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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Carmelo Anthony does not want to see the positive vibes surrounding the New York Knicks disappear because of one bad night against the defending champions.The memories about too many bad nights in the past turning into several consecutive ones remain too fresh for the 14-year veteran, now in his sixth full season with the Knicks.Weve got to put this behind us, he told reporters in video shown on Knicks.com after New York braced for a five-game road trip with a 126-94 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday. We just want to chalk it up as a bad night, put it behind us, and get ready for this road trip.The road trip comes just as the Knicks are winning for the first time in years. New York opens its longest sojourn of the season when they face the Sacramento Kings on Friday night at the Golden 1 Center. The trip is entirely against Western Conference teams, against whom New York has won six of nine, one of them a 106-98 home victory against Sacramento on Sunday.In that one, Anthony and guard Derrick Rose scored 20 points and Brandon Jennings 19 for the Knicks, part of a 9-4 stretch that has propelled them to their best 22-game start (12-10) since the 2012-13 campaign. In this one, theyll try to put away the stench of a game they never were in after a 20-4 Cleveland run put the Knicks behind 34-17 in the first quarterWell learn from this, Anthony said. We dont want to let this linger around when we have the opportunity to go on the road and do something good.New York faces only one team with a winning mark on the trip. The Golden State Warriors (19-3) are two-time defending Western Conference champions, but the other four opponents entered Thursday with a combined mark of 32-57. New York has played only one other road game against the Western Conference, a 106-104 victory at Minnesota on Nov. 30.Rose didnt play against the Cavaliers because of back spasms, but the New York Daily News reported that an MRI exam did not reveal any serious injury. Rose played in New Yorks first 21 games, averaging 16.7 points and 4.8 assists in 32 minutes per contest.The Kings (8-13) could use a boost, period, after a very uneven first quarter of the season. Back-to-back victories could provide it, and the Kings are coming off a 120-89 blowout of the Dallas Mavericks that finished off a 2/3 road trip that included a cancellation of a scheduled game in Philadelphia.Sacramento has strung together consecutive victories only twice this season.Were competitive, first-year Kings coach Dave Joerger told the Sacramento Bee. The spirits good, the chemistry is good, different guys have been in and weve had a chance to look at different guys in the rotation, and well continued to do that going forward.Center DeMarcus Cousins averaged 32.2 points and 13.2 rebounds during the trip, He is averaging 28.8 and 10.6 for the season, ranking third and 10th in the NBA through Wednesdays games. Brandon Roy Jersey . After slipping from the summit during the week, the Gunners overcame struggling Crystal Palace 2-0 on Sunday thanks to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlains second-half brace. Kermit Washington Jersey . Tracey comes to the Blue Bombers after spending over a decade with Queens University. Most recently he was the schools assistant football coach. https://www.cheapblazersonline.com/1038i-wayne-cooper-jersey-blazers.html . -- Damian Lillard and LaMarcus Alrdridge were again the go-to duo for the Trail Blazers against the Kings. Anfernee Simons Jersey . Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey last Sunday. The fine is the fourth this season for Goldson. He was fined $30,000 for a hit on the New York Jets Jeff Cumberland in Week 1. Steve Blake Jersey . The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling "puts an end to my dreams of being a top player," the 27-year-old Troicki said in a statement. "I worked my entire life for it, and it has been taken away from me in one afternoon by a doctor I didnt know," said Troicki, whose ranking peaked at No. NEW YORK -- Alison Rogers raced across the field, a touchdown-saving tackle in her line of sight.It was her favorite moment of the season she spent playing middle school football. Rogers, a cornerback from Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York, brought a boy to the ground and a crowd to its feet.All of the parents went insane, she said.Now Alison cant get on the field at all.The issue isnt her ability to compete with boys. Its whether she should be allowed.New York state rules governing mixed gender competition require an extra physical fitness performance test for girls, clear in their intent but not in their application. Alison, 13, declined to repeat it this year and has been prevented from rejoining her teammates.The dispute has highlighted an unusual tension between bureaucratic rules designed to protect students while giving girls the chance to play traditionally male-dominated sports.The school and the coaches know who I am. They knew who I was in seventh grade, they know that Im athletic, she said. It just seems unfair that I should ever have to take any of these tests, that any girl should have to take any of these tests.Its not entirely clear whether she does.Her school may be following the Commissioner of Educations regulations to the letter, or may be protecting her more than necessary.I think no one wants to be the one that is actually saying the girl cant play, but everyones kind of agreeing that she cant, said Brett Rogers, Alisons father.He doesnt blame Fieldston, believing the school enjoyed having Alison on the team last season and wouldve liked her to play again.Alison shows as much promise as any other middle school football player, athletic director Gus Ornstein said. We would love to have her on the team again this year. We understand her desire to challenge this rule and fully support her efforts.State officials did not comment about the reasons behind the rule, but according to the Commissioners guidelines, The purpose of the regulation is to preserve the health and safety of students while assuring that students of both sexes have opportunity to participate successfully in interschool competition.It adds: When the physical abilities of the individual are deemed by the panel to be short of or exceed the physical abilities of other team members, thereby creating a hazardous condition or unfair advantage for that student or other members of the team, denial of participation would be appropriate.Alison is a black belt in taekwondo and participates in roller derby, so her parents were neither surprised nor concerned when she said she wanted to play football.Right up her alley, said her mother, Christine.First, Alison had to submit to a review by a panel that includes the school physician and a physical education teacher, and potentially a physician, which evaluates her health records. The fitness test includes a mile run, pull-ups, push-ups and aa shuttle run.dddddddddddd To pass, a student must be in the 50th percentile of the Presidents Council Fitness test.Once approved by the panel, the student is free to try out. Fieldston has a no-cut policy for its middle school football team, so Alison was placed on the squad and spent the season as a backup cornerback and running back, getting into most of the games.But she balked when her coach told her that if she planned to play again, shed need to go through the whole process a second time. The panels decision applies only to that specific sport and season, and another review is required the following season.However, the guidelines do not stipulate that the fitness test has to be repeated. The panel could evaluate previous scores, for example -- though Ornstein said he inquired to the state and was told all parts of the process were required.Dr. Jordan Metzl, a sports medicine physician at New Yorks Hospital for Special Surgery who is not involved in Alisons dispute, said boys and girls generally have roughly equivalent strength until puberty, when boys become faster and stronger. But he said he wouldnt apply a test by gender.I think maybe thinking about it, a better way to think about that equation might be, these are the standards we have for strength, body weight, speed, pushups, whatever, and you have to be able to do this kind of exercise or this kind of test to qualify to play, he said, and Im not sure that gender separation makes as big of a difference as developmental separation in terms of strength.The Rogers said they lobbied school and state officials for answers, and found portions of the rulebook online but were rebuffed in their attempts to get a copy to study themselves. They tried to contest the rule and sought to appeal, but never figured out where to take the fight.I dont think that theyre trying to prevent girls, Christine Rogers said. I think they have a procedure thats not clear and they have no interest in making it clear and no interest in it being challenged, so theyre making it very difficult for us to even challenge it.Though Fieldston is an elite private school, its conference follows the public school rules so its members can schedule games against those teams, so Alisons parents understand the schools caution.But there is frustration that a girl who played on a team has to prove her fitness to do it again just because of her gender, while a younger boy who has never even played the sport before could suit up just by passing a routine physical.I think to say that since youre a girl you still have to take a test, regardless whether youre good enough or not, because we have to make sure youre fit enough, Alison said, that just doesnt make sense.---Follow Brian Mahoney on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Briancmahoney ' ' '