1.  Any team doing anything in hoops these days has to have two things: A strong post game and three-point shooters.

2.  Defensively, they were lively, doubling Baker in the post and rotating quickly to prevent the Sonics from having clean shots at the hoop.

3.  Dennis (Rodman) was curling underneath the post on the left.

4.  Derby horses enter the gate two at a time _ post 1 and 11, then 2 and 12, and so on.

5.  Derek Harper also made a key play, anticipating a pass in the post by Sean Respert and poking it high in the air.

6.  DeKalb Chief Executive Officer Vernon Jones is the first African-American to hold that post.

7.  Delattre, meanwhile, said that Haydu should leave the post immediately.

8.  Cummings played a season-low 13 minutes and because of the turnovers, Lavin turned to freshman Andre Patterson to play the post late in the game.

9.  Deputy Atlanta Police Chief Wesley Derrick said the department has taken no action against Woodard and that he remains at his post.

10.  Dell joins Gateway and Hewlett-Packard among the major computer makers now expected to post a decline in earnings this year.