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HEMPSTEAD NY (AP)— The reality of not challenging for the playoffs at the end of December sank in a while ago for Curtis Mar- -' tin Now that the season finale is at hand the star running back for the New York Jets isn’t any more com- fortable with the idea of going home' ' ' ' ' '' earjy " Although Martin has had his ninth " rushing season straight 1000-yar- d Sanders’ one short of Barry league - ' mark 2003 has been a struggle ' There’s been criticism that he’s not tlie same runner— although the Pittsburgh Steelers against whom he : ran for 174 yards in the snow cm Dec 14 would argue against that There’s also a losing record for the Jets for the first time since 1996 a full season before Martin joined New York as a free agent “This is only the second time in my career that at the end of the sea son there is no hope” Martin Said' “It is a feeling you don’t like and it leaves taste in your mouth and a feeling in your stomach you don’t Iwant V' ' “In a personal way in 2002 the '’ pain was physical (from a high ankle sprain) I had to deal with This year 'with all the critidsiri you hear things that affect your mind’ Martin and the Jets got off to a " " rough start With Chad Pennington' out with a broken wrist' they lost ' their first four games The rifferi- sive line performed poorly rarely giving Martin arty rooiii’to run He : '- totaled 197 yards in his first four ' v outings Then he began coming oh includ- - " ing three games over lOO yards rush- k span Reading ing in a it was just a matter of us thinking '’1 ahdgettingtogetherTherewereaiot of different factors people don’t get ” to see that go into it" ' Martin admits the physical pain lie into Sunday’s game at Miami Mar: went through in 2002 when the Jets tin has 1216 yards and with a strong went from 5 to 9t7 and AFC East ' VYpu’rc talking about a great showing against the Dolphins he was much more difficult ' ef and a great leader and a man who could surpass all but three of his sea-than the mentalburdcn of dealing : 'sets a great example for eveiyone wilf critics He “did not' consider it around him’’ Edwards said:Curtis f" : I a pain but a challenge" Martin is everything you warn in a football1 ikilA four-wee- ! 2-- : "MiJi" "i :V :Vdoubted ' son totals Even more important than what ”V Once again anyone who ay qbour you is what you people the strong-wille- d veteran learned just T !say about yourself" he added “I how resourceful he is' said something different about If was new territory” he skid “I ! myself than (what others said) I always was credited with being the cause of our team to win This year I : believe knowing what I am and was the focus of why we did not win! what (am capable of is more ‘But I didn't have any problem important” '! with it I get good press nine out of No one! is a bigger of Martin's than 10 times so if one time it's bad I the coaches for whom he's played can’t be mad I’d be a fool That begins with Bill Parcells who ' '‘I knew nothing had changed and drafted him in New England and - ' - feacktothe piaybfTsVaiid yk " definitely hurts ' “We feci there js po reason why we shouldn't be in a better silua- tiotr’’ he said “To have ihisscastniget away from us is the most fjrustrai- ' ing “So we’ll just go opt on a winning mile and that makes you feel gixid until you get it going next year’! - Continued from B1 back into the standx and the Cubs World Series dreams disappeared nght along with v y-- ! 2) ' 7) 10-ga- - -- ' ' -- " BmitnininVDePVter:a HarrvCaray tat committetJ an emir that V :' - ! ! be” Bartman has! done his best : to fade into irbiivion since ! releasing an apology t djiy? affer Game 6 Unlike those r ' who capitalize on their riiisfor-miss v !' r f ' tune you won't find Bartman y : Magic 113 Cavaliers 101 OT - Lefiron James ami "shilling :his outfit ori the Inter-- : Tracy McGnidy'put photo v ’ 0 taking a sledgehainnH'r on a show the NBA had to love '? over Houston' Rocket forward Maurice to that infernal ball He’s Returning to the site of his pro debut in?' Los Anigejes Lakers" Kobe Bryant? right1 shoots in of third tips the r v his number Angeles game Thursday nighfs quarter during Taylor a summer league game James scored 34 changed phone ' - and unrethe Cleveland on'' Cavaliers for ‘v messagesto himgo points ' ints and seven rebounds turned ! i But for betteir or worsefhis e of the scoring slack when es' shdtri stopped falling latein the 1 plaee in pop culture seems! :' " ?' ! V destined to stretch heyiind his T" all four of his shoLs in oyertime game overtime victory between first two of the 'allotted 5 minutes V The Howard scored 19 points and Drew meeting y: Jiiwan Howard scored Orlando's first ' He was a popular Hal- - NBA’s most popular young players drew Gooden had 12 for the Magic 'which has eight points in the extra period tben : Water! crowd sellout lowcen the first costume all over the tb theTD a of since 10 won seven made to a pair of ending McGrady v Jaimes made his pro ::' Country a giyen corisidcring it since Centre house ' is streak finish with his second of losing game was only tWo weeks alter the ! debut here in July It also kicked off a Carios Boozer had 18 points and 18 r ' the season He also had eight rebounds ' televised NLCS He’s still all over the first who featuring hadl theCavs rebotindsfor and II assists !'!'- nationally tripleheader ' Internet with a recent check highest-profil- e three-gam- e the somemf seasons per! ’! two in James matched last Season’s league league's winning v ' V' tumingUp inorethan a hiilf- sonalitiesand teams! snapped Reserve Eric Williams' con-!- -' : scoring champion point for pointformost ’' Vtr - ': ! 1 r- 19-ga- 40-plt- ' sioas of the' second half ?That 74 the Dance kid he's a heck : of a football player" Diehl said follow-- : ago was able to fulfill his dream of playing indoors at Holt Arena in ''-Pocatello '": ?' ' semifinals tfw to on our “He havoc raised advancing (he By ing game V Omtihued flrom Bi V Dance andthe Pirates got to play three Thank goodness offense all day long V Defensive Player of the Year! by theweek’’-face him next ' games on the turf we don’t haye to ’ J': : Idaho Statesman'“Just playing at Holt Arena the’ As impactful as his performance ws Not bad for an athlete who plays a whole (playoff's) is what I'll remember" in that contest it was just aiKilher rouj ' ' “I’d never played doesn’t get the most” line game for the senior Daricewho : position that often times ! ' V I was really excited to ! much glory with and there before this foot on the off right year got ‘The line never gets recognized and 10 tackles in the Pirates season-opene- r go up there and play on (the turf)” it does meari alot for a linemen to get - "wait a force all season long" ' Unfortunately for DartceVihe second that I think” Dance" said “It means a Wendell game was probably his last' In addition to putting up linebacker- lot” College coaches have refrained from type numbers with a whopping 127 ' " : It also brings a smile to the face of tackles the defensive end also chipped ! recruiting the ' West Side head coach Lyle Henderson ! in with eight saicks 17 tackles for loss pound lineman While he is loo small to 1 who made a ease for Dance among his knd blocked 8 :two play the same positional the collegiate quarterback punts ' fellow district coaiches before the voting hurries level Dance is a little bit frustrated he been looked at ail a possible ?' was carried out often because hasn't excellent it’s “Why ’? “Once in a while when a player will ' your middle linebacker is the one who's - :: roverpr safety: : I want to want waiit “I That's to where stand put playing offensive and defen- that numbers like play! to 'going get I love it so Hen-- ! football because is do in sive line like him this happens” Hen- is funneled him” to play every thing derson said bf Dance's statistics much? he said “So I'm kind of disap- derson said “A year ago a kid from Year' the was the the Parma was it of And senior’s ' pointed because people keep asking me (2A) Pbyer coiysistency ‘Have you gotten any offen and stuffT in Idaho and he was a lineman And1 that helped West Side complete one of - that’swhat lurid of gave nie the idea Ur ! the biggest turnovers in the state Hen- and I haven’t” derson said With pretty much the same ? Nevertheless the fact Dance hasn’t push (for Brad) among the conference beenrecruited shouldn’t detract from " ' ’poaches--’- ' players from last year's 3-- 7 squad the ' 7-what he has accomplished this year 2003 Pirates went 4 and were one of And why not ! The son of BUly and Sallie Dane ? ! ' only two clubsto have played Wendell V After all Henderson said this is the first time in at least 15 yean a Wesi Side was one of the most feared players iti competitively Idaho Just ask Wendell coach Jerry “I knew we had the attitude that we ' player has received similar honon from the state of Idaho" ' Diehl who’s team defeated the Pirates were going to come out and do pfetty twice en route to a perfect 12-- 0 record but as far as my individual play- “Everybody just says that doesn’t good ' “ and 2A state title mg I never thought that it was going to happen at West Side” Dance said I’m really happy that I had a lot of supIn West Side’s 16--0 loss to the Tnv ? be like this” Dance said Thanks to his team’s drastic about- port but I’m really surprised it hap-jans in the state semifinals Dance racked up 12 tackles including three for face Dance who was an pened because not many people fiom West Side get that” season ball sides on a the both of a loss on Wendell’s first two posses-player !": : he-sai- !!? :? --- jusf-over-20-0- ! ! : : : : : v ' ' ' -- ict - v- nowm dsplay Wa cnci ‘ ortcr xa! r it gel into erenj about the hands of a Marlins fan Eut $ 07 AM) Actor f liar lL'"Sheen only parti $H3S(R) for the hall that skipped :thi-4ugBill Buckner legs1 : that play really did cost the Red Sox the World Series lo-te- ' : : f en)Ugh- : v av!r tfo’Ugh Local crrilectible shop -- owners say they haven't customers clamoring lyr Bartman nWmimihi1iu!1’h()se newspapers are jJill for saley ' v no biddehiyct r And on a Cubs message biard after the Iwllwas aue- - "any : ! ' 'v tioned ofiscvcral fns sug- - V geslcj rt wiis time to min'e im the playeri can let this y issue gti'l think weshould all Continued from B2 i other team dominates you in every 'phase of the game it real - ! ly hurts" New Mexico coach--RiK’k- " Long said ' New Mexico got its second !r first down on a d pass V from wide receiver Basket! to ! Counter with just more than j() minutes left’ " New Mexico helped the rout UH)'' said axstirig by RehcCr : ca Flavin': Baker has another idea ' vTd Hke In win ( tlie World Series) and put him in the V parade wilhiis“Baker said country Ibis seasoiu biil alter gaining jUsQ yjirds iathe first quarter Jackstm found ple'niy-vf ? last year V ! “Our team did a gixKl of ' pulling all the ingredientsjob' for 103 together’ BeaVers ctiach Mike ' Riley said "We came out of thc--- : yanis bUx:iks and really finished wejl“ Lobossophomore tailback DonTrell Moore who led the ! Oregon Stale scored oh ' Mountain West Conference with! first two possessions with Jack- 1438 yards this!season finished screen : son Catchihg a with 5 yardson 1 1 carries! His ' from Anderson pn third- - pass and-1- 9 second-quartfumble sit the and Kirk Yimiemi bx)t- New Mexico 5 led io Jackson’s field gtnll: ! ing a third TD and second in a span of New Mexico kept the 1:3? : ’Beavers’ touchdown drive"" r! going with an unsportsmanlike ' It was also a toiigh night for senior-startindefensive back '! ! conduct penalty for celebrating ? Terrell Golden Aiigry and ' too ldngUnd too Ipitdly-afte- r hie was escortCd to thie " stopping Jackson for a 2ryard " upset Lobos' locker room by an assis- loss bn third down at the OSU c tant poach early in the second “That was a big'monKntum half “Hie lost emotional control so ' shift" Long said “Wc had them we sent him in” Long said “He ‘stripped and we get a personal foul and they go down and ' ’wasn’t making ariy’ sense on the "' '' score The first drive was an sidelines” indication of how the rest of the ": New Mexico had the fourth- " ' the in best rushing defense day was going logo” rts" 34-ya- rd er 2(-ya- rd - - !!' ' : : ! ' ry 46-yar- r! : holes !' !v Ariderson Was equally 'Htiprcs: ' sive He completed 21 of 32 ' "passes for 322 yards raising his " ’season total to 4058 The onfy othef player in to ' than 4(XX) r passformore yards ! in a' season was Washington’s ? Cody Pickett who had 4458 ' '! : 1 1 ! -- ? ntav- - ? want tocreare:Mvmc ' "! Il‘?sl c P : - haselwirgods one-day”- - ' 1 at the restaurant but DePorlcr Pns to destroy it FeK 2ft in ay 'nfice to the Pa®a"'!jKc “That’s not what losTitfor-y-manager Dusty i Baker said defending Bart- -' man at baseball’s winter nfcet- irigs ’‘That’s what skxxlout y ! at the time but Gonzo made' nu error and Gonzo never "makes an error y yrJ ? V ' “SometinKs that shows you ' maybe it was mil meant to K - A!' ’ ! us” Cubs asked himto come yesterday!" Phil Jackson said before thegame "It's an’ unexciised absence we’ll talk about tomorrow "' “Some of it was the knee He’s still bothered by it Its good for him to stay r: off it We still want him to treatit He’ll ! : ’ V a society where placing the blame is a constant game Bartman was a very conve- ' hierit target ' ! ! k-ltin-d In being - Otteag o Mew a hriradeaster bought the - ’ IhM 'Chicago restaurant named- alter the legendary Cubs! of-s- i) Malone disappointed his coach by not rattending the game ' “We got a!call this morning saying bewasn’tgoing to come even thoui I f fwS WCIV - leadtntlKMneOrttesure- - T -- heniy and Up There WereiW' dir- it lerenl featuring him The Florida Marlins down one advertised including 3-0 at the time rallied to win under the slogari “BART the game The Marlins went MAN! Need I say anyinnrcVT on to win Game 7 and ' ' Two people' were even try- advance to the World Series ing to sell copies of the litcul where they beat the New York papers from the day al'ter Yankees Game 6 !' ' ' Bartman was blamed for the V But none of that compares lhc fren CJ dwniM the newest goat-K mttrf : The Lakers played without Kart Mai who missed his second game since Xone " 'Spraining his right kned Malone is expected to t out at leart one more against Boston on Sunday night — before ( - ! ' - and DVDs of the game with Bartinan mentioned proini- - - who ' score 14 for the Rockets (16-1losing streak !' snapped a two-gav ' The loss was the second straight and fourth in six games for the Lakers (20-' since they appeared dominant during a J ' v-1- '' winning streak also had eight rebounds Yao who committed his fifth foul and came out of the game with 9:26 remaining and the :! : game tied at 77 He watched the rest of ! the game from the bench as the Rockets" ' ' outscored the Lakers 22? 10-- ' v ' Kobe Bryant led the Lakers witti 23 V rebounds and six assists but ' points eight he shot just 9k)T26 — including' 1 --ofr7 : ' :! in the fourth quarter! Shaquille O’Neal had 2 points and 10 ' : ! v rebounds and Gary Payton added 13 arid for assists the seven Lakers points ! who shot a miserable 376 percent (32-of- f' shot 444 percent (3685) The Rockets :V ‘ 'tha'v items y A company called Fake-- ' Takescom came up with a - - ! docn Bartiiian-relate- d Continued ftomBl Cuttinp Mobley added 15 points and Maurice Taylor came off the bench to ' t ? ethic a leader "I-But Martin couldn’t lead New NBA ' J " |