• The ink on the Knicks' check to Anucha Browne Sanders is barely dry, and two black female security guards are already suing Madison Square Garden for discrimination. [NYT]

• People don't really want to listen to another album from DMX, particularly a gospel album. [BS]

• The NAACP in South Carolina is renewing its efforts to have the Confederate flag removed from the statehouse grounds. This seems to be a losing battle. [CO]

• BET gets in on the presidential race. [PR]

• Mike Huckabee sure knows how to pick his aides. [AP]

Anucha Browne Sanders, the former Madison Square Gardens executive who sued the Knicks organization and coach Isiah Thomas for sexual harassment, reached an $11.5 million settlement deal with her enemies today. The deal is only $100,000 less than the jury initially granted Sanders and nearly twice what she originally sued for, so not only can the Knicks not win a game, they can't negotiate for shit.

I don't know where I've been, but the seedy, sexist underbelly of the Knicks franchise is being exposed in a $10 million sexual harassment suit filed by Anucha Browne Sanders, a former executive at Madison Square Garden, against Knicks coach and basketball legend Isiah Thomas. Sanders says she was fired because of her complaints about Thomas, who she says called her bitch and a ho and claimed not to "care about white people." He also told the former college basketball player he loved her after a friendly game of horse.

For sheer entertainment value, I think, genius orator Stephon Marbury took the stand yesterday, when the case went off in a slightly different direction. Marbury was forced to admit that he lured Sanders' intern into his car for sex (after his cousin had speculated out loud about the attractiveness of her genitalia) and that he called Sanders a bitch (but not a black bitch, he is quick to say) when she told him he couldn't give away any more free tickets.

I concluded, from looking at the photos from outside the courtroom, that Marbury was happy to be there despite the somber proceedings. But that's probably because it's Thomas on trial and not him. And, I mean, who doesn't have sex with an intern at some point? Isn't that what they're there for?

[NYDN]