No matter how bleak things look for the Knicks, they can take comfort knowing worse basketball is being played 10 miles away. And if the Nets don't win soon, they could be the worst ever to start an NBA season.

Al Harrington and Danilo Gallinari each scored 17 points, and New York dropped New Jersey to 0-13 with a 98-91 road victory Saturday.

The Nets inched closer to the NBA record of 17 straight losses to start a season, held by Miami and the Los Angeles Clippers.

  • Clippers longtime play-by-play announcer Ralph Lawler and color analyst Michael Smith did not work Friday's home game against the Denver Nuggets after being suspended by Fox Sports Prime Ticket for off-the-cuff comments about Iranian-born center Hamed Haddadi that offended a viewer who e-mailed Fox to complain.

  • Knicks and NBC broadcaster Marv Albert denied Internet reports that he was involved in a fight with rapper 50 Cent on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Wednesday. Albert said the two never crossed paths.

    Motor sports

    Kyle Busch made it a double dose of celebration, winning the Nationwide Series championship before completing a lap and capping his night at Homestead-Miami Speedway with his ninth trip to Victory Lane.

    NHL

    Jarome Iginla first hat trick of the season was the ninth of his career and led the visiting Calgary Flames over

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    the Los Angeles Kings 5-2. Iginla has 11 goals in his past nine games.

  • New Jersey Devils center Dainius Zubrus will be out four to six weeks with a hairline fracture in his kneecap suffered when he blocked a shot in Thursday's game against Nashville.

    Baseball

    Art Savage, the majority owner of the Sacramento River Cats, the A's Triple-A affiliate, has died. He was 58. Jeff Savage said his father collapsed at his Sacramento home Saturday and died on the way to the hospital. He says his father had recently recovered from a long battle with lung cancer. Jeff Savage said the family will retain control of the team. Art Savage also was a president and CEO of the NHL's Sharks from 1990-96.

  • Cuban pitching phenom Aroldis Chapman, who defected from the Cuban national team in July, has fired the representative who helped him gain free agency and hired veteran agents Randy and Alan Hendricks, ESPN the Magazine reported. Chapman is expected to be one of baseball's more hotly pursued free agents.

    Women's soccer

    Senior Casey Nogueira scored in the 82nd minute and top-seeded North Carolina posted its eighth straight shutout in a 1-0 victory in the third round of the NCAA Women's Tournament. All four No. 1 seeds (Stanford, UCLA, Florida State are the others) have advanced to the Elite Eight.

    Men's water polo

    Host No. 3 Stanford (20-2, 7-1 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) beat No. 2 Cal 8-6 in the annual Big Splash, ending the Bears' nine-match winning streak. Eight players scored for the Cardinal. Spencer Warden had two goals for Cal (20-5, 6-2).

    Golf

    The season-ending LPGA Tour Championship in Richmond, Texas, will be cut to 54 holes after rain washed out play for the second straight day. Lorena Ochoa maintains the lead after her first-round 66.

  • Rickie Fowler and former PGA champion Mark Brooks share the third-round lead in the Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational. Alameda's Matt Bettencourt, the second-round leader, is a shot back.