For the first couple of seasons, the Carmelo-led Knicks were afterthoughts, dispatched in the first round of the playoffs.
Instead, Seton Hall had to settle for the National Invitation Tournament, where it was dispatched in the first round by Rhode Island.
The top-ranked judoka in the world, Takashi Ono, was knocked out early, and the No. 3 seed, Keiji Suzuki, found himself handily dispatched in the first round.
The team hasn't won a playoff game since 2001, when they took two games from the Toronto Raptors before being dispatched in the first round.
But the Royal Society is dispatched in the first third of the book, and thereafter, the subject is how the attempt to find the mathematics governing the universe played out in the life of Isaac Newton.
It wouldn't be a stretch to imagine a strong Oslo Peace Process, since the countless suicide bombers of buses and shopping malls and coffee shops would never have been dispatched in the first place for the sole purpose of undermining any progress towards peace.
He was knocked out three times in the fourth round and dispatched in the fifth.
With the Ali shuffle making its debut, Williams failed to land a blow and was dispatched in the third round.
And while Smith was dispatched in the third round at Wimbledon, it was by last year's runner-up, Hyeon Chung of South Korea, who beat this year's Wimbledon sensation, Nick Kyrgios, the conqueror of Rafael Nadal, on his way to that 2013 final.
Page A6 OBAMA'S ENVOY LEAVES FOR MIDEAST George J. Mitchell, President Obama's special envoy to the Middle East, was dispatched there in the first step of a diplomatic effort.
