1.   Compensating for the injury, Vaughn believes, led to the torn biceps last season.

2.   Hall was replaced at center by Curtis Whitley because of a torn left biceps.

3.   He believes that injury altered his swing and led to a torn biceps tendon the next season.

4.   It is the repaired torn left biceps tendon that kept him out last season.

5.   Palmer had only four at-bats in September after missing four months because of his torn biceps tendon.

6.   Phillips knew there was a sizable gamble in obtaining a player who had missed last season with a torn biceps muscle and whose productivity was already on the decline.

7.   Reserve DT Esera Tuaolo has a torn left biceps, but it will not require surgery.

8.   Right end Renaldo Turnbull missed the entire preseason because of a torn biceps tendon in his upper right arm.

9.   SMU received good news this week with the return of linebacker Craig Swann, who missed the Missouri game with a torn biceps muscle.

10.   Tackle Harris Barton will be out for nine weeks after having surgery last week to repair a torn biceps.