Loyalties?

I attended a lot of schools, which makes rooting for various teams more a question of labor than heart.  At the moment, UVa is the one making me most proud.  I never actually was a student there, other than a couple of summer school classes, but they have always been my home team as I was born and raised in Charlottesville, my father was a professor at UVa, and both of my brothers went there.  I went to basketball camp there, and was a ballboy during the Sampson era. They have a 2-0 start in the ACC after a good win last night over 18th ranked Georgia Tech. Will the good times last? Probably not, but at least it should be more fun, now that they have gotten rid of huge curmudgeon Dave Leitao,

 (who happened to drag down another of my schools, DePaul).  

The Knicks

The New York Knicks opened their season in expected fashion, with a miserable loss that was far worse than even the final score (115-93) let on.  "The Rooster"(Gallinari), hit 7 useless 3's and David Lee was one rebound shy of the first of many totally inconsequential and misleading double doubles of the season.  Their always suspect, expected to be lousy defense was somewhere between porous and non-existent.  An argument could be made that this team doesn't field a single player who would start on any other team in the league.  In this (non) season of limbo before next year's free agent signings the only things of interest will be silly sideshows, such as:

Does Eddy Curry play more than 30 games this season?  

Does Jared Jeffries get traded?  (For that matter, does Nate or David Lee get traded)?

Will coach's head actually explode?  

Totally unrelated, I am greatly looking forward to riding alongside a wheelchair racer in this Sunday's NY marathon.