Memphis buries Middle Tennessee State
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12/23/2006 - Memphis, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Doneal Mack scored 18 points to lead five players in double figures, as 18th-ranked Memphis rolled to an easy 86-46 victory over Middle Tennessee at FedEx Forum.
Jeremy Hunt added 16 points and Chris Douglas-Roberts chipped in 13 for the Tigers (9-3), who bounced back from a loss at Arizona on Wednesday to win for the third time in four games. Willie Kemp and Robert Dozier each contributed 11 points in the victory.
Desmond Yates scored 12 points and was the lone player in double figures for Middle Tennessee (4-7), which has lost three straight.
Leading scorer Kevin Kanaskie missed all eight of his shots from the field, including an 0-for-5 effort from three-point range, and finished with two points for the Blue Raiders. He entered the game averaging 12.7 points.
Middle Tennessee shot a dismal 33 percent from the field, including 1-for-9 from beyond the arc, while Memphis shot a sizzling 55 percent overall and made 12-of-27 three-point tries.
The Tigers scored the first five points on the way to a 12-2 lead and the rout was on. Kemp drained a trio of three-pointers during the early surge.
A pair of Douglas-Roberts layups midway through the half extended the Memphis lead to 29-11 and the cushion soon reached 20 on two free throws by Dozier.
The Tigers led by as many as 23 during the first half and took a 51-28 edge into the break behind 11 points from Kemp and 10 apiece by Douglas-Roberts and Hunt.
It was more of the same in the second half, as the lead reached 30 just under four minutes in and eventually topped out at 42.
Game Notes
Kemp had nine assists in the victory, while teammate Antonio Anderson added seven...Memphis outrebounded Middle Tennessee 43-24...The Tigers lead the all- time series 26-14.
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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK
NFL 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.
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