(SportsNetwork.com) - The Dallas Mavericks look to avoid losing three in a row for the first time this season when they invade Sacramento Tuesday to take on the Kings at Sleep Train Arena. The Mavericks have fallen in back-to-back games and opened a three-game western junket with Saturdays 120-100 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. Dirk Nowitzki ended with 25 points and six rebounds, Monta Ellis scored 23 points and Tyson Chandler compiled five points, 10 rebounds and two blocks for the Mavericks, who had won six straight and nine of 11 games before the slide. Los Angeles scored 30 or more points in three of the four quarters and made 52.3 percent of its shots. The Clippers also used a 21-2 run bridging the second and third quarters to build a 70-50 lead. They led by as many as 26 points and Dallas largest lead was two. The poor performance got under the collar of Mavs head coach Rick Carlisle and he was ejected after getting two technical fouls in the third quarter. Today we had another bad day, said Carlisle Dallas is 10-8 against the Western Conference (2-6 on road) and will close the trip Wednesday against the Denver Nuggets. The Mavs are second in scoring at 108.8 ppg and field goal percentage (47.5). They are allowing 102.5 ppg and will face a Kings offense averaging 102.2 points. The Kings are 2-1 on a six-game homestand and defeated the LeBron James-less Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday thanks to 26 points and 13 rebounds from DeMarcus Cousins. Cousins has 21 double-doubles this season and 17 in his last 19 games played. Rudy Gay scored 23 points and Darren Collison added 16 and six assists for Sacramento, which scored 22 points off 14 Cleveland turnovers and shot 48.8 percent from the floor. It had a season-low five turnovers. Sacramento is 10-11 as the host and averaging 105 ppg on the homestand. We got to find a way to be consistent. Cant come out one night, be good defending and then come out the next night and look like a different team, Cousins said. Gay is averaging 21.1 points over his last eight games for a Sacramento squad which will also host the Miami Heat and Los Angeles Clippers. Dallas topped Sacramento, 106-98, on Nov. 11 in Big D and Nowitzki scored 23 points to lead the hosts. Gay countered with 26 points in that one for the Kings, who have lost four straight, nine of 10 and 27 of the last 31 meetings between the Western Conference foes. The Mavs and Kings are scheduled to play again Feb. 5 in California. Kiko Alonso Jersey . CNN and Gazzetta dello Sport reporter Tancredi Palmeri broke the news via Twitter Tuesday afternoon. Italian Football Association President Giancarlo Abete has also resigned, according to Palmeri. 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Ancelotti says "Gareth had some problems at the beginning (of the season) but when he found good physical condition he scored a lot of goals, he had a good impact on the team.TORONTO -- Brian Burke is not concerned about bullying in the Calgary Flames dressing room. The teams president of hockey operations has a no-hazing policy -- and always has. The issue of bullying in pro sports locker-rooms has taken centre stage recently after Miami Dolphins offensive linemen Jonathan Martin left the team amid accusations he had been harassed by teammate Richie Incognito. During a keynote address at the PrimeTime Sports Management Conference on Tuesday, Burke was asked whether his team has had to implement any changes as a result of the Dolphins case. "We already have a no-hazing policy," said Burke, who was hired by the Flames in September. "I mean when I was a rookie in the American (Hockey) League, I got shaved, I got initiated and all that stuff. Ive seen that happen to a lot of guys and I thought it was really stupid at the time. So weve never allowed hazing on any of my teams, even when I was an assistant GM back in 87 with Pat Quinn (in Vancouver). "No rookie initiations, no shaving, no physical abuse whatsoever. One of the forms of abuse (elsewhere) is to make the rookies (pay) a huge tab for a rookie dinner, where it costs them 15 to 20 grand. We have a cap of $5,000 on the rookie dinner. No rookie can pay more than $5,000. Theres no physical abuse, no racial abuse, no homophobic abuse. So Im not worried about having that situation on our team." Burke had a brief pro career as a player in the American Hockey League before going to law school. He won a Calder Cup with the Maine Mariners in 1978. "Now I know as a player, if I felt I was getting bullied, I know what Id do -- Id end it right there in the dressing room," Burke said. "Whether I wanted to fight or not, Id fight the guy. Im amazed that this has gotten to where it is without the players dealing with this." Martin, a second-year pro, leftt the Dolphins two weeks ago.dddddddddddd. His lawyer has alleged Martin was harassed daily by teammates, including Incognito, who has been suspended. Incognito is white and Martin is biracial. Teammates both black and white have said Incognito is not a racist, and theyve been more supportive of the veteran guard than they have of Martin. Burke said on occasion he would confront teammates if he thought they were being timid during a game. "I have gotten right in their face and cursed at them and said, You better stop worrying about what this (opponent) is going to do to you and you better start worrying about what I might do to you if you dont get going here," he said. "Now is that bullying in the middle of the game when you think a guy is losing courage and youre trying to buck him up? Is that bullying? To me its not." Burke added that players often work things out on their own. "In our (game), Ive had coaches grab me, Ive had teammates grab me and Ive grabbed teammates during games and during practice," he said. "Ive fought teammates in practice that I thought were disrespectful to the coach, I fought them in practice. "I wont apologize for that. Thats not bullying, thats a team sorting things out." Burke, a former player agent, has had a long career as a hockey executive. The 58-year-old native of Providence, R.I., joined the Canucks as director of hockey operations in 1987 and later served as general manager of the team. He also worked as a GM in Toronto, Hartford and Anaheim. Burke has also worked at the NHLs head office and in an executive capacity for USA Hockey. He was GM of the American mens team that won silver at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. 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