Alexander’s injury confirmed

KIRKLAND, Wash. – The power of cross-continental prayer among family members on the telephone. An ultrasound machine working overtime. And optimism so rampant, it led him to jump up and down on a broken bone.

Two days of that couldn’t fill the crack in Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander’s foot.

The league MVP asked for and got another round of CT scans Wednesday on the previously diagnosed cracked bone in his left foot. Alexander said those tests showed the same break in the fourth metatarsal.

So despite feeling “great” following two days of praying and “a bone machine” feverishly working at Alexander’s house, he says he is out indefinitely – including for Sunday’s game at Chicago. Seattle’s injury report has him listed as doubtful.