In another technique called the junk shot, objects including golf balls and pieces of rubber are injected into the blowout preventer.

The strategy is nicknamed "junk shot."

Find you a towering hunk of meat, somebody about 7-foot-2, 300 pounds, who can hang around in the paint while you glide in from Elsewhere, snap a rebound, get some great junk shots.

Mecir is an enigmatic player, quick on his feet and unorthodox as he mixes soft junk shots with ripping ground strokes and surprise visits to the net.

But if the top kill and the next tactic, the "junk shot," fail, the hole may not get plugged until August, says Coast Guard Admiral Thad W. Allen, who is heading up the government's disaster response.

In addition to the mud, they're now putting golf balls in the well-this seems to be the "junk shot."

If the top kill fails, which could take two days to ascertain, BP may move on to its next plugging plan: the "junk shot."

In the 1975 Wimbledon final, Arthur Ashe countered this strategy by taking the pace off the ball, giving Connors only soft junk shots (dinks, drop shots, and lobs) to hit.

Skip the junk shots, NBC, and show tennis!