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September 30, 2007 - 10:15 am

New York Post -

The New York Knicks have rather high goals set in place for the

upcoming season.

"Our goal isn't to make the playoffs anymore," center Eddy Curry said.

"Because I think that should be a given with the talent we have and

the coaching we have. I would love to come out of the East."

Those are Curry's first remarks of the offseason during which he was

robbed at gunpoint in his suburban Chicago home in July, bolted the

Windy City and laid low in Westchester. Curry made the bold statement

in a Knicks promotional video, dubbed "The Knick Experience."

"Our team, on paper, is a championship team," Stephon Marbury added

recently. "How far can we go? It's going to be decided on us."

DOUG CAMILLI, The Gazette

Published: 10 hours ago

It's been three weeks since Donald Trump has been in the headlines,

and so he was developing this nagging headache, right behind the

temples ...

I imagine that's the best explanation for Trump's sudden denunciation

of Dan Rather as "a loser" for suing his old bosses at CBS. Trump must

have known that this would send his old sparring partner Mark Cuban,

the loudmouth Internet zillionaire who owns basketball's Dallas

Mavericks, into a publicity frenzy of his own, since Rather now works

for a Cuban venture called HDNet.

Sure enough, Cuban went on Access Hollywood, calling Trump "a first-

class idiot! ... Nothing ... that comes out of his mouth has any

validity or any value," and mocking Don's various ventures.

Ding ding! Round 2 - Trump to the N.Y. Post: "Mark is a total

loser. ... He lives in a Trump building and yet he doesn't like Trump.

People in the building find him a total jerk. He will always be third-

class."

Cuban's response won't, I'm sure, be long in coming.

Oregon hammers Michigan in "The Big House". Michigan that bad, or Oregon

that good? I guess we'll have to wait on that one.

South Florida dumps Auburn @ Auburn. That SEC... such a powerhouse from

top to bottom.

Washington rips Boise State... yeah, well, even after everything they've

done, no one cares about Boise State outside of Boise... unless they are

playing Oklahoma. Then EVERYONE'S on the bandwaggon.

LSU lays the wood to Virginia Tech. I could make a tasteless joke about

being ambushed and shot, but I'll refrain.

South Carolina ended JAW-GEEAWWW's national title hopes. AGAIN. You know,

when you spend all night before the game fucking your sister, you tend to

be tired. Maybe they should ask West Virginia how they get around that

problem. Red Bull, maybe?

Poor Miami. Wait... no.

Hey, look, A&M is making everyone think they might be good again. Isn't

that a yearly ritual, right before they get snotfucked by Texas? EVERY

FUCKING YEAR?

See you week 3!

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C The Shocker

Uh.... yeah.

We are all caught up in the rapture of Lebron euphoria but the Michael

Jordan comparisons are misguided. Lebron is not a Michael Jordan

descendant in terms of aesthetics or style. Lebron's greatness is

undeniable but his flair for the spectacular is not part of the Dr J -

Air Jordan - Kobe Bryant lineage. In order to join that exclusive club

a superstar has to display more than the technical virtuosity of a

complete player, but must be blessed with a lean, acrobatic body

combined with the flexible, tensile strength of a steel cable. A true

basketball messiah is sublimely beautiful in motion. He elevates with

effortless grace, hovers above the defense, glides, twirls and fluidly

creates impossible gravity defying shots while suspended in mid air.

That is not Lebron's style because his muscular body type is better

suited to a speed & power game. Basketball fans will have to wait a

few more years for the next Jordan or Kobe. In the meantime, let's all

sit back and enjoy Lebron for what he is...the Magic Johnson of our

time.

personally, I thought the media reaction to LeBron James' pass

to Marshall was an over reaction. Michael Jordan dished to

Paxson and Kerr, and he didn't take any heat for it. Of course,

the difference was that Marshall missed the shot. Had Marshall

made it, James would have been praised for the pass. Bottom

line, I think it was a good pass and the right decision.