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No. 6 Jayhawks top Wildcats, extend Little Apple dominanceNCAA Basketball Betting Lines02/20/2007 - Manhattan, KS (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sherron Collins netted 20 points on 8-of-11 shooting as No. 6 Kansas continued its domination over rival Kansas State with a 71-62 victory. Mario Chalmers added 17 points while Darrell Arthur posted 13 points and collected 12 rebounds for the Jayhawks (24-4, 11-2 Big 12), who have won all 19 meetings at Bramlage Coliseum and 24 straight in Manhattan. With the win, Kansas assumed a half- game edge over idle Texas A&M for first place in the conference. Cartier Martin had 19 points and Clent Stewart had 11 points and five assists for Kansas State (19-9, 8-5), which dropped to 12-2 at home on the season. The Wildcats actually owned a 30-29 lead at intermission, and remained in solid position early in the second half in an attempt to pick up their first win in Manhattan against the Jayhawks since 1984. After falling behind by five points, Kansas State rallied back to knot the game at 43-43 on a Lance Harris three-pointer with 11:14 remaining. Collins answered with a triple of his own, however, and the Jayhawks led the rest of the way. That was the start of a defining 9-2 spurt, which Brandon Rush capped with a pair of free throws to push the advantage to 52-45. Minutes later, Rush put the lead into double digits at 57-47 with an acrobatic layup, and Collins followed with two free throws to make it a 12-point game with 5:39 on the clock. Kansas State made a late push and climbed within six in the closing seconds, but got no further. Game Notes The Jayhawks have won five in a row overall...Kansas has won 34 of the last 35 meetings with Kansas State dating back to the 1990 season. The Jayhawks hold a 173-89 all-time series advantage over the Wildcats...Last season, Kansas State ended a 31-game Kansas winning streak with a 59-55 victory in Allen Fieldhouse on Jan. 14.
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FOOTBALL TRASH TALKNFL Football Trash TalkTrash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing). Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion. Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site). Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com. Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season. The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation. What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill. Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies. But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply. In addition to the trash talking, the Sports Alarm has a huge gallery of high resolution pictures of beautiful women and models in bikinis. The most popular models are: Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Underwood, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Paris Hilton. |
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