has taken a fair amount of needling through the years for his recurring injuries.

2.   For a man like that, the drain of recurring injury the past two years has been more than physical.

3.   Huber reached a career-high fourth in the ranking five years ago but has battled recurring injuries, and recurring ennui, in the interim.

4.   Juan Gonzalez returned to Texas yesterday after a recurring back injury flared up, putting his status for Opening Day in doubt.

5.   Lifting patients from their beds at a previous job has given him a recurring back injury and a backlog of medical bills.

6.   President Clinton was not accompanied by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was sidelined with a recurring back injury.

7.   Starters Nick Van Exel and Robert Horry were sidelined by recurring injuries, Van Exel for the entire game, and Horry for most of it.

8.   That news came only one day after linebacker Quentin Coryatt announced he would not play this season because of recurring injuries that were healing slowly.

9.   Watson believes the recurring injury was caused during a December car accident in New York City in which he was hit on the left side.

10.   Wilson, a five-time national champion, is sidelined with a recurring injury to his right shoulder, leaving Townsend as a clear favorite.