Cardinals and Hoyas meet in nation's capital

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02/23/2009 - Washington, D.C. (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The seventh-ranked Louisville Cardinals invade the nation's capital tonight, as they clash with the Georgetown Hoyas in a Big East matchup at the Verizon Center.

Since being blown out at Notre Dame on February 12th, the Cardinals have run off three straight wins to remain in the hunt for the Big East title at 12-2. Most recently, the team jump started a short two-game road trip by topping Cincinnati, 72-63, on Saturday. It was the sixth win in seven road outings, all in league play, as Louisville improved to a healthy 21-5 overall.

As for Georgetown, its free-fall continued over the weekend following a 78-72 setback against 10th-ranked Marquette. The loss was the third in four games and the eighth in the past 10, as the once highly ranked Hoyas dropped to 14-11 overall and 5-9 within the league. With just four games left in the regular season, the Hoyas most likely will need to win out and make some noise in the Big East Tournament to be considered for an at-large bid to the Big Dance.

The Hoyas and Cardinals are meeting for the ninth time in the series, with Georgetown clinging to a 5-3 lead after the teams split a pair of games last season.

The Cardinals knocked down 48.2 percent of their shots from the field, including 8-of-17 from three-point distance, as defeated Cincinnati over the weekend. Louisville also controlled the that boards, 38-27, and that takes into account a significant 17-10 advantage on the offensive glass. Terrence Williams led the way with an all-around effort of 20 points, eight boards and five assists. Earl Clark added 14 points and nine boards, while Preston Knowles had 11 points on a perfect 3-of-3 effort from downtown. On the season, Clark tops the roster in scoring (13.0 ppg) as well as rebounding (8.7 rpg) and he is also dishing off 3.3 apg. Williams is another versatile weapon for Louisville and he turns in 12.6 ppg and 8.4 rpg, to go with team highs of 4.7 apg 55 steals. Freshman Samardo Samuels puts forth 12.2 ppg and 4.8 rpg for the Cardinals, who have fared well on defense, limiting challengers to just 61.7 ppg and only 39.4 percent shooting from the field.

The Hoyas were guilty of 12 turnovers that resulted in 18 points for Marquette and that made the difference in their loss on Saturday. Georgetown shot an efficient 50.9 percent from the floor, including 8-of-18 from long range, but it wasn't enough to overcome the mishaps. Chris Wright paced the team in defeat with 17 points and four assists, while Austin Freeman tallied 16 points and five boards. Greg Monroe added 13 points and eight boards, and DaJuan Summers chipped in with 12 points. On the season, Summers leads the Hoyas in the scoring department at 14.0 ppg and he is also collecting 4.5 rpg. Monroe follows closely at 13.0 ppg and he is also turning in 6.8 rpg and 49 steals to pace the team in those categories. Wright adds 12.9 ppg and a team-best 3.8 apg to the mix, while Freeman contributes 12.5 ppg and 4.3 rpg. Overall Georgetown is netting 72.0 ppg and making good on 47.6 percent of its attempts from the floor.

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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK

NFL Football Trash Talk

Trash 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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